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In my digital library on Netflix: Joan Didion -The Center Will Not Hold. Interesting photography: a story how the 60's and 70's commentators wrote novels and articles...Today you'll find a watered down version on Instagram...
 
Jason Langer - Twenty Years
Boogie - Belgrade Belongs to Me (signed)
Fred Herzog - Modern Color
Marc Baptiste - Nudes
NintyFive Chapel Market - Mariano Vivanco
The Black Panthers - Photographs by Stephen Shames
 
jbielikowski said:
Ian, so you have probably more than 200£ sitting on the shelf 😉
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I rarely get rid of any books but I might make an exception in this case.😀 In truth, I don't have unlimited space and have a lot of books that I now wonder why I bought them (many at not inconsiderate cost). I could probably thin my collection by half and wouldn't miss any that went.
 
In the spirit of adding rather than subtracting I recently bought Morgan Ashcom's What the Living Carry. This is very much of its time and with its fictional narrative and inserted letters, etc. owes much to influential books like Redheaded Peckerwood. Stylistically, it fits firmly in the current Mack Books catalogue but has an overtly "Southern" quality that reminds me a little of Maude Schuyler.
 
"Morris' approach to "text-photo" combinations is similar to what I'd like to achieve" - yes, indeed - me too!

And thank you for reminding me about Nathan Lyons' wordless, "Notations in Passing". I haven't seen his other books. I'll try to remedy that

I also appreciate the tip about "West of Last Chance", photographs by Peter Brown, text by Kent Haruf. Thanks again.

Hi Gns,
Jim Goldberg's, Rich & Poor, is one of my faves as well.
 
I talked myself into it. "The American Monument" by Lee Friedlander. The new edition.

It was a lot of money (to me) and it took two tries to finally get it (USPS apparently lost the first book shipped) but it has been worth it (again, to me).

Funny thing--I've noticed a number of my own pictures looking a lot like Lee Friedlander's. It wasn't intentional but I guess I sometimes see things with his eyes.
 
Seeing Things
https://fraenkelgallery.com/publications/seeing-things

The Eye Club
https://fraenkelgallery.com/publications/the-eye-club

The Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco has published a handful of smartly curated collections over the years, often to accompany an exhibition marking one of their anniversaries. To their credit, the scope of these collections goes beyond simply highlighting the photographers they represent to examine the broad history of the medium, from the anonymous to the masters.
Printing and production are excellent, which is no small feat considering the variety of the original material. These are 2 great examples.
 
On Friday I stopped in Moe's books in Berkeley just to take a look around. The rare books manager pointed to 10 boxes of books and told me that he just bought out a big collection and if I wanted to fish into it, he'd give me "below" amazon price on what ever I found. Who ever the collector was, many of the books were still in plastic wrapping and 2 of the boxes were purely Daido Moriyama work. I ended up buying two books as birthday presents for myself.

Moriyama, Daido "Gekijo." Tokyo: Super Labo, 2011. First edition

Moriyama, Daido "New Shinjuku." Getsuyosha, Japan, 2015. First Edition 752 pp. ISBN: 4865030190
 
Art Can Help, Robert Adams

A new collection of short essays in the vein of his previous titles, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph. For the most part, this volume follows a format not unlike John Szarkowski’s, Looking at Photographs, pairing a single image with a few paragraphs of text. In fact, there is an entry on Szarkowski that reads like it could have been pulled right from his own book. I enjoy these books for Adams’ focus on the art as opposed to the art world. And for the fact that they always introduce me to a good photographer or 2 that I was not aware of previously.
 
New, updated edition of Bystander by Joel Meyerowitz.
Really great book on street photography. Excellent photos and writing.


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