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I’m a bit of a book fanatic – over the last couple of months I have bought…

Ray K. Metzker – Light Lines
Tony Ray Jones
Francis Frith's Egypt and the Holy Land
Annie Leibovitz at Work
Vietnam Inc – Philip Jones Griffiths
Recollections – Philip Jones Griffiths
Looking In (Expanded) – Robert Frank
Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising – Erich Lessing
Saul Leiter: Early Color
Brassai: Paris by Night
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Conde Nast Years 1923-1937
American Photojournalism Comes of Age

I haven’t had chance to have a good look at them yet. I always see myself sitting by the fire on a cold winter’s day with a stack of books beside me, going through them one by one – it’s one of my happy visions but I never seem to get time to make it happen. Oh well, maybe when I retire 🙄
 
Craig J Barber, "Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited"

Barber was a marine stationed in Vietnam in 1967. He returned with his large format pinhole cameras and made images of still, scarred landscapes populated with ephemeral ghosts: his own memories of war and the blurred figures of people and wind rustled foliage. It's a lovely and moving book, most pages having two or three images in diptych or triptych format from the original platinum prints.
 
Any recommendations on what Eggleston book I should get?

martin

//EDIT, nevermind, the only one listed on my local book stores website is Egglestons "Guide", I'll just get that.
 
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A book by Kenichi Nagira. he is a japanese country/western/blues singer - but also a very good photographer. Interesting and a bit melancholy images from Tokyo in color - though he is doing more and more black/white.
 
Train Your Gaze

Train Your Gaze

By Roswell Angier. Although subtitled A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography, it is about looking at and photographing people wherever you find them, including the street. Explores the work of several famous people photographers and explains what is in some photos, e.g., Cartier-Bresson's, that makes them great and classic. Includes photo projects to do on your own. Very enlightening. At Amazon.
 
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Michael,
I have this book too and I also really like it. It's part textbook, part scholarly monograph/survey on the theory of photographic "portraiture" (widely defined), part assignment for a photography class, part practical how-to by way of introducing different techniques. It sounds like it should just be a mishmash of competing aims and approaches, but it somehow works really, really well.

-- Kevin

Michael P. said:
By Roswell Angier. Although subtitled A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography, it is about looking at and photographing people wherever you find them, including the street. Explores the work of several famous people photographers and explains what is in some photos, e.g., Cartier-Bresson's, that makes them great and classic. Includes photo projects to do on your own. Very enlightening. At Amazon.
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I recently purchased "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition." It is a bit on the hefty side but worth it.
 
Raymond Depardon, "Villes/Cities/Stadte" -- the whole book is in colour, so quite a departure from his usual fare. Excellent, but not up to his b/w images in my opinion. As much as I love Depardon's work, I have to say this falls short of true colour masters, like Saul Leiter -- and I just picked up the little "Photofile" book on him; some truly amazing gems in that slim volume.
 
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