Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My paperback version looks like it was published in Russia. Terrible quality. At 07:56 PM 5/22/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Nathan - I don't know if i started the thread or just chimed in but it >IS a nice little read. The perfect vacation book. It captures a mood >that is historical. My paperback version doesn't do justice to Capa's >photos but is still interesting. > >Ernie Nitka >On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Nathan Wajsman (private) wrote: > >>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 > >-- >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