latest additions to your library

The Dusseldorf School of Photography (Aperture) arrived earlier this week. I haven't read it yet, but the photos are wonderful. A good introduction to Gursky, Ruff, Struth, etc.
 
I recently added three books.

Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Modern Century (very impressive, very large, very heavy, I need to find time to go through this properly)
Beat Memories - The Photographs of Alan Ginsberg (again need to go through this better, what I've seen of it is pretty good)
William Eggleston's Guide (honestly I wasn't that impressed with the bulk of his photo's in this book)
 
Andy Kibber said:
The Dusseldorf School of Photography (Aperture) arrived earlier this week. I haven't read it yet, but the photos are wonderful. A good introduction to Gursky, Ruff, Struth, etc.
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Was looking at this in my local bookstore this evening. Completely different to everything I have and I think I'm going to buy it.
 
Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Modern Century.

Was only $54.00 CDN from Amazon.ca. Almost 1/2 of what a local art bookstore was selling it for.
 
Amazon is neat because you can look up all the books you purchased in a year. Here are some other books I bought in 2010...

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/159005279X/ref=oss_product

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http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1590052781/ref=oss_product

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http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/3836504715/ref=oss_product

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http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0714846376/ref=oss_product

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http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0500410976/ref=oss_product

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http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0300106041/ref=oss_product

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http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/079227363X/ref=oss_product

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Paul Outerbridge Command Performance. Beautiful early color and soft monochrome images of still life arrangements, advertising/studio work, and nudes.



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Amazingly I got a delivery this morning (Sunday) from USPS; Prague Panoramic by Josef Sudek, pub. by Odeon 1992, 2nd ed. ISBN 80-207-0367-5. I didn't know that the Post Office delivered on Sundays, but there you go. I missed the recent sale of this book on RFF but that drove me to look for the book on the internet, and I found a copy being sold by a small bookseller for a Quaker school in Pennsylvania through Amazon.

This is just a beautiful book. I know Prague a bit as I've visited it twice and stayed awhile; once when the communists were in power and once recently. It is just really a thrill to see places I know rendered through Sudek's eyes. He clearly loved the city and the book is the culmination of a decade-long project he undertook to photograph it in true panoramic format. He used an old Kodak panoramic camera that was modified to carry film of 30 x 10cm, equivalent to today's 617 panoramics. He used Agfa, Foma and Ilford film and overcame incredible obstacles during the project, not the least of which was the initial impossibility of changing film in the field, dealing with the authorities, and the constant changing of viewpoints with a tripod that using a panoramic camera entails. That he had only one arm yet managed to produce such a lyrical essay to Prague is just amazing. I've been looking for this book for a long time and now it joins Sudek's Sad Landscape and Koudelka's Chaos on the bookshelf, inspiration for me to look for panoramic scenes myself.
 
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places
John Szarkowski - The Photographer's Eye[/SIZE][/FONT]
 
In fact, I bought uncommon places due to this thread.

Meanwhile, I'm reading the MOMA HCB book, which is really interesting but also very, very big.
 
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