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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - War photographers and SPEAKING OF WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:31:03 -0400

First, I wonder how you know where he is at the moment in relation to
his wife..:-)

And, two, you are indeed right - It is apparently a new edition, with
the first published in 2001.

Best
B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:10 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - War photographers and SPEAKING OF WAR
PHOTOGRAPHERS



> What's fascinating is that about a year or so ago he had said he 
> wasn't ever going to war again, and was devoting the rest of his 
> photographic days to shooting his garden and other pastoral scenes. 
> (And some of those images are in this book) But then came the Bushing 
> of Iraq, and word was McCullin had gone back to war, with black and 
> white film.

I think he spent time with the Kurds, who he had photographed before. I
heard from someone who had breakfast with him a few times in Iraq that
he felt like he couldn't come back with the sort of images he had done
from previous wars. He also apparently felt he was getting a bit old to
get in the middle of things.... he's got to be what 68? 70? (and on his
third wife - Marilyn Bridges and has a new child...)


tim

PS - I think that book is a re-print/new edition.

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