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Simon Robinson
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
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
Papercut
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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.
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.
Florian1234
it's just hide and seek
Ilker Maga - "Istanbul".
Ilker Maga lives in my hometown, but also spends a few month each year in Istanbul since 1982 or so, photographing the people of the city.
His style is kind of "street", and more like classic reportage style, too.
Ilker Maga lives in my hometown, but also spends a few month each year in Istanbul since 1982 or so, photographing the people of the city.
His style is kind of "street", and more like classic reportage style, too.
funkaoshi
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I bought Raghubir Singh's River of Colour, and A Way Into India. Both books are great. He was an amazing photographer.
Papercut
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Depardon's "Errance" -- wonderful book of subtle photos, printed (small but oh so) deliciously.
martin s
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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.
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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reuno
Log out, go shoot.
And what about the words ? I use to read it when i'm in a bad photographic mood.
RayPA
Ignore It (It'll go away)
Raymond Depardon's 'Manhattan Out'
Nice. Good size book. Black paper...hmmm.
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Nice. Good size book. Black paper...hmmm.
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Papercut
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Papercut
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Depardon, "Manhattan Out"
and the expanded edition of "Looking In" ... a book to use as weight for your workout. sheesh
and the expanded edition of "Looking In" ... a book to use as weight for your workout. sheesh
Florian1234
it's just hide and seek
Kevin, those two are on my list, too.
My last addition is the first book from the guys of www.seconds2real.com - street photography book produced via blurb.
My last addition is the first book from the guys of www.seconds2real.com - street photography book produced via blurb.
Tom A
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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.
newspaperguy
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OK, I'm slow, but I just got Roger and Fran's "Rangefinder' book.
Sorry it took so long.
Sorry it took so long.
Michael P.
Bronica RF
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.
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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Papercut
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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
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
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cmdrzed
wallflower
I recently purchased "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition." It is a bit on the hefty side but worth it.
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wblanchard
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"Weegee and Naked City" by Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer
Papercut
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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.