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Tom,

I can see why you've liked his work for so long. Wonderful stuff. I only made it about half way through Voyages yesterday, but I really enjoy his use of space. While he does have some "fill the frame with the subject" shots, it's remarkable to me how often the figures in his photos are small, even tiny, with large areas of "empty" space (sky, sand, etc.) around them. As you said, it's "subtle and philosophical", most definitely not "in your face". I will be on the prowl for his other books from now on!

-- Kevin

Tom A said:
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!
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Eugene Richards - The Blue Room

Attended a lecture by Eugene last night at Boston University - quite impactful! He discussed The Blue Room, showing and commenting on a majority of the images in the book. Eugene also shared a new project about the cost of war, telling the stories of 15 service men and woman in Irag and their families in dealing with loss or significant injury.
 
Just a few books, each with a lesson of sorts:
Hasselblad Manual 3rd wildi (cost me 99 cents, on sale everywhere 39.99)
Leica World 1957 (Another 99 cents, Wow)
Mamiya pro systems handbook (Prolly 2 bucks, amazing ref book)
Paul Strand, 2nd, 1945 (2 dollars)
Edward Weston First 1946 (2 dollars)
The last 2 are Nancy Newhall's monographs for MOMA exhibitions. I bought these books together cause they were famous photographers.
I was going to donate them until I did some research and found out how to read the edition code and noticed that these books were quite expensive (greater than 100.00 each) compared to what I paid for them. So I have kept them.

Recently, I came across a list of books I bought in one small lot years ago. I remember selling some of them but the one that is on the list that I may still have is: "Uformen der Kunst" by Blossfeldt (watch spelling) lists today 1-3000.00 and filled with lovely gravure photos of plant parts Hope I can find it.

ralph
 
I picked a book "Learn B&W Photography in 24 Hours" or something like that last week from our local Library's Book Store...for seventy-five cents...
This past weekend a bunch of my wife's family came over and one of the youngsters was just starting out in photography (B&W)
I gave the book to her...so I guess it's in her library...
 
icebear said:
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.
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My wife and I just finished this book after being in a long line of people who reserved it at the local library 🙂

I liked it a lot.

I always thought that she's just very good at being at the right place at the right time. Until I get to know how her mind works to produce her... works, which she described in this book. She's a genius with extraordinary focus and determination.

Highly recommended.
 
I have just bought "Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Gerry Winogrand" and are waiting for "Manhatten Out" and "Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism Graphics and Picture Editing" to be delivered. 🙂
 
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I have just bought "Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Gerry Winogrand" and are waiting for "Manhatten Out" and "Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism Graphics and Picture Editing" to be delivered. 🙂
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🙂 That Winogrand stuff is great. Please drop me a line about that editing book when you got it.
 
"Creative Elements: Landscape Photography-Darkroom Techniques" by Eddie Ephraums.

This is a good book for those of us who came from digital and wanted to learn more about film photography.

You don't have to like landscape photography to appreciate this book. It's just full of good practical how-to and why/why-not tips on setting up a good film workflow.

Highly Recommended.
 
Acquisitions of the last two months:

"Infanta" and "State of the Axe" by Ralph Gibson. Typical but stunning.
"Arrivals & Departures" by Garry Winogrand. Fun!
"Balkanlarda" by Nikos Economopoulos. Silencing.
"Proof" by Jim Marshall. Stimulating. I ordered the expanded version of
"Looking in Frank's Americans" for the same guilty pleasure.
"Archief" by Herman Sellelags (Belgian press photographer). Inspiring.
"Istanbul" by Alex Webb. Strange...
"Africa" by Sebastião Salgado. Massive...
"Invasion Prague 68" by Josef Koudelka. Shivering...

well... I spend way more time looking at photographs than making them.
 
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