Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information