[Leica] 2 BOOKS.. ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

This day by post I received two books by LUG members I recently ordered and 
I am in awe! 

Steve Barbour...... "but for the Grace of God...."

Luis Ripoll.... "Perpignan pour l'Image "

I am a book collector, well of photography books some that date back to the 
early 1900's. And I have several other LUG books, all our year productions 
and by individuals!  The books by LUG members quite often contain images 
we've seen on the screen over a period of months.

However? In a book, you hold in your hands? Compared to once again looking 
at the screen for the umpteen hundredth time that day? There is no 
comparison! Here in book form you see details you miss on the screen, the 
impact is far more meaningful! The eye of the photographer is far more 
appreciated on the page than the everyday screen thing! Yes the screen 
images look nice and quite often amazing.

But just hold a real book in your hands and quietly study the captured 
moments is far more meaningful! Revealing and captivating.

Both of these photographers see similarly in their subject captured moments! 
But their subjects are so different is what makes them such powerful and 
emotionally meaningful books!  And intimate photographers of the captured 
moment.

Oh lot's of people get off gurgling over the so called "Long gone hero's" of 
everyday photography. The truth is? They were here 60 or more years ago in a 
much simpler world than today. But there are some today who pass them like a 
flash of lightening in the hustle bustle of every today life!

These two books will join the ranks of the greats of the past simply because 
they deserve to be in that position. They illustrate the art of observation 
of human kind. And the intimate emotional moments rarely seen by so many of 
today's image making people with their electronic capturing instruments.

To Steve and Lluis my most heartfelt congratulations' on such wonderful 
heart warming book productions! They are not a onetime look and leave! These 
books command not just looking, they demand looking at again and again as 
they become more fascinating each time you turn the pages without the click 
of a mouse!

Both deserve to be on your home book shelves to look at every once and a 
while!! 

cheers,
Dr. ted