latest additions to your library

[Papercut]

"The Family of Man" -- reissued photobook of the landmark MOMA exhibit.

It's okay for getting an overall sense of the work in the exhibit, but really some of the photos are mere thumbnails (practically 35mm contact print in size!) and others although larger often run across the gutter. Really poor design/layout.

 

[RayPA]

I just got 'Looking In, Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition.' This is a big fat E_X_P_A_N_D_E_D version with lots of photos, lots of text, and here's the best part ~ 83 pages of contact sheets! Awesome. It's over 500 pages, which makes lazing around with a bit difficult.

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[aizan]

5 books - henry wessel
fashion magazine - lise sarfati
the last days of w - alec soth
books on books limited edition set - errata editions
101 billionaires - rob hornstra
suzi et cetera - boris mikhailov
crimean snobbism - boris mikhailov

i think i'll get 'postexposure' by ctein with my birthday gift certificate. 🙂

 

[jky]

Magnum Magnum - the cheaper version. Christmas gift cards + 40% off of hardcovers = $15.00!

 

[al1966]

Berger- Ways of seeing

 

[Papercut]

Ute Eskildsen, ed. "Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography"

 

[martin s]

Elliot Erwitt - Personal Best
W. Eugene Smith - Pittsburgh Project
Garry Winogrand - Arrivals & Departures
Walker Evans - Hungry Eye

 

[funkaoshi]

As I was Dying - Paolo Pellegrin - This is a really nice book. Well worth checking out. Prints are big, and span two pages, but they did a good job making sure that stuff doesn't get lost in the gutter. It works well.

 

[Tom A]

Jacob Aue Sobol's "I Tokyo". Gift from a friend. Interesting style and subject.
"Looking In, Robert Frank. Extended version" - on order from Amazon as we speak.

 

[benlees]

On my recent trip to London I got Winogrands' 'The Animals' for 7.99. I was pretty happy as I thought it was out of print. I got it at the Photographers' Gallery which has a great book store. Luckily, my wallet and suitcase dictated what I brought home. Not much! I was very tempted by Kleins' Paris as it was 50% off but it is a huge book. I was also tempted by some of Moriyamas work but was pricey so resisted the urge!

 

[Papercut]

"Helen Levitt" -- almost no text in this volume, just a collection of her best street photos, both bw and color.

 

[tom_uk]

"A Long Exposure - 100 years of photography from the Guardian". Examples of the work of each of the 7 staff photographers that the Guardian has employed in the 100 years since the paper employed their first.

 

[Papercut]

National Geographic's "Inside China"

"Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt"

Nan Goldin, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency"

 

[Tom A]

Today "Looking In" the Robert Frank tome arrived. It is the expanded version - and quite substantial too. Heavy enough to "brain" you if you fall asleep with it in bed!
Did some sleuthing around in one of the better used book shops in town to and found Homer Sykes "Shanghai Odyssey" too. I like his work - straight forward shooter - nothing fancy, but damned good.

 

[Andrew Sowerby]

"Helen Levitt" -- almost no text in this volume, just a collection of her best street photos, both bw and color.

That book is really good. If you like it you should check out Saul Leiter's work. Early Color is my favorite.

Larry Towell's The World From My Front Porch is on order from Amazon.

 

[dazedgonebye]

Examples. The Making of 40 Photographs, Ansel Adams

 

[Papercut]

Andrew, I saw Leiter's Early Color at a friend's house a couple months ago. Really fantastic work -- I'm not usually taken with color, but Leiter's work is just amazingly good, almost makes me want to shoot some color and that's saying something! It's on my amazon.com wishlist (probably should pick it up before it goes OOP ... again) 😀

That book is really good. If you like it you should check out Saul Leiter's work. Early Color is my favorite.

Larry Towell's The World From My Front Porch is on order from Amazon.

 

[thomasw_]

Way Beyond Monochrome

 

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Raymond Depardon, Voyages

I may have just "discovered" my new "favoritest" photographer. Sad that his books are hard to find here in the US; I had to order this from France. Some of the photos are reproduced at very small sizes, but at over 600 pages, there's an awful lot of images in here.

 

[Tom A]

Depardon has been a long time favorite of mine - he is not very well known in the US, but a bit of a "star" in France.
I like his understated way of seeing. Very subtle and philosophical. He is also one of the rareties among photographers - he is a very good writer. Over the years I have picked up a handful of his books - including "Voyages". He did a series of smallish, softbound books on New York, Sahara, travels in Ethiopia, San Clemente ( a mental asylum), La Litoral (coast of Bretagne), Retour a Vietnam and Errances ("wanderings") which he shot with a ALPA 6x9 and the 72 Schneidar lens (on Verichrome Pan no less - he must have kept a large stash of it).
Low key but thought provoking shooter. Enjoy Voyages and be prepared to have this sudden desire to throw some film and clothes in a bag, hang a Leica M3 with a 50mm lens on your shoulder and tell friends and family that you will be back sometime in the future to process the film!