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Subject: [Leica] SPECIAL: WOMEN IN MEDICINE AUTOGRAPHED BOOK COPIES
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:07:14 -0700
References: <20110512161505.368011701AD@vegetablegroup.org> <2274566FB3994EC1A611A6C2762CA216@syneticfeba505>

Ted, do you want me to send this on to some of the docs?


Steve


On May 12, 2011, at 1:01 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
wrote:

> Women in Medicine. A Celebration of their Work.
> 
> 
> 
> I have just acquired the remaining copies of this award-winning book 
> illustrating the daily lives of women in medicine. It was created on 
> location in hospitals throughout North America by two photojournalists 
> using Leica cameras and b&w film.
> 
> 
> 
> One of the most unique aspects? . "The Art of Observation illustrated by 
> these two photographers covering the same subject in various locations and 
> not being able to tell which photographer took which photograph! A tribute 
> to their equally matched abilities as photojournalists."
> 
> 
> 
> READER COMMMENT:
> 
> 
> 
> Ted Grant, one of Canada's best kept secret, and his prot?g? Sandy Carter 
> break no ground in Women In Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work. There 
> is nothing new here. Instead, they present us with a work of classic 
> documentary photography; two outstanding photographers venturing forth 
> into a world new to most of us, returning with a collection of 
> photographic moments that together show us what it is like to be a woman 
> in the male dominated world of medicine.
> 
> 
> I say Ted Grant is a Canada's best kept secret because he is little known 
> outside his own country. But there he is a true star in the field of 
> photojournalism. For more than 60 years Grant has been shooting for major 
> Canadian newspapers; his work of 280,000 images is in the permanent 
> collection of the Canadian national archives, and a few years back, he and 
> Karsh of Ottawa, perhaps the best known classic portrait photographer of 
> the past 50 years, received the same life time achievement award.
> 
> 
> Women In Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work, will remind you of nothing 
> so much as the LIFE Magazine work of W. Eugene Smith, inventor of the 
> magazine photo essay. Look at the photos of these women in scrubs at the 
> end of an endless shift, and you can't help think of Smith's classic 
> essay, "Country Doctor." What makes Grant and Carter's work all the more 
> impressive, is that unlike Smith, they neither set up any shots, nor did 
> they use any flash or other supplementary lighting. Grant makes no bones 
> about distaining the use of what he calls "twinkie" lights - flash. When 
> the light disappears he just pulls out the Noctilux for one of his Leica 
> M7s, and pushes his Tri-X a stop further.
> 
> 
> While this is a book that will appeal to any woman in medicine, be she a 
> physician, a nurse, a nurse midwife, or a tech of any type, and while it 
> is also a book that demands a place on the bookshelf of anyone who loves a 
> woman in medicine, it is first of all a book for anyone who loves classic, 
> black and white, available light
> 
> documentary photography.
> 
> 
> 
> The special price for the autographed copies includes a six-page 
> "Photographer's Supplement" explaining many of the photographic techniques 
> and the lighting motivations of the photographs.  It also includes an open 
> invitation to contact the photographers with any questions about their 
> work.
> 
> 
> 
> Ted Grant tedgrant at shaw.ca       Sandy Carter  sc-photo at comcast.net
> 
> 
> 
> COST $40.00 plus shipping $10.00 please order via e-mail Thank you.
> 
> 
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