Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just got the Gene Smith book B.D. - well worth it! Love the sound of that Capa book... Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen > Sent: November 4, 2001 10:52 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Books > > > For anyone who's interested, there are several terrific new books from > Phaidon - > > Robert Capa - The Definitive Collection - 937! photos... > I've only had a chance to glance through this, and the others I mention > here, but this Capa collection makes me rethink Capa - in a positive way > > Elliott Erwitt Snaps - > More than 500 images, half of which haven't been published > previously...If you think of Erwitt as simply someone who took funny > photos of dogs and not funny photos of MM, definitely take a look at > this one... > > Vietnam, Inc. - The Philip Jones Griffiths classic reissued, with a > forward by Noam Chomsky - okay, so skip the forward if you're not a > Chomsky fan - :-) - and ignore the BS about how this book is what turned > around public opinion on the Vietnam War - (Hello? Can you say 'nightly > news?' Can you say 'Life Magazine?' Can you say 'body bags?') A classic > none the less... > > There are also a number of new titles in the Phaidon 55 series.... > > And, not from Phaidon - there is a new W. Eugene Smith book out - > Paradise Street - a collection of the 200-and-some photos - our of > 17,000 - which he considered the core of his Pittsburgh project. > > B. D. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html