latest additions to your library

[pesphoto]

Darkroom 2

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

My latest addition is "The polaroid book". What? Polaroid? But the graphical compositions inside are very good. I suppose, this book will influence the composition of my photographs quite a lot.

I love that book!

 

[peter_n]

An English Eye - James Ravilious.

 

[Bob Michaels]

I have coming, as a Christmas gift, a copy of Bruce Davidson's East 100th St. My kids always ask if I have any suggestions, so I let that be known. As they were all claiming the right to get for me, I was suggesting that they make it a joint gift. When they found what a good copy cost, they understood why.

 

[digihater]

Just got the following
The rollei manual by A.Pearlman
workbook of darkroom techniques by john hedgecoe
color darkroom techniques by Ralph Hattersley
making colour prints by J.M.Whitaker.

I have a few thomas tomosy books around here too as well as the Romney ones. I found a lovely old secondhand bookshop round here where all their books go for about £4-5, so I dived in, I found the Leica way but resisted the temptation, however I may go back for it if its a good read.

The wife doesn't like me spending money on books, I don't know why.

 

[dexdog]

I recently acquired the Helmut Thiele book of serial numbers for Zeiss lenses.

 

[trix]

"French Kiss" by Anders Petersen

it rocks !

 

[HarryW]

Two books from the Phaidon 55 Series

Joel Meyerowitz by Colin Westerbeck
Gabriele Basilico by Francesco Bonami

Harry

 

[foggie]

Bruce Davidson - England/Scotland 1960
Bruce Davidson - Circus
Chien-chi Chang - I Do I Do I Do
Susan Meiselas - Carnival Strippers

The two bruce davidson books are brilliant. I love the pictures in Chang's I do i do i do but was annoyed by the positioning of photos in the book. (I hate it when they place photos through the middle fold!)

Carnival Strippers has some interesting pictures and capitvating stories but the layout of the book, font choices, and overall design is a disaster.

 

[adji_jo]

Jacob Aue Sobol's I, Tokyo. I really love it

 

[Shac]

2 from Aperture - Paul Strand's "La France de Profil" and his "Sixty years of photographs"
- no one comes close for my tastes

 

[MartinP]

'Entre Terre et Ciel', Gaston Rebuffat (photos. Pierre Tairaz)

It got me to climb mountains and like ice.

'Norwegian Wood', Haruki Murakami

Just a book to make one think.


Last photography book was 'Africa', by Salgado.

 

[sweathog]

I just found a cracking bookshop in York.
I've got a horrible feeling I will be spending a lot of time and money in there.

I went in there for a look around on my lunch break and walked out with a copy of Jessica Dimmock's The Ninth Floor.

 

[aizan]

oh, man. you wanna keep middle school kids from doing drugs, show them a copy of "the ninth floor".

 

[sweathog]

oh, man. you wanna keep middle school kids from doing drugs, show them a copy of "the ninth floor".

It really is a great book.
It is so personal, and IMO very non-judgemental.
I highly recommend it, but it is certainly not 'light reading/viewing'.

 

[Papercut]

Kent Reno's "Ground Time"

playful romp around the world by a commercial pilot who shot in his spare (ground) time

 

[benmacphoto]

I just got The Secret Paris of the 30's by Brassai

 

[VictorM.]

Daring To Look - a book about Dorothea Lange's photographs from 1939 by Anne Whiston Spirn.

 

[nikon_sam]

Midway: Portrait of a Daytona Beach Neighborhood by Gordon Parks

Although I just got this book I don't think it will be staying in my collection...It's going to be a Christmas present for a dear friend...

 

[icebear]

Annie Leibovitz "At Work".
Her well known pictures and some explanation 'behind the scenes'. On inspiration, on the work itself, on equipment, quite interesting - if you like her. We had a nother thread where the opinions had been pretty polarized.