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post exposure (2nd ed.) - ctein
ISBN: 0-240-80437-6

calumet is the only place i found that has this in stock at list price. gobsmackingly informative.
 
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Of course, it is Inside Outside.. Perhaps the nicest book I've EVER put my hands on in my short life.

Apart from that, yesterday I've received HCB's The Man, the Image and the World and also the HCB and the Artless Art. Not a bad start to collecting photobooks..


(Whoops, did I really say "collecting"? Am I hooked already? dear me...)
 
Beware of photo book collecting! You will find yourself with NO space left - bookshelves sagging and you never have enough of them!!!
The Davidson Books are among the best I have seen, printing wise and selection of images! Just plain amazing. Just to repeat - if you are going to buy ONE photobook this year - Inside, Outside is the one to get. Just stop eating for a week or two and you can raise the funds. Who needs food if you can look at great pictures instead.
 
SWEET!! I think I must get that "Outside Inside" book. Looks like very good photography, top it off with the fact that I'm (shamefully) not familiar with that Bruce Davidson feller and his work and it looks like it's gonna be a treat. Thanks all for namedropping this book!

(After quick look I do recognise maybe a couple of photos. Heh, one of them was used as a Beastie Boys album cover 🙂 )
 
The second printing of the Phaidon monograph on Francesca Woodman (essay by Chris Townsend) is finally available. This is the only book on her work in print, and is a treasure.
 
I've gotten some new books over the past few weeks:

Dog Days by Alec Soth

Tell Mum Everything Will Be Ok zine

A Constructed View by Julius Shulman

AND MY FAVORITE

Refuge: Five Cities Portfolio by Bas Princen
 
A publisher just sent a copy of Agatha Christie's "The Orient Express" to the office. As for photography, a book by the French photographer Robert Doisneau.
 
I just found a copy of Sally Mann's Deep South. I used to volunteer at a photo magazine in the late 90's/early 2000's that featured this work and have always been struck by it's beauty. Much of the allure comes from the perfect match of the hand-coated process to the subject.
 
jky said:
Just rec'd my copy of "10" - 10 years of in-public... if you're a fan of street photography, it's definitely one inspiring book.
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I've received it too, but I'm mostly disappointed with it. Somehow it does not work well for me. I liked their "Publication" magazine, but this book is loosing my concentration due to small reproductions blending into uninteresting mass. I think it's shame that some very good photos there don't have space to "sing".
 
My lastest addition is from yesterday and is not photographic, but of genre that has become obsolete (or freed) by photography - illustration of nature. It's Walton Ford's Pancha Tantra (Taschen 2009, 978-3822852378). He mastered illustration of quotes from books mostly from colonial era and makes jokes about romancy of exploring and hunting, while staying deadly serious about impact of human actions. It's quite heavy book both in content and weight.

As far as photographic books, I've received old Lustrum Press' Darkroom (0912810203) and Darkroom 2 (091281022X) books, where many photographers - Ralph Gibson, Linda Connor, Eugene W. Smith included - share their tricks in processes. Very interesting insight view.
 
further to Tom's comments above, I picked up Subway by Bruce Davidson. It's a riveting read and the photography is something to behold, urban gritty, edgy, crazy, dangerous, violent, exhausting, insane. The paper is heavy and the colours from shooting Kodachrome 64 with flash is something to behold. Shot in NYC's subways in the 80's it's timeless and could be today. Well worth a look.

Title: Subway
Author: Bruce Davidson
Publisher: St Annes Press
ISBN: 0 - 9713681 8 X
 
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the man in the crowd: the uneasy streets of garry winogrand
ISBN: 1-881337-05-7

more winogrand! it must be a sign...
 
jan normandale said:
further to Tom's comments above, I picked up Subway by Bruce Davidson. It's a riveting read and the photography is something to behold, urban gritty, edgy, crazy, dangerous, violent, exhausting, insane. The paper is heavy and the colours from shooting Kodachrome 64 with flash is something to behold. Shot in NYC's subways in the 80's it's timeless and could be today. Well worth a look.

Title: Subway
Author: Bruce Davidson
Publisher: St Annes Press
ISBN: 0 - 9713681 8 X
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Interestingly enough, the Subway series is in "Inside,Outside" but printed as black and white! Different look to them in bl/w.
 
Tom A said:
Interestingly enough, the Subway series is in "Inside,Outside" but printed as black and white! Different look to them in bl/w.
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Tom I had no idea this was the same photographer. Based on seeing "Subway" I can understand the high level of interest in his Inside / Outside book. I'm sure the BW does work well for a retrospective compilation but that Kodachrome 64 plus Sunpak strobe.... it's another world.

I'll have to stop buying lunch for two weeks and buy a copy of Davidson's book.
 
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