Don't imply to Christine that there is such a thing as too many books. Books are like lenses - you can never have too many. Haven't you seen any of the shots of the interior of their home?
stan On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Bob W wrote: > I'll keep an eye open for that, but I can't buy any more books until I've > bought a bigger house to put them in... > > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Christine Aguila >> Sent: 17 July 2010 19:42 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation >> >> Having spent the last week reading page by page this lovely 605 page >> book >> published by Thames & Hudson (paperback 2009), I'd like to recommend it >> to >> PDML folks. Organized in alpha order, included is a brief biographical >> sketch of 88 photographers who were on Life's staff and, of course, >> photos >> made by the photographer. >> >> So many of the photographers have passed away, which would follow given >> Life's run from 1936-1972. The brief sketches do a great job of >> revealing >> the dedication and personality of the photographers, especially in >> their >> coverage of World War II. >> >> I'd like to share this brief biography of George Strock (1911-1977): >> >> " . . . Stroke joined LIFE and went off to the war in the Pacific. >> Initially he cabled editors that he saw so little action he was ready >> to >> quit and open a peanut stand. Other photographers did leave, but >> Strock >> stayed on for the Battle of Buna, which cost more than 3,000 Allied >> lives. >> On that malarial New Guinea island, Strock scrambled along side the >> soldiers. . . . At the time, censors banned showing any dead American >> soldiers, but LIFE raised the point with the government, and FDR >> himself >> decided the public was growing complacent and should see some of the >> reality; thus 'Three Dead Americans' ran in LIFE." >> >> I find that last bit about FDR very interesting. Cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
