Damn! The photos from this book were part of an exhibit at the George Eastman House last year and I missed it!
You can see some of them at http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc15/taschall_idx00001.html but you better put aside an hour or so of your time before you visit that page... Good stuff. Mark Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was going to throw out a suggestion for everybody to consider--do you >think it might be useful for us to pick an "official book" that might help >provide examples for us when we engage in discussion? > >I was thinking along the lines of a cheap, readily available book with a >great variety of pictures from the whole history of photography. If each of >us were to purchase a copy, then we could refer to it when trying to >illustrate a point, ask somebody else to provide an example from it, or >otherwise refer someone else somewhere else in the world to the same page >from the same book so we can be looking at the same thing. Sort of like a >"PDML Handbook." > >Do people think that might be useful? > >If so, I'd like to propose a candidate: the George Eastman House compendium >published by Taschen, called _Photography from 1839 to Today_ (ISBN >3-8228-7073-0). Go to www.taschen.com or find it at amazon.com: > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-6666612-5578426 > >It's a small but very fat paperback with more than a thousand illustrations >in particularly high-quality reproductions (for this sort of thing) and yet >it's very cheap--only $20. > >I think this might give us a "mine" of photographs of all sorts that we >could refer to (and, unlike using pictures from the PUG, nobody's ego would >be on the line). Plus, it's a great little book that I don't think anybody >would mind having. > >Just an idea. What say ye? -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - 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 .
