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Three recent purchases I can recommend. The Rinko Kawauchi book is the Japanese version of Illuminance (published by FOIL in JP). Except for the front and back cover photos I think they are identical.
 
Recently picked up Daido Moriyama's The World Through My Eyes (ISBN 978-88-572-0061-3). Very good it is, too - I like Moriyama's observations and photographs, but his PP work is sometimes... distracting. Overall though, an excellent and inspiring book.
 
Three recent additions to my library.

Three recent additions to my library.

I just received three books from Amazon today.

Proof by Jim Marshall

From Uncertain to Blue by Keith Carter

The Contact Sheet by John Crist.

Since we're having our first winter storm of the year I figure I can spend a pleasant afternoon reading.
 
Been awhile since I posted my photo book purchases, and I've been pretty restrained in my buying lately, but here's the (short) list.

Lewis Baltz, The Prototype Works. Steidl. ISBN: 9783869302508

Elin Hoyland. The Brothers. Dewi Lewis Publishing. ISBN: 9781907893087

Joseph Koudelka. The Gypsies. aperture foundation. ISBN: 9781597111775

Liu Zheng. The Chinese. Steidl. ISBN: 9783865210371

Marc Feustel, ed. Japan, A Self-Portrait: photographs 1945-1964. Flammarion. ISBN: 9782080304636

Anne Wilkes Tucker, et al., eds. The History of Japanese Photography. Yale UP and MOFA, Houston. iSBN: 9780300099256

Terry Bennett, ed. Photography in Japan, 1853-1912. Tuttle. ISBN: 9780804836333

Zhongguo sheyingjia xiehui (中国摄影家协会 / Chinese Photographers Association) ed. Touguo xiaoyan de jingtou: Zhongguo zhandi sheyingshi fangtan (透过硝烟的镜头：中国战地摄影师访谈, Scenes Through Smoke: Interviews with Chinese War Photographers). Zhongguo sheying chubanshe (中国摄影出版社，Chinese Photography Press). ISBN: 9787802363700

All but the first three are fodder for a course I'm (all too slowly) developing on the history of Asian photography, so most include rather academic essays and are not really photobooks in the usual/artistic sense. Liu Zheng's is the exception here; it is an art book, but does double-duty for me. He finds some amazing marginal characters in China (wizened monks, transvestites, street performers, run-down opera singers, miners, etc.). Thoroughly enjoyable, though it rankles with some overly sensitive Chinese (who feel he has portrayed only the freaks and misshapen). The Chinese war photographers volume is fascinating, but for its words (in Chinese, of course) more than its images. (The reproductions are small, grainy, tonally flat, on poor paper, etc.)

The Koudelka re-issue has been discussed a bunch in earlier posts. And I agree that it is somewhat "chalk and soot", but I'm glad they re-issued it as it has some truly remarkable images and I can't afford the original edition. Hope they re-do Exiles too!

The Baltz is fantastic (if you enjoy his style), with wonderful tones on thick glossy paper. And I'm glad I picked up the Hoyland too -- first saw mention of it on several best of 2011 lists -- excellent, quiet photos of two elderly semi-recluse brothers.
 
Just been having (another) glance at "Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings" that I got at a used book store about a year ago - got curious and googled him...and then suddenly found out that the book I have - is in fact the original National Gallery of Art/Callaway Limited edition from 1983. So now it has been re-introduced permanently on my bookshelf instead of in a box.

Pretty pleased with myself, since I only paid about 5 euros for it.
Made my day - 'bout time I had a bit of luck ;)

Cheers,

Meakin
 
Thanks Peter! I have kept reading this thread, but it's amazing how little time I had to devote to photo-related anything this past semester. Also amazing is how many good photobooks were published in the interim -- my wishlist has grown to truly epic proportions (if only my income had grown along with it!). I'm finding it hard to prioritize!

peter_n said:
Welcome back Kevin! :)
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