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Subject: [Leica] "I'm an Endangered Species."
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sun Jul 23 12:31:31 2006
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Mind you, I am assuming you will be publishing a book of texts, like
you have been honoring us with here.

But any advice from Ruben, and guys, Ruben is a bit modest here ...
his books surpass the best quality that Aperture can do ... any advice
from him takes priority.

Daniel

On 7/23/06, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ted Grant Photography Limited
> > 1817 Feltham Road
> > Victoria BC  V8N 2A4
> > 250-477-2156
> >
> >
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> >
>

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