latest additions to your library

Lee Friedlander - A Second Look: The Nudes
Timothy O'Sullivan - The King Survey Photographs
Fred Herzog - Photographs
Vivian Maier - Street Photographer
Stephen Shore - American Surfaces
 
lawrence said:
Lee Friedlander - A Second Look: The Nudes
Timothy O'Sullivan - The King Survey Photographs
Fred Herzog - Photographs
Vivian Maier - Street Photographer
Stephen Shore - American Surfaces
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I have to check out that Friedlander. Is it an expanded version of the original Nudes? I have the updated and greatly expanded version of his first Self portrait book from Yale Press and it's just great.

The King Survey book is great too. If you are into that sort of thing you might like a book I just got this week... Westward the course of Empire, by Mark Ruwedel. Photographs of old railroad cuts and grades. It recalls those 19th century survey photographs, the New Topographics photographers and maybe even a bit of Robert Smithson and the earth art movement of the 60's and 70's.
 
Bill Brandt, "Shadow and Light" MOMA publication. Disappointing print quality, about 80% of the photos are well printed and the rest are grey and have a powdery feel to them. Definitely some poor quality control at the printers.
 
MichaelW said:
Bill Brandt, "Shadow and Light" MOMA publication. Disappointing print quality, about 80% of the photos are well printed and the rest are grey and have a powdery feel to them. Definitely some poor quality control at the printers.
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Thanks for this info, I have (had?) this book in my wishlist.
 
I bought this too, right after seeing the show at the MOMA. I noted the powdery feel on several pages. But, with that said, I have to say that the print in the book matches very closely the images as they look hanging on the wall in MoMA. I don't know what the powdery texture on some of the pages comes from, but I was pleased with how closely the book matches the prints in person.

Brandt varied his printing very greatly over his career. In some cases, he would drastically change how he printed the same negative over time, sometimes confessing he could not stand the earlier versions. So, don't expect a "consistent" look.

MichaelW said:
Bill Brandt, "Shadow and Light" MOMA publication. Disappointing print quality, about 80% of the photos are well printed and the rest are grey and have a powdery feel to them. Definitely some poor quality control at the printers.
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gns said:
I have to check out that Friedlander. Is it an expanded version of the original Nudes?
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Not sure if it's expanded as I don't have the original. When it came out I gave it a miss because it's so explicit and unromantic but I thought I'd give it another chance. Still can't make my mind up though.

gns said:
The King Survey book is great too. If you are into that sort of thing you might like a book I just got this week... Westward the course of Empire, by Mark Ruwedel. Photographs of old railroad cuts and grades. It recalls those 19th century survey photographs, the New Topographics photographers and maybe even a bit of Robert Smithson and the earth art movement of the 60's and 70's.
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Thanks for the tip. I bought the New Topographics reprint a little while ago and it's very well reproduced with an excellent introduction.
 
Found a used copy of

Crone, Rainer "Kubrick: Drama and Shadows Photographs 1945-1950" Phaidon Press; First Edition edition (December 1, 2005)

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