Erich Lessing (1923–2018)
Auteur van The Louvre: All the Paintings
Over de Auteur
Erich Lessing was born to Jewish parents in Vienna, Austria on July 13, 1923. He fled the Nazi annexation of Austria as a teenager in 1939 to Palestine. He studied radio engineering at a technical college and served in Britain's Sixth Airborne Division as a photographer and pilot. He returned to toon meer Austria in 1947. He was hired by Magnum Photos as a freelancer in 1951. He joined the agency full time in 1955 and became a part-time contributor in 1979. His photographs were included in The Louvre: All the Paintings. He died on August 29, 2018 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: wien.orf.at/
Werken van Erich Lessing
Erich Lessing - Fifty years of photography 3 exemplaren
De man van Nazareth 2 exemplaren
Die Botschaft Jesus in Bildern dargestellt 1 exemplaar
Traumstraßen durch Frankreich 1 exemplaar
Mujeres mitologías 1 exemplaar
L'Odyssée: l'épopée d'Homère racontée en images 1 exemplaar
Erich Lessing: 50 Jahre Photographie 1 exemplaar
Paulus : Zeuge Jesu u. Völkerapostel 1 exemplaar
Lessing zeigt Lessing / Lessing presents Lessing 1 exemplaar
Romantische Reise durch Deutschland 1 exemplaar
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I wonder if Homer actually went on such a sea voyage? And, if not, who did? And if it was actually Homer himself....was he able to see at the time (ie not blind)? Or how did he get such accurate details as:
".......Ithaca. On its coast is an inlet
sacred to Phorkys, the ancient of the sea,
where two detached headlands of sheer cliff stand forth and screen a harbour between their steeps".
Seems to me, that somebody actually made such a journey and put it to verse. Was it a mariner's handbook as well as a lusty story? I guess there are thousands of learned treatises about this.
Anyway, the authors have made a first rate job of marrying the text of the Odyssey with the photos of Erich Lessing. Sometimes, I think Lessing goes in for a bit too much macro focus ...eg with the ram on plate 77 and he's actually best when he's photographing current scenery ..such as the various islands or beaches or landscapes. I must have read variations of the Odyssey many times but this particular version brought it alive for me. Though, I must admit, I find the idea of the Gods playing such an active and intertwined role with humans a bit hard to swallow.
The book is not quite as old as Homer ....but still by modern standards, rather dated (1966) but it holds up well...and I only paid $7 for it so think I got a bargain. Happy to give it four stars and I'm teetering on giving it five.… (meer)