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Subject: [Leica] Question about FOM Images, LUG Yearbook, etc.
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun Sep 9 21:42:15 2007

>>> Charles,
>>> 
>>> The software to create a book of pictures and text is free for
>>> anyone--it's at www.blurb.com The only charge occurs when copies are
>> purchased.
>>> 
>>> My suggestion is that you, Alistair, or another member of the group
>>> take on the project and create a FOM book from the images. I'd be
>>> happy to purchase a copy when finished!
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Jim Shulman
>>> Bryn Mawr, PA
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 
> I notice having done a search that the most recent edition of the Family of
> Man book they went back to the original PHOTOGRAPHS and re made the plates
> and duotones and it looks much better now.
> 
> I think I might just order one.
> Here's 
> http://moma.org/research/archives/highlights/06_1955.html
> Looks like a bunch of 30x40s mounted on boards, no glass!
> Traveling exhibitions! Glass breaks!
> 
> 
> Dorothea Lange, Robert Capra, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jack Delano, Margaret
> Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Bert Hardy, Edward Weston, Matthew Brady, 
> Frank
> Scherschel, Wayne Miller, Eva Arnold, Irving Penn, Consuelo Kanaga, Alfred
> Eisenstaedt, Bill Brandt, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn and Marion
> Palfi
> 
> That's a hard act to follow!
> 
> 
> And our FOM2 done all with Leicas! I almost don't even like that!
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Harlem, NY
> 
> rabinergroup.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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