Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-19 Thread steve harley
On 2010-07-18 22:29 , Christine Aguila wrote: If you're a serious book person, always best to build your own or have them built. i use elfa standards and brackets, then lay narrow hollow core doors (such as from closet "accordion" doors) across them; this makes a flexible, easy to mount, amaz

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-19 Thread P N Stenquist
On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: paul stenquist wrote: I'm going to have to get that one. My dad retouched a lot of the Life photos that were published between 1946 and 1966. Man, he must have been using a *really* early beta version of Photoshop! Acid and miniature tools o

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-19 Thread Mark Roberts
paul stenquist wrote: >I'm going to have to get that one. My dad retouched a lot of the >Life photos that were published between 1946 and 1966. Man, he must have been using a *really* early beta version of Photoshop! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listin

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-18 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: "paul stenquist" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:27 AM Subject: Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation I'm going to have to get that one. My dad retouched a lot of the Life photos th

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-18 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:29 PM Subject: Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Stan Halpin Don'

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-18 Thread steve harley
On 2010-07-17 17:17 , John Sessoms wrote: From: Stan Halpin Don't imply to Christine that there is such a thing as too many books. There can, however, be more books than the budget will stretch to accommodate. i handle that by shopping used, sometimes "extreme used" (bins at Goodwill) -- in

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-18 Thread paul stenquist
I'm going to have to get that one. My dad retouched a lot of the Life photos that were published between 1946 and 1966. Paul On Jul 18, 2010, at 7:21 AM, frank theriault wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Christine Aguila > wrote: >> Having spent the last week reading page by page this

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-18 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > 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 8

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-18 Thread Christine Aguila
Just start book piles, Bob. You can use them as end tables :-). That's what we do. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Bob W" To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:11 PM Subject: RE: The Great Life Photog

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-17 Thread Adam Maas
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Stan Halpin >> >> Don't imply to Christine that there is such a thing as too many books. > > There can, however, be more books than the budget will stretch to > accommodate. > No such thing. Now shelving on the other hand -Adam Who

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Stan Halpin Don't imply to Christine that there is such a thing as too many books. There can, however, be more books than the budget will stretch to accommodate. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

RE: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-17 Thread Bob W
I have indeed, and I've heard it described by an eye witness. Nevertheless, the laws of physics prevent me from getting any more books in the house... > 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 >

Re: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-17 Thread Stan Halpin
ut I can't buy any more books until I've > bought a bigger house to put them in... > > > Bob > >> -Original Message- >> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of >> Christine Aguila >> Sent: 17 July 2010 19:42 &g

RE: The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-17 Thread Bob W
0 19:42 > To: pdml@pdml.net > 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

The Great Life Photographers--a book recommendation

2010-07-17 Thread Christine Aguila
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