Year-end praise for The Lost
It was a great weekend for The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. My brother's book--one which I spent five years shooting photographs for--was named one of the 50 Notable Books (non-fiction) of 2006 by The New York Times on Sunday. When one thinks of the thousands and thousands of books released each year, this is certainly an amazing honor.The Houston Chronicle weighed in on Sunday as well, naming The Lost one of its 12 best books of the year. The Chronicle was kind enough to note that "no other memoir has received more respectful reviews in recent months."
The Boston Globe also included The Lost on its list of the 12 best non-fiction books of 2006.
And finally, Amazon.com named The Lost as it's #2 history book of 2006, a wonderful way to finish the weekend.
Now, if I could only get HarperCollins to make the pictures a little bigger than postage stamps in the next printing, life would be great. :)
On an unrelated note, we're still clawing our way through the holiday photo blitz, trying to stay above water. So if you guys are wondering why I'm not writing a lot these days, that's it!
But I promise to be back up to speed in a few days, with fun and depressing tales of just how crazy people get around this time of year. Let's just say that I feel for some of the children I've photographed lately.
Happy shopping,
Matt
posted by matt mendelsohn at 11:57 PM
4 Comments:
do you have any interest in selling prints of the photos in The Lost?
RP
Here's a funny. Amazon suggested that book to me and I have it on my To Read List. I saw the last name and thought, "I wonder..." I suppose it suggested it to me, b/c my past purchases reveal my crush on Judaism. I read a lot of Potok and love Tova Mirvis, Naomi Ragen and Ruchama King. Anywho, I will be reading it and enjoying your shots, I am sure.
Funny, I just found your website and blog because I just finished reading "The Lost" and was curious to see your other work. I do hope the pictures are bigger in reprints--they were superb, and added to an already phenomenal book.
Congratulations on "The Lost." I enjoyed seeing so many of your images when you were in Dallas. How do I get an autographed copy?
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