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Paul Wolff, Meine Ehrfahrungen mit der Leica, 1934 auf Deutsch. Just arrived from MW Classic, after a 3 week wait, a reminder and a redirection (they seem to have no concept of what “Delivery address” means).

Maybe don’t quite deserve the plethora of one-star reviews on Trustpilot, but I wouldn’t give them more than two. The website is a clue to their shambolic level of organisation.
 
Malcolm M said:
Paul Wolff, Meine Ehrfahrungen mit der Leica, 1934 auf Deutsch. Just arrived from MW Classic, after a 3 week wait, a reminder and a redirection (they seem to have no concept of what “Delivery address” means).

Maybe don’t quite deserve the plethora of one-star reviews on Trustpilot, but I wouldn’t give them more than two. The website is a clue to their shambolic level of organisation.
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Tough decision on the one or two stars, scraped a 2 on pricing from me but that's gone up a bit recently, bitten more than once there but they do get interesting stuff in and the weekly update is hard to resist a look.
 
Stephen Shore - Selected Works 1973 -1981
Annie Ernaux - Exteriors
Jerry Hsu - The Beautiful Flower is the World
Robert Adams - Summer Nights, Walking
Yoko Ikeda - Obscura
Ian Bates - Lost Dog
Jacqueline Staforelli - Tungstena

Incoming -
Tim Carpenter - Little
 
In the hopeful but likely vain belief that seeing someone's wonderful work will help me, William Albert Allard: Five Decades and his Portraits of America. Allard's work in the west of cowboys is just fantastic in color and composition. There are a certain few who can really make a camera work for them. Yes, he probably throws away a lot of his shots but those that remain are way better than anything ever coming out of my camera. ;o)
 
JohnGellings said:
Why would this matter?
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I think it is important to remember that we all have more misses than hits. We are not the only ones who have to dig through what we have shot to find keepers. That was my point. Photography is a lot like gold mining, more dross than gold. But there are those nuggets that we can shout about. In this we are all alike.
 
boojum said:
I think it is important to remember that we all have more misses than hits. We are not the only ones who have to dig through what we have shot to find keepers. That was my point. Photography is a lot like gold mining, more dross than gold. But there are those nuggets that we can shout about. In this we are all alike.
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I agree completely. That editing process is what separates the best from the rest. It ia the hardest part of photography.
 
boojum said:
In the hopeful but likely vain belief that seeing someone's wonderful work will help me, William Albert Allard: Five Decades and his Portraits of America. Allard's work in the west of cowboys is just fantastic in color and composition. There are a certain few who can really make a camera work for them. Yes, he probably throws away a lot of his shots but those that remain are way better than anything ever coming out of my camera. ;o)
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Don't forget about Vanishing Breed! Wonderful work! Some of it is in both those books you mentioned but to have the work as a whole is pretty astounding. It was a total inspiration for me (as a New Yorker) when I documented a true cowboy family when I was with the Dallas Morning News over a decade ago. If you like Allard, Sam Abell's books are pretty solid - similar color work.
 
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JohnGellings said:
I agree completely. That editing process is what separates the best from the rest. It ia the hardest part of photography.
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Self selection is hard, what I choose as "best" is often what gets fewer "like" or "upticks" than other shots I post, do I please myself or please my audience, lets not get into sequencing/layout for a book that's a whole other can of worms.
 
ChrisLivsey said:
Self selection is hard, what I choose as "best" is often what gets fewer "like" or "upticks" than other shots I post, do I please myself or please my audience, lets not get into sequencing/layout for a book that's a whole other can of worms.
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Yes, all of the above. You have to trust yourself and some trusted people, but you cannot trust the majority on social media. Social Media seems to thrive on cliches and equipment. Photography is hard once you get to that book making / series phase and want to do something fresh. I do not have the answers.
 
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