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Re: GG: Photographic Suite
Anyone know if or where where you can get this book in London, England?
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In message <3237313D.2164@Schwab.com>, Manuel Martinez
<Manuel.Martinez@schwab.com> writes
>Dear fellow Glenn Gould fans,
>
>A few months ago, I ran across a photographic book of Glenn Gould in a
>San Francisco bookstore. It is a marvelous, hardbound, coffee table book,
>much larger than Jock Carroll's. Published by Attila Csampai (who is this
>guy?), it contains some 90 colored and black and white pictures of GG.
>The roster of photographers (about a dozen) includes Jack Gould and
>Russell Herbert Gould (would that be uncle and father? Can someone tell
>me?). The collection begins with GG's baby picture and ends, quite
>poignantly, with his chair. But I won't waste my time describing the
>pictures and all the great, ineffable emotions evoked. If you don't have
>this book, please get it. It's sixty dollars, a bit of a splurge for some
>of us, but you owe it to yourself. This is simply the best photographic
>document of Glenn Gould that I've seen.
>
>Title: Glenn Gould Photographische Suiten
>by: Attila Csampai
>Publisher: London: Schirmer/Mosel
>Date: 1995
>Price: $60
>
>Where to order:
>Rizzoli Bookstore
>
>Tel:
>212.759.2424 (New York)
>415.984.0225 (San Francisco)
>
>It may be faster if someone can find the publisher's address in Europe.
>As you may have guessed, the text is in German. Does it matter? It's 90%
>pictures, all glorious. The catalog of recordings in the appendix is
>quite readable.
>
>My apologies for not sharing this earlier. Since joining F Minor not too
>long ago, no one has mentioned this book and I've began to wonder
>(whether I'm commiting a crime, that is).
>
>I enjoy reading all your emails everyday. Thank you, Mary Jo for keeping
>the flow of GG consciousness going.
>
>Best regards,
>Manuel
--
Richard Landau