[alt-photo] Re: MY FIRST BOOK LAUNCH

[David Ashcraft]

Congratulation Bob! Good luck on the launch.

On Nov 28, 2011, at 5:30 AM, BOB KISS wrote:

> DEAR LIST,
>
>            I am proud to announce that this Tuesday evening,  
> November 29th,
> from 6 to 8 pm we will be launching my first book of fine art  
> photographs,
> BARBADOS CHATTEL HOUSES.  The venue is the lovely, old Main Guard  
> building
> at the Historical Garrison Savannah here in Barbados.
> http://www.visitbarbados.org/Listing.aspx?lid=1986
> <http://www.visitbarbados.org/Listing.aspx?lid=1986&catid=17>  
> &catid=17
>
>            There are more than 115 black and white photos of chattel  
> houses
> which I shot with my 8X10 camera, Tri-x in PMK.  The text was  
> written by a
> true renaissance man, Professor Henry Fraser, who is President  
> Emeritus of
> the Barbados National Trust, a historian of Caribbean architecture  
> with half
> a dozen books to his credit, a pharmacologist, recently retired dean  
> of the
> University of the West Indies newly formed College of Medicine on the
> Barbados (a.k.a. Cave Hill) campus, and founder of the Barbados  
> Infectious
> Diseases Institute.  And he is an accomplished oil painter!  Busy guy!
>
>            I scanned the 8X10 negs myself with my Epson V750 PRO and
> Frotoshopped and prepared the CMYK Tiff files so the printer could  
> print the
> book in four-color holding the tones and nice warm color that I  
> wanted.  All
> of the photos in the book are also offered as platinum-palladium  
> prints in
> three sizes.
>
>            The publisher is based in Trinidad and the book was  
> printed in
> Hong Kong.  The photos have a nice "cross over" from fine art to  
> documentary
> photography.  I shot my first chattel house in 1996 so I feel are as  
> much
> relief as pride!    ;-))
>
>            The publisher will be arranging to put the book on Amazon  
> and I
> will let all know when it is done.hopefully soon, before Xmas.
>
>                        CHEERS!
>
>                                    BOB
>
>
>
> Please check my website:  <http://www.bobkiss.com/> http://www.bobkiss.com/
>
>
>
>
> "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you are  
> going to
> live forever".  Mahatma Gandhi
>
>
>
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David Ashcraft
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