---- Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Order them today. He's a great photographer and a very nice chap. > > Anyone for a Manchester PDML in February?
The temptation is high. Date? Or is that a bit sudden for you? > > Shaped by War: > > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaped-War-Don-McCullin/dp/0224090267/ref=pd_bxgy_b > _text_b> > > "his work is the subject of a huge exhibition currently being organized by > the Imperial War Museum. The exhibition will open at the museum's Manchester > site in February 2010, where it will run for a few months and then open at > the London museum a year later. The accompanying book will be a departure > from the usual format of MCullin publishing and will be sized to match the > original "Sunday Times Magazine", where so much of his work first appeared. > Focusing on his important stories, the book will trace his entire career. > McCullin has been interviewed on film for many hours for this project and > the edited transcriptions of those interviews will form much of the > substance of his text. McCullin's little known colour work will be > reproduced along side pages from the magazines and an assemblage of > McCullin's personal material and documents. These include his cameras, boots > and helmet, numerous passports and photographs of him at work on the > battlefield, together with illuminating personal correspondence." > > Southern Frontiers: A Journey Across the Roman Empire: > > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Southern-Frontiers-Journey-Across-Empire/dp/0224087 > 088/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b> > > "His most ambitious journey has been to explore the fringes of the Roman > empire. "Southern Frontiers" is divided into two parts. The first part, "The > Levant", includes the ruins of Baalbek in the Lebanon, Palmyra in Syria and > Jirash in Jordan. The second part, "The Moghreb", covers a sweeping journey > through the North African coastal countries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and > Libya, where he has photographed the great ruins of Leptus Magna. McCullin's > photographs, taken on a large format camera, are evocative of the views of > distinguished nineteenth-century predecessors" -- 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.
