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.

[digihater]

Just got the following
The rollei manual by A.Pearlman
workbook of darkroom techniques by john hedgecoe
color darkroom techniques by Ralph Hattersley
making colour prints by J.M.Whitaker.

I have a few thomas tomosy books around here too as well as the Romney ones. I found a lovely old secondhand bookshop round here where all their books go for about £4-5, so I dived in, I found the Leica way but resisted the temptation, however I may go back for it if its a good read.

The wife doesn't like me spending money on books, I don't know why.

[dexdog]

I recently acquired the Helmut Thiele book of serial numbers for Zeiss lenses.

[trix]

"French Kiss" by Anders Petersen

it rocks !

[HarryW]

Two books from the Phaidon 55 Series

Joel Meyerowitz by Colin Westerbeck
Gabriele Basilico by Francesco Bonami

Harry

[foggie]

Bruce Davidson - England/Scotland 1960
Bruce Davidson - Circus
Chien-chi Chang - I Do I Do I Do
Susan Meiselas - Carnival Strippers

The two bruce davidson books are brilliant. I love the pictures in Chang's I do i do i do but was annoyed by the positioning of photos in the book. (I hate it when they place photos through the middle fold!)

Carnival Strippers has some interesting pictures and capitvating stories but the layout of the book, font choices, and overall design is a disaster.

[adji_jo]

Jacob Aue Sobol's I, Tokyo. I really love it

[Shac]

2 from Aperture - Paul Strand's "La France de Profil" and his "Sixty years of photographs"
- no one comes close for my tastes

[MartinP]

'Entre Terre et Ciel', Gaston Rebuffat (photos. Pierre Tairaz)

It got me to climb mountains and like ice.

'Norwegian Wood', Haruki Murakami

Just a book to make one think.


Last photography book was 'Africa', by Salgado.

[sweathog]

I just found a cracking bookshop in York.
I've got a horrible feeling I will be spending a lot of time and money in there.

I went in there for a look around on my lunch break and walked out with a copy of Jessica Dimmock's The Ninth Floor (http://mediastorm.org/0021.htm).

[aizan]

oh, man. you wanna keep middle school kids from doing drugs, show them a copy of "the ninth floor".

[sweathog]

oh, man. you wanna keep middle school kids from doing drugs, show them a copy of "the ninth floor".
It really is a great book.
It is so personal, and IMO very non-judgemental.
I highly recommend it, but it is certainly not 'light reading/viewing'.

[Papercut]

Kent Reno's "Ground Time"

playful romp around the world by a commercial pilot who shot in his spare (ground) time

[benmacphoto]

I just got The Secret Paris of the 30's by Brassai

[VictorM.]

Daring To Look - a book about Dorothea Lange's photographs from 1939 by Anne Whiston Spirn.

[nikon_sam]

Midway: Portrait of a Daytona Beach Neighborhood by Gordon Parks

Although I just got this book I don't think it will be staying in my collection...It's going to be a Christmas present for a dear friend...

[icebear]

Annie Leibovitz "At Work".
Her well known pictures and some explanation 'behind the scenes'. On inspiration, on the work itself, on equipment, quite interesting - if you like her. We had a nother thread where the opinions had been pretty polarized.

[aizan]

i was looking at that the other day. just watch the price for mamiya 140mm lenses go up.

[RayPA]

Joel Peter Witkin, Disciple and Master. Witkin can be tough to take, but to see the image that influenced his image, side-by-side, and preceded by JPW's own words is very interesting. The guy loves photography and photographs.

[Papercut]

Jacob Holdt, "American Pictures". In some ways not a photography book at all, but an intense book to look at (and read ... there's a lot of text) from a Danish "vagabond" who traveled (hitchhiked) around the US for years taking photographs.

[RayPA]

Jacob Holdt, "American Pictures". In some ways not a photography book at all, but an intense book to look at (and read ... there's a lot of text) from a Danish "vagabond" who traveled (hitchhiked) around the US for years taking photographs.

Kevin, was this the one you brought to the party? There were two books (among many) floating around that night that were pretty interesting. Matt brought one and IIRC, you brought the other.

edit: checked it out on Amazon. I don't believe this was the same book, but I'd like to see this one sometime.

[Papercut]

Ray,
You're right -- not the same book. But I will definitely bring it along to the next BLOW-UP get together. Troubling and highly polemic, it is definitely a strong book (both photographically and politically), even if it's a bit dated in some ways.

[Florian1234]

Santa brought me Martine Franck's "One Day to the Next" yesterday. Very interesting stuff and much more sensitive than her husband's shots somehow.;) Must be her female side.:D

[pesphoto]

Yesterday I was gifted. "HArry Callahan : Nature"

[Nando]

Koudelka's "Invasion 68: Prague"
Kertesz's "On Reading"
Friendlander's huge, yellow, retrospective book from MOMA
Salgado's "Africa"

[Papercut]

Daido Moriyama, "Memories of a Dog"

[Fred Burton]

Santa brought me Salgado's "Africa," and "Magnum Magnum."

[foggie]

My brother and sister gave me exactly what I wanted - Jacob Aue Sobol's I Tokyo. Brilliant book! I love it.

[bmattock]

My wife gave me "In Search of Norman Rockwell's America," by Kevin Rivoli, for Christmas. A photographer's work compared to the illustrations of Norman Rockwell, proving once and for all that Norman Rockwell's America did [and does] too exist.

[capitalK]

Lately I have been using my boss' darkroom and, among other things his Christmas, he gifted me a copy of "Processing and Printing" by Julien Busselle. It's a little basic but there's some good info in there.

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/1883403677.01._OU09_PE0_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Ali Riza Kutlu]

The Blue Room by Eugene Richards...

[Tom A]

In December,David Hurn's "Photograph's 1956 - 1976" and his portrait album "Living in Wales". Hurn has always been a favorite of mine, quite subtle and dedicated to his craft. His and Bill Jays "On Being A Photographer" is a must for anyone taking pictures, be it commercially or for private pleasure only.

[bigdog]

A beautiful collection of images by Fred Herzog, an early master of color, often overlooked much like Saul Leiter.

"Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs"
ISBN-10: 155365255X

[nikon_sam]

Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric the lost manuscript
Text by Bob Dylan
Photographs by Barry Feinstein

Christmas gift from the wife and kids...

[VictorM.]

An excellent book! I just bought it at 20% off - Boxing Day sale.

A beautiful collection of images by Fred Herzog, an early master of color, often overlooked much like Saul Leiter.

"Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs"
ISBN-10: 155365255X

[Mr_Flibble]

Two books by Philip Makanna:
Ghosts of the Great War
Ghosts of the Skies

A photographic series of restored/rebuild World War 1 and World War 2 aircraft in flight, combined with poetry, aircraft details and auto-biographic material from the pilots who flew these aircraft in the respective conflict

[peter_n]

I just finished reading Roberto Bolano's 2666. James Nachtwey's Inferno arrived for Christmas. You could call them both heavy books.

[Papercut]

"The Family of Man" -- reissued photobook of the landmark MOMA exhibit.

It's okay for getting an overall sense of the work in the exhibit, but really some of the photos are mere thumbnails (practically 35mm contact print in size!) and others although larger often run across the gutter. Really poor design/layout.

[RayPA]

I just got 'Looking In, Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition.' This is a big fat E_X_P_A_N_D_E_D version with lots of photos, lots of text, and here's the best part ~ 83 pages of contact sheets! Awesome. It's over 500 pages, which makes lazing around with a bit difficult.

/

[aizan]

5 books - henry wessel
fashion magazine - lise sarfati
the last days of w - alec soth
books on books limited edition set - errata editions
101 billionaires - rob hornstra
suzi et cetera - boris mikhailov
crimean snobbism - boris mikhailov

i think i'll get 'postexposure' by ctein with my birthday gift certificate. :)

[jky]

Magnum Magnum - the cheaper version. Christmas gift cards + 40% off of hardcovers = $15.00!

[al1966]

Berger- Ways of seeing

[Papercut]

Ute Eskildsen, ed. "Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography"

[martin s]

Elliot Erwitt - Personal Best
W. Eugene Smith - Pittsburgh Project
Garry Winogrand - Arrivals & Departures
Walker Evans - Hungry Eye

[funkaoshi]

As I was Dying - Paolo Pellegrin - This is a really nice book. Well worth checking out. Prints are big, and span two pages, but they did a good job making sure that stuff doesn't get lost in the gutter. It works well.

[Tom A]

Jacob Aue Sobol's "I Tokyo". Gift from a friend. Interesting style and subject.
"Looking In, Robert Frank. Extended version" - on order from Amazon as we speak.

[benlees]

On my recent trip to London I got Winogrands' 'The Animals' for 7.99. I was pretty happy as I thought it was out of print. I got it at the Photographers' Gallery which has a great book store. Luckily, my wallet and suitcase dictated what I brought home. Not much! I was very tempted by Kleins' Paris as it was 50% off but it is a huge book. I was also tempted by some of Moriyamas work but was pricey so resisted the urge!

[Papercut]

"Helen Levitt" -- almost no text in this volume, just a collection of her best street photos, both bw and color.

[tom_uk]

"A Long Exposure - 100 years of photography from the Guardian". Examples of the work of each of the 7 staff photographers that the Guardian has employed in the 100 years since the paper employed their first.

[Papercut]

National Geographic's "Inside China"

"Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt"

Nan Goldin, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency"

[Tom A]

Today "Looking In" the Robert Frank tome arrived. It is the expanded version - and quite substantial too. Heavy enough to "brain" you if you fall asleep with it in bed!
Did some sleuthing around in one of the better used book shops in town to and found Homer Sykes "Shanghai Odyssey" too. I like his work - straight forward shooter - nothing fancy, but damned good.

[Andrew Sowerby]

"Helen Levitt" -- almost no text in this volume, just a collection of her best street photos, both bw and color.

That book is really good. If you like it you should check out Saul Leiter's work. Early Color is my favorite.

Larry Towell's The World From My Front Porch is on order from Amazon.

[dazedgonebye]

Examples. The Making of 40 Photographs, Ansel Adams

[Papercut]

Andrew, I saw Leiter's Early Color at a friend's house a couple months ago. Really fantastic work -- I'm not usually taken with color, but Leiter's work is just amazingly good, almost makes me want to shoot some color and that's saying something! It's on my amazon.com wishlist (probably should pick it up before it goes OOP ... again) :D

That book is really good. If you like it you should check out Saul Leiter's work. Early Color is my favorite.

Larry Towell's The World From My Front Porch is on order from Amazon.

[thomasw_]

Way Beyond Monochrome

[Papercut]

Raymond Depardon, Voyages

I may have just "discovered" my new "favoritest" photographer. Sad that his books are hard to find here in the US; I had to order this from France. Some of the photos are reproduced at very small sizes, but at over 600 pages, there's an awful lot of images in here.

[Tom A]

Depardon has been a long time favorite of mine - he is not very well known in the US, but a bit of a "star" in France.
I like his understated way of seeing. Very subtle and philosophical. He is also one of the rareties among photographers - he is a very good writer. Over the years I have picked up a handful of his books - including "Voyages". He did a series of smallish, softbound books on New York, Sahara, travels in Ethiopia, San Clemente ( a mental asylum), La Litoral (coast of Bretagne), Retour a Vietnam and Errances ("wanderings") which he shot with a ALPA 6x9 and the 72 Schneidar lens (on Verichrome Pan no less - he must have kept a large stash of it).
Low key but thought provoking shooter. Enjoy Voyages and be prepared to have this sudden desire to throw some film and clothes in a bag, hang a Leica M3 with a 50mm lens on your shoulder and tell friends and family that you will be back sometime in the future to process the film!

[Papercut]

Tom,

I can see why you've liked his work for so long. Wonderful stuff. I only made it about half way through Voyages yesterday, but I really enjoy his use of space. While he does have some "fill the frame with the subject" shots, it's remarkable to me how often the figures in his photos are small, even tiny, with large areas of "empty" space (sky, sand, etc.) around them. As you said, it's "subtle and philosophical", most definitely not "in your face". I will be on the prowl for his other books from now on!

-- Kevin

Depardon has been a long time favorite of mine - he is not very well known in the US, but a bit of a "star" in France.
I like his understated way of seeing. Very subtle and philosophical. He is also one of the rareties among photographers - he is a very good writer. Over the years I have picked up a handful of his books - including "Voyages". He did a series of smallish, softbound books on New York, Sahara, travels in Ethiopia, San Clemente ( a mental asylum), La Litoral (coast of Bretagne), Retour a Vietnam and Errances ("wanderings") which he shot with a ALPA 6x9 and the 72 Schneidar lens (on Verichrome Pan no less - he must have kept a large stash of it).
Low key but thought provoking shooter. Enjoy Voyages and be prepared to have this sudden desire to throw some film and clothes in a bag, hang a Leica M3 with a 50mm lens on your shoulder and tell friends and family that you will be back sometime in the future to process the film!

[Florian1234]

Brought back from my 2 1/2 day trip to Berlin:
Robert Lebeck - Fotoreporter
and
Michael Fackelmann - Hamburg schwarz-weiß. Straßenfotografie 1960-64 (incl. DVD with a short documentary film).

[martin s]

Ralph Gibson, Brazil. Good book, I like it.

martin

[pesphoto]

Kertesz: Sixty Years

[gian]

Michael Ackermann - Fiction ->> this guy is outstanding!!

http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=1

Paolo Pellegrin - As I was dying

[ederek]

Eugene Richards - The Blue Room

Attended a lecture by Eugene last night at Boston University - quite impactful! He discussed The Blue Room, showing and commenting on a majority of the images in the book. Eugene also shared a new project about the cost of war, telling the stories of 15 service men and woman in Irag and their families in dealing with loss or significant injury.

[aperture64]

The Robert Capa book - Slightly Out of Focus (http://www.amazon.com/Slightly-Out-Focus-Modern-Library/dp/0375753966/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236369908&sr=1-3)

[citydesk175]

Just a few books, each with a lesson of sorts:
Hasselblad Manual 3rd wildi (cost me 99 cents, on sale everywhere 39.99)
Leica World 1957 (Another 99 cents, Wow)
Mamiya pro systems handbook (Prolly 2 bucks, amazing ref book)
Paul Strand, 2nd, 1945 (2 dollars)
Edward Weston First 1946 (2 dollars)
The last 2 are Nancy Newhall's monographs for MOMA exhibitions. I bought these books together cause they were famous photographers.
I was going to donate them until I did some research and found out how to read the edition code and noticed that these books were quite expensive (greater than 100.00 each) compared to what I paid for them. So I have kept them.

Recently, I came across a list of books I bought in one small lot years ago. I remember selling some of them but the one that is on the list that I may still have is: "Uformen der Kunst" by Blossfeldt (watch spelling) lists today 1-3000.00 and filled with lovely gravure photos of plant parts Hope I can find it.

ralph

[pesphoto]

Waiting for "Kertesz :Birds"

[Nate Butler]

Ansel Adams: The Print
Heller and Heimann: Shop America- Midcentury Storefront Design

[nikon_sam]

I picked a book "Learn B&W Photography in 24 Hours" or something like that last week from our local Library's Book Store...for seventy-five cents...
This past weekend a bunch of my wife's family came over and one of the youngsters was just starting out in photography (B&W)
I gave the book to her...so I guess it's in her library...

[shadowfox]

Annie Leibovitz "At Work".
Her well known pictures and some explanation 'behind the scenes'. On inspiration, on the work itself, on equipment, quite interesting - if you like her. We had a nother thread where the opinions had been pretty polarized.

My wife and I just finished this book after being in a long line of people who reserved it at the local library :)

I liked it a lot.

I always thought that she's just very good at being at the right place at the right time. Until I get to know how her mind works to produce her... works, which she described in this book. She's a genius with extraordinary focus and determination.

Highly recommended.

[martin s]

The April Issue of b&w magazine (http://www.bandwmag.com/) is _amazing, hope it qualifies as addition to the library ;)

martin

[Papercut]

John Berger and Jean Mohr, "Another Way of Telling" -- have only scratched the surface of this book of photographs and theory

[PMCC]

Just expanded my Depardon collection with "Manhattan Out". Nice to see his work printed larger.

[maddoc]

I have just bought "Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Gerry Winogrand" and are waiting for "Manhatten Out" and "Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism Graphics and Picture Editing" to be delivered. :)

[Florian1234]

I have just bought "Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Gerry Winogrand" and are waiting for "Manhatten Out" and "Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism Graphics and Picture Editing" to be delivered. :)

:) That Winogrand stuff is great. Please drop me a line about that editing book when you got it.

[capitalK]

"Images of Cabbagetown" by James Wiley. It's a black & white photo book from 1994 of images taken in one neighborhood in Toronto. He does really nice high-contrast B&W

http://jrwiley.com/portfolio/index.html

[shadowfox]

"Creative Elements: Landscape Photography-Darkroom Techniques" (http://www.bestwebbuys.com/9780863433979) by Eddie Ephraums.

This is a good book for those of us who came from digital and wanted to learn more about film photography.

You don't have to like landscape photography to appreciate this book. It's just full of good practical how-to and why/why-not tips on setting up a good film workflow.

Highly Recommended.

[DriesI]

Acquisitions of the last two months:

"Infanta" and "State of the Axe" by Ralph Gibson. Typical but stunning.
"Arrivals & Departures" by Garry Winogrand. Fun!
"Balkanlarda" by Nikos Economopoulos. Silencing.
"Proof" by Jim Marshall. Stimulating. I ordered the expanded version of
"Looking in Frank's Americans" for the same guilty pleasure.
"Archief" by Herman Sellelags (Belgian press photographer). Inspiring.
"Istanbul" by Alex Webb. Strange...
"Africa" by Sebastião Salgado. Massive...
"Invasion Prague 68" by Josef Koudelka. Shivering...

well... I spend way more time looking at photographs than making them.

[maddoc]

:) That Winogrand stuff is great. Please drop me a line about that editing book when you got it.

Florian,

I will do so !

Cheers,

Gabor

[sar-photo]

I’m a bit of a book fanatic – over the last couple of months I have bought…

Ray K. Metzker – Light Lines
Tony Ray Jones
Francis Frith's Egypt and the Holy Land
Annie Leibovitz at Work
Vietnam Inc – Philip Jones Griffiths
Recollections – Philip Jones Griffiths
Looking In (Expanded) – Robert Frank
Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising – Erich Lessing
Saul Leiter: Early Color
Brassai: Paris by Night
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Conde Nast Years 1923-1937
American Photojournalism Comes of Age

I haven’t had chance to have a good look at them yet. I always see myself sitting by the fire on a cold winter’s day with a stack of books beside me, going through them one by one – it’s one of my happy visions but I never seem to get time to make it happen. Oh well, maybe when I retire :rolleyes:

[Papercut]

Craig J Barber, "Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited"

Barber was a marine stationed in Vietnam in 1967. He returned with his large format pinhole cameras and made images of still, scarred landscapes populated with ephemeral ghosts: his own memories of war and the blurred figures of people and wind rustled foliage. It's a lovely and moving book, most pages having two or three images in diptych or triptych format from the original platinum prints.

[Florian1234]

Ilker Maga - "Istanbul".
Ilker Maga lives in my hometown, but also spends a few month each year in Istanbul since 1982 or so, photographing the people of the city.
His style is kind of "street", and more like classic reportage style, too.

[funkaoshi]

I bought Raghubir Singh's (http://www.raghubirsingh.com/) River of Colour, and A Way Into India. Both books are great. He was an amazing photographer.

[Papercut]

Depardon's "Errance" -- wonderful book of subtle photos, printed (small but oh so) deliciously.

[martin s]

Any recommendations on what Eggleston book I should get?

martin

//EDIT, nevermind, the only one listed on my local book stores website is Egglestons "Guide", I'll just get that.

[reuno]

Depardon's "Errance" -- wonderful book of subtle photos, printed (small but oh so) deliciously.

And what about the words ? I use to read it when i'm in a bad photographic mood.

[RayPA]

Raymond Depardon's 'Manhattan Out'

Nice. Good size book. Black paper...hmmm.


/

[Papercut]

sadly my french is too rusty to read more than a sentence here or there :(

And what about the words ? I use to read it when i'm in a bad photographic mood.

[Papercut]

Depardon, "Manhattan Out"

and the expanded edition of "Looking In" ... a book to use as weight for your workout. sheesh

[Florian1234]

Kevin, those two are on my list, too.

My last addition is the first book from the guys of www.seconds2real.com - street photography book produced via blurb.
:)

[Tom A]

A book by Kenichi Nagira. he is a japanese country/western/blues singer - but also a very good photographer. Interesting and a bit melancholy images from Tokyo in color - though he is doing more and more black/white.

[newspaperguy]

OK, I'm slow, but I just got Roger and Fran's "Rangefinder' book.

Sorry it took so long.

[Michael P.]

By Roswell Angier. Although subtitled A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography, it is about looking at and photographing people wherever you find them, including the street. Explores the work of several famous people photographers and explains what is in some photos, e.g., Cartier-Bresson's, that makes them great and classic. Includes photo projects to do on your own. Very enlightening. At Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Train+Your+Gaze&x=0&y=0).

[Papercut]

Michael,
I have this book too and I also really like it. It's part textbook, part scholarly monograph/survey on the theory of photographic "portraiture" (widely defined), part assignment for a photography class, part practical how-to by way of introducing different techniques. It sounds like it should just be a mishmash of competing aims and approaches, but it somehow works really, really well.

-- Kevin

By Roswell Angier. Although subtitled A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography, it is about looking at and photographing people wherever you find them, including the street. Explores the work of several famous people photographers and explains what is in some photos, e.g., Cartier-Bresson's, that makes them great and classic. Includes photo projects to do on your own. Very enlightening. At Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Train+Your+Gaze&x=0&y=0).

[cmdrzed]

I recently purchased "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition." It is a bit on the hefty side but worth it.

[wblanchard]

"Weegee and Naked City" by Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer

[Papercut]

Raymond Depardon, "Villes/Cities/Stadte" -- the whole book is in colour, so quite a departure from his usual fare. Excellent, but not up to his b/w images in my opinion. As much as I love Depardon's work, I have to say this falls short of true colour masters, like Saul Leiter -- and I just picked up the little "Photofile" book on him; some truly amazing gems in that slim volume.

[RayPA]

Araki - "Gold" - Gorgeous color. Contains mostly the "bondage" nudes, but also "Flowers" and early b&w street and portraits.

[kid_a]

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition
At Work by Annie Liebowitz
Quarries by Edward Burtinsky

[trix]

Low key but thought provoking shooter. Enjoy Voyages and be prepared to have this sudden desire to throw some film and clothes in a bag, hang a Leica M3 with a 50mm lens on your shoulder and tell friends and family that you will be back sometime in the future to process the film!


I recently got "Voyages" by Depardon and agree 100% with Tom´s statement above. It is really great !

[hovis]

I've picked up a few recently. Willy Ronis, (Taschen). Ronis is one of my favorites. Also, Marc Riboud in China. Riboud is another favorite. Both of these are great books. Nigel Parry Blunt, Paris Mon Amour, a book full of images taken by different photographers in Paris. Image Makers Image Takers. A great book if you want to know how some great photographers think and work, and the Jim Marshall book Proof. I like the fact his contact sheets are shown along with one of the photographs from the contact with a bit of info about the shot.

[Papercut]

Tom Wood, "Photie Man" -- a book that seems to lack some consistency, as it mixes b/w and color, and different sizes and print layouts, indiscriminately. But, after looking through it several times, it has grown on me. It's uneven imo, but some parts/subjects are truly wonderful. In particular, Wood seems to have a way of capturing the awkwardness of youth and adolescence, the gropings, the insecurities, the moments of bravery and anger and desire.

[aizan]

the only new book i've gotten lately, but at least it's a doozy. :)

vancouver photographs - fred herzog

[Shac]

My latest have been at rather different ends of the spectrum - 1) "Quizzial Eye: the Photography of Rondal Partridge" - Partridge was one of Imogen Cunningham's sons. 2) McNally's - "The Hot SHoe Diaries"

[Tom A]

the only new book i've gotten lately, but at least it's a doozy. :)

vancouver photographs - fred herzog

I like this book - and as I know Fred quite well (and have for 25+ years) it is doubly interesting) it has certain inherent value to it. We often run into Fred down at the beach were we live and discuss important things like - why do people run and jog - when you can sit on a bench instead and watch the tide come in.
He is showing a Vancouver that does not exist anymore - this is a city that is still trying to find a "focus" as it is only 120 years old.
What is amazing is that Fred shot almost exclusively with Kodachrome - and it was 8 iso - later the speed was raised to a blazingly fast 10 iso!
The printing of the book is also interesting - it was the first run for the printer with a 10 color press.

[petronius]

"Stankowski Photos"; Anton Stankowski, a german designer created a big work of formal studies in the 30s. In this small book are collected nearly 200 examples. No subject was non-photogenic for him!
The second one I bought recently is Ernst Haas "A world in ruins", his B&W essays from Vienna in the late 40s. Strong, humanistic work with the Rolleiflex before Haas changed to 35mm/color.

[topazbullet]

"Unembedded" Thorne Anderson, Rita Leistner, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, and Kael Alford.

[35photo]

American Musicians- Lee Friedlander

Articles of Faith- Dave Jordano

Both really great books!

[Tom A]

Got my "Manhattan Out" by Depardon last week. A slightly different style than his later N.y. images.
Also got "Pennsylvanians" by Jim Schulman, a Blurb book that he did. Wonderful, slightly acerbic take on his fellow Pennsylvanians, mainly shot at Hershey car show and swap and other places were the "collectors" and Junque fans gather.

[al1966]

A big book of magnum photographs :) and Illuminations by Walter Benjamin. A book Newszak and news media, Oh and I got some James Joyce off my dads book cases.

[MartinP]

Last weekend I treated myself to a visit to one of the second-hand and remaindered bookshops here. I ended up with Wilfred Thesiger's 'A Vanished World' (travels in Sudan & Arabia just before and after the second world war), the catalogue(?) for 'The Family of Man' exhibition from 1955, and the strange 'Politische Fotomontage' by Jürgen Holtfreter (which I haven't really looked at yet).

A few evenings worth of browsing there :)

[VictorM.]

the only new book i've gotten lately, but at least it's a doozy. :)

vancouver photographs - fred herzog

I've had this for a while and it's one of my favourite books of colour photos.

Today, I picked up a copy of "100 Photos: Don McCullin", mainly to support press freedom.

[Florian1234]

Does anybody of you have Constantine Manos' "The Bostonians"? How is this project's reputation? I really like the ideas behind it. But I only saw the photos over on the Magnum archive site.

[scorpius73]

I picked up Magnum Magnum last week. I haven't had time to go through in depth yet.

[Damaso]

Looking In essays on Robert Frank's The Americans

[Tom A]

Does anybody of you have Constantine Manos' "The Bostonians"? How is this project's reputation? I really like the ideas behind it. But I only saw the photos over on the Magnum archive site.

If you are talking about the original "Bostonians" - i do have it. Costa did some very good work with that book. Interesting, almost historical view now. I also have his "Greece" book (and several of his prints that he gave me - his bl/w prints are nothing short of incredible). Costa is one of my favorite "shooters" and his bl/w is stunning. I like some, but not all of his color work, but then I am biased towards monochrome.

[Florian1234]

If you are talking about the original "Bostonians" - i do have it. Costa did some very good work with that book. Interesting, almost historical view now. I also have his "Greece" book (and several of his prints that he gave me - his bl/w prints are nothing short of incredible). Costa is one of my favorite "shooters" and his bl/w is stunning. I like some, but not all of his color work, but then I am biased towards monochrome.

Are there other works by him about Boston? As written above, I only saw the photos in the Magnum Archive webspace and a tiny bit on his website. Is he still around, btw? I heared he died, but could be mis-information. :(

I really like the idea behind that project and did not know before I started my stuff here in my hometown. :D

[Tom A]

Costa is alive and well - and living in Florida - at least during the winter.
The only "Bostonians" that I have seen is the one he did many decades ago - I think it wa done more or less in conjunction with the US Bicentennial in 1976.

[Florian1234]

Thanks for that info, Tom. So it was indeed misinformation by whom I heared it.

Now for something different, maybe I'll buy the recent World Press Photo Award book.

[sojournerphoto]

Gathering - Kate Bellis and Sally Matthews, a 15 month project on hill farming in Northumberland- I like it very much as it reminds me of my early years. See http://www.katebellis.com/


On Reading - Andre Kertescz - outstanding new Norton verion that i would recommend to anyone.


Henri Cartier-Bresson - Thames and Hudson - a biography with pictures. A nice short biography, but they could have avoided putting some images across the centre of the book.

Mike

[Florian1234]

Today a friend gave me Beaumont Newhall's History of Photography as a gift, because I took the "official" photos at his wedding. :)

[gns]

I've picked up some pretty good books so far this year, but my current favorite is, "Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and Some Automobiles" by Anthony Hernandez. This book came out a couple of years ago, but the pictures are not recent. They are all from around 1980, shot in the streets and other public places of Los Angeles with a 5x7 camera. One thing these pictures will do, is remind you what bunk it is, categorizing photographs into different "Genres" like street, landscape or portraiture.

Cheers,
Gary

[Chuck Albertson]

Costa is alive and well - and living in Florida - at least during the winter.
The only "Bostonians" that I have seen is the one he did many decades ago - I think it wa done more or less in conjunction with the US Bicentennial in 1976.

The Magnum store is selling signed copies. I remembered the project from when Modern Photo ran several of the photos in the 1970's, so I bought one.

[PMCC]

"The Destruction of Lower Manhattan" by Danny Lyon, documenting the site clearance in order to build the World Trade Center in the late 60s. In retrospect, one can't help but think of 9/11: both are lost worlds. Remarkable photos and text -- Lyon is one of our best. (And truly stunning tritones by the great Robert Hennessey.)

[Haigh]

Nami by Syoin Kajii.

[RayPA]

Invasion 68 by Koudelka

[nksyoon]

Vucciria - Mauro D'Agati
http://www.contrastobooks.com/cultura/LibriDettaglio.asp?idlib=1421&p=1
http://www.amazon.com/Vucciria-Italian-Mauro-DAgati/dp/8889032804

[Papercut]

Eggleston: William Eggleston Guide
not bountiful in terms of number of images, but boy are the reproductions gorgeous!

Seamus Murphy: Afghanistan: A Darkness Visible
excellent war reportage in the classic / traditional photojournalism style

[martin s]

Now for something different, maybe I'll buy the recent World Press Photo Award book.

I bought it some time ago, it's just _great. It really illustrates what documentary photography is all about (at least for me). And not just the Suau images, there's a lot more in there.

At a friends place I looked trough Paul Grahams "Shimmer of Possibility", overall I didn't like it. The ones I saw at his exhibition (c/o) were good though, they're in the book as well - but imo a lot better than the rest of his work.

"Magnum Magnum" is on sale btw in most book stores (in Germany) I've seen it in.

martin

[Florian1234]

I bought it some time ago, it's just _great. It really illustrates what documentary photography is all about (at least for me). And not just the Suau images, there's a lot more in there.



I did not buy it yet. But another one on my list is the current book by reporter ohne grenzen. I guess I'll order both with Rober Frank Looking in expanded in the coming weeks.
The initial next money is put into my M4 camera with the shutter fault tomorrow...:bang:

[martin s]

I did not buy it yet. But another one on my list is the current book by reporter ohne grenzen. I guess I'll order both with Rober Frank Looking in expanded in the coming weeks.
The initial next money is put into my M4 camera with the shutter fault tomorrow...:bang:

Hey where do you get the latest Reporter ohne Grenzen issue? I have a few past issues (Reza, ... ) and I wanted to get the one with Nachtweys Portfolio, that's the latest, right?

martin

[Florian1234]

Martin, the latest reporter issue is about "Tatorte" and has stuff by Paolo Pellegrin inside. No clue about Nachtwey. They had some copies of it in the large Thalia bookshop here in Bremen. (http://www.amazon.de/Tatorte-Rolf-Nobel/dp/3937683232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245009064&sr=8-1)

[palec]

Jeff Mermelstein - SideWalk and No Title Here
I love his sense of visual humour

[martin s]

Ah so "Reporters sans Frontières" isn't the same as the German version, still, I missed the Nachtwey issue - it's Don McCullin this quarter (?).

There are two more books I want to recommend, first "How you look at it" - a book with various photographers and artists, it's images which were exhibited in Hanover in 2000 (Expo). It's not amazing and most of us probably know most photographs in there, still, pretty entertaining if you can't find anything else.

Also, and that's probably my favorite photography book so far, "Einmal (http://www.amazon.com/Einmal-Bilder-Geschichten-Wim-Wenders/dp/3888149533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245009477&sr=8-1)" by Wim Wenders. Just beautiful.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X54XDPN7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

It's stories with (small) photographs, he's such an amazing photographer I would have never thought. I figured the Leica commercial was, well.. a commercial, but wow! The one book I would recommend, would I have to pick one. If you can get it, get it. I'll even translate the German for you, if necessary ;) .

martin

//EDIT: It's "How you look at it", not "we". Now I can find the Amazon link (http://www.amazon.com/How-You-Look-At-Photographs/dp/1891024213), too. I wouldn't spend more than 30 Euros on it, those prices are crazy. It's 20 Euros in Germany, new.

[Florian1234]

Ah, Martin, this was unknown to me. Thanks for the hint to the international "version". :)

[nksyoon]

Ah so "Reporters sans Frontières" isn't the same as the German version, still, I missed the Nachtwey issue - it's Don McCullin this quarter (?).

There are different country chapters of the same international organization and some countries publish their own albums.

http://www.rsf.org/Albums,33282.html
http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/publikationen/fotobaende.html

RSF Switzerland has an album by Swiss-Afghan photographer Zalmai:
http://www.rsf-ch.ch/node/764

[Florian1234]

Today's arrival: That "world press photo award" book of this year. Very good format and clean production!

[Tom A]

Came back from Europe on Wednesday. Behaved well and only bought one book. Robert Frank's "Paris" - a 2008 Steidl production. Early shots of Paris (1949-50). Smallish but well printed. Modern print technology is amazing - but digital press tends to create a bit "digital" looking images with "pixel glare" on the edges. I long for some good rotogravure printing sometimes.

[Andrew Sowerby]

Chris Killip's Here Comes Everybody arrived the other day. I like it. Very narrative.

[novum]

I was going to start a thread about photographic libraries, so I'm sure glad I found this thread first!

As I strive to get better at this obsession, I find it a redoubled pleasure to re-visit photo books I haven't dipped into in a while. Tonight, it was Bullfinch press's, Henri Cartier-Bresson: À Propos de Paris. I love that book.

[gb hill]

Ordered Kyle Cassidy's Armed America; Portraits of gun owners in their homes. Just came in the mail today, fantastic!!

[gns]

Picked up the collection of Philip Gefter's NY Times articles, "Photography After Frank".
Enjoying them, but they also remind me of all the great shows I miss, not being in New York.

Cheers,
Gary

[Papercut]

Geoff Dyer, "The Ongoing Moment" -- quite possibly the best photography book I've ever _read_. The photo reproductions are atrocious: small, horribly printed, low resolution. But the text is simply inspired on so many levels ... and from a fellow who admits he doesn't even own a camera.

[Florian1234]

August Sander, Antlitz der Zeit - a new print of the 1929 edition, with a preface by Alfred Döblin - collecting 60 portraits of various Germans from the daily life.

[sessyargc]

by 森山 大道(Daido Moriyama)
新宿 (Shinjuku)
大阪 (Osaka)

Works of KAGEYAMA Koyo, OTSUKA Gen, YOSHIOKA Senzo, FUNAYAMA Katsu, AKIMOTO Keiichi during their time as "press photographers" published by 東京都写真美術館 (TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY)
プレス　カメラマン　ストーリー (Press Photographer's Story)

[Papercut]

Camera Work: The Complete Photographs (pub. by Taschen)

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs (Aperture Monograph)

figured those two kinda belonged together, so picked them up at the same time

[Andy Kibber]

Playas - Martin Parr

101 Billionaires - Rob Hornstra

American Surfaces - Stephen Shore

All three are good but Hornstra's book is really, really good.

[marcr1230]

"Within The Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision" by David DuChemin

This book was referenced earlier in this thread, and based on the comments, I bought it.

it is a wonderful book so far. It expresses many of the themes about what we do as photographers to end up with interesting and pleasing images. It explains in detail, what many of us understand intuitively, that good images tell a story or express a thought or idea, Our job as photograhpers/artists is to consciously think about just what we include and exlude from the frame, and about how we capture the scene in a way to make it relevent to others.

I don't do justice in my short description, but this book is a keeper.

[cmdrzed]

American Photography (Oxford History of Art) by Miles Orvell

Photography After Frank by Philip Gefter

Walker Evans (Photofile) by Walker Evans, Gilles Mora

Inside the Photograph by Peter Bunnell, Malcolm Daniel

The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer which I am currently reading but about to finish.

[shimokita]

Tokyo Twilight Zone (third printing)
by Shintaro Sato

I understand that this book was shot with a 4×5 camera / film. Shintaro has a "cool" web site and it seems that he won the Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 2009.

Casey

[Al Kaplan]

I just discovered today that a book I once had, and I've been trying to locate for twenty plus years, had ended up in my ex-wife's collection. It's now back in my library. I suspect that it was an influence on David Hamilton's photography of young girls, but these are pen and ink drawings from the late 19th century in the same genre as Aubrey Beardsley's work. The book is "The Amorous Drawings of the Marquis von Bayros".

[samoksner]

I've gotten a second copy of "scrapbook" by HCB. I thought it would be good to have a backup of such an awesome book.

[Ranchu]

Hearts of Darkness, Don McCullin - Stunning

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera - Good reproductions of many of my favorites.

The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Tradition 1392-1910, Pierre Cambon - Korean aesthetic traditions, beautiful stuff.

[sepiareverb]

Winogrand 1964, and The Desert Seen by Friedlander. Delights.

[lawrence]

Tarkovsky Polaroids (http://film.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8544,1226197,00.html). I think Walker Evans' are way superior but nevertheless nice to have.

[pesphoto]

Daido Moriyama : Memories of a Dog

[antiquark]

http://www.amazon.ca/Through-Lens-National-Geographic-Photographs/dp/1426205260/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253197026&sr=8-4

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/61G0XZICGrL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[lawrence]

Daido Moriyama : Memories of a Dog

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m177/kulchavulcha/Daido3-1.jpg

Anything by Daido's great, as far as I'm concerned. Here's a snap of him taken earlier this year...

[Andy Kibber]

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera - Good reproductions of many of my favorites.

That book arrived in my mailbox the other day. It's great, although I would have chosen a different image for the dust jacket. The essays are very interesting.

[MichaelB]

I am not sure if I am allowed to post this. If it is against the forum rules please delete this post.



Helmut Newton Sumo. The reprint by taschen that came out in Sep 09. I have the 6th book now and this is still not error free. The 5 books before had anything from printing mishaps to being cut wrong. Be careful when you are interested in this book and check every page. they seem to have a massive quality problem. I received the 6th book free of charge so there is no way I could complain about this one because there is no financial harm.



Apart from that the book is very good.

[Florian1234]

I just ordered

1)Driftless: Photographs from Iowa, by Danny Wilcox Frazier

and
2) The photographer, graphic novel about Afghanistan in the 1980's (doctors without borders, Lefevre)

[nksyoon]

In the mail:

Nick Brandt - A Shadow Falls
Carl de Keyzer - Trinity
Bruce Davidson - 100th East Street

[shadowfox]

Kent Reno's "Ground Time"

playful romp around the world by a commercial pilot who shot in his spare (ground) time

My wife just got this from the library. Totally cool book. The writing is insightful, witty, and the photos are excellent.

[Papercut]

Bruce Davidson, Circus -- simply stunning

[sar-photo]

I totally agree Kevin - Circus is a fantastic book!
I am reading 'Bystander - A History of Street Photography' by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz and I'm really enjoying it!
Recent buys include...

London/Wales by Robert Frank
The Animals by Giacomo Brunelli
The Destruction of Lower Manhattan by Danny Lyon
A Russian Journal by Fohn Steinbeck and Robert Capa

Cheers
Simon

[shiro_kuro]

Time of Change by Bruce Davidson ..
Incredible book of images .
The Red Couch A portrait of America By Kevin Clarke & Horst Wakerbarth .... red couch is brought to numerous location and photographed in all types of situations ...very cool

[gdmcclintock]

Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950 Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff Text by Greg Joly Vermont Historical Society

A fantastic book by one of the finest photographers from the Photo League.