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Elvis Lives!

All the local primary schools marched and/or had floats and collected donations in buckets from the parade-watchers.

I love Zore Neale Hurston too!

Favorites

Last week I posted a shelf of Anthony Burgess – here’s another. the second shot is more of a shameless plug for the Islers, my father’s novels, my sister’s text and a few of my own poor entries.

Steidl printed a new edition of Sander’s classic 7-volume People of the 20th Century a few years back at a quite bearable price and I was lucky enough to pick up a copy for something like $75 (Amazon currently lists 7 copies ranging in price from $325 to over $1000).

If I can’t photograph anything new, I guess I’m down to photographing books of photographs or books about photography…

Time Life

When I was about 12 or 13, Time-Life Books started issuing a subscription series of books on photography. They were very cheap, but much more than my weekly allowance would cover. I persuaded my father to cover half the cost and every other month a new volume would arrive. I devoured them. Initially a series of 8, they subsequently extended the series but we had left the country by then so I only have the original set. Still a worthy source for the budding young photographer.