Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD here's the Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141180196/ qid=1053706595/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-4016406-1148860?v=glance&s=books ernie On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 10:14 AM, bdcolen wrote: > Hi, Nathan - Is the book still in print? I read about it recently in a > relatively new biography of Capa and it piqued my interest. Who's the > publisher, if it is still available? > > Thanks > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan > Wajsman (private) > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 6:13 PM > To: LUG > Subject: [Leica] "A Russian Journal" by Steinbeck and Capa > > > 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