Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On photo books, I took out "A Year in Photography" - Magnum Archive - from my local library a couple of weeks ago. I've only just finished it and quite frankly some of it left me cold. In particular, I can't warm to to Antoine d'Agata's stuff which comes across to me as pretty poor and there's too much of it in that book. His photos look like they've been taken with a Lomo that's been left on a hot radiator for too long. If he uses a Leica, Solms must have their heads bowed. Also on the book, they commit the major crime of not having an index. Anybody else read the book? Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 4:16 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo Books >I just bought it online after a friend recommended it. > > Just checked, it is the 2015 edition, printed in Italy. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >> Thanks for the reminder about Gruyaert, Jayanand. Someone showed me one >> of >> his to me a few years ago and I meant to get it, but with braincells like >> dandruff it was forgotten. I've just booked it in the library online, and >> it'll be ready for collection shortly. Is it a reprint that you got, as >> the >> library catalogue has it as 2015?? >> >> Douglas >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" < >> jayanand at gmail.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 4:58 PM >> Subject: [Leica] Photo Books >> >> >> Just got two photo books today, both highly recommended. One is Peter >>> Turnley's recent book on Cuba, "A Grace of Spirit" - but the other one >>> was >>> a mind bending surprise, one of the best books of colour, pictorial >>> photography that I have seen - one to return to, again and again, and >>> learn. Absolutely stunning, IMHO, the eponymous "Harry Gruyaert". >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >