latest additions to your library

Found a 1995 copy of "Photo Op" by David Hume Kennerly and a 1972 copy of "Edouard Boubat" by Bernard George at a used bookstore on Saturday. Turns out he, like myself, is a member of the Class of '65. Have some misgivings about "Photo Op" mainly from the text. He seems to come off a little, I don't know, something that just sets me off a little. I get much more inspiration from Bryan Moss's "Photosynthesis".
 
understatement said:
Ponte City by Mikhael Subotzky by Patrick Waterhouse, published by Steidl

I've only just started reading it, but it is brilliant.

Brief write up on my blog for those interested.
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I just received my copy too, and I agree with what you said. It's quite unlike any other photobook I've owned, in fact the closest book I can compare it to would be House of Leaves in the sense that you're constantly having to reorient your place in the book due to the detours the work as a whole takes.

Aside from Ponte City, I've added the following:
Rich and Poor - Jim Goldberg
Road to Seeing - Dan Winters
Okinawa - Daido Moriyama
 
Yeah, I can't wait to dig into it more. I felt sort of the same way about David Alan Harvey's (based on a true story), but I feel reluctant to scatter the prints around the floor and enjoy the randomness of it.

An old housemate of mine was reading House of Leaves as I left the place. How did you find it? I've been sort of interested in giving it ago.
 
understatement said:
Yeah, I can't wait to dig into it more. I felt sort of the same way about David Alan Harvey's (based on a true story), but I feel reluctant to scatter the prints around the floor and enjoy the randomness of it.

An old housemate of mine was reading House of Leaves as I left the place. How did you find it? I've been sort of interested in giving it ago.
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I love it, some people find it frustrating due to the excessive footnotes which largely don't contribute much, but it's such a good use of the medium. I wouldn't class it as horror but there are parts that are unsettling, even disturbing, which the formatting really emphasises. Photography plays quite a big role in the book too. I'd recommend it, read through it in whatever manner you want - I just did it front to back like a normal book with detours whenever the footnotes/appendixes felt relevant. There are some coded messages in there as well, great fun.
 
lcpr said:
I love it, some people find it frustrating due to the excessive footnotes which largely don't contribute much, but it's such a good use of the medium. I wouldn't class it as horror but there are parts that are unsettling, even disturbing, which the formatting really emphasises. Photography plays quite a big role in the book too. I'd recommend it, read through it in whatever manner you want - I just did it front to back like a normal book with detours whenever the footnotes/appendixes felt relevant. There are some coded messages in there as well, great fun.
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Sounds good! I shall give it ago, thanks for writing up!
 
Salgado's 'Genesis'

The only photo book that I obviously just don't get. Couldn't stand it. There may be some great images in there, but they're outweighed by far too many way too similar images. I think it needs some serious editing, and would be a far more powerful book with far greater impact with 500 less images. Its like we just got a hard drive dump of all his keepers, rather than a thoughtful selection of images that cohesively tell a story. Sorry about the rant, but ahhhhhhh. I feel better now.

Michael
 
I have to check, maybe I'm at one of those photos...

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Skrebneski 'Portraits a Matter of Record' - a slightly battered second hand copy, no dust cover, for £7, about $12, including p&p from Amazon, a real bargain. Pages are just fine and some of the portraits ............. a great addition.
The book is nearly too big!
 
michaelwj said:
Salgado's 'Genesis'

The only photo book that I obviously just don't get. Couldn't stand it. There may be some great images in there, but they're outweighed by far too many way too similar images. I think it needs some serious editing, and would be a far more powerful book with far greater impact with 500 less images. Its like we just got a hard drive dump of all his keepers, rather than a thoughtful selection of images that cohesively tell a story. Sorry about the rant, but ahhhhhhh. I feel better now.

Michael
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I was at the exhibition at the ICP in New York last weekend. Some of the pictures in the large are absolutely awesome but the exhibit as a whole is poorly curated. The book actually hangs together better than this particular exhibit.
 
I've bought 3 books the past 2 weeks, all great reads
Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing
Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour: A Photographer's Life and His World
Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1997
 
Wow, now even the ICP, Taschen, and Sebastiao Selgado don't know what they are doing in photography? Many of us should be so lucky to put out such a "poorly curated" exhibit and horrible edited book.
 
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