Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whilst in Prague a couple of years ago I visited Josef's exhibition of the Black Triangle photographs and bought a book of the exhibition for about $15. A strange concertina book with a plain and very cheap brown cardboard cover. Last year I had the great pleasure of spending a day in Josef's company together with fellow Magnum photographers Ian Berry and Bryn Campbell, and Josef kindly signed the book telling me that it now sells unsigned in NY for $500 and he knows that he has never signed another one. Now what must that be worth?! Gerry www.gwpics.com >From: pmjensen <pmjensen@concentric.net> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: "leica users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Leica-related books for sale (Koudelka + Ray-Jones) >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 02 11:28:07 -0800 > > >Koudelka, Josef: ėGYPSIES.î Koudelka is another of the classic Leica > >photographers whose work needs no introduction to Leica users > >everywhere. First edition, 1975. Fine in complete dust jacket with some > >mended tears. $125 >and other titles on the list........... > >Yikes! And how much is my signed first edition worth? Guess I ought to put >it in an archival bag and finish wearing out my paperback copy instead! > >This work has held up really well over the last thirty years, hasn't it? >For any new(ish) Leica M users who aren't familiar with Josef K.'s work, >who do need an introduction, GYPSIES may be a revelation; it's the >antithesis of the more analytical (French?) approach. > >Empty shadows, big grain, no acutance, no bokay - b+w the way the good lord >intended it: EMOTIONAL (just kidding, partly). (Interesting technical side >note: GYPSIES was finished at exactly the same time as DD Duncan's >razor-sharp, technically, optically awesome SELF-PORTRAIT: USA. Two poles >of the b+w spectrum, wouldn't you say?) > >Tony Ray-Jones ought to be of interest to 28mm-loving street photographers, >too. Quirky (and influential, as it turned out) work for that time (early >1970s). But again, like Josef, the Leica wasn't a tool for producing >awesome resolution - more likely a compact platform for that nifty >viewfinder (not to presume why they used Leicas, just guessing based on the >images). > >Thanks for the trip down memory lane! > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html