latest additions to your library

"Successful Black & White Photography" by our very own Roger Hicks.
"Night & Low Light Photography" by Bob Gibbons & Peter Wilson.
"Practical Portrait Photography" by John Hedgecoe.

Ronnie
 
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Still in the mail:

"Darkness Visible" by E. Sumner (who was with the 166th Signal Photo Company in WW2)

"One Shot" by R Boomhower, about photographer John Bushemi who was killed in the Pacific in WW2
 
Phantomas said:
Just bought a book called "Contact Sheet" (link). Very cool and interesting - they took many famous photos by renowned photographers and then presented contact sheets of the whole roll around that particular shot. Very interesting and you can see many things: what where the alternatives to the selected photos, how the selection process went (there are markings on the sheets), how the photog approached the subject, his/her shooting style. Reveals a lot more than just looking at the final photograph.
And yes, a lot of the rolls were filled with the same exact shot, 36 times.
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I have the same book and agree it is very interesting. When just bought i tried to look first at the page with the contacts and ttry to guess which one was later picked by the photographer.
 
ChrisLivsey said:
All about the same size but less than the Model which holds my record, unless someone knows better :rolleyes:
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For portrait format books, yes, I think the Model book takes the prize. :p


Phantomas said:
Just bought a book called "Contact Sheet" (link). Very cool and interesting - they took many famous photos by renowned photographers and then presented contact sheets of the whole roll around that particular shot.
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I picked up my copy that I had on hold this weekend. Lots of fun and very educational. Plenty of sample sheets from a wide variety of photographers and genres. The type is a little small for my taste, and probably very frustrating for non-english readers (the other languages are the same size font, but the type is not black—it's gray!).


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Yes, I got Wonderland a few weeks ago. I love the fact that although many of the pictures are spread across two pages, the design of the book allows it to be opened fully and you do not lose any of the image to the gutter.

Simon
 
A Dutch book on Dutch photographers called:

"Through the lens of professional photographers" - interviews with 15 Dutch pro's on their motivation, how they work and their frustrations...

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Yva Photographien 1925-1938

In German, with English translations of the chapters in the back of the book, documenting the great photographer's artistic and commercial work. Forced by the Nazis to close her studio in 1938, she was murdered in a concentration camp in 1942.
 
picked up Rinko Kawauchi's "Illuminance" at the Aperture event on Wed, and got it signed. i like much of her previous work, but still not sure about this one. perhaps it's cause i'm not too crazy about the book design, which is a departure from the simplicity of her Japanese-published work.
 
Southern California Photographs, by Joe Deal.
Deal was of course one of the photographers in the 1975 New Topographics show at George Eastman House and I became re-interested in his work after seeing the restaging of that show last year. There is not a lot of his work in print and usually this title goes for collector prices, but I found a somewhat worn copy that was reasonable.

The Pond, by John Gossage.
This is one I always regretted not buying when it was first released in 1985, so when this new edition came out, I was excited to grab one. Gossage is known not only for his photography, but also for his book design. This is a great example of both.

For Now, by William Eggleston.
New title with "New" pictures from the 70's through the 2000's. Sometimes reads a little bit like a collection of outtakes from the Guide, but you've got to welcome a new book full of not seen before Egglestons.

Recent Western Landscapes, by Lee Friedlander.
So, several years after a career-capping sized retrospective at MOMA, Friedlander continues to pump out amazing work (New Mexico, America by Car, Frederick Law Olmstead Landscapes). He is so prolific and surprising, that I'm often wondering not just what he will do next, but what he has done that he hasn't even shown us.
LF is a friggin national treasure.

Cheers,
Gary
 
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