andreas
i am not digital.
Last week i`ve been to the Schaden bookstore in cologne for the first time.
With loads of self-control i managed to leave with only two books:
Greater Atlanta by Mark Steinmetz and
Sven by Peter De Ru.
With loads of self-control i managed to leave with only two books:
Greater Atlanta by Mark Steinmetz and
Sven by Peter De Ru.
peter_n
Mentor
maddoc
... likes film again.
"MORIYAMA, SHINJUKU, ARAKI", a publication accompanying their exhibition in Tokyo Opera City art gallery in 2005. It also contains an excerpt of "Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki in Conversation".
gns
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Peter,
I haven't seen the new book. It is billed as a retrospective look at his work, and I have most his other books already. So I may pass on that even though I'm a big fan of his work.
The Brown sisters is surely his best known "Project", but he has done a lot of other varied and great work. In the latest pictures I've seen, he turns the lens on himself in pretty extreme close-up. And that's an 11 x 14 view camera, no less! You've probably seen him out and about with that thing.
Gary
I haven't seen the new book. It is billed as a retrospective look at his work, and I have most his other books already. So I may pass on that even though I'm a big fan of his work.
The Brown sisters is surely his best known "Project", but he has done a lot of other varied and great work. In the latest pictures I've seen, he turns the lens on himself in pretty extreme close-up. And that's an 11 x 14 view camera, no less! You've probably seen him out and about with that thing.
Gary
peter_n
Mentor
Yes indeed, he seems to bicycle everywhere! He's a quiet guy, I'm not sure what Bebe is doing these days and I hardly ever see them anymore. I coached their daughter Clemmie in a local travel soccer team for a few years and I saw a lot of Bebe then but Nick very rarely came to games, he and Sam are huge Red Sox fans. I would take a look at his new book and make your own mind up, don't listen to me! I like the new shots of Boston buildings in it. He has talent for sure.
Michael Markey
Mentor
The new addition of "The Americans". I thought that I`d see what all the fuss was about 
Enjoyed it.
Enjoyed it.
Ducky
Well-known
"Something Permanent"
Photos by Walker Evans
Poetry by Cynthia Rylant
Nice little book.
Photos by Walker Evans
Poetry by Cynthia Rylant
Nice little book.
lawrence
Mentor
Fascinating -- I've ordered it. A recent purchase is Ernest Farres poems based on the work of Edward Hopper -- I'll enjoy the comparison!
William Christenburry
The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies
The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies
user237428934
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The new addition of "The Americans". I thought that I`d see what all the fuss was about
Enjoyed it.
I must admit that I never understood the fuss about this book. Probably because I am not an American?
Papercut
Well-known
Haven't had much time for shooting lately as my butt has been glued to my chair and my hands to my keyboard (the new puppy hasn't helped much either), but thankfully the photobooks keep rolling in ... recent additions:
Eugene Richards, The Blue Room : a stupendous book -- all color, photos of abandoned houses. A longing look at them as they slowly decompose back into the earth and as nature invades them, reclaims them. Memories and ephemera, the cast offs of lives unknown. Leaves me melancholic and breathless every time I open it.
Saul Leiter, Saul Leiter : a gift from a good friend who knew that I adore Leiter's style. Delicious book. THANK YOU you-know-who-you-are!
William Klein, Rome : some divine gems in this ... of course in Klein's direct, grainy style.
Josef Koudelka, Chaos : his panoramic work. Simply stunning -- the pano format really forces me to "read" the image in a definite direction, as opposed to conventional formats which are easier to take in at one bite -- quite a different way of seeing. I really shouldn't have purchased this as it only makes me lust for a panoramic camera all the more.
Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs : haven't had the time to look through this yet. Perhaps when the revisions to these two chapters are done...
Eugene Richards, The Blue Room : a stupendous book -- all color, photos of abandoned houses. A longing look at them as they slowly decompose back into the earth and as nature invades them, reclaims them. Memories and ephemera, the cast offs of lives unknown. Leaves me melancholic and breathless every time I open it.
Saul Leiter, Saul Leiter : a gift from a good friend who knew that I adore Leiter's style. Delicious book. THANK YOU you-know-who-you-are!
William Klein, Rome : some divine gems in this ... of course in Klein's direct, grainy style.
Josef Koudelka, Chaos : his panoramic work. Simply stunning -- the pano format really forces me to "read" the image in a definite direction, as opposed to conventional formats which are easier to take in at one bite -- quite a different way of seeing. I really shouldn't have purchased this as it only makes me lust for a panoramic camera all the more.
Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs : haven't had the time to look through this yet. Perhaps when the revisions to these two chapters are done...
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gns
Well-known
Anyone here ever buy or sell on the Photo Eye auction site?
I haven't, but I check it out often. Something caught my eye there yesterday.
In the early seventies, having just arrived at college, I attended my first of many visiting artist slide show/lectures. The artist was Ed Ruscha. I didn't know who he was or what to think of the work, really, except that it contained a fair amount of humor which I enjoyed. A few days later, in a museum bookstore, I found several of his small books: titles like, Twenty Six Gasoline Stations, Real Estate Opportunities, and Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Small, modestly constructed, and just a few dollars each, they were funny and a bit intriguing, but didn't seem really close to where my own interests were at the time, so I didn't consider buying them. Of course later, I'd wished I had because I came to really like his work. And now I REALLY wish I had...
http://www.photoeye.com/auctions/Citation.cfm?id=5500
Gary
I haven't, but I check it out often. Something caught my eye there yesterday.
In the early seventies, having just arrived at college, I attended my first of many visiting artist slide show/lectures. The artist was Ed Ruscha. I didn't know who he was or what to think of the work, really, except that it contained a fair amount of humor which I enjoyed. A few days later, in a museum bookstore, I found several of his small books: titles like, Twenty Six Gasoline Stations, Real Estate Opportunities, and Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Small, modestly constructed, and just a few dollars each, they were funny and a bit intriguing, but didn't seem really close to where my own interests were at the time, so I didn't consider buying them. Of course later, I'd wished I had because I came to really like his work. And now I REALLY wish I had...
http://www.photoeye.com/auctions/Citation.cfm?id=5500
Gary
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peter_n
Mentor
Same here Patrick!
Kevin I'm a Koudelka fan and I agree Chaos is awesome. Only problem is you have to build an extra deep bookcase to house it...Josef Koudelka, Chaos : his panoramic work. Simply stunning -- the pano format really forces me to "read" the image in a definite direction, as opposed to conventional formats which are easier to take in at one bite -- quite a different way of seeing. I really shouldn't have purchased this as it only makes me lust for a panoramic camera all the more.
If you can (and you may have to visit a library) take a look at Josef Sudek's panos, Sad Landscape is the one I have and it was mostly shot in north western Bohemia. Sudek was Koudelka's inspiration.gns
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The thing I like about this thread is that from time to time it reminds me of something I've wanted to explore, but just haven't gotten around to. Koudelka is a good example.
Thanks guys (from me, and from Amazon).
New purchase... The other day I found a good hard cover copy of The Snapshot Aperture at the used book store. It's a book I owned when it was published in the seventies, but lost somewhere along the line. It may have been a bit of a mixed bag with a flawed premise, but was a favorite of mine because it brought together some work by many good photographers that were hard to find in print at the time... Henry Wessel, Joel Meyerowitz, Tod Papageorge, Bill Dane as well as their photographic godfathers, Winogrand and Friedlander. Glad to have it back on my shelf.
Gary
Thanks guys (from me, and from Amazon).
New purchase... The other day I found a good hard cover copy of The Snapshot Aperture at the used book store. It's a book I owned when it was published in the seventies, but lost somewhere along the line. It may have been a bit of a mixed bag with a flawed premise, but was a favorite of mine because it brought together some work by many good photographers that were hard to find in print at the time... Henry Wessel, Joel Meyerowitz, Tod Papageorge, Bill Dane as well as their photographic godfathers, Winogrand and Friedlander. Glad to have it back on my shelf.
Gary
ryan26
Established
On the topic of Koudelka, I recently took out Invasion 68 from the library, and was really impressed by the way it was edited with a contemporary aesthetic - very filmic, fast paced, rough around the edges. Not to say that a cleaner, more traditional edit wouldn't have been as beautiful, but I thought it was well done regardless.
peter_n
Mentor
As you can imagine, most of that amazing week of work was conducted in a manner that was truly "rough around the edges". Apparently he didn't get much sleep.
gdmcclintock
Well-known
Some new titles for me include (bought new or used):
Skin of the Nation - Shomei Tomatsu
The History of Japanese Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker and others
Bahia de tous les poètes - Pierre Verger
The Go-Between - Pierre Verger
I would like to get a copy of Verger's Dieux d'Afrique but this book usually costs about $300 used.
-George
Skin of the Nation - Shomei Tomatsu
The History of Japanese Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker and others
Bahia de tous les poètes - Pierre Verger
The Go-Between - Pierre Verger
I would like to get a copy of Verger's Dieux d'Afrique but this book usually costs about $300 used.
-George
mwooten
light user
I'd like to recommend Pam Spaulding's An American Family -- Three Decades with the McGarveys. A wonderful book.
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An American Family
Three Decades with the McGarveys
Author: Pam Spaulding (text by Claude Cookman)
Publisher:Focal Point / National Geographic
ISBN: 978-4262-0504-0
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An American Family
Three Decades with the McGarveys
Author: Pam Spaulding (text by Claude Cookman)
Publisher:Focal Point / National Geographic
ISBN: 978-4262-0504-0
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Robin Harrison
aka Harrison Cronbi
How have I only just discovered this thread?
I've been of a bit of a binge lately. Highlights:
Photie Man - Tom Wood
Lumieres Blanches - Harry Gruyaert
In Flagrante (Errata Edditions) - Chris Killip
The Contact Sheet (Ammo Press)
The Photobook II - Gerry Badger and Martin Parr
And the one I'm really chuffed with..."British Photography From The Thatcher Years", MOMA publication, signed by all five photographers: Chris Killip, Martin Parr, Paul Graham, John Davies and Graham Smith.
I've been of a bit of a binge lately. Highlights:
Photie Man - Tom Wood
Lumieres Blanches - Harry Gruyaert
In Flagrante (Errata Edditions) - Chris Killip
The Contact Sheet (Ammo Press)
The Photobook II - Gerry Badger and Martin Parr
And the one I'm really chuffed with..."British Photography From The Thatcher Years", MOMA publication, signed by all five photographers: Chris Killip, Martin Parr, Paul Graham, John Davies and Graham Smith.
Papercut
Well-known
Patrick and Peter,
More than welcome to stop by any time you're in the neighborhood! There are few things I like better than books: looking at them, talking about them, reading them, even *GASP* smelling them (I almost always sniff the gutter of a new book at least once). (Do you know that books from different countries smell different? I can almost always tell a domestic mainland China book without even opening my eyes, just by smell. I'm strange, I know.) I think it comes from not having a TV when growing up -- my only indoor entertainment was books and it "scarred" me for life.
Chaos is just a tiny bit longer than Richards' The Blue Room, so they hang off the shelf edge together -- and woe to anyone who knocks their head on them: they will put a dent in a noggin easy!
I would love to pick up Sudek's pano stuff. It's on my radar for sure! (Now, to rob a bank to fund the next round of purchases ...)
More than welcome to stop by any time you're in the neighborhood! There are few things I like better than books: looking at them, talking about them, reading them, even *GASP* smelling them (I almost always sniff the gutter of a new book at least once). (Do you know that books from different countries smell different? I can almost always tell a domestic mainland China book without even opening my eyes, just by smell. I'm strange, I know.) I think it comes from not having a TV when growing up -- my only indoor entertainment was books and it "scarred" me for life.
Chaos is just a tiny bit longer than Richards' The Blue Room, so they hang off the shelf edge together -- and woe to anyone who knocks their head on them: they will put a dent in a noggin easy!
I would love to pick up Sudek's pano stuff. It's on my radar for sure! (Now, to rob a bank to fund the next round of purchases ...)
Same here Patrick!