Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just ordered a used copy of the original 1948 hardback edition from Amazon...I'm hoping the reproduction of the photos will be better than in the new paperback. The description says the cover is banged up, but the inside is fine, and it only cost $8 including shipping. Hopefully it'll be a good user! - -Aaron >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