giganova
Well-known
"American Realities" and "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans", both by Steidel. The amount of research that went into creating "Looking In" is amazing!
Big Ursus
Well-known
Here's a batch from this spring.
Art or Nature; 20th Century French Photography.
Henry Carrol. Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs, and Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People. Both of Carrol’s books are filled with great tips, and excellent illustrations.
Hu Hohn, Lorne Falk, curators. The Banff Purchase, An Exhibition of Photography in Canada. Good reminder of what was going on here in the 70s.
Max Kozloff. The Theatre of the Face; Portrait Photography Since 1900.
Nick Noslitz. Patpong Bangkok’s Twilight Zone. A very interesting book, though off-putting at first glance.
Jerome Prescott, ed., The Unspoiled West. Timothy O’Sullivan’s pictures remind me why I’m a great fan of his work.
Scotiabank CONTACT 20 Photography Festival. May, 2016 – Inexpensive catalogue / guide to what Toronto thinks is worthwhile. Two billboards in downtown Edmonton, which were part of the festival, were monumental and unimpressive.
Robert Capa. Reporters Without Borders. Issue 100 “100 Photos for Press Freedom”.
Artforum. May/2016. I particularly wanted Philip-Lorca Dicorcia’s pictures and essay.
Border Crossings. Issue 136. For the portfolios by Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander
European Photography. Issue 98. For several portfolios, especially the one by Martin Roemers
Fotograf. Documentary Strategies. Issue 26 / 2015.
Gup. Issue 48. For Mark Page’s portfolio
Non-photographic picture books:
Lloyd Goodrich. Edward Hopper. An enormous, wonderful book, chock a block with information about how to portray stillness and loneliness, without sentimentality.
Fratelli Fabri Editori. Caravaggio, and Caravaggio e I Caravaggeschi. Two guide books for making ultra dynamic pictures.
Fratelli Fabri Editori. Durer. Super-duper portraits.
These three Fratelli Fabri books were very cheap, with decent illustrations.
Art or Nature; 20th Century French Photography.
Henry Carrol. Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs, and Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People. Both of Carrol’s books are filled with great tips, and excellent illustrations.
Hu Hohn, Lorne Falk, curators. The Banff Purchase, An Exhibition of Photography in Canada. Good reminder of what was going on here in the 70s.
Max Kozloff. The Theatre of the Face; Portrait Photography Since 1900.
Nick Noslitz. Patpong Bangkok’s Twilight Zone. A very interesting book, though off-putting at first glance.
Jerome Prescott, ed., The Unspoiled West. Timothy O’Sullivan’s pictures remind me why I’m a great fan of his work.
Scotiabank CONTACT 20 Photography Festival. May, 2016 – Inexpensive catalogue / guide to what Toronto thinks is worthwhile. Two billboards in downtown Edmonton, which were part of the festival, were monumental and unimpressive.
Robert Capa. Reporters Without Borders. Issue 100 “100 Photos for Press Freedom”.
Artforum. May/2016. I particularly wanted Philip-Lorca Dicorcia’s pictures and essay.
Border Crossings. Issue 136. For the portfolios by Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander
European Photography. Issue 98. For several portfolios, especially the one by Martin Roemers
Fotograf. Documentary Strategies. Issue 26 / 2015.
Gup. Issue 48. For Mark Page’s portfolio
Non-photographic picture books:
Lloyd Goodrich. Edward Hopper. An enormous, wonderful book, chock a block with information about how to portray stillness and loneliness, without sentimentality.
Fratelli Fabri Editori. Caravaggio, and Caravaggio e I Caravaggeschi. Two guide books for making ultra dynamic pictures.
Fratelli Fabri Editori. Durer. Super-duper portraits.
These three Fratelli Fabri books were very cheap, with decent illustrations.
Big Ursus
Well-known
New book by Steidl. Will take some time to get through, 680 pages, with some interesting text as well as the photographs which are well reproduced as we expect from this publisher.
https://steidl.de/Books/Provoke-Between-Protest-and-Performance-3043465255.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/red_eyes_man/
Wow - I've just ordered a copy. Thaanks very much!
michaelwj
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Thanks All,
I've browsed "Guide" before, quite a nice book. Hadn't heard of some of the others, but pleasantly surprised that no one suggested one of the more elaborate expensive volumes! I have some looking to do
michaelwj
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kshapero
South Florida Man
Just picked up the New "Film Photography Handbook". Weekend reading.
ABrosig
Well-known
Recently got my copy of "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs," the companion catalog to the current show.
RichC
Well-known
David Fathi's "Anecdotal".
The project's starting point is the unfamiliar stories and anecdotes around nuclear armament and testing programmes. Mixing archival and his own photos, David Fathi has created a history of the atomic bomb wavering between a horrific investigation and an absurd farce. All that he documents is true, but seems to be from a work of bad fiction. We find stories of contaminated ministers, bombs lost and never found, the power struggles between colonial powers and local populations, the invention of the bikini and vaporised chickens.
From a recent talk I went to by David - the screen shows an image from his next book, "Wolfgang", about the quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the (true) story that scientists banned him from their labs because they believed he was cursed by the bizarre and bad luck and experiments would fail around him!
The project's starting point is the unfamiliar stories and anecdotes around nuclear armament and testing programmes. Mixing archival and his own photos, David Fathi has created a history of the atomic bomb wavering between a horrific investigation and an absurd farce. All that he documents is true, but seems to be from a work of bad fiction. We find stories of contaminated ministers, bombs lost and never found, the power struggles between colonial powers and local populations, the invention of the bikini and vaporised chickens.
From a recent talk I went to by David - the screen shows an image from his next book, "Wolfgang", about the quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the (true) story that scientists banned him from their labs because they believed he was cursed by the bizarre and bad luck and experiments would fail around him!
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
"Ansel Adams and the American Landscape" by Jonathan Spaulding...
Found this today at a local Goodwill store...paperback version...
Found this today at a local Goodwill store...paperback version...
fireblade
Vincenzo.
Excellent.
stephen.w
Established
Just received:
Gus Powell's The Company of Strangers, as well as the new editions of Meyerowitz's Cape Light and Robert Adams's The New West.
Gus Powell's The Company of Strangers, as well as the new editions of Meyerowitz's Cape Light and Robert Adams's The New West.
fireblade
Vincenzo.
Ha, ordered same Robert Adams book yesterday. Do you like it?
stephen.w
Established
Only had a quick flick-through - but so far I like it very much. It strikes me as similar in concept and in the same tradition as Walker Evans's American Photographs and Robert Frank's The Americans, and the photos are good enough to stand in that company.
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lawrence
Veteran
Lee Friedlander:
- The Little Screens
- In the Picture (Self Portraits)
adresaba
Well-known
"The family of men" very very nice book
aizan
Veteran
you wouldn't think it, but "the family of man" was and is a controversial exhibition, tangled up with issues like imperialism and modernist universalism. just google '"family of man" american imperialism' and you'll get a lot of reading. chapter 7 by danielle glassmeyer in sinographies has a really good section on history and sentimentality.
lcpr
Well-known
On the way:
Tokyo Circulation - Shinya Arimoto
In Flagrante Two - Chris Kilip
Just received, currently getting to know:
Particle Mist - Bill Henson
Unnamed Road - Jungjin Lee
Tokyo Circulation - Shinya Arimoto
In Flagrante Two - Chris Kilip
Just received, currently getting to know:
Particle Mist - Bill Henson
Unnamed Road - Jungjin Lee
lawrence
Veteran
Not too surprising really. A load of wooly, sentimental idealism based on the lame idea that 'we are really all the same'. Nothing in it that is in any way challenging or unorthodox, just one stereotype after another. Needless to say, it's the most successful photography show ever.
noisycheese
Normal(ish) Human
Retro Photo: https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Photo-...166&sr=1-1&keywords=retro+photo+david+ellwand
And Ireland Ever: https://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Ever...43&sr=1-1&keywords=Ireland+Ever+Jill+Freedman $9.00 USD each at a used book store, and both are in very good condition.
And from the new rack -
The Documentary Impulse: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714870676/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And Ireland Ever: https://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Ever...43&sr=1-1&keywords=Ireland+Ever+Jill+Freedman $9.00 USD each at a used book store, and both are in very good condition.
And from the new rack -
The Documentary Impulse: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714870676/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
fireblade
Vincenzo.
......Thankyou.