Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] Barcelona Old Area--Jim Shulman and HCB
From: csemetko at gmail.com (Craig Semetko)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 08:15:54 -0700

Yes, that IS a lot of money--does anyone know if there's some way one could
read the text of the book without having to buy an original copy?

The Decisive Moment PDF or something??:)

craig



That costs a lot of money...
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The Simon & Schuster English language edition of "The Decisive Moment"
>
> http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=<http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2084257471&searchurl=kn%3Dcartier-bresson%26tn%3Dthe%2Bdecisive%2Bmoment%26x%3D0%26y%3D0>
2084257471
&searchurl=kn%3Dcartier-bresson%26tn%3Dthe%2Bdecisive%2Bmoment%26x%3D0%26y%3D0
> has the same Matisse cover as Images a la Sauvette.  The printing in this
> version is also excellent, but all versions of this book have awfully
> fragile binding.  I was distraught when mine fell apart.
>
> Marty
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote:
>
> > Lluis wrote:
> > I think remember that "Images ? la
> > sauvette" is much more hard to find and expensive than the English
> > edition "The decisive moment", I think that only the French edition
> > has the nice cover by Matisse
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/shihlun/431235514/
> > ============================================
> >
> > I think that's right, Lluis.  The Memphis photographer Wm. Eggleston
> showed
> > me his copy back in 1968 and I recall the Matisse cover.  He was struck
> by
> > the gravure printing and tried to achieve a similar look in his early
b/w
> > photos.  I tried too, but with less success. ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Phil Swango
> > 307 Aliso Dr SE
> > Albuquerque, NM 87108
> > 505-262-4085
> >


Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Barcelona Old Area--Jim Shulman and HCB)
Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Barcelona Old Area--Jim Shulman and HCB)