For my last birthday, besides a SMC M 135mm f/3.5, my girlfriend bought me a great (and very big) Sieff's retrospective, and I love it. The man was a fine photographer. He was one of those artists that somehow managed to be 'artistic' yet accesible, and it's not that easy these days.
Lukasz -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cotty Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:15 AM To: Pentax List Subject: Newman and Sieff Books (was: Re: PUG - Definition of Portrait?) >The Norwegian Museum of Photography opened a portraits exhibition on >May 5th. Featuring 25 Arnold Newman portraits, among many others. Jostein, cool! I just bought my second Arnold Newman book, entitled appropriately enough: 'Arnold Newman' by Taschen, 2000 (ISBN 3-8228-7193-1), a HUGE book with 274 pages of lovely monochrome and colour reproduction. It features a complete retrospective of his work from across the years. One of my heroes. I'd love to go to an exhibition of his. As an aside, my SO went to Paris on the train with a girlfriend for 4 days (well, you have to let them out now and again...) and she brought me a fantastic present. I knew that my all time greatest photo-hero, Jeanloup Sieff (pronounced Seff, short 'a') had a book out (posthumously, he sadly died in 1999), but it hasn't been translated into English, and so is only available in France. I didn't ask my SO to look for it, because she was there to do galleries and les musees, so I thought it unfair to have her trudging about looking for something she might not find. Alas, my luck was in: on her return, she presented me with a brand new copy! Called 'Faites Comme si Je n'Etais pas La' (trans: 'Make as if I'm not here' - M. Sieff's favourite assurance to sitters), it is a lovely retrospective, complete with recounts by the author on his encounters with many and varied sitters over the years. Highly recommended. ISBN 2-7324-2518-4 by Editions de La Martiniere (2000). Amazon France have it: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2732425184/qid%3D1010360395/171-67256 80-9621052 Meanwhile, hopefully it will make it to other languages. His work is brilliant. Best, Cotty _______________________________________________________ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads http://www.macads.co.uk - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
