To keep you all apprised, given the extraordinary circumstance of Hurricane Sandy: I heard from Michael A. Smith again this afternoon. Gradually they are getting combobulated: phone service is back in Pennsylvania although email is not. Michael and Paula have now departed for Paris Photo, as planned, but their assistant (whose name I still don't know) has moved operations to his own residence and is working overtime to get the rest of the books shipped. Two hundred books went out today and Michael is hopeful that all the rest will be on the way by tomorrow.
They are unable to charge credit cards, with their Internet not working, but Michael made the decision to go ahead and send the books before charging peoples' cards in order that delivery not be delayed any longer. He'll actually charge your card (if yours is not one of the ones not processed before Sandy hit) when he returns from Paris.
Some people should have received their books already—some were shipped before the storm. If you've gotten yours, what do you think?
Mike
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Mark Johnson: "Hadn't realised book reproduction could be so powerful—you're drawn into the very deep, rich tonalities. The Mexican images on matt surface paper don't have any sense of an overlying paper surface between the image, even the subject, and the eye. The plates are all profoundly beautiful. (I would love to have seen even more of the Point Lobos imagery.) I've not yet had time to read the text—a pleasure to come."
Mine is on the way!
Posted by: Oleg Shpak | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 12:35 AM
I was charged before the storm, just got a shipping confirmation this morning(Thursday).
Posted by: iran R. | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 12:40 AM
I received an e-mail from Michael a few days ago informing me my book was on the way; UPS says I'll receive it on Monday.
Damn UPS for not delivering on weekends!!!!
Posted by: Miserere | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 10:04 AM
I was very surprised to receive mine on Wednesday morning. I've only had a chance to look through it for a few minutes, and that made me decide to lay it aside until the weekend when I could sit with it for some time in good light. I've not seen anything its like.
The offer was an opportunity that I'm very glad I took. But this is a hook isn't it? How will I be able to resist future book offers?
Posted by: Carson Harding | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 10:08 AM
I hope they are checking where they are sending the books to make sure that the purchaser is in a position to receive it.
I'm on high ground and lucky to have dodged most of sandy and whatever that other storm was called, but I'm in walking distance of some pretty devastated neighborhoods.
Posted by: hugh crawford | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 11:05 AM
I believe the word is undiscombobulated.
Posted by: Riley | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 11:37 AM
I received mine on Wednesday and haven't even had a chance to take the wrapping off it yet. I want to be able to sit, relax, and enjoy and not be in a rush, so it'll have to wait another day or two. By the sounds of things it'll be worth the wait!
Posted by: Collin Orthner | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 03:24 PM
Got mine this evening. It's very pretty.
Posted by: psu | Friday, 09 November 2012 at 04:39 PM
Got mine yesterday. WOW, the printing is fantastic. This book comes as close to a darkroom print as I have seen in a printed book. I have the Edward Weston One Hundred Twenty Five Photographs book as well. This quality in the Lodima book is worlds better than that one. The selection of images is very good too, though I think both books have some strong images the other does not.
Thanks to Lodima and TOP for making this available at a nice price.
Posted by: Larry Gebhardt | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 10:51 AM