Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted...Geoff... mes amis! Thanks again for your always kind words, really kind. I'm very glad you liked! cheers Lluis El 16/07/2011, a las 7:36, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > INDIGNATS........ the book arrived today! WOW!!!!!!!!!!! > > May I suggest if you consider yourself a photographer who enjoys > interesting photography shot by others........... BUY THIS BOOK > WITHOUT QUESTION! > > Some of you know I have a personal library of many hundreds of > photography related books, a hobby of mine. I think the oldest > dating back to 1910, title " The Romance of Modern Photography." > Hardly call it "modern by today's standards." Extremely interesting! > But that isn't what this post is about! > > Lluis Ripoll's book "INDIGNATS" held my attention today while I went > front to back again and again at least 6 or 7 times! Maybe 8, but > it's so well assembled, the photography as street photography is > classic of the best with the greats! Yes you will see some from the > LUG gallery, but who cares. As this is as spell binding as a > collection as you turn page after page. Street photography as good > as it gets. > > You're not buying a book made up of images by Cartier Bresson that > you've seen in a previous dozen books or more. We've seen them so > often during the past 70 or more years we've memorized his work, > we've seen it so often. Damn near "boring!!!!" Jeeeeeeshhhh don't > get up set as I've been looking at his photography since 1949! Lluis > is all brand new! :-) Actually the new kid on the block! > > INDIGNATS? A beautifully printed quality of B&W as B&W should look! > I'd say the best of the BLURB publications I've seen. That's the > technical stuff. It's the photography, page after page of split > second reactions capturing life's passing moments. Quite amazing > indeed. > > So ladies and gentlemen if you like photography books, after all why > wouldn't you, we are photographers after all. Get a copy of Lluis's > "INDIGNATS" as it's one of those special photo books; > A: you can't put it down! > B: You'll look through it many times, amazed each time. And he's one > of our Crew! Thank you all. > > Cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information