latest additions to your library

Nothing exotic but certainly milestones in their own right: (found them used!)
Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and
Salgado's An Uncertain Grace
 
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peter_n said:
Chris thanks for the heads-up. Will get this book.
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I just finished it. It goes up to the point where he tries to go to Europe to document black fighter pilots in the US air force fighting the Nazis. Back then, the US military was segregated by race. Blacks were in separate units, while all other races in the US (whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc) were all together....only blacks were segregated. The military didn't want him photographing the black air squadrons and making heros of blacks.

He got into photography almost by accident and quickly discovered the power of photography to document the repression of blacks and poor people.
 
Latest read Cage Call: Louie Palu photography, text Charlie Angus

ISBN: 978-1-934334-02-7
Publisher: Photolucida
Date: 2007
format: large quarto
pages 64

This is an all BW photo book focused on the mines, mining, miners and their families in Northern Ontario and Quebec. There is a text portion with interviews about mining, smelters, unions and mining companies. The photography is typical Louie Palu.. he's won more awards in the last 10 years than most photographers do in a lifetime. For anyone interested in the life and struggles of a mining laborer this is an eloquent text. It doesn't get tougher than this.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I just finished it. It goes up to the point where he tries to go to Europe to document black fighter pilots in the US air force fighting the Nazis. Back then, the US military was segregated by race. Blacks were in separate units, while all other races in the US (whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc) were all together....only blacks were segregated. The military didn't want him photographing the black air squadrons and making heros of blacks.

He got into photography almost by accident and quickly discovered the power of photography to document the repression of blacks and poor people.
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Chris do you have an ISBN for the book? It helps, thanks Jan
 
Florian1234 said:
I think my next photobook or sort of order will be Core Curriculum by Tod Papageorge which was published recently. Seems to be an interesting read - at least I hope so.
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I had this on order for a long time and it finally arrived the other day.
It contains all the familiar pieces that have been published previously like the Walker Evans/Robert Frank essay and the intro to Public Relations.
But also has several transcriptions of talks he gave at Yale on Atget, Brassai, Bresson, etc. as well as 2 or 3 interviews and a great piece on Robert Adams. About 20 pieces in all. If you've read some of his stuff and liked it, I would definitely recommend this.

Cheers,
Gary
 
The Papageorge is on my wish list, dare I say he is, my opinion only, a better writer than a photographer ? (and he is not a bad photographer 😉 )
 
Constantine Manos, A Greek Portfolio, and a Bruce Gilden monograph by Stern Fotografie. I had no idea which Gilden book to go for, so I tried this one.
 
Anybody know when "Arlequin" by Toshio Enomoto will be released?
Maybe members in Japan know?
That one is a definite buy for me.
 
Core Curriculum by Tod Papageorge, who introduces his work by declaring himself "on the relatively short list of people who might have something useful to say" about photography. Had I read this in a bookstore, I might have dismissed the book as the futile exercise by a pompous pedant of the Ivy League. Having read a few of his essays, however, I can confirm that despite his juvenile penchant for the clumsy pun, Papageorge has a few intelligent things to say about the art of photography where "... there is a failure to understand how much richer in surprise and creative possibility the world is for photographers in comparison to their imagination."
 
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