Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some time ago someone here recommended the above book, and I picked it up at Foyles in London a couple of month ago. This evening I finished reading it and can heartily recommend it to all lovers of good writing and good photography. For those who are not familiar with it, the book is an account of a trip Steinbeck and Capa made to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1947. Their purpose was simply to see how ordinary Russian lived, with little or no political overtones (insofar as that is possible). They spent a couple of months in Moscow, Kiev, Georgia. While Capa's photographs are of variable quality, not helped by paperback reproduction, the combination of the pictures with Steinbeck's wonderful writing is simply fantastic. At the end of the day it is clear that what they saw was highly arranged, and Steinbeck is clearly aware of that, but nonetheless the book is extremely enjoyable. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: nathanw@bluewin.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html