latest additions to your library

[aizan]

gas is nothing compared to bibliomania. :D

the new color photography - sally eauclaire
beauty in photography - robert adams
the new west - robert adams
los alamos - william eggleston
henry wessel - henry wessel
saul leiter - saul leiter
the park - kohei yoshiyuki

[Antti-Juhani]

It´s all good - Boogie
Heavy metal - Alex Fakso
Shinjuku 19XX-20XX - Daido Moriyama

They are all good, but i love Boogie.

[Yammerman]

Been buying a lot this year the best being Let Truth be the Prejudice by Ben Maddow abouth the life of Eugene Smith . Great images and a real insight in to the man's mind. Highly recommended.

Some of the older books can be as expensive as a good lens.:D

[retnull]

"River of Shadows" by Rebecca Solnit -- in part, a biography of Edward Muybridge, but also an exploration of how technology impacts our lives (including cinema, the descendent of Muybridge's work). A very interesting book.

[Florian1234]

My last photography related book was "Wer sind Sie, Henri Cartier-Bresson?", a pictorial volume with several essays about HCB's life and work.
Not sure what's the English title of it.

Before that there were Günter Osterloh's Leica M book and a volume about the photos of Stanley Kubrick before he became movie director.:)

[bmattock]

Four issues of 1920's era magazine, "Kodakery."
Prior to that, nothing for several months after William Mortensen's "The Model."

[Andrew Sowerby]

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by Eugene Richards recently arrived in the mail. It's a stunning book.

[bmattock]

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by Eugene Richards recently arrived in the mail. It's a stunning book.

Oh, non-photography related? "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater and "MicroTrends" by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zelesne.

[Florian1234]

I'd rather call it "bibliophilia", btw. :D

[steamer]

I just caved in and bought The Genius of Photography but I controlled myself and pulled up on The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderful-World-Albert-Kahn-Photographs/dp/1846074584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209300844&sr=8-1

[Andrew Sowerby]

Oh, non-photography related?

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue is a photo essay published in the mid-1990s about crack in New York and Philadelphia. Am I missing the joke?

[aizan]

just placed my order for "a shimmer of possibility" by paul graham. can't wait!

[nikon_sam]

Nothing too deep, just finishing up the series..."Hannibal Rising" by Thomas Harris...
Picked up this hardback copy at the "Friends of the Library" used book store for $3.00

[Steve Bellayr]

The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912
One Tack Mind Photographic Essays on Western Railraoding by Ted Benson
The Voyage of the Virgin Maria Candelaria by Deborah Turbeville

[Jamie Pillers]

A book filled with beautiful photographs of landscape, street scene, portraits... or the 'unexpected' fill me up with pure unadulterated inspiration. I just looked through a new book called "Family (Photographers photograph their families)" by Phaidon. Now I can't wait to get the portrait lens on the camera and corral the family in some beautiful light somewhere!

Other recent purchases: 2 books of Cartier-Bresson photos, 1 of Wynn Bullock, 1 of Henry Wessel, 1 of Gary Winogrand, 1 of Lee Friedlander, and the newest Nikon Compendium (to satisfy a bit of the late-night GAS attacks).

[usagisakana]

Just bought a book on sale from my uni book shop about photomicroscopy.. is interesting stuff. I plan on buying Roger and Frances' book on exposure next time I'm in fremantle... I wanted to check first if it was a royalty book or not.

[John Rountree]

As I grew up about 20 miles from Ft. Wayne, IN, I just bought a copy of McClellan Street by David and Peter Turnley.

[M. Valdemar]

"The Necronomicon", by Al Hazrad, the Mad Arab.

[al1966]

Along Some American Highways, Andrew Cross
The gardens at Giverny, Stephen Shore.

have places a pre order for Sleeping By The mississippi by Alec Soth and will probably buy Niagra when I get paid.

[Andrew Sowerby]

I picked up two photo books here in London last week: Satellites by Jonas Bendiksen and Istanbul by Alex Webb. Both are fantastic.

[Rogrund]

"The Necronomicon", by Al Hazrad, the Mad Arab.

After finished reading Lovecraft, right? Didn't know that was a photo book!

[swoop]

Walker Evans - Cuba

I found a copy at Strand.

[Andrew Sowerby]

I've bought a lot of photography books lately, but my favorite by far is Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore. I keep going back to his photos again and again. He's pretty much the final word on colour photography composition.

[ljsegil]

The new Steidl edition of Robert Frank's "The Americans" is a beauty. Highly recommended, if not already owned or just want better reproductions.
I'm finding "The Genius of Photography", although enjoyable, just too much to get through. Maybe more than I really want to know, my own failing.
LJS

[pfoto]

"I never wanted to be famous" by Steve Barbour, medical doctor and Leica user. This book is really a labor of love over the ten years that Dr. Barbour took these pictures of young children. It is a study of the human spirit in the face of daunting odds - serious infectious diseases. Great to see excellent documentary work from an amateur photographer.

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/186890

[vincentbenoit]

Might not count as bibliomania per se but I've recently subscribed to Private magazine:
http://www.privatephotoreview.com/en/index.php

Highly recommended.

Vincent

[benlees]

I recently got Harry Callahan, National Gallery; Walker Evans "The Hungary Eye", and Winogrand's "Public Relations" for the grand total of $16. Wish I could get "The Animals" for that cheap!

[tom.w.bn]

"1/8 sec." from Jim Rakete. Portraits taken with an old large format camera at 1/8 or longer. Very nice pictures, i just love it.
It's quite new and I wanted it, so i had to pay 68 EUR.

[sepiareverb]

The Polaroid Book, and the new edition of The Americans.

[al1966]

I got a copy of The Americans a couple of wks ago
Have on order Niagara as its not in print so ill have to wait on that one, also the wife will be ordering American Surfaces (Stephen Shore) and Beneath the Roses (Crewdson) tomorrow. Big bonus she works in a book shop and gets good discount!

[aizan]

"beneath the roses" is HUGE, and not printed very well. i like "twilight", though.

i got the steidl reprint, too. and one of the last copies of "a shimmer of possibility". :D

[kididdoc]

:D:D:D"I never wanted to be famous" by Steve Barbour, medical doctor and Leica user. This book is really a labor of love over the ten years that Dr. Barbour took these pictures of young children. It is a study of the human spirit in the face of daunting odds - serious infectious diseases. Great to see excellent documentary work from an amateur photographer.

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/186890

thank you...nice to stumble upon this. Steve

[sepiareverb]

Robert Frank's Come Again. Incredible printing. Steidl can make some remarkable books.

[Papercut]

Westerbeck and Meyerowitz, "Bystander: A History of Street Photography". Large, semi-academic tome. Read it in 24 hours. Fun, although like any 'survey' attempt, there are gaps I'm sure and places where the analysis is uneven. But, still, highly recommended, because like any good 'critique', it raises one's level of "informed appreciation" of the work it discusses.

[dof]

Helen Levitt (because it is so sublime)

Robert Frank: The Americans (as a compliment to my 20-year old copy of Jacob Holdt's American Pictures)


-j.

[dcsang]

This month's (bi-monthly) issue of Lens Work (I have a subscription) - it's the only photography mag/book I read - it offers me a look at people's work; different types of work (not just street or landscape or abstract alone...) and it has a good read and there's nary an advert save for their own items (books/cd's)

Dave

[Andrew Sowerby]

Amazon.ca finally shipped Fred Herzog's Vancouver Photographs. I'm very excited for that to arrive. I also ordered Lee Friedlander's Cherry Blossom Time in Japan. I hope they arrive today, but I'll probably have to wait until next week.

[ljsegil]

Michael Smith: A Visual Journey--beautiful and unusual, very evocative large format work, excellent reproductions (I think, never having seen the originals).
LJS

[nksyoon]

Jonas Bendiksen - The Places We Live
http://aperture.org/store/books-detail-promo-bio.aspx?ID=670

Joakim Eskildsen - The Roma Journeys
http://www.steidlville.com/books/500-The-Roma-Journeys-Hungary-India-Greece-Romania-France-Russia-Finland.html

Lee Friedlander - MOMA Retrospective
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Friedlander_10451_10001_49668_-1_11485_11487_null__

[Mr_Flibble]

Leica Collector's Guide,
Leica Pocket Book,
Leica Accessories Pocket Book,
The Greatest Photographs of World War II, Neil Kagan and Stephen Hyslop,

And a few weeks ago I picked up "Slightly out of Focus" by Robert Capa.

Looking to buy "Darkness Visible" by Charles Eugene Sumners this month.

[Andrew Sowerby]

Nick, those Bendiksen books look very interesting. Do you have Satellites?

[nksyoon]

Nick, those Bendiksen books look very interesting. Do you have Satellites?

Yes, I do - it's quite different in that's it's more of a road-trip book and a different style compared to the more straightforward Places - although the concept of showing all four walls of each living space in Places is very interesting.

[Tom A]

I have been a bit slow with books this month, only 2 worth mentioning: Magnum 1957- This is a "cataloge" over the first major Magnum Show in 1957. Well printed. A friend in Japan gave it to me.
2nd book: Dream Sreet, The Pittsburg Story by Eugeen Smith. Not the greatest reproductions, but nice to see the story as a whole, rather than as small blocks.
I agree that collecting books are far more dangerous than hoarding M2's. Less likelihood of a pile of M2's damaging or maiming you than a pile of books. Word of warning - reading Magnum,Magnum in bed is hazardous. It is unlikely that you will fall asleep, but if you do there is a high risk of concussion!

[Papercut]

Books are also dangerous when it comes time to move! It is back-breaking work lugging them around... With a library of 5000+ volumes (most academic monographs), my back hated me this past January. (I think there's still 20+ boxes unpacked in the garage...ugh.)

[aizan]

i ordered the new reprint of saul leiter's "early color," and to my surprise i got the first edition. score!

[nksyoon]

The 5B4 blog (http://5b4.blogspot.com/2008/07/wonderland-fairy-tale-of-soviet.html) is great for discovering books...I bought Jason Eskenazi's "Wonderland, A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith" (http://jasoneskenazi.com/wonderland.html) after reading about it there.

[timothyd]

Elliott Erwitt "Unseen". I walked into a Ralph Lauren store, and there was a table full of books. Found it among yacht, mansions and luxury car books. I walked out with a good book, and no clothing. It's my first Elliott Erwitt book, and I was impressed. Can anyone recommend more Elliott Erwitt books?

[Papercut]

finally ponied up the money for Salgado's "Africa" -- amazing images, but so many are so hard to look that I'm going to have to take it in small chunks

[ZeissFan]

A small book of photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson (published by Thames & Hudson, Photofile).

Also, "Portrait & Candid Photography," by Erin Manning.

[pesphoto]

Washington Park...Andre Kertesz

[meven]

"Moving Pictures" from Chow Yun Fat.
(All profits goes to the victims of the Szechuan Earthquake)

[trix]

"Far Cry" by Paulo Nozolino

[manfromh]

Eugene Atget: Paris

Its the one published by Taschen.

Its also my first photo-book :D

[pesphoto]

Americana - Kertesz

[johnastovall]

Aftermath Unseen 9/11 Photos by a New York City Cop (http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/09/recommended-thi.html) by John Botte

[Chemophilic]

"Werner Bischof" and "Eugene Smith" in the Phaidon 55 series.

[AshenLight]

Darkroom Cookbook 3rd edition with Hutchings Pyro book on the way.

[helenhill]

Three Books
Helen Levitt / Photos 1937-1991
Henri Cartier -Bresson: The Man. the image & the World
Bruce Davidson / Circus

[helenhill]

"Moving Pictures" from Chow Yun Fat.
(All profits goes to the victims of the Szechuan Earthquake)

i've been a big fan of Chow Yun fat's movies since the 1980's
Did not realize he has been doing photography for quite some time
Thanx for the info.....can't wait to see his B&W phhotography
Best-H

[nico]

Roland Barthes "La chambre claire"
and Private (http://www.privatephotoreview.com/) n. 39 (I'm pakistani) an interesting italian review on b/w photography I recently discovered.

[Steve Bellayr]

"Inside Algeria" by Michael von Graffenried Aperture

[Papercut]

Winogrand, "The Animals" !

[nksyoon]

Just received this: "White Sea Black Sea" by Jens Olof Lasthein (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1904587607/ref=pd_luc_mri?_encodin\ g=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance) - panoramics

Also see galleries on his website: http://www.lasthein.se/

[Arvay]

"The Master Photographer's Lith Printing Course: A Definitive Guide to Creative Lith Printing" by Tim Rudman
Just purchased on bay

[direwolf101]

"Edge of Darkness," by Barry Thornton.

[nico]

Eugene Atget: Paris
Its the one published by Taschen.

... I bought it too and John Phillips "War and Peace".

I'm also waiting for my copy of Robert Frank's "The Americans" ...

[sweathog]

I was given for my 21st birthday I was given a copy of Curse Of The Black Gold by Ed Kashi.
I saw some of his work in National Geographic while in a doctor's waiting room, and when I heard the book was out I was very excited but couldn't ever justify purchasing it, so I was so grateful when I received it.

[aizan]

got 'baghdad calling' by geert van kesteren a while ago, and just went on an alec soth binge: sleeping by the mississippi, niagara, fashion magazine. snag those reprints while you can!

[ljsegil]

I was fortunate to just come across Robert Adam's (no relation to Ansel) writing for the first time, and find it revelatory, most erudite, yet readable. He takes a photograph both within and without its immediate context and relates it both to the larger world and other forms of art and makes it seem more a complete work than simply an object in a gallery. So far I have gone through "Beauty in Photography" (twice in a week) with "Why People Photograph" in between. I have more of his work on order already; impatiently awaiting arrival. And I've yet to see a photo made by the man, but his prose certainly speaks to me. Most highly recommended (and short with big print to boot).
LJS

[Papercut]

Amazon should be paying RFF a commission for this thread alone -- it is responsible for inducing major BAS (book acquisition syndrome) for me on a regular basis! ;)

[Papercut]

Daido Moriyama, "Shinjuku, 19XX-20XX"

[pesphoto]

Just got "Kertesz on Kertesz" for $1.50
Waiting for "Darkroom 2"

[mabelsound]

Jonas Bendiksen's new one, with an intro by Philip Gourevich, "The Places We Live." Breathtaking. Conceptually cool, too--he photographed people's slum houses throughout the world, many of them homemade, four photos per house, one of each wall. Each set is a double foldout, so you can see the whole house at once. Some of the subjects are very ingenious; others surprisingly cheerful despite their poverty. bendiksen really knows how to connect with people in obscure places.

[Yammerman]

I was fortunate to just come across Robert Adam's (no relation to Ansel) writing for the first time, and find it revelatory, most erudite, yet readable. He takes a photograph both within and without its immediate context and relates it both to the larger world and other forms of art and makes it seem more a complete work than simply an object in a gallery. So far I have gone through "Beauty in Photography" (twice in a week) with "Why People Photograph" in between. I have more of his work on order already; impatiently awaiting arrival. And I've yet to see a photo made by the man, but his prose certainly speaks to me. Most highly recommended (and short with big print to boot).
LJS

Damn right there. I too discovered them recently and found very enlightening.

Working my way through Richard Newmans Toning Technigues at the moment.

[Pherdinand]

i received from a friend, six sci-fi books, some are second hand some new.
r.c.wilson "spin", t. sturgeon "more than human", asimov "the death of eternity", v.savchenko "the hat of monomah", asimov "the gods themselves", o. johannesson "the big calculator"
and i bought a gerda taro book which i am still awaiting for delivery.

[tom.w.bn]

My latest addition is "The polaroid book". What? Polaroid? But the graphical compositions inside are very good. I suppose, this book will influence the composition of my photographs quite a lot.

[meven]

"100 photos de Reza (http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28720)" for Reporters Sans Frontieres/Reporters Without Borders (http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20).

http://www.rsf.org/IMG/arton28720.jpg

Reza is one of my favorite photographer, his portraits and war photographs are simply amazing.

[bobkonos]

I was just given a copy of "Henry Wessel" and it is excelllent. I also have added the Lee Friedlander book from the recent retrospective of his work at San Francisco's MOMA.

[Al Kaplan]

There don't seem to be any independent book sellers left around here. I picked up a couple more hardbound U.S. Camera Annuals from the 50's and 60's and a 1940's vintage The Leica Manual at a yard sale a couple years back. Most all my reading these days is on line. The only magazines that I still get are a couple of professional journals on urban planning. My son (and others) keeps bugging me to start editing my blog into a few books about my life as a photographer, the people I've known and photographed, etc. The task seems daunting.

[whitecat]

There should be a volume of McKeowan's "Cameras" in every library.

[pesphoto]

Darkroom 2

[mabelsound]

My latest addition is "The polaroid book". What? Polaroid? But the graphical compositions inside are very good. I suppose, this book will influence the composition of my photographs quite a lot.

I love that book!

[peter_n]

An English Eye - James Ravilious.

[IdeaDog]

Three Men in a Boat -Jerome K Jerome. No idea what I'm in for with it.

[Bob Michaels]

I have coming, as a Christmas gift, a copy of Bruce Davidson's East 100th St. My kids always ask if I have any suggestions, so I let that be known. As they were all claiming the right to get for me, I was suggesting that they make it a joint gift. When they found what a good copy cost, they understood why.