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Subject: [Leica] Question about FOM Images, LUG Yearbook, etc.
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Sep 9 21:48:40 2007
References: <C30A3D72.69756%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Sep 9, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> This is a good new, thanks Gene
>> Saludos Luis
>>
>>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En  
>> nombre de
>> grduprey@mchsi.com
>> Enviado el: s?bado, 08 de septiembre de 2007 21:05
>> Para: Leica Users Group
>> Asunto: Re: [Leica] Question about FOM Images, LUG Yearbook, etc.
>>
>> Alastair checked into the MUG list the other day and did mention  
>> he was
>> working on the FOM2 book.  He had just returned from his trip, so  
>> I suspect
>> he will be checking in here soon and tell us of his travels and  
>> projects.
>>
>> Gene
>>
>> -------------- Original message from "Jim Shulman"  
>> <jshul@comcast.net>:
>> --------------
>>
>>
>>> 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 photography 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!



a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?


Steve
>
>
> 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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