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I visited yesterday the G.Schuh exhibition and I bought a book with a few of his pictures and some comments called "La tenerezza dello sguardo" . I did not know this photograph, but his images mainly from 30s till 50s are worthwhile to be seen. There are also other books in english language.
 
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1951 U.S. Camera Annual
1961 Popular Photography annual
1964 Asahi Pentax World Photo Contest
1973 Sam Haskins´ November Girl
Won´t mention prices I payed just because they were relly obscene.

Ernesto
 
Several months ago I attended a lecture by Kenro Izu (large format photographer - http://www.kenroizu.com/)

Wow!! The effort he started and continues with "Friends Without a Border" (an organization raising funds for children’s hospitals in Cambodia) is wonderful. The story he shared of watching a child die in front of him (and the child's parent) because they couldn't afford hospital medicines was very emotional. It was the experience that prompted him to start the organization, which has now helped thousands...

Came away with signed copies of "Passage to Angkor" and ""Bhutan: The Sacred Within" (largest photo book I now own, it's huge!).
 
I've added to my burgeoning collection of Willy Ronis books with Derrière l'objectif de Willy Ronis: Photos et propos. Paris: Hoëbeke, 2010, ISBN 9782-84230-370-9, apparently a reprint of an earlier edition published in 2001 with the ISBN 2-84230-123-4. A wonderful little book in which every picture is a delight; Ronis was a most human and humane photographer.
 
Arrivals & Departures by Gary Winogrand (Steidl)
This is just great and I'm sure he'd have published it himself if he was still about...

Mike Disfarmer Original Photographs (Steidl)
I've been meaning to get a book of Disfarmer's photographs since the first one came out in the 1970s. Managed to pick this up for the bargain price of £8! These photographs are truthful, beautiful and nostalgic. I love them!

New Topographics (Steidl)
Again, I've wanted something comprehensive about these guys since the 1970s and this is beautifully reproduced. My personal favourite it Stephen Shore, I have Uncommon Places, but all are great.
 
"Leica Prototypes" by Lars Netopil, published by Leica Historica (The German Leica Collectors Society)
This is truly for the gearheads among us! 480 pages of Leica prototypes, design tests etc. Probably one of the best printed and photographed of the collectors books in the last decade.
 
Rafael said:
I recently bought a copy of The Jazz Loft Project. It's going to take me some time to go through the book in detail. But, from my initial perusal, I would say that it looks terrific. The sheer scope of the project is astounding.
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An interesting and diverse read. Interesting point, at one point a local beat cop comes into the building looking for drug users, finds none, befriends Smith who later uses the cops two kids in his famous photo of two kids walking away from the camera on a garden path.

Gotta admit, Smith was an obsessed wacko. Get "Dream Street", The Pittsburg Project, same author.
 
Just recently, for a few quid, which seems reprehensible, SINATRA: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A VERY GOOD YEAR, by Life photog JOhn Dominis. Even if you aren't a great Sinatra fan (I'm not) this virtuoso B&W fly-on-the-wall account of Sinatra at the height of his business and entertainment success in 1965 will knock your socks off. The printing is magnificent, the editing scrupulous and intelligent, and the additional commentary brief and to the point (always adding context and background).

And you can pick up used and reseller copies for just a few quid. Wonderful.
 
Just picked up 'Palm Springs 1960' by Robert Doisneau. It's color work that could more aptly have been titled 'Color Photos from My Palm Springs Vacation'. The book is comprised mostly of resort-type images, shots on golf courses, around swimming pools, and at cocktail parties. The color is gorgeous. There are a lot of flash shots. I think Doisneau used fill flash quite a bit. The book has some really great images, and Doisneau's SP sensibilities and subtle sense of humor is evident throughout.



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I recently got my third Walker Evans book this year Walker Evans at Work. A beautiful Harper & Row first edition (1982) print ISBN 0-06-011104-6 for the princely sum of $16.50. The book has no dust jacket but appears brand new. It is really amazing, showing many sequential images in sets that illustrate how he finally got the image he wanted; it's a look into how his mind and eye worked. There are several text articles and an essay on his equipment and procedures. This is truly a book to be learned from.
 
Bought a couple of used books on the weekend. "The Democratic Forest", be Eggleston, "Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph" and "The New Color Photography", by Sally Eauclaire.
 
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