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I'm also waiting for The Mexican Suitcase. Unfortunately it isn't here yet, even the ICP in New York doesn't have it. One of my kids has seen the exhibit and says it's fantastic. Reproductions of 4500 negs? I think you'll like it Michael! 🙂
 
Great thread, but dangerous to the wallet as someone else mentioned. 😱)

Based on this thread I ordered Bruce Davidson's Outside Inside. At the time, Amazon noted that it wouldn't ship for a couple of weeks, which was fine. But then yesterday, two weeks later, Amazon sent me an email saying they couldn't get the book and were canceling my order.

I really wanted this set so I went to Amazon to see if anyone else was selling it. I was surprised to see that Amazon said they have 1 left! So I ordered it again, fully expecting to later get another email saying it was out of stock.

So I was very surprised to receive an email today saying it had shipped!! I really hope that's the case since all the third party sellers (most of whom have sketchy feedback) want double the Amazon price.

Anyway, great thread, these books let me release some GAS for a bit less money than cameras/lenses induced GAS.
 
peter_n said:
I'm also waiting for The Mexican Suitcase. Unfortunately it isn't here yet, even the ICP in New York doesn't have it. One of my kids has seen the exhibit and says it's fantastic. Reproductions of 4500 negs? I think you'll like it Michael! 🙂
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I saw this book yesterday at Green Apple in San Francisco and it is very nice. Two books in a cheap slipcover. If I had the money I would buy it!

Bob
 
Thanks to the recommendations on this thread and also reviews from Amazon, I have the bought:

William Eggleston - Guide
Lee Friedlander - Museum of Modern Art
Robert Frank - Looking In
Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Man, The Image and The World
Bruce Davidson - Outside Inside
Steve McCurry - The Unguarded Moment

Now, can somebody close this thread? 😕
It certainly is causing a lot of financial distress!
 
bob338 said:
I saw this book yesterday at Green Apple in San Francisco and it is very nice. Two books in a cheap slipcover. If I had the money I would buy it!

Bob
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Can`t wait ...it sounds good.
I wouldn`t normally pay the sort of price they`re asking but I`ve noticed that with photography books (and the Bruce Davidson is a good example) the price seems to suddenly double after a few months.
I guess that they all have limited print runs.
The only other books that do that to my knowledge are the New Naturalist series.
They have become a collectors series over the years and its difficult to get reading copies at reasonable prices now .
 
On price, it appears that print runs are low and popular or fashionable works sell out quickly, then the secondary market steps in and prices rise. The secondary market is fed, it seems to me, by a number of "speculators" as the offerings are often brand new, seal unbroken etc and can only have been purchased with an eye to re-sale. I have asked around and received no satisfactory replies about the publishers, who like us can see this happening, and their reluctance to increase print runs. Of course they must take risks on some titles which do not sell out and make them a loss.
 
ChrisLivsey said:
On price, it appears that print runs are low and popular or fashionable works sell out quickly, then the secondary market steps in and prices rise. The secondary market is fed, it seems to me, by a number of "speculators" as the offerings are often brand new, seal unbroken etc and can only have been purchased with an eye to re-sale. I have asked around and received no satisfactory replies about the publishers, who like us can see this happening, and their reluctance to increase print runs. Of course they must take risks on some titles which do not sell out and make them a loss.
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Seems that way Chris.
I guess photography books represent a larger outlay than other books because of paper quality and printing hence the smaller print runs.
I remember years ago in Looe in Cornwall looking at a set of bird books on a shelf ...very expensive.
The assistent offered to get them down for me but I said that they were to rich for my taste.
She insisted saying it didn`t matter that I wasn`t buying ,I clearly loved books and she was tired of people coming in and asking her for the most expensive books regardless of subject so that they could just place them in a bank vault as an investment.
Doesn`t only happen with cameras.
 
I've got quite a few new books lately so I haven't had time to read them all...

Lola Alvarez Bravo
Andre Kertesz
A Shadow Falls (beautiful photographs but I do prefer 'On This Earth')
A Maverick Eye: The Street Photography of John Deakin (Started reading this last night)
Andreas Feininger: That's Photography
Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959 (thoroughly enjoyed this book - insightful text and great photographs)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
The Photobook: v1
The Photobook: v2
Starburst: Color Photographyin America, 1970-1980
La Strada (Italian Street Photography)

Got lots of reading to do!!

Simon
 
bob338 said:
I saw this book yesterday at Green Apple in San Francisco and it is very nice. Two books in a cheap slipcover.
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Bob thanks very much for the heads-up. The Mexican Suitcase arrived from Green Apple this morning and to my surprise it's a softcover, not a hardcover as listed everywhere including the publisher. The Steidl page on this book lists only one ISBN: 978-3-86930-141-9 but describes it as "two hardcover volumes housed together in a sleeve" so I'm thinking that Steidl or the ICP changed to a softcover sometime prior to printing but didn't change the release info.

Does anyone who has this book have a hardcover version?
 
William Eggleston 'For Now'. Beautiful large-size book of natural color photographs culled by Michael Almeryeda from an archive of 35,000 scanned images. Classic Eggleston portraits and interiors and also some street work that reminds me of Saul Leiter and Helen Levitt.



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Giacomelli 1965-1995 arrived yesterday.
Hiroshi Sugomoto a few weeks back.
The map by Kikuji Kawada came a week or so a go.
Also got my Michael Kenna 2011 calendar yesterday.
I guess I already got myself some Xmas gifts ;-)

Joerg
 
Well apparently The Mexican Suitcase is only published as a softcover. According to Steidl Fall Highlights 2010:

Cynthia Young (ed.)
The Mexican Suitcase
Two volumes

With essays by David Balsells, Simon Dell, Kristen Lubben, Michel Lefebvre and Bernard Lebrun, Paul Preston, Brian Wallis, and Cynthia Young
Vol 1: History 192 pages
Vol 2: The Films 400 pages
592 pages
25.4 cm x 30.9 cm
Two OTAbind softcover books

housed in a sleeve
€ 85.00 / £70.00 / US$ 98.00
ISBN: 978-3-86930-141-9

Ref: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37794424/Steidl-Fall-Highlights-2010
 
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