"Gawd dang, this is an excellent book!" ---
I have many excellent photo books on my bookshelf these days and I spend hours meandering through them. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Ernesto Sellario, Fan Ho, Juan Buhler, Michael Kenna ... and many others. They are works that capture and recapture me, inspire me to keep thinking, keep experimenting, keep pushing in my photography.
This year on the Pentax Discuss Mailing List ... a large, diversely dysfunctional but friendly family of Pentax camera junkies ... the notion came up of doing a Blurb.com photo book with proceeds to go to CureSearch, the National Childhood Cancer Foundation (http://www.curesearch.org ). The idea got traction, a plan developed. I was late submitting a photo but the editor allowed me in at the last moment. I'm so glad!
I've just received my copy. The book is a delight. There is a huge pool of talent shown, a diversity of photos that span the world. Hats off to the editors and to all the other photographers for a stunning effort: I'm proud to have my photograph represented with such good work, and delighted to promote the book for the sake of its cause. And it fits right in with the other great books on my bookshelf.
As one of my best friends from college once said, "If you can only afford to buy food, spend half of your money on art. Your mind needs to eat more than your body." So Really: order a copy. You'll be doing the cause some good and you'll get a great photo book to enjoy in return.
PDML Photo Annual http://www.robertstech.com/pdmlbook/ Mark Roberts, Editor Foreward by Doug Brewer To order from Blurb.com: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/573542 premium paper option http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/575601 --- Godfrey www.gdgphoto.com www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
