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Peter,

I understood that your comment was related to the panoramas in particular, still I'm grateful for the additional information: the Sad Landscape sounds like it would be fabulous. I've long wanted to get Koudelka's Black Triangle to go with my copy of Chaos -- I love panos, perhaps because they remind me of Asian scroll paintings, which come in both vertical and horizontal formats. Tracing the geneology of influence backwards is fascinating to me (common working method for historians, after all). My photobook "wishlist" grows again -- thanks! :bang: ;)

peter_n said:
Kevin I shouldn't overgeneralize. It was more the panoramics than anything else. Sudek published a beautiful book called Sad Landscape that documented the destruction of the north-west Bohemia landscape by industrialization. He used an antique 1894 Kodak Panorama camera and the work is really a counterpoint to the romanticism he's renowned for. Koudelka's Černý trojúhelník - Podkrušnohoří (The Black Triangle in north Bohemia) is very similar to Dudek's earlier work in the same part of the world but then Koudelka extended the theme brilliantly to western Europe in Chaos.
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It has been a while since I bought any photo books, but I just ordered two books from Amazon that I'm looking forward to receiving:
Short-term Spoken Chinese volumes I and II.
These are the texts we have been using in my Introductory Mandarin Chinese Language courses.
 
Got my copy of Mexican Suitcase from Amazon UK.
Great read but I was disappointed with the production.
Both volumes are paperback in a paper sleeve slip case.The second volume is like a telephone directory and feels like one too.
The paper seems cheap .
I`m no expert on these things but I feel that it would have benefited from better presentation.
 
Theo Kisselbach - Das Leica Buch

When browsing through amazon I found one used in stock an placed an order, without further knowing of the book. Shame on me...

The one I received is from 1962 and the previous owner highlighted several articles and products mentioned in the book. Additionally he (or she) added articles from photography magazines and a price list for filters.

The book itself is great. It doesn't only describe the different models and how to use a leica camer, it also describes photography itself. I can only recommend this book, if you find one for sale.

Best 8€ spent on a book period!
 
Santa brought me Doisneau: Portraits of Artists, which made me very happy, and he brought me Ray Metzger: Light Lines, which covers the photographer's 40+ year career. Both are excellent. It's funny to see that Metzger's most identifiable technique/style still has legs and is running like the Nile on Flickr. :p

I highly recommend both books.



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I finally picked up Ralph Gibson's out-of-print 'Deus Ex Machina'. I have a signed copy of the 'Sonammbulist', and I've been trying to get the other two-thirds of the trilogy, 'Deja Vu' and 'Days at Sea'. "Deus Ex Machina' has them both, as well as, many other collections. Gibson has been an inspiration for a long time.



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notraces said:
Mark Steinmetz Trilogy - really good stuff...
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I wish I had known about South Central and had been able to pick it up while it still was in print in hardcover. I enjoy the other two a lot though.

I have Flying Clipper Logbook by Jonas Wettre on the way (I'm a sucker for sail boats).
 
William Eggleston's For Now just arrived today. It's a very beautiful and quite large book.

For those who don't know, For Now is a collection 84 of previously unpublished photos by Eggleston. It looks like most of them are from his heyday in the 1970s. There's an interview and a couple of essays included.
 
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