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The History and Practice of the Art of Photography; Or the Production of Pictures through the Agency of Light. Containing All The Instructions.
 
My compliments to Papercut for his recommendations. I read his intelligent review of China Obscura and Wonderland and eagerly await him to continue blogging. (His photography is pretty good too!) I just ordered Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China as well as Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution; the latter is studied in Susie Linfield's superb study of photojournalism and its discontents, Cruel Radiance.
 
Got the Josef Sudek volume of the Phaidon 55 series. It's really small which works okay with most of the photos - you just get up close and personal with them. What bothers me is that the text flows all the way to the page margins, making it hard to follow.

Enough for a quick intro to Sudek I guess. I'm really tempted to order the new "Ancient Forest of the Beskids" but the price is rather steep. Hmm...
 
andreios: The Aperture issues 117 and 118 are dedicated to Sudek.
The Phaidon 55 that ottluuk mentioned is good too, but I like the text in the Aperture issues more.
There is an Aperture monograph "Poet of Prague", too.
I heared high praise for the Sudek monograph published by Gina Kehayoff, Munich, but the price is much to high for me.

Saturday I bought "Road to Reno" by Inge Morath. I like her photos and find her prosa very enjoyable.

Not really a photobook, but I received recently and highly recommend "Shutterbug Follies" by Jason Little.
 
RayPA said:
I just acquired a signed copy of Ralph Gibson's 'Days at Sea' to go along with my signed copy of 'The Somnambulist'. 'Days at Sea' gets my vote for the best photo-book cover. :p
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Gibson's 'Deja-vu' came to me today, thus completing the acquisition of this trilogy and ending my quest. :cool:




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andreios said:
Anyway, this brings a question - could anyone point out some handsome volume of Sudek's work with "enjoyable" image- and print quality?
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His panoramics Prague Panoramic and Sad Landscape are beautiful. Poet of Prague is a good introduction as stated.
 
Yes indeed, although they should be available in libraries. I bought Sad Landscape about three years ago direct from Prague bookseller Kosmas and Prague Panoramic just a few weeks ago through Amazon. It was an amazing experience to see Prague through Sudek's eyes as I know the city. What an incredible man!
 
My parents handed over to me HCB, The modern century in the German edition by Schirmer/Mosel for my birthday. :)

edit: seems that I should prepare myself to do a little "show us your library" shoot.
 
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David and Peter Turnley's "In Times of War and Peace" arrived yesterday. It contains very intriguing but also afflicting images shot in many areas of human conflict throughout the last four decades.

I'd love to find one of W. Eugene Smith's, Garry Winogrand, Robert Capa or Don McCullin's photobooks as a next addition to the shelf.
 
Two new books to fill up my bookshelves this week:
" Way Beyond Monochrome" 2nd Edition. Ralph W Lambrecht and Chris Woodhouse. Focal Press.

Also "Reciprocities" a Blurb book by our friend Simon Becker in Berlin (Simonsawsunlight on Flickr). Most interesting and very well done.
He states on the inside cover " There is no such thing as street photography" Them are fighting words - but his photography is amazing.
Both books were gifts - and now I am eagerly awaiting my new glasses so i can really look at both books. A mishap involving a sidewalk, a M2 crunched my glasses and the new ones are supposed to arrive either tomorrow or Friday. Cant wait!
 
Robert Frank: The Americans

Daido Moriyama: The World Through My Eyes

Gary Stochl: On City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004
 
Hope the battle wounds are healing and the new glasses are letting you see the world clear again, Tom!

Tom A said:
Two new books to fill up my bookshelves this week:
" Way Beyond Monochrome" 2nd Edition. Ralph W Lambrecht and Chris Woodhouse. Focal Press.

Also "Reciprocities" a Blurb book by our friend Simon Becker in Berlin (Simonsawsunlight on Flickr). Most interesting and very well done.
He states on the inside cover " There is no such thing as street photography" Them are fighting words - but his photography is amazing.
Both books were gifts - and now I am eagerly awaiting my new glasses so i can really look at both books. A mishap involving a sidewalk, a M2 crunched my glasses and the new ones are supposed to arrive either tomorrow or Friday. Cant wait!
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Thames & Hudson's Photofile book on Saul Leiter. Inspirational work with a mellow mood and a touch of melancholy, like a long slow jazz piano piece. I would like to get my hands on his Early Color but the price tag is prohibitive at this point.

There is more talk of Leiter's color work than his black and whites but I find the latter to be excellent as well. The Photofile book contains a mixture of both.
 
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