I only have Steidl's 2008 edition. You are probably right about Sarah Greenough's book, the contacts in the new edition is probably the icing on the cake, I'm pretty sure is a great read as well; I didn't have enough time to read it in the bookstore though.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Fernando wrote: > >> If you have the chance take a look at this book at your local >> bookstore, in the last chapter it includes contact sheets of Frank's >> photos with his picks, you can also in which case he took more than >> one photo, and which one got picked, and some crops (e.g. I didn't >> know that this photo was originally shot in landscape orientation: >> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2708910256_5239f73252_o.jpg ). I >> found the whole exercise highly educational. >> >> >> http://www.amazon.ca/Looking-Robert-Americans-Sarah-Greenough/dp/3865218067/ref=pd_sim_b?ie=UTF8&qid=1236649263&sr=8-1 > > > Very interesting. > > I have both my original, well-thumbed 1969 soft cover edition of "The > Americans" and the 2008 hard cover edition printed by Steidl in Germany. > There are a few differences between them, but no proof sheets, etc. This > was/is a signal book for me. I return to it often. > > It would be very interesting to read Sarah Greenough's book about "The > Americans" with so many years of having appreciated the book itself. > > Godfrey > > -- > 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. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- 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.
