Reprint of The Decisive Moment?

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Stephen S. Mack

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I posted my question elsewhere but got no nibbles so far, so I will post it here. Are there any plans afoot to reprint HBC's The Decisive Moment? I have seen some collections (by someone else) of his work printed recently, and what I think are reprints of some of his original work, but no Decisive Moment.:bang: I've seen the picture content on-line, which of course is not the same thing as a real, live book (IMO). I would gladly pay for a good reprint; I can't afford a copy of the original.

Are there any enterprising publication houses out there who would be willing? I'm sure they'd get back the costs of printing, and then some.

With best regards to all.

Stephen S. Mack
 
A small printing house could probably make a little money on the little book. I've seen/read nothing about a new reprint. In fact, I don't think its ever been reprinted since its original publication.

Not a big deal, its avail online.
 
I was wondering about this a year or so ago.

Apparently HCB decreed that he did not want any reprints of the book after the first run.
 
I don't get why some photographers won't let certain works be reprinted. It just makes things difficult for their fans.
 
I had a professor who told us graduate students that "Virtually all Ph.D.s are, in the end, prima donnas; we have to be, because it is inherently egotistical to believe you have something to share that other people should listen to." I suspect the same thing goes for top flight artists: decisions about things like reprints aren't made with their fans in mind at all, but out of a rather self-centered calculus -- perhaps inevitably so.

aizan said:
I don't get why some photographers won't let certain works be reprinted. It just makes things difficult for their fans.
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Papercut said:
I had a professor who told us graduate students that "Virtually all Ph.D.s are, in the end, prima donnas; we have to be, because it is inherently egotistical to believe you have something to share that other people should listen to." I suspect the same thing goes for top flight artists: decisions about things like reprints aren't made with their fans in mind at all, but out of a rather self-centered calculus -- perhaps inevitably so.
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wouldn't they want the book to be widely distributed, then?
 
it would depend, wouldn't it? I think it's quite common for artists to "grow out of" their own previous work and become quite critical of and regret making it. Didn't HCB have to be dissuaded from torching his entire archive of negatives at one point?

My point is only that in decisions like this, the artist's own personal agenda, feelings, etc., are going to trump any consideration of their "fans".
 
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