latest additions to your library

Gathering - Kate Bellis and Sally Matthews, a 15 month project on hill farming in Northumberland- I like it very much as it reminds me of my early years. See http://www.katebellis.com/


On Reading - Andre Kertescz - outstanding new Norton verion that i would recommend to anyone.


Henri Cartier-Bresson - Thames and Hudson - a biography with pictures. A nice short biography, but they could have avoided putting some images across the centre of the book.

Mike
 
Today a friend gave me Beaumont Newhall's History of Photography as a gift, because I took the "official" photos at his wedding. :)
 
I've picked up some pretty good books so far this year, but my current favorite is, "Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and Some Automobiles" by Anthony Hernandez. This book came out a couple of years ago, but the pictures are not recent. They are all from around 1980, shot in the streets and other public places of Los Angeles with a 5x7 camera. One thing these pictures will do, is remind you what bunk it is, categorizing photographs into different "Genres" like street, landscape or portraiture.

Cheers,
Gary
 
Tom A said:
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.
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The Magnum store is selling signed copies. I remembered the project from when Modern Photo ran several of the photos in the 1970's, so I bought one.
 
"The Destruction of Lower Manhattan" by Danny Lyon, documenting the site clearance in order to build the World Trade Center in the late 60s. In retrospect, one can't help but think of 9/11: both are lost worlds. Remarkable photos and text -- Lyon is one of our best. (And truly stunning tritones by the great Robert Hennessey.)
 
Eggleston: William Eggleston Guide
not bountiful in terms of number of images, but boy are the reproductions gorgeous!

Seamus Murphy: Afghanistan: A Darkness Visible
excellent war reportage in the classic / traditional photojournalism style
 
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Florian1234 said:
Now for something different, maybe I'll buy the recent World Press Photo Award book.
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I bought it some time ago, it's just _great. It really illustrates what documentary photography is all about (at least for me). And not just the Suau images, there's a lot more in there.

At a friends place I looked trough Paul Grahams "Shimmer of Possibility", overall I didn't like it. The ones I saw at his exhibition (c/o) were good though, they're in the book as well - but imo a lot better than the rest of his work.

"Magnum Magnum" is on sale btw in most book stores (in Germany) I've seen it in.

martin
 
martin s said:
I bought it some time ago, it's just _great. It really illustrates what documentary photography is all about (at least for me). And not just the Suau images, there's a lot more in there.
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I did not buy it yet. But another one on my list is the current book by reporter ohne grenzen. I guess I'll order both with Rober Frank Looking in expanded in the coming weeks.
The initial next money is put into my M4 camera with the shutter fault tomorrow...:bang:
 
Florian1234 said:
I did not buy it yet. But another one on my list is the current book by reporter ohne grenzen. I guess I'll order both with Rober Frank Looking in expanded in the coming weeks.
The initial next money is put into my M4 camera with the shutter fault tomorrow...:bang:
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Hey where do you get the latest Reporter ohne Grenzen issue? I have a few past issues (Reza, ... ) and I wanted to get the one with Nachtweys Portfolio, that's the latest, right?

martin
 
Ah so "Reporters sans Frontières" isn't the same as the German version, still, I missed the Nachtwey issue - it's Don McCullin this quarter (?).

There are two more books I want to recommend, first "How you look at it" - a book with various photographers and artists, it's images which were exhibited in Hanover in 2000 (Expo). It's not amazing and most of us probably know most photographs in there, still, pretty entertaining if you can't find anything else.

Also, and that's probably my favorite photography book so far, "Einmal" by Wim Wenders. Just beautiful.

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It's stories with (small) photographs, he's such an amazing photographer I would have never thought. I figured the Leica commercial was, well.. a commercial, but wow! The one book I would recommend, would I have to pick one. If you can get it, get it. I'll even translate the German for you, if necessary ;) .

martin

//EDIT: It's "How you look at it", not "we". Now I can find the Amazon link, too. I wouldn't spend more than 30 Euros on it, those prices are crazy. It's 20 Euros in Germany, new.
 
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martin s said:
Ah so "Reporters sans Frontières" isn't the same as the German version, still, I missed the Nachtwey issue - it's Don McCullin this quarter (?).
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There are different country chapters of the same international organization and some countries publish their own albums.

http://www.rsf.org/Albums,33282.html
http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/publikationen/fotobaende.html

RSF Switzerland has an album by Swiss-Afghan photographer Zalmai:
http://www.rsf-ch.ch/node/764
 
Came back from Europe on Wednesday. Behaved well and only bought one book. Robert Frank's "Paris" - a 2008 Steidl production. Early shots of Paris (1949-50). Smallish but well printed. Modern print technology is amazing - but digital press tends to create a bit "digital" looking images with "pixel glare" on the edges. I long for some good rotogravure printing sometimes.
 
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