[pure-silver] Re: Books
- From: "bobkiss @caribsurf.com" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:35:02 -0400
DEAR MARTY,
Agreed that these old "how to" books are more for nostalgia than for
reference but I do get a nice feeling looking at them and remembering the
buzz I felt when first into photography. As mentioned in my original post,
there are a very few formulae that one can't find elsewhere and, among the
very cheesy Kodak photos, there are a few late pictorial shots that still
stand out.
Not unlike one useful technique for a successful marriage, it is nice
to remind ones self why we fell in love with this medium in the first
place! LOL!!!
CHEERS!
BOB
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Martin magid <martin.magid@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Bob, I also had How to Make Good Pictures, probably the same edition you
> spoke of because that's when I started in photography, 1946 at age 12. I
> read it from cover to cover, taking time out from my Sherlock Holmes and
> Ellery Queen
> novels. Have no idea what happened to How to Make, and all the other
> beginners manuals I had.
>
> About 20 years ago my wife's coworker gave me a copy of How to Make that
> had been her fathers. About the same vintage as mine had been, I still
> have it, though it's been years since i opened it.. Hate to give away
> gifts received, though no longer useful.
>
> Marty
>
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