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stephen.w said:
I like photobooks, but only because they contain photos, rather than per se. Is a book about photobooks not a rarified step too far?

Just got given Geoff Dyer: The Ongoing Moment, which I'm looking forward to starting.
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The great think about the Badger Parr series is that it is exactly "a book about photobooks". There are so many I have never seen, some I will probably never see, but many I want to see. Most I would not have know about without this series, so no, not a rarified step at all, for me. I do see your point but this "book about books" avoids any such rarification.
 
stephen.w said:
I like photobooks, but only because they contain photos, rather than per se. Is a book about photobooks not a rarified step too far?

Just got given Geoff Dyer: The Ongoing Moment, which I'm looking forward to starting.
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A step too far? For some maybe, but not for those who take them seriously.

Besides the Par/Badger books, there is Andrew Roth's, The Book of 101 Books. Also, Japanese Photo books of the 1960's and 1970's
, the Errata Editions series, etc. How about Various Small Books, the book about books that reference ED Ruscha's books (Now maybe that's a step too far)?
The mother of all books on books...Looking in, Robert Frank's, The Americans.
 Always cracks me up to see that book and its subject side-by-side.

I have the Dyer book, but just never could get into it. I am currently enjoying rereading many of the essays in Badger's, Pleasures, though.

Gary
 
bought today: Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin.

seems good so far. I read Burmese Days earlier, so references to it are familiar.
 
Two new ones.

Twenty years ago I was quite passionate about architectural photography. Books about two of the best out there, whom I have always admired:

Julius Shulman: "Modernism Rediscovered"

Balthazar Korab: "Architect of Photography"

Enjoyable reading.
 
gns said:
Various Small Books, the book about books that reference ED Ruscha's books (Now maybe that's a step too far)?
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Not at all. Done properly it should just be book of the front covers of the books in a single fold out with rear covers on the reverse :D

gns said:
The mother of all books on books...Looking in, Robert Frank's, The Americans.
 Always cracks me up to see that book and its subject side-by-side.
Gary
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Stephen Shore: A Road Trip Journal is a strong contender in that category, and is also excellent for flattening negatives, and I would also include Henri Cartier-Bresson Scrapbook as a sub category of a book about a book that never actually was.
Then you can go to re-issues that add material not in the original without actually changing the title, leading contender Koudelka: Gypsies
 
Healthy Planet have an outlet in Preston. Books looking for a new home,for free. Lots of paperback romantic fiction, (none judgemental description) and amongst them all spotted this, happy to save it from land fill or pulping.

https://healthyplanet.org/get-involved/sustainable-community/books-for-free

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Some books over the past few weeks but yet to browse through them.

Bruce Davidson Black & White, Steidl
Emmet Gowin, Aperture
Sergio Larrain, Aperture
Anders Petersen, Max Ström
Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot, Contrasto
Dan Winters Road to Seeing, New Riders
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now, Thames & Hudson
Saul Leiter, Kehrer Verlag
William Eggleston's Guide, The Museum of Modern Art
Gen Sakuma Go there, Roshin
Wonderland, Jason Eskenazi

Just ordered Saul Leiter Early Color.

Purchased "From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" in Feb 14 from overseas shop that sell photography books, but didn't receive anything yet. Email that owner and he don't want to response. I cannot even put up a dispute via paypal since is more than 45 days. Very bad experience.
 
ChrisLivsey said:
The great think about the Badger Parr series is that it is exactly "a book about photobooks". There are so many I have never seen, some I will probably never see, but many I want to see. Most I would not have know about without this series, so no, not a rarified step at all, for me. I do see your point but this "book about books" avoids any such rarification.
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gns said:
A step too far? For some maybe, but not for those who take them seriously.

Besides the Par/Badger books, there is Andrew Roth's, The Book of 101 Books. Also, Japanese Photo books of the 1960's and 1970's
, the Errata Editions series, etc. How about Various Small Books, the book about books that reference ED Ruscha's books (Now maybe that's a step too far)?
The mother of all books on books...Looking in, Robert Frank's, The Americans.
 Always cracks me up to see that book and its subject side-by-side.

I have the Dyer book, but just never could get into it. I am currently enjoying rereading many of the essays in Badger's, Pleasures, though.

Gary
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Thanks for these replies. Never having looked through the Parr/Badger books, I was genuinely curious.
 
Purchased over the past few months

Powerful Days The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Behind the Scene Mary Ellen Marks
Dorothea Lange Grabbing a Hunk of Light
 
I found £105 of ten year old book tokens.

I bought:
Henri Cartier Bresson: The Man, the image & world
Black Panthers: 1968 by Howard L. Bingham
Don McCullin by Don McCullin
Snaps by Elliott Erwitt
Cost me £108, so I only paid £3 for all the above :D
 
Color: American Photography Transformed
The newest of what seems to be a rash of color survey/history volumes arriving recently (see Starburst by Kevin Moore or Color Rush by Bussard & Hostetler). They all refer back to the 1981 survey, The New Color Photography, by Sally Eauclaire.
This new entry from the Amon Carter museum may have a little more academic or historical substance than the others, but I think I prefer Starburst for the quality and presentation of the photographs and 1 or 2 of its essays as well.

Yonkeros, by Jaime Permuth. The subject is the Willets Point area of New York, a small "Neighborhood" in Queens apparently devoted entirely to automobile salvage and repair. Hope and beauty within the chaotic mess you would expect.
(Note: I'm noticing more photographic "Projects" lately that combine color and B&W. Something you didn't used to see much, if at all).
 
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