latest additions to your library

Patrick Lichfield "Perceptions"
Not a photobook I would necessarily seek out but found in a charity shop for £1 it's a yes.
Pleasantly surprised, a real nostalgia trip to now fondly remembered years and more perceptive and interesting photography than I expected. Yes a bold choice to have the dust jacket cover distinctly out of focus, an exception to the contents but then "sharpness is a bourgeois concept" after all, perhaps?


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Black, Matt "American Artifacts." Thames & Hudson (November 19, 2024), Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 172 pages. ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500027757
 
Jason Fulford - Lots of Lots

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Lots Of Lots

Jason Fulford’s latest book is a vibrant riff on conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s 1977 publication PhotoGrids. Lots Of Lots transforms the seemingly quotidian objects captured by Fulford in nearly seven hundred photographs into an evocative collection of interconnected and overlapping forms...
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The Story of Western Science from the Writing by Susan Wise Bauer. I have recently been drawn in Quantum Physics through Schroedinger and his damned cat, "Wanted! Dead or Alive". LOL I am relieved to have been instructed by deGrasse Tyson that no one really understands it.
 
boojum said:
The Story of Western Science from the Writing by Susan Wise Bauer. I have recently been drawn in Quantum Physics through Schroedinger and his damned cat, "Wanted! Dead or Alive". LOL I am relieved to have been instructed by deGrasse Tyson that no one really understands it.
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Terry Pratchett postulated three possible outcomes:

“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the​

cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat​

could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”​


Lords and Ladies

The other I rather like from the same book:

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
 
I very rarely go into new bookshops but found myself in Waterstones earlier as one of the kids was looking for Manga Books for her collection and ended up with this for a whole £1 coin.

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A replacement copy of Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder, the former copy having been destroyed by a deranged kitten (redundant?). Snyder's evocation of his experience before the Sung Dynasty scroll of the same name is a lesson in seeing for any visual artist, and his exploration of the meaning of place, and our relationship to it, resonates deeply with my photographic concerns in documenting the human-occupied landscape.
Snyder's essays and poetry have been a profound influence on my thinking since my teenage years. His writing is far-ranging and wise, and has had as much of an impact on my photographic explorations as any collection of visual imagery. Art, literature, music, all become a part of who you are and what you strive to be.
 
JohnGellings said:
Viaggio in Italia

Viaggio in Italia - Quodlibet

Scopri Viaggio in Italia . Edizioni Quodlibet: acquista con sconto del 15%, spedizioni gratuite in Italia per acquisti sopra 29 euro.
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Ghirri was one of the greatest Italian photographers. Interesting and inspiring book. I like most of the other photographers in the book too.
 
An Illustrated History of Snapshot Photography by John Wade, Christmas present from my sister (with help!).

A splendid little tome full of just the sort of cameras I love, and some splendid seaside postcards featuring them as well.

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An Illustrated History of Snapshot Photography

The arrival of the first snapshot camera in Victorian times bred a new kind of photographer, one who might never before have thought of owning…
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