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William Klein + Paris

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Doug Keyes, Collective Memory -- photographs of books, each photographed laid open on a plain black background ... but each image is a multiple exposure of many pages. Thus, each photograph visually compresses the book as the books' text, illustrations and/or photos overlay each other and combine into ghostly and wonderful patterns. An original way of seeing/experiencing one of my favorite things in life: books.
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Wow, Kevin. That sounds interesting, a must see.

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Papercut said:
Doug Keyes, Collective Memory -- photographs of books, each photographed laid open on a plain black background ... but each image is a multiple exposure of many pages. Thus, each photograph visually compresses the book as the books' text, illustrations and/or photos overlay each other and combine into ghostly and wonderful patterns. An original way of seeing/experiencing one of my favorite things in life: books.
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I was reading your description and thinking, I know that work but the name isn't familiar. Then I remembered...

http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&a=26&p=0&at=0

And then I found this...
http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2008/01/average-pictures.html

Weird.

Cheers,
Gary
 
Gary,

Strange indeed! Makes one wonder about the whole originality issue (if it even matters -- genres are, by definition, derivative) and how cross-pollination works in art. One of the images in Collective Memory is a composite of the Becher's watertower images, same as the Kahn link at Fraenkel. Really piques my interest as to who copied whom, or whether it was a case of parallel evolution. Keyes' book was published 2008, though the blog link you provided has a comment suggesting he's been doing this type of work since at least 1997. Thanks for the links, I'll be looking for Kahn's work too now! :)


gns said:
I was reading your description and thinking, I know that work but the name isn't familiar. Then I remembered...

http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&a=26&p=0&at=0

And then I found this...
http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2008/01/average-pictures.html

Weird.

Cheers,
Gary
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Robert Frank's Portfolio

Robert Frank's Portfolio

My GF just got me Robert Frank's Portfolio - 40 Photos 1941/1946. This is Frank's recreation of the portfolio he put together before emigrating to the U.S. Several of the photos in this book also appear in the beginning section of the Americans museum exhibition. It's pretty wonderful!


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Went to a show today here in Vancouver. It was an interesting collection - from Fox Talbot to Frank,Brassai etc. Nice personal collection - but very high quality.
Picked up Daido Moriyama's "Shinjuku 19xx-20xx". They had a 1/2 price sale so it was $25!! I like some of his stuff - not all though.
For locals - try to catch the show - it closes on the 20th Dec. It is at Presentation house in North Vancouver.
 
Just recently, Robert Frank's "The Americans", Moriyama Daido's "Buenos Aires", "Shadows", "North", and Michael Kenna's "Hokkaido". Moriyama's "North" is quite a heavy book, ~ 600 pages of BW photos he took during a couple of month in the end of the 70s in Hokkaido.
 
Looking In The Americans (from the traveling exhibit now at the Met) and Stems by Lee Friedlander came my way in the last few months. I'd been looking for a good deal on Stems off and on for a long while. Again exquisite printing- nearly the equal of his Apples and Olives which is the finest ink printing of silver prints I've ever seen.
 
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I'd been looking for a good deal on Stems off and on for a long while. Again exquisite printing- nearly the equal of his Apples and Olives which is the finest ink printing of silver prints I've ever seen.
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I love the printing in Friedlander's "Cherry Blossoms". Absolutely, knock_down_gorgeous.


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I have both Apples & Olives and Cherry Blossom Time (and many, but not all of, his other books). From the beginning, I think Friedlander pushed the design and quality aspects of photo books beyond what most were doing. Look at his choices in paper, for instance.

Printing quality has improved so much since I started collecting books back in the seventies. I will sometimes buy recent reissues of books I already own because of this.
A good example: Robert Adams' books, Denver and The New West.

Cheers,
Gary
 
After seeing the postwar Asian photography show at SFMoMA recently, Santa was kind and brought me Eikoh Hosoe, Kamaitachi -- sadly not the original or limited edition reprint, but the aperture trade reprint edition. Still, it's beautiful, wonderful, and poetic -- for some reason, the over-the-gutter and full-bleed printing do not bother me unduly with this volume. Magical collaboration between photographer, dancer, and environment.
 
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Santa brought me Rembrandt: Images & Metaphors by Christian Tümpel. The 300 pages include artistic insights as well as many color portraits of excellent print quality. I'm studying illumination schemes lately: might as well learn from the best!
 
Ordered Vanessa Winship's "Schwarzes Meer" of the magazine "Mare"'s pictorial book line. They send Winship to the countries around the Black Sea. She did a very good job imho. Very nice black and white photos.
 
"I want to take picture" by Bill Burke... about time I bought a copy considering how many times I've taken it out of the library
 
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