latest additions to your library

I was going to start a thread about photographic libraries, so I'm sure glad I found this thread first!

As I strive to get better at this obsession, I find it a redoubled pleasure to re-visit photo books I haven't dipped into in a while. Tonight, it was Bullfinch press's, Henri Cartier-Bresson: À Propos de Paris. I love that book.
 
Ordered Kyle Cassidy's Armed America; Portraits of gun owners in their homes. Just came in the mail today, fantastic!!
 
Picked up the collection of Philip Gefter's NY Times articles, "Photography After Frank".
Enjoying them, but they also remind me of all the great shows I miss, not being in New York.

Cheers,
Gary
 
Geoff Dyer, "The Ongoing Moment" -- quite possibly the best photography book I've ever _read_. The photo reproductions are atrocious: small, horribly printed, low resolution. But the text is simply inspired on so many levels ... and from a fellow who admits he doesn't even own a camera.
 
August Sander, Antlitz der Zeit - a new print of the 1929 edition, with a preface by Alfred Döblin - collecting 60 portraits of various Germans from the daily life.
 
by 森山 大道(Daido Moriyama)
新宿 (Shinjuku)
大阪 (Osaka)

Works of KAGEYAMA Koyo, OTSUKA Gen, YOSHIOKA Senzo, FUNAYAMA Katsu, AKIMOTO Keiichi during their time as "press photographers" published by 東京都写真美術館 (TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY)
プレス　カメラマン　ストーリー (Press Photographer's Story)
 
Camera Work: The Complete Photographs (pub. by Taschen)

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs (Aperture Monograph)

figured those two kinda belonged together, so picked them up at the same time
 
Playas - Martin Parr

101 Billionaires - Rob Hornstra

American Surfaces - Stephen Shore

All three are good but Hornstra's book is really, really good.
 
"Within The Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision" by David DuChemin

This book was referenced earlier in this thread, and based on the comments, I bought it.

it is a wonderful book so far. It expresses many of the themes about what we do as photographers to end up with interesting and pleasing images. It explains in detail, what many of us understand intuitively, that good images tell a story or express a thought or idea, Our job as photograhpers/artists is to consciously think about just what we include and exlude from the frame, and about how we capture the scene in a way to make it relevent to others.

I don't do justice in my short description, but this book is a keeper.
 
American Photography (Oxford History of Art) by Miles Orvell

Photography After Frank by Philip Gefter

Walker Evans (Photofile) by Walker Evans, Gilles Mora

Inside the Photograph by Peter Bunnell, Malcolm Daniel

The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer which I am currently reading but about to finish.
 
Tokyo Twilight Zone (third printing)
by Shintaro Sato

I understand that this book was shot with a 4×5 camera / film. Shintaro has a "cool" web site and it seems that he won the Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 2009.

Casey
 
I just discovered today that a book I once had, and I've been trying to locate for twenty plus years, had ended up in my ex-wife's collection. It's now back in my library. I suspect that it was an influence on David Hamilton's photography of young girls, but these are pen and ink drawings from the late 19th century in the same genre as Aubrey Beardsley's work. The book is "The Amorous Drawings of the Marquis von Bayros".
 
I've gotten a second copy of "scrapbook" by HCB. I thought it would be good to have a backup of such an awesome book.
 
Hearts of Darkness, Don McCullin - Stunning

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera - Good reproductions of many of my favorites.

The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Tradition 1392-1910, Pierre Cambon - Korean aesthetic traditions, beautiful stuff.
 
http://www.amazon.ca/Through-Lens-N...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253197026&sr=8-4

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