Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread steve harley
they whom i call 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'

Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread ann sanfedele
Fernando wrote: Actually Ann, that's useful information, because now I know that if I get this book, it has to be the latest edition ;-) Every now and then I say or do something useful - doesn't happen often, but glad it did this time :-) ann Fernando - who has already exceeded his phot

Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread Fernando
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, Godfre

Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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

Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread Fernando
Actually Ann, that's useful information, because now I know that if I get this book, it has to be the latest edition ;-) Fernando - who has already exceeded his photo book budget for the year On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > I have the 1986 printing no contact sheets

Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread ann sanfedele
I have the 1986 printing no contact sheets in the back... a straight reprint of the original with the Keourac intro... no contact sheets in the back... though I remember one of the photo mags doing a series on contact sheets and what was selected , back in the 80's... Thanks for bringing i

Re: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread Fernando
"...thanks to Amazon for 1-Click ordering!" that thing is so dangerous... On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Bob W 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

RE: Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-10 Thread Bob W
> > 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 phot

Book - Looking in Robert Frank's the Americans

2009-03-09 Thread Fernando
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 original