[Leica] "I'm an Endangered Species."

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

You keep going, Ted.

I think this might be an idea:

http://www.lulu.com

You can publish through them, set your price and place your ad here on
a Friday. Believe me, you'd sell. We're a big enough group that it
would probably be worth your while. There would be a profit in it for
you from day one, from the first book.

By-pass the publishers.

Daniel


On 7/21/06, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
> OK Crew the posted efforts of the past few days have evoked many private 
> and
> online "You've got to do a book responses!"
>
> A blog or other suggestions that have given me a great deal of confidence
> just maybe there's a book after all and the first publisher was wrong in
> turning it down.
>
>
>
> I thought this might be a kind of opening piece.
>
>
>
> Now it's my turn to ask.   Comments and critiques?
>
> ===========================================
>
>
>
> Real Photographers Shoot BW: some times colour.
>
>
>
> Or   "I'm an Endangered Species."
>
>
>
>         Why this book?  Well, I'm basically the sole survivor of Canadian
>
> photojournalists from the 50's and '60's who's still shooting in 2006.
>
> Many from that period have gone to the big dark room in the sky or just
>
> retired to easy living in the country -- So, at 77 years of age, that makes
>
> me an endangered species!
>
>
>
> Some photojournalists disgruntled that time passed them by, long for the
>
> good old days of photojournalistic rotogravure sections and picture
>
> magazines we  no longer see published.  Oh sure there are magazines, but
>
> they are the "one picture tell all" illustrations and rarely ever use more
>
> than two pictures to a story.  No longer do we see 6 - 8 or 10 page spreads
>
> of in-depth photography for a photo-essay on a single subject.
>
>
>
> When my first picture was published in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper on
>
> September 17, 1951, little did I know 56 years later I would still be
>
> taking pictures with the same passion that started my career. Probably with
>
> greater passion to-day realizing I'm quickly coming to the final frame on
>
> the roll.
>
>
>
> Photography has taken me to many countries around the world and given me
>
> experiences that fall into "truth is stranger than fiction."  There have
>
> been good, bad and ugly assignments, some successful others just a tiring
>
> experience of frustration.
>
>
>
> Would I change it?
>
>
>
> Not really!  A few things though, more rest between assignments for one, 
> but
> when
>
> younger you are invincible and there are too many places to go and
>
> things to shoot.  The telephone rings and even though you are dragging it
>
> matters not when you hear, " Can you get a plane down to Bermuda in the
>
> morning and meet our writer there?".  The adrenalin is pumping in seconds
>
> and off you go like a filly in a race, "Tired? Not me I'm outta here!"
>
>
>
> Not to become angry when the weather or some other situation is completely
>
> beyond my control.  In reality I should have sat back, relaxed, had a drink
>
> and just rolled with it.  I used to lose a lot of sleep over totally
>
> uncontrollable things, but time tempers those feelings and to-day it's,
>
> "what you can't control, you don't sweat"
>
>
>
> The stories and anecdotes of the "times of Ted" will leave you wondering,
>
> "is it possible for one photographer to have this many experiences?"
>
> Honestly, yes it is and then some!
>
>
>
> For me, time has never stood still since the taking of my first photograph
>
> and hopefully it won't, until the last. And when asked, "When are you
>
> going to quit or retire?"  I jokingly respond, "My retirement date  is
>
> September 17, 2021."  That will be the 70th anniversary of my first
>
> published picture and I'll only be 92! So that seems a reasonable time to
>
> consider relaxing.
>
>
>
> Now, if I can only get my body to agree to that date. . .
>
>
>
> The book's open folks, come on in and start your odyssey through my world
>
> as a photojournalist.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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