latest additions to your library

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Afer a hiatus in buying photobooks (some major re-shuffling of shelve space was required), I picked up Exiles as well as Larry Towells "Afghanistan" - and "Mnutes to Midnight" is supposed to arrive on jan 12th with the reissue of "The Decisive Moment" coming in February.
I would be interesting to find out how many copies of the "Decisive Moment" and the french version "Images au Sauvette" has been ordered. The original 1952 printing was supposedly only about 4500 for both editions. The mythical status of the book should help push the sales.
For many it wa a book rarely seen, occasionally under "glass" at a museum. The original version got really expensive, though I was lucky and found a copy here in vancouver for about $200 (with the dust jacket) some 25 years ago.
 
Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best


Anyone have both Personal Best and Personal Exposures? I wonder what is the additional information in Personal Exposures. Thanks in advance.
 
Gordon Parks: "Segregation Story"

Color photos shot in Alabama in 1956 at great personal risk for Life Magazine. The photos not used in Life were thought lost but were recently found. Words fail me.
 
I recently acquired the Emmet Gowin 2013 retrospective (same Spanish publisher as the one behind the excellent Vanessa Winship retrospective book I referred to earlier in this thread). A beautifully printed book that covers Gowin's somewhat split career in some depth with fine examples of both his (perhaps more well known) personal family work (principally his wife Edith) and his aerial landscapes. The latter are generally less familiar to me but are equally as exquisite as his domestic work and include some very beautiful photographs of the Nevada nuclear test sites. All in all, an inspiring book with some good accompanying essays to read as well.
 
David Lykes Keenan FAIR WITNESS, received my copy yesterday... very well done and the printing of the B+W images is first rate.
 
My copy of David Lykes Keenan's book, Fair Witness, arrived this morning.

It's all I thought it would be: quirky, irreverent and humorous... and I'm pleased he avoided the temptation to spread photos across two pages. Beautifully printed too.
 
I just bought a couple of photo books by Luigi Ghirri, one of the most influential Italian photographers ever: "Bello qui, non è vero?" (Italian version, the English edition title is "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It...", but that edition is incredibly more expensive right now),

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and "Kodakchrome", Ghirri's self-published first book, in its second edition,

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I'm really thrilled to receive them in the mail.
In addition, I also bought "Lezioni di fotografia" (Photography lessons), a series of lessons he held at an Italian university on his views about photography and art.

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Also, I bought "Republic" by Ren Hang, first hardback monograph by the controversial avant-garde photographer from China. According to the editor's website, it was one of the last copies of the first edition. It might be worth something in a few years ;)

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Hi Folks,
Here are my latest acquisitions.

Of Time & Place, Walker Evans and William Christianberry

Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric, text by Bob Dylan,
photographs by Barry Feinstein

Clarence John Laughin, Aperture

Image Nation, edited by David Hlynsky, Coach House Press

Summer Vacation / Found Photographs, T. Adler Books

Cheers
Big Ursus
 
silent1 said:
I just bought a couple of photo books by Luigi Ghirri, one of the most influential Italian photographers ever: "Bello qui, non è vero?" (Italian version, the English edition title is "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It...", but that edition is incredibly more expensive right now),

I'm really thrilled to receive them in the mail.
In addition, I also bought "Lezioni di fotografia" (Photography lessons), a series of lessons he held at an Italian university on his views about photography and art.
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I had not heard of Luigi Ghirri before, but I will see if I can order the Italian version of first book you mention.

Just arrived:

Second-hand copies of the William Klein and Diane Arbus Aperture monographs. I'm particularly looking forward to going through the first, which is a huge survey of his photographs taken on the streets of Paris, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo and of course New York.

Also:

Eggleston's Los Alamos Revisited, which I ordered in a rush of blood to the head. I'm sorry that I missed out on Chromes, although it is still not clear to me which respective bodies of work belong to "Guide" and which to "Los Alamos". There seems to be a big chronological overlap.
 
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