Re: New books worth looking at/ camera debate

[petermarshall@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Marshall)]

> EO Goldbeck, with some pics that weren't in the
> other two books on him. It's quite reasonable as well. You can find it 
> on
> amazon.com and other places. . I have all three books on him and it 
> seems
> pretty good. And he even shot with banquet cameras- the xpan of the 
> time.
> 
> Another is a heavy thick book on Josef Sudek, 

Is there work by Goldbeck on the web that anyone knows of?

Sudek has long been one of my favourite photographers and I have several 
books which include some panoramas, including at least one published in 
his home country. Some years ago I helped organise a show which included 
some Czech photography including one of his pictures, and it was a very 
fine print - this really is work it is worth seeing in the flesh.

Of course he had a long career and was a part of an avant-garde movement 
that was into experiments of all kinds (perhaps more obviously in the work 
of people like Funke). He seems to have had a particular interest in the 
tactile quality of the print surface, creating work that often seems to 
glow out of darkness (quite different from the Photosecession and 
similar pictorial work which has glowing highlights, although he used 
some of the same printing techniques.) I have a photogravure of one of his 
pictures framed on the wall which almost captures the quality of the 
original. 

Obviously results is what matters. Looking at the XPan I couldn't see what 
it could do that I can't already do with a 6x7. However I'm sure it's a 
good camera to use and if I was given one I'd use it. 

Peter Marshall
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