Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But virtually all of them are negatives prints?! (there must be a better term for it but I aware of one) Did I download the wrong file? Is my reader getting it backwards? John Collier On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 11:50 AM, Chandos Michael Brown wrote: > The "edited" (using the term lightly) version is here: > > > http://www.derekzeanah.com/temp/Postcards_of_an_Existentialist.pdf > > Chandos Michael Brown > History and American Studies > College of William and Mary > www.wm.edu/cas/asp/faculty/brown > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Phong > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:26 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] FS: Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first > three copies for free. > > Now that someone else other than B.D. spoke :-), > I am curious. Where can one see this "work" on > the web ? > > - Phong > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve >> LeHuray >> I agree B.D. >> >> His "craft" is easily the worst I have seen in a long time. >> >> The really pathetic part is labeling himself an "Existentialist" I > always >> thought critics and reviewers did that. >> >> >> sl >> >> >>> Okay, enough is a bleeping nuff! It's time to point out that the > bleeping >>> Emperor is stark raving naked - and more than a bit mad! >>> >>> What is the theory here - call yourself a photographer - or, in this > case, a >>> "street photographer/documentary photographer" and you ARE one? Drop > a load >>> of crap off at Kinkos for printing and you are a PUBLISHED > photographer? >>> >>> Over the past year or two numerous people on this and other lists > have >>> looked at Alfie's work and tried to offer him constructive > criticism. And he >>> has ignored all of it - which would be fine if he exhibited one > scintilla of >>> talent or originality and was developing a unique style and vision. >>> >>> But he hasn't, and he isn't... >>> >>> The idea that someone would hold himself out as a "photographer" > whose work >>> is worth of collecting - with an autograph for God's sake?! - while > offering >>> this kind of crap - and I use the word advisedly - to the world is > truly >>> appalling. >>> >>> I know that there will be those of you who will say that I am being > mean >>> spirited, nasty, or any number of other things. What I am being is > honest. >>> >>> What Alfie is doing is demeaning and insulting to all of us who have > spent >>> years working at our craft - whether as hobbyists or professionals - > honing >>> our skills to the point where we can honestly say, "I am a > photographer." >>> >>> Please, for the sake of your own integrity as photographers, do not > continue >>> to humor him and play along with this insulting nonsense. >>> >>> B. D. Colen >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Albert > Wang >>> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:23 AM >>> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>> Subject: [Leica] FS: Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first > three >>> copies for free. >>> >>> >>> For sale: >>> >>> 1) Postcards of an Existentialist Paperback Monograph >>> >>> Postcards of an Existentialist, despite its title isn't a French >>> existentialist treatise but in terms of its outlook of life > influenced by >>> Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugene Richards, Eric Dolphy, and > Ornette >>> Coleman. It is a personal two-year (2001-2) diary about one man's > coming to >>> terms with his own depression and loneliness as he returns from > graduate >>> school back to the city where he moved away from. It's a dour yet > ironic and >>> bitterly humorous portrait of Philadelphia (w/ a few shots of New > York City) >>> and it's a stark contrast to any of the daintily pretty pictures we > tend to >>> see of the Liberty Bell or Independence Hall. Instead, what we have > here is >>> a brutally honest photo-journal of a documentary take of the > photographer >>> being viewed with suspicion and distrust or ignorance. It's a visual >>> illustration of the quote from Cool Hand Luke: "What we have here is > a >>> failure to communicate." >>> >>> The 107 page book is printed in halftone with plastic covers. The > dimension >>> of the book is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. >>> >>> Cost of the book: $30 plus $10 shipping and handling. >>> >>> 2) Complete set of all 96 prints done by the photographer himself > and signed >>> on verso. The only size I can print at is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. > The >>> prints are sleeved in an archival quality Itoya binder. The person > has a >>> choice of options as follows: >>> >>> a) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) full set of 96 prints on > Epson >>> Archival Matte Paper (192 gsm) and sleeved in Itoya binder. >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $150 plus $20 shipping and handling and >>> insurance. >>> >>> b) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) full set of 96 prints on >>> Hahnemuhle Photo Matte Paper (170 gsm) and sleeved in Itoya binder. >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $300 plus $20 shipping and handling and >>> insurance. >>> >>> c) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) full set of 96 prints on >>> Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 188 (188 gsm) and sleeved in Itoya binder. >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $500 plus $20 shipping and handling and >>> insurance. >>> >>> d) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) full set of 96 prints on >>> Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 (308 gsm) and sleeved in Itoya binder. >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $600 plus $20 shipping and handling and >>> insurance. >>> >>> I am willing to consider other papers (except glossy) such as Legion > Photo >>> Matte on special request but at present, this is what is being > offered. >>> >>> 3) A choice of 96 prints done by the photographer himself and signed > on >>> verso. The only size I can print at is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. The > prints >>> are unmatted and will be shipped with a matte board of 11 inches by > 14 >>> inches. The person has a choice of options as follows: >>> >>> a) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) unmatted print on Epson > Archival >>> Matte Paper (192 gsm). >>> >>> Cost of the prints: $10 plus $5 shipping and handling and insurance. >>> >>> b) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) unmatted print on > Hahnemuhle >>> Photo Matte Paper (170 gsm). >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $20 plus $5 shipping and handling and > insurance. >>> >>> c) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) unmatted print on > Hahnemuhle >>> Photo Rag 188 (188 gsm). >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $40 plus $5 shipping and handling and > insurance. >>> >>> d) Self-printed and autographed (on verso) unmatted prints on > Hahnemuhle >>> Photo Rag 308 (308 gsm). >>> >>> Cost of the set of prints: $50 plus $5 shipping and handling and > insurance. >>> >>> I am willing to consider other papers (except glossy) such as Legion > Photo >>> Matte on special request but at present, this is what is being > offered. >>> >>> When ordering prints, use a description of the picture which is > shown in >>> either the book or the CD-ROM. >>> >>> 4) The complete book on CD-ROM in Abode Acrobat pdf format. >>> >>> Plain non-archival quality CD-ROM without a sleeve which a person > can use >>> the catalog to order prints. >>> >>> Cost of the non-archival catalog: $.50 plus $4 shipping and > handling. >>> >>> For more information or to order please contact Albert Wang at >>> leica_phile@hotmail.com accordingly. Thanks again for your > consideration. >>> >>> Albert "Alfie" Wang >>> Freelance Street/Documentary Photographer >>> 1122 Brill St. >>> Philadelphia PA 19124 >>> leica_phile@hotmail.com >>> (215) 668-1809 >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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