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Originally Posted by kormoran
I won't tell on this board which publications I've meant because some authors and researchers are on this board too and they would have some problems which my opinion. And I don't want to offend these guys. Regards Günter.
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Well, I'll tell you what offended me: your comment that 'if you have a look at series of today (I don't want to name them) - most photos are well known. Such well "researched" publications are absolutely worthless.'
The implication of that (and I hope I'm wrong) seems to be that pictures matter and words don't. Have you
any idea of the effort it takes research and put together a narrative of 30,000 words (e.g. the Classic Colours softbacks), let alone 85,000 (a 256-page hardback in large format)?
I'd recommend judging books on whether they contain new
information, not just new pictures. As far as I'm concerned a book should tell you something you didn't previously know or put forward a new argument - and that can be done with or without new photos. Believe or not, a book could be well researched and have genuine worth even if it didn't include a single illustration.