latest additions to your library

Here are some latest additions.

"Los Alamos" - Eggleston
"Man in the Crowd" - Winogrand
"The Valley" - Sultan
"American Surfaces" - Shore
 
"Cuba" by Korda ..... where else will you see snapshots of Fidel golfing in his military uniform and Che Gevuera doing some ocean fishing for big game?

shot by Korda, a cuban photojournalist, from the beginning of la revolutione. I bought this book to whet my appetite for the trip that I then took to Cuba. and yes, it was awesome.
 
Alex Webb's The Suffering of Light, and Lee Friedlander's MoMA retrospective book.
And Under the Volcano.
 
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Fred Herzog - Photographs
ISBN 978 3 7757 2811 9

192 pages of BW and colour taken in the 1950's. This man predates Eggleston using colour by nearly 15 years. The images are as good as any shot today and are shown in very good colour reproduction. Well worth ordering online. I used Amazon. It's a new title so should be readily available.

Here's a link to a gallery that has his work, some of which is in the book itself. I recommend it for Canadians due to the historic nature of his images. As a photographer his appeal should be universal and international.
http://www.equinoxgallery.com/artists/portfolio/fred-herzog
 
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Bit of book related GAS lately. Got it cured now though, all it took was:

Belgicum from Stephan Vanfleteren

Eggleston's Guide

And last but certainly not least: Steve McCurry's huge new The Iconic Photographs. Lots of large, lush photo's, wonderfully crafted book. Limited edition and signed. Most amazing thing: even comes with an actual print!
 
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Fred Herzog - Photographs
ISBN 978 3 7757 2811 9

192 pages of BW and colour taken in the 1950's. This man predates Eggleston using colour by nearly 15 years. The images are as good as any shot today and are shown in very good colour reproduction. Well worth ordering online. I used Amazon. It's a new title so should be readily available.

Here's a link to a gallery that has his work, some of which is in the book itself. I recommend it for Canadians due to the historic nature of his images. As a photographer his appeal should be universal and international.
http://www.equinoxgallery.com/artists/portfolio/fred-herzog
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I took this out of the library on a whim awhile back. If you are from Vancouver it is especially relevant. Of course, I'm from Edmonton and I still enjoyed it. :)
 
In the mail today: John Phillips's "Classic Rollei." I am also on the waiting list for the updated Leica Lens Compendium...we'll see how that works out. I did get the recent first, which is very nice. Here's an interesting item I picked up off Amazon: "Premiere Nudes: Albert Arthur Allen" He was a photographer in the teens and 20s in California who photographed only nudes.
 
My latest addition to the library is David McCullough's The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. Wonderful!
Before that was Rollei Photography by Jacob Deschin. Very clean used copy of this How-to (actually "why-to") Rollei book with articles by Fritz Henle, Phillipe Halsman, Arthur Rothstein, Sam Falk and many others! 1952. It's even a first edition!
 
On Friday in the mail were John Szarkowski's 'The Photographer's Eye' and 'Looking at Photographs'. 'The Photographer's Eye' was around $14 from Amazon, quite extraordinary. The photographs are very well printed, offset lithography. There are obscure and even unknown photographers. He divides the sections into 'The thing itself', 'The frame', 'The detail', 'Time' and 'The vantage point.' In 'Looking at Photographs' there is one photograph by the photographer and a mini-essay opposite. The one on Lartigue is beautiful. I have rarely found a good critic who was not quite obviously generous. John Szarkowski's selections in these two books and his accompanying insights make a very good introduction to photography. I have now ordered at greater expense a book of his own photographs.
 
A few days ago, I was browsing a used book store when I came upon an autobiography of Gordon Parks. Parks was one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, and one of the first black photographers to achieve acceptance in the world of art and documentary photography. He was the first black person to work at Life Magazine, at a time when racial discrimination was still both legal and very common in the United States. He died in 2006 at age 93.

The book is called "A Choice of Weapons." I'm only about 1/3 through it, but the poverty, racism, homelessness, and violence that he overcame is incredible. Parks' work is rarely mentioned on RFF, but it is a magnificent record of Black America in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights periods. The edition of the book that I have doesn't have any photographs, but the book is something that I think everyone should read.
 
I think my next photobook or sort of order will be Core Curriculum by Tod Papageorge which was published recently. Seems to be an interesting read - at least I hope so.
 
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