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Kertez...Out of close to 200 photo books, I have no books by Kertez. How is that? I have many with some Kertez in them, but no books exclusively Kertez. What is the best Kertez book?

I also have no Strand and no Brassai!

Do you have any glaring holes in your book collection?

Cheers,
Gary
 
I just got a lovely little volume by Robert Doisneau with an interview by Sylvain Roumette. It's the kind of a book that puts a smile on your face 🙂

Also reading How to Read a Photograph by Ian Jeffrey. The book is a fascinating look at the history of photography. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Jeffrey pontificates a little bit too much. There are moments when it reminds me of my first year of high school philosophy book (I went to school in Croatia). The book was a pretty good overview of the history of western thought, but each chapter ended with a paragraph "Marxist view of..."

Fürst
 
Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes

I've got Edward Burtynsky Manufactured Landscapes in hardcover as my names day present. I find it very inspiring!
 
David Plowden's "A Handful of Dust"

A very thoughtful, enjoyable (in a lonely/decaying kind of way) book.
The photos are of excellent quality, some are just amazing. I also appreciate how he went into the techniques he employed to prepare his books. As a beginning darkroom printer, I learn quite a bit.

More info: http://www.librarything.com/work/1977201
 
I found a copy of Garry Winogrand's Figments from the Real World @ the MOMA store in NY for $45. I believe it's out of print so I was pretty happy to find it.

Last night I bought a copy of The Urban Prisoner by Matt Weber. He's a NY street photographer that is currently posting to a Flickr account. Wonderful stuff.
 
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Kertez...Out of close to 200 photo books, I have no books by Kertez. How is that? I have many with some Kertez in them, but no books exclusively Kertez. What is the best Kertez book?
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Of the ones I have, either 'Andre Kertesz, His Life and Work' published by Bullfinch or 'Andre Kertesz, Sixty Years of Photography' published by Thames & Hudson (in the UK) or Grossman (in the US).
 
gns said:
Kertez...Out of close to 200 photo books, I have no books by Kertez. How is that? I have many with some Kertez in them, but no books exclusively Kertez. What is the best Kertez book?
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Andre Kertesz published by the National Gallery of Art/Princeton University Press. I think it may be out of print but it's the catalog of a major retrospective exhibit spanning his entire career that was shown in Washington DC and Los Angeles in 2005. Many seminal pictures, wonderful writing & context by the curator Sarah Greenough and her assistants Robert Gurbo and Sarah Kennel. The catalog, printed in Germany, contains beautifully printed pictures. Highly recommended.
 
Thanks, Lawrence and Peter for the Kertesz titles.
I'll be looking for those (the Princeton U. book sounds especially interesting).
Boy, It's obvious that I'm not up on his work...I couldn't even spell his name correctly.

Cheers,
Gary
 
The Jane Bown compilation Exposures arrived from England today. At first glance it looks amazing with many really penetrating portraits of famous characters, my three favorites so far are David Hockney taken in 1966, Philip Larkin sitting on a chair outside Hull university Library where he had a job as a librarian, and Dame Edith Sitwell taken in 1959. She was scary! There is also the stunning one of Samuel Beckett from 1976 I think. Published by Guardian Books this hardback book is printed and bound in China and it is a quality printing job. If you like portraits this book is well worth getting, only £19 from Amazon UK.
 
Simon Roberts' We English arrived today. Really beautiful stuff. Fans of contemporary large format stuff (Sternfeld comes to mind) take note!
 
Was looking for some cheap gift boxes at a local dollar store--a fairly recent US phenomena, the "hook" is that everything in the store is the same price: $1--after I found a few I looked through the books. Usually that means lots of cheaply printed small books. Occasionally I find something interesting. Today there were a few copies of Linda McCartney's Sun Prints.
Rob
 
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