latest additions to your library

"The Master Photographer's Lith Printing Course: A Definitive Guide to Creative Lith Printing" by Tim Rudman
Just purchased on bay
 
I was given for my 21st birthday I was given a copy of Curse Of The Black Gold by Ed Kashi.
I saw some of his work in National Geographic while in a doctor's waiting room, and when I heard the book was out I was very excited but couldn't ever justify purchasing it, so I was so grateful when I received it.
 
got 'baghdad calling' by geert van kesteren a while ago, and just went on an alec soth binge: sleeping by the mississippi, niagara, fashion magazine. snag those reprints while you can!
 
Robert Adams

Robert Adams

I was fortunate to just come across Robert Adam's (no relation to Ansel) writing for the first time, and find it revelatory, most erudite, yet readable. He takes a photograph both within and without its immediate context and relates it both to the larger world and other forms of art and makes it seem more a complete work than simply an object in a gallery. So far I have gone through "Beauty in Photography" (twice in a week) with "Why People Photograph" in between. I have more of his work on order already; impatiently awaiting arrival. And I've yet to see a photo made by the man, but his prose certainly speaks to me. Most highly recommended (and short with big print to boot).
LJS
 
Amazon should be paying RFF a commission for this thread alone -- it is responsible for inducing major BAS (book acquisition syndrome) for me on a regular basis! ;)
 
Jonas Bendiksen's new one, with an intro by Philip Gourevich, "The Places We Live." Breathtaking. Conceptually cool, too--he photographed people's slum houses throughout the world, many of them homemade, four photos per house, one of each wall. Each set is a double foldout, so you can see the whole house at once. Some of the subjects are very ingenious; others surprisingly cheerful despite their poverty. bendiksen really knows how to connect with people in obscure places.
 
ljsegil said:
I was fortunate to just come across Robert Adam's (no relation to Ansel) writing for the first time, and find it revelatory, most erudite, yet readable. He takes a photograph both within and without its immediate context and relates it both to the larger world and other forms of art and makes it seem more a complete work than simply an object in a gallery. So far I have gone through "Beauty in Photography" (twice in a week) with "Why People Photograph" in between. I have more of his work on order already; impatiently awaiting arrival. And I've yet to see a photo made by the man, but his prose certainly speaks to me. Most highly recommended (and short with big print to boot).
LJS
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Damn right there. I too discovered them recently and found very enlightening.

Working my way through Richard Newmans Toning Technigues at the moment.
 
i received from a friend, six sci-fi books, some are second hand some new.
r.c.wilson "spin", t. sturgeon "more than human", asimov "the death of eternity", v.savchenko "the hat of monomah", asimov "the gods themselves", o. johannesson "the big calculator"
and i bought a gerda taro book which i am still awaiting for delivery.
 
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.
 
"100 photos de Reza" for Reporters Sans Frontieres/Reporters Without Borders.

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Reza is one of my favorite photographer, his portraits and war photographs are simply amazing.
 
I was just given a copy of "Henry Wessel" and it is excelllent. I also have added the Lee Friedlander book from the recent retrospective of his work at San Francisco's MOMA.
 
There don't seem to be any independent book sellers left around here. I picked up a couple more hardbound U.S. Camera Annuals from the 50's and 60's and a 1940's vintage The Leica Manual at a yard sale a couple years back. Most all my reading these days is on line. The only magazines that I still get are a couple of professional journals on urban planning. My son (and others) keeps bugging me to start editing my blog into a few books about my life as a photographer, the people I've known and photographed, etc. The task seems daunting.
 
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