Now available FREE.

Back in 2005 I published a book of one hundred black and white street snaps named Street Smarts, using Lulu.com. It sold well which gratified my ego and made my charities happy, as they got the proceeds. The pictures were taken during my last six years of life in London and my first six years of what became a 35 year love affair with my first Leica, an M3. They were taken in London and Paris during the period 1971-77, right until I left permanently for America.

You can still get the book from Lulu in a printed paperback (and I will continue to earn nothing!) but I have also now added a downloadable PDF version which you can get by clicking the picture below and saving the 45 second/14gB download, or by going to ‘links’ at the top right of this site. Gratis, free and for nothing. And it’s been digitally remastered, as the marketing spin for old stuff would have it.

You may contrast my street snapper style from 40 years ago with today’s by also downloading the identically priced Street Snaps 2009-2010 and, in addition to the exclusive use of color where monochrome once ruled, I hope you will also find more joy and humor in the later work, and a more spontaneous approach. Over a forty year period one changes ….

Click picture to download.