latest additions to your library

Tom A said:
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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I recently got "Voyages" by Depardon and agree 100% with Tom´s statement above. It is really great !
 
I've picked up a few recently. Willy Ronis, (Taschen). Ronis is one of my favorites. Also, Marc Riboud in China. Riboud is another favorite. Both of these are great books. Nigel Parry Blunt, Paris Mon Amour, a book full of images taken by different photographers in Paris. Image Makers Image Takers. A great book if you want to know how some great photographers think and work, and the Jim Marshall book Proof. I like the fact his contact sheets are shown along with one of the photographs from the contact with a bit of info about the shot.
 
Tom Wood, "Photie Man" -- a book that seems to lack some consistency, as it mixes b/w and color, and different sizes and print layouts, indiscriminately. But, after looking through it several times, it has grown on me. It's uneven imo, but some parts/subjects are truly wonderful. In particular, Wood seems to have a way of capturing the awkwardness of youth and adolescence, the gropings, the insecurities, the moments of bravery and anger and desire.
 
My latest have been at rather different ends of the spectrum - 1) "Quizzial Eye: the Photography of Rondal Partridge" - Partridge was one of Imogen Cunningham's sons. 2) McNally's - "The Hot SHoe Diaries"
 
aizan said:
the only new book i've gotten lately, but at least it's a doozy. :)

vancouver photographs - fred herzog
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I like this book - and as I know Fred quite well (and have for 25+ years) it is doubly interesting) it has certain inherent value to it. We often run into Fred down at the beach were we live and discuss important things like - why do people run and jog - when you can sit on a bench instead and watch the tide come in.
He is showing a Vancouver that does not exist anymore - this is a city that is still trying to find a "focus" as it is only 120 years old.
What is amazing is that Fred shot almost exclusively with Kodachrome - and it was 8 iso - later the speed was raised to a blazingly fast 10 iso!
The printing of the book is also interesting - it was the first run for the printer with a 10 color press.
 
"Stankowski Photos"; Anton Stankowski, a german designer created a big work of formal studies in the 30s. In this small book are collected nearly 200 examples. No subject was non-photogenic for him!
The second one I bought recently is Ernst Haas "A world in ruins", his B&W essays from Vienna in the late 40s. Strong, humanistic work with the Rolleiflex before Haas changed to 35mm/color.
 
Got my "Manhattan Out" by Depardon last week. A slightly different style than his later N.y. images.
Also got "Pennsylvanians" by Jim Schulman, a Blurb book that he did. Wonderful, slightly acerbic take on his fellow Pennsylvanians, mainly shot at Hershey car show and swap and other places were the "collectors" and Junque fans gather.
 
A big book of magnum photographs :) and Illuminations by Walter Benjamin. A book Newszak and news media, Oh and I got some James Joyce off my dads book cases.
 
Last weekend I treated myself to a visit to one of the second-hand and remaindered bookshops here. I ended up with Wilfred Thesiger's 'A Vanished World' (travels in Sudan & Arabia just before and after the second world war), the catalogue(?) for 'The Family of Man' exhibition from 1955, and the strange 'Politische Fotomontage' by Jürgen Holtfreter (which I haven't really looked at yet).

A few evenings worth of browsing there :)
 
aizan said:
the only new book i've gotten lately, but at least it's a doozy. :)

vancouver photographs - fred herzog
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I've had this for a while and it's one of my favourite books of colour photos.

Today, I picked up a copy of "100 Photos: Don McCullin", mainly to support press freedom.
 
Does anybody of you have Constantine Manos' "The Bostonians"? How is this project's reputation? I really like the ideas behind it. But I only saw the photos over on the Magnum archive site.
 
Florian1234 said:
Does anybody of you have Constantine Manos' "The Bostonians"? How is this project's reputation? I really like the ideas behind it. But I only saw the photos over on the Magnum archive site.
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If you are talking about the original "Bostonians" - i do have it. Costa did some very good work with that book. Interesting, almost historical view now. I also have his "Greece" book (and several of his prints that he gave me - his bl/w prints are nothing short of incredible). Costa is one of my favorite "shooters" and his bl/w is stunning. I like some, but not all of his color work, but then I am biased towards monochrome.
 
Tom A said:
If you are talking about the original "Bostonians" - i do have it. Costa did some very good work with that book. Interesting, almost historical view now. I also have his "Greece" book (and several of his prints that he gave me - his bl/w prints are nothing short of incredible). Costa is one of my favorite "shooters" and his bl/w is stunning. I like some, but not all of his color work, but then I am biased towards monochrome.
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Are there other works by him about Boston? As written above, I only saw the photos in the Magnum Archive webspace and a tiny bit on his website. Is he still around, btw? I heared he died, but could be mis-information. :(

I really like the idea behind that project and did not know before I started my stuff here in my hometown. :D
 
Costa is alive and well - and living in Florida - at least during the winter.
The only "Bostonians" that I have seen is the one he did many decades ago - I think it wa done more or less in conjunction with the US Bicentennial in 1976.
 
Thanks for that info, Tom. So it was indeed misinformation by whom I heared it.

Now for something different, maybe I'll buy the recent World Press Photo Award book.
 
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