reading a good book?

[FrankS]

I just read a good photo book, from the local library, called Annie Leibovitz At Work. It's her first person account of her beginnings in photography working at Rolling Stone magazine, touring with the Stones, and then stories behind specific well known photographs. The small reproductions of the photographs are nicely printed.

How about you?

 

[Phantomas]

My collegue bought that book and is highly recomending it. Donno, Lebiwits' not my idol, thus giving priority to countless other books.
Right now: Mr. Hunter Thompson's "Rum Diaries". Only on chapter four though.

Photography-wise I'm constantly keeping HCB's "Europeans" next to me. I just love looking at those photos.

 

[FrankS]

Cool. I'm not a huge fan either, and think that AL became famous, much like Karsch, because of the famous people she had access to to photograph. Not that either of them are bad photographers though, just a bit lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

I'm about to start Generation Loss by E. Hand which was recommended in another thread on books (that I tried searching for).

 

[Steve Litt]

Dispatches Beyond Iraq.

http://www.rethink-dispatches.com/journal/beyond-iraq/

Regards
Steve

 

[FrankS]

If anyone likes historical fiction from Medieval Times, I highly recommend Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and a follow up World Without End. Sorry, not photography related. 😉

 

[sanmich]

I just finished one of the best two or three books I have ever read (with Kafka).
"A journey to the end of the night" from Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

The guy himself was pretty despicable. He wrote some extremely violent antisemitic pamphlets just before and during WWII.
But this book....
A masterpiece.

Careful though, it's not for the fainthearted, and I really enjoyed it in French. No idea how well it was translated in other languages (and a good part of it's quality is the language used)

 

[martin s]

I'm all over Philip Roth those days, I just read Exit Ghost and The Human Stain. Than there's Miranda July's 'No one belongs here more than you', also great, Sedaris 'Me talk pretty one day' not so great. The last photo related book was Günter Grass 'Die Box', not sure if it's available in English. If you like his style (can't imagine him in English to be honest) it's great.

I'm actually real curious what some of you guys read, sometimes there's some great writing published here.

martin

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Roth is my hero. Some of my other favorites lately, all fiction:

The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
Runaway, Alice Munro
Remainder, Tom McCarthy
Night Work, Thomas Glavinic
The Indian Bride, Karin Fossum
The Cradle, Patrick Somerville
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Magic For Beginners, Amy Bender
The Scar, China Mieville (these last two are kinda literary fantasy)
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead

 

[cysasam]

Totally non-photography related, currently I'm struggling with Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker. 🙂

 

[dof]

I'm indulging in the pleasure of re-reading one of my favorite books: Misia and The Muses, a biography of Misia Sert, née Godebska. Among other notable acts of human endeavor, she was a gifted pianist, a friend to and patron of Diaghilev, and was painted by Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Hers was quite a fascinating life.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I'm reading several books on Soviet art right now, for a paper I'm writing for school. For myself, I just bought a book on Hispano art during the Depression. Hispanos are Spanish speaking people in New Mexico who are descended from the original families that founded New Mexico in the early 1600s. Most of them still speak the old 17th century Castillian dialect that their ancestors brought with them. Most of them are white, and often don't look like what anglos think a Hispanic person should look like. They're the forgotten ethnic group in America....here before anyone else, small in number, concentrated in northern New Mexico, and virtually unknown outside the state their families founded 400 years ago.

My father's family came to the USA from Spain too, but not until the end of the 19th century, and they settled in Indiana, strangely enough, at a time when there were no Hispanic Americans or Immigrants in Indiana, so the history and culture of Spanish people in the USA interests me. Soy echar de menos Santa Fe y Nuevo Mexico.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer by (edited) Peter Howe with essays by the photographers. It is interesting as to the difficulties that they under went. Their lives were extremely difficult.

 

[martin s]

Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer by (edited) Peter Howe with essays by the photographers. It is interesting as to the difficulties that they under went. Their lives were extremely difficult.

I just ordered that one, sounds amazing. Shipping is 3-6 weeks to Germany, but that's alright, 30 Dollars all together.

martin

 

[FrankS]

I just finished that Eliz. Hand book, Generation Loss. A good read with lots of photography references. A bit edgy. Recommended.

 

[photogdave]

If anyone likes historical fiction from Medieval Times, I highly recommend Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and a follow up World Without End. Sorry, not photography related. 😉

I didn't know there was a sequel! Pillars Of The Earth is one of my favorites!

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I just finished that Eliz. Hand book, Generation Loss. A good read with lots of photography references. A bit edgy. Recommended.

Ah, great, glad you liked it.

 

[naruto]

currently reading:

Quirkology by Richard Wiseman. It's a fun book that really gets you thinking.
E=mc2 A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis - I don't think this one needs an explanation. 🙂