latest additions to your library

Like You've Never Been Away - Paul Trevor (great bw street photos from Liverpool in the 1970s)
Thoughts on Landscape - Frank Gohlke
For Now - Eggleston
Photographers A-Z - Hans-Michael Koetzle

and some I've always wanted:
Henri Cartier-Bresson/Photographer
The Photographer's Eye - John Szarkowski
Cape Light - Joel Mayerowitz
 
Maybe so, it's the same deal at Amazon here so I've pre-ordered it too. The only problem is that now we have to wait until November for it...
 
OK..... its showing me 27Oct.
I also have Shelby Lee Adams "Salt &Truth" on pre order.
Due about the same time.
Looks like November could be expensive
 
RFluhver said:
Anyone here own "1964" on Winogrand. Worth getting?
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Definitely a good book. Somewhat scarce and expensive though, so "worth getting" depends, I guess. It is a posthumously published book of the pictures he took in (obviously) 1964, while driving around the US on a Guggenheim grant. Some of his best known pictures are included, but most of the images have not been published elsewhere.

Cheers,
Gary
 
gns said:
Definitely a good book. Somewhat scarce and expensive though, so "worth getting" depends, I guess. It is a posthumously published book of the pictures he took in (obviously) 1964, while driving around the US on a Guggenheim grant. Some of his best known pictures are included, but most of the images have not been published elsewhere.

Cheers,
Gary
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Indeed, I had it on loan from the university's library once. To get the essentials of his "style" it is very good. However, I wish to get "the man in the crowd" for a not that insane price once.
 
John Szarkowski "The Face of Minnesota" a sesquicentenary reissue. A beautiful book, very fine photographs, poetic words and a wonderful technical note on his exposure technique at the end.
 
The Duesseldorf School of photography.
Very nice perspective and background on the large print photographers from Germany.

Ciao

Joerg
 
Just got Eskenazi's Wonderland second edition. I think the photos are wonderful, but not sure because they are quite small and each one extends across 2 smallish pages with a fold in the middle. Guess I need to put on my reading glasses. Don't care for the binding either. Maybe I'm missing something but I hope someday Eskenazi gets a book that will better display his work.
 
Gypsies by Josef Koudelka. Aperture Foundation, New York, 2011. ISBN 978-1597111775. This book is a revised and enlarged edition of a rough draft that was never published after Koudelka left Czechoslovakia in 1970 to seek political asylum. There are 109 pictures in this book as distinct from the 60 in the first edition of Gypsies that was eventually published (also by Aperture for MoMA) in 1975.

Koudelka liked Roma music, played it himself and eventually started photographing its players. There are plenty of violinists in this book. There are many excellent portraits too, and some of the pages are foldouts that show pictures that have context worth seeing. The style is stark and gritty; very similar to the look in his book Invasion 68: Prague. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the same Exakta/Zeiss Flektogon 25mm rig he used for much of his Prague work was employed here as well. The pictures are affecting as many of his subjects live in desperate circumstances, yet they look out at you gravely and many have clearly connected with the photographer. It's a real credit to Koudelka as these people were probably quite mistrustful of him, at least in the beginning.

The only problem with the book is that there are no notes. You would have no clue for example that plate 33 is a man accused of murdering his wife. Yet these pictures are so strong that they stand on their own and you can almost devise your own theories about what's going on. Steidl in Gottingen are the printers and the paper is of even a rougher texture than that which Steidl used to print The Mexican Suitcase, but the print quality is excellent. The paper and reproduction work well with the subject matter and I'm sure this book will be well reviewed. If you're a Koudelka fan the book is a must-have.
 
Just received Ernst Haas' Color Correction (Steidl). Very good based on my initlal leaf-through. Recommended for fans of Saul Leiter, Fred Herzog, etc.
 
Pre-ordered Susan Burnstein and Douglas Beasley forthcoming books (great packages with some very nice prints I could not pass up)
Also a big book of Ando Hiroshige.
 
Hiroshige's great, I always liked these huge waves and fantastic colours.

I bought Richard Avedon's Performance and Nobuyoshi Araki's Self Life Death. Both seem high quality and the price was reasonable.
My favourite, Kertesz will be next, at some point. Any recommendations on his books are very welcome.
 
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