This is Arnie, my friend and former colleague. We both worked at Newsday for a long time, and we worked on a number of stories together. His career included a number of years in Vietnam reporting on the war, and a number of years as a national correspondent. He decided he wanted to put together a book showing some of the best stories from his career, so his grandchildren would know both what he did, and what journalism was during the golden age. So he brought one of his finished books to the Dinosaur Breakfast today, and we got to look at it. It is simply stunning! Because the newspaper pages were scanned, and then reproduced in the book, you can see how the stories originally ran, and it is so cool to slight yellowing on some of the pages, which adds a powerful sense that these were newspaper stories.
Hmmmm... I know someone else who might consider doing something similar. Perhaps unlocking the vault of film negatives and putting that old Flickr account to good use. Maybe Santa will bring him a film scanner if he was a good boy ;-)
ReplyDeleteI don't see it on Amazon - is it widely published or available - sounds interesting!
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