latest additions to your library

I was given at Christmas a book of Photographic Essays and images compiled by B. Newall, it is superb with interviews and articles written by some of the greats. I have bought but yet to receive :
Face of our Time; A Sander
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Three Tenant Families; Agee J (Walker Evans Photographs)
The Other Photographers; Women Photographers in Britain 1900 to Present; V Williams

Now I think I will look through Amazon for more bargain books.
 
braver said:
Finally bit the bullet, I hope it gets here soon and I hope it's wonderful (people sound very positive though).
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Chromes is awesome! Totally worth it.

I'm currently looking into getting my hands on Winogrand's 1964, bu that's another kind of expensive...
 
jsrockit said:
Just got...this:

http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=ZE588

Pontiac.
Photographs by Gerry Johansson.
Mack, 2011. 160 pp., 102 duotone illustrations, 7x9¾".

Very happy with it....
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This is on my list of possible purchases. I see another of his titles is on the Photo Eye top seller list. Do you have that as well?

New for me...

Mark Klett & William Fox, The Half-Life of History.
If you know Klett's other books (Second View,Yosemite in Time), then you are familiar with his interest in history, time and change. This portrait of the decrepit Wendover Air Base in Utah (home of the Enola Gay) explores the same themes.

Judith Joy Ross, Portraits of the Hazelton Public Schools.
Beautiful book of large format B&W portraiture.
I'd only seen bits and pieces of her work, and I just picked this title more or less randomly for a closer look. I will be getting more.
(Maybe some of you New Yorkers saw her show last month at Pace).

Gary
 
"East: For the Record" published by Steidl

"East: For the Record" published by Steidl

In light of the recent events happening in the Middle East, I've posted a review of the photobook "East" on my blog.

The book covers the historic months leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's got some great black and white street photography showing the intimate and the public moments.

The review is here: http://adventuresinphoto.com/2012/01/30/east-for-the-record-published-by-steidl/
 
I stopped at our local library and found these at their Bookstore:

1. Photography by Upton & Upton Fourth Edition
(I gave my last copy away to a friend, bought it at the library too...)

2. The Photographer's Handbook by John Hedgecoe Third Edition

3. Photography by Bruce Warren

4. Beyond the Zone System by Phil Davis (1981 version paperback)

Bought them for .75 cents each for a grand total of $3
 
Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America's Heartland
Bruce Jackson: Center Working Papers; University at Buffalo, SUNY
ISBN 978-0-931627-30-9

A 64 page booklet to accompany the Albright Knox Gallery and Duke University exhibits of FSA photography by Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange and others. The book is a colour printing that contains photographs derived from the original Kodachrome colour transparencies and predating Egglestons show debuted by Szarkowski in 1976 by at least 25 years. The photographs were discovered in the Library of Congress archives by Alice Stein who was working on a Phd thesis at the time.

The photographers were some of the best of the FSA and their colour photography is first rate.
 
Recently found a copy of Elliott Erwitt's "Snaps," which collects a broad range of his work that would require collecting all of his themed books to see. Nice large format with good quality printing and a floppy softcover binding. Hope it holds up.
 
Don Weber's Interrrogations, wrapped in a poster printed on newsprint and sealed with wax. Probably not going to open it and will have to buy another copy for viewing. Have already seen much of the work and have a print of the parked car.
 
A couple of those "photo poche" for some inspiration when out traveling.

Oh, and Leonard Freed - photographies 1954 - 1990.

Little less then 60$. Signed and in quite good condition.
For those interested there is one brand new for 75$ at powell books.
I've seen them around for over 200$ so its a steal.
 
Araakii said:
...Are the photos really consistently good?
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Good question.
According to the publisher's description, these books trace the development of his early color work. So, the answer is probably, "No". But maybe that isn't exactly the point. This seems more of a survey than a "Greatest hits". For a distillation of this work, see "William Eggleston's Guide".

New arrivals for me...

Seismic Shift. Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984. This is the catalog for a show last fall at UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography. It examines the evolution from the classic work of Weston, Adams, and others to the cooler approach which emerged in the seventies.

Timothy H. O'Sullivan. The King Survey Photographs.
I've always loved the 19th century western landscape work of O'Sullivan, Muybridge, Watkins, Jackson, etc. This is a great new book which reproduces all of the O'Sullivan photographs made during Clarence King's survey of the 40th parallel from the California/Nevada border, east to the great plains. Beautiful book with 3 or 4 nice essays, including one by Mark Klett who has re-photographed many of these views for some of his projects (see, Second View. The Rephotographic Survey).
I might also have to pick up this...
http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/12/new-carleton-watkins-book-is-mammoth/

Cheers,
Gary
 
Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s
Got this last week. Superb. Excellent design and generous selections from the books along with good background text.

Alexey Brodovitch - Ballet
the Books on Books version. Wouldn't call it essential, but there are some great photos included, plus I've always been fascinated that someone did such an outrageous (for the day) book project back in the 1940s.
 
1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, ISBN 978-1-84403-704-9. A comprehensive overview of significant painting from Egyptian to the present day, with 600 pages covering the 1800s onwards. Reproduction is small but good quality. Each painting is accompanied by a description of the work, the artist and the circumstances in which it was painted.
I study art to improve both vision and technique, particularly composition and use of colour. This is one of the more useful books I've come across for that purpose. Recommended.
 
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