latest additions to your library

Eyes Wide Open!
Finally arrived from Amazon a couple of days ago ; I'm impressed - it's everything 99 years Leica is not 🙂

Lots of historic photographs and Leitz background material I've not seen before.
Many photos and articles are presented a pages from their original publication format ; very much in the style of 'The Photo book - A history' series.
 
CK Dexter Haven said:
Sergio Larrain:

http://aperture.org/shop/sergio-larrain-books
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It's a fantastic book. For years I had been hoping to stumble upon an affordable copy of his Valparaiso book, and then this came along. Highly recommended for the photos (obvs), the transcriptions of Larrain's thoughts on the medium, and the overall production value -- a real labour of love on the part of Agnes Sire.
 
Recently bought Steam Finale North (1975) by Colin Gifford, excellent book on final years of British steam railways, Decline of Steam (1965) on way.
 
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Two new volumes to my stash. "Making Kodak film" - detailed technical description of how to make film. Mostly from the hey day of film. Interesting read.
"Elgin Park" - by Micheal Paul Smith. His fictional mid-50's small town. It is an amazing book - you keep looking at the details of the 50's - the good decade. post war, optimism ruled, the cars had style. Smith details are even more impressive, everything is scaled to 1:24 and though the cars are mainlyoff the shelf - the buildings, the detritus of small town is all made by hand - including push movers. aluminium tone chairs and tables, boxes, signage. store interiors and exteriors.
If you like cars. models and imaginative creativity - as well as a somewhat obsessive attention to details - get the book. If you grew up in the 50's - it is a trip back and if you are younger, it might explain some of your parents behaviour!
You can see more of his work on Flickr -simply tag "Micheal Paul Smith". At the moment he is doing a 1950's radio station - tower and cars - and probably a complete interior even though it doesn't show!
 
Loved Shanebrook's book on how Kodak goes about making film. Very, very interesting and I learned a lot.

Personally I just finished reading (or viewing may be a better word) Berenice Abbott's "Changing New York." I recommend this to anyone.

My most recent acquisition is "100 Years of Leica", which just arrived on my porch courtesy of Amazon and my Visa card. 🙂

Very big, very ambitious, and (so far) very interesting book. I may try to do a book report on this one once I finish.
 
stephen.w said:
For members who don't know and may be interested, Thames and Hudson are about to publish Harry Gruyaert's monograph:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harry-Gruya...qid=1434539584&sr=8-2&keywords=harry+gruyaert

One of my favourite (and IMO often overlooked) photographers -- one of the real pioneers of colour, but incorporating a different iconography to that of his American counterparts -- the likes of Shore and Eggleston.
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Well, my copy of the Harry Gruyaert book arrived yesterday, and on a quick flip-through it really does look superb. High production values and of course fantastic photos.

In the same parcel I received Philip-Lorca diCordia retrospective published by Kerber, which I bought mainly to look at the "Street Work" series.
 
"Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White"

"Let Truth be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His life and Photographs"

"Inside the Vicious Heart"-A heart wrenching account of the Nazi concentration camps not only in Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau but some of the lesser knowns. Many photos and stories behind the finding of the camps.

"Eisenstadt:Remembrances"
 
My in-laws gave me Salgado's "Workers" for my birthday. They became fans after seeing the documentary a couple of weeks ago, and bought Genesis for themselves. A co-worker gave me the 2nd Edition of the Osterloh handbook.
 
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),

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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.
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My copies of these also recently arrived in the mail. Thanks again, I am really delighted to have learned about Ghirri.

Other recent arrivals:

Siegfried Hansen - hold the line
HC-B - Images à la Sauvette
 
I had an interesting experience. I bought and read An English Eye, the Photographs of James Ravilious, and then went over to http://www.beaford-arts.org.uk/archive/ and refreshed the page until I think I finally have seen all 1700 photos in the slide show there.

Warmed up by that, I read Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour

These two books put me in a sort of warm and fuzzy mode; the first because of the subject matter and how respectfully Ravilious treated it, the second in appreciation of the personality of Ritts, who appears to have been a man who really loved both life and all the people around him, sometimes regardless of who they were.

Then I went for Art Shay's Album for an Age and was rudely shocked out of my bliss by a guy who just seemed to be constantly angry and cynically manipulative of everyone around him.

It was a weird trip, and a shock to my mood, too. After seeing how well the first two photographers functioned, I wonder why some people just can't seem to get through life without being constantly negative. It seems like such a waste of a life to turn it into a constant flow of negativity. Shay would argue, I'm sure, that he was just exposing a reality that the first two ignored, and in that he would be right, but it's also obvious how much he let that negativity become his own, liked to live in it, and how it became part of him, turning him from quite a different person from the first two. An acquaintance of mine once commented how dangerous it can be that you might become the people you associate with. . .

Anyway, now I'm looking for a book so I can recover from Shay.
 
mdarnton said:
I had an interesting experience. I bought and read An English Eye, the Photographs of James Ravilious, and then went over to http://www.beaford-arts.org.uk/archive/ and refreshed the page until I think I finally have seen all 1700 photos in the slide show there.

Warmed up by that, I read Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour

These two books put me in a sort of warm and fuzzy mode; the first because of the subject matter and how respectfully Ravilious treated it, the second in appreciation of the personality of Ritts, who appears to have been a man who really loved both life and all the people around him, sometimes regardless of who they were.

Then I went for Art Shay's Album for an Age and was rudely shocked out of my bliss by a guy who just seemed to be constantly angry and cynically manipulative of everyone around him.

It was a weird trip, and a shock to my mood, too. After seeing how well the first two photographers functioned, I wonder why some people just can't seem to get through life without being constantly negative. It seems like such a waste of a life to turn it into a constant flow of negativity. Shay would argue, I'm sure, that he was just exposing a reality that the first two ignored, and in that he would be right, but it's also obvious how much he let that negativity become his own, liked to live in it, and how it became part of him, turning him from quite a different person from the first two. An acquaintance of mine once commented how dangerous it can be that you might become the people you associate with. . .

Anyway, now I'm looking for a book so I can recover from Shay.
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I don'think the first two can be compared to shay the first was looking for something beautiful and wanted to glorify the country, the second was the photographer of the rich and beautiful (though he did have a melancholical touch from time to time) and again was in the business of glorifying things. Shay on the other hand mostly photographed the other less beautiful side of things allthough quiet a few of his pictures are just immensely positive Backyard Olympics for example.
"An acquaintance of mine once commented how dangerous it can be that you might become the people you associate with. . ."
I hate that saying and it really has caused a lot of harm you're not always in good mood and positive and therefore I don't want to associate with you. I know quiet a few people who lost friends and spouses after they (friends, spouses) went to a psychologist who told them to get rid of all the negative influences like pessimists. First met those prejudices at school the parents are criminals or she/he is born out wedlock don't associate with them if you do you might become just like them.

As for the latest entry in my library "Objectivity" by Lorraine Daston and Peter Gallison It's about the definition of objectivity in scientific illustrations of the 19th and 20th century and photography plays a big role. Lots of images as well 🙂
 
Went to visit my numerous friends in Tokyo in September. I ordered a bunch of stuff used to be queued up when I got there. Below is my booty.

The Light with it's Harmony Shinzo / Roso Photographs 1913-1941
Umi Nari no Fuukei (Teikou Shiotani)
Tokyo ****amachi 1930 (Kineo Kuwabara)
Wa ga Tokyo 100 (Issei Suda)
NY '71 (Daido Moriyama)
Monochrome (Daido Moriyama)
Color (Daido Moriyama)

Of particular interest to me are the first three, as they are pre-war looks at Japan. The 4th as well is a peak back through the wormhole, in the late 70's Japan - something I've only experienced through video clips and records.

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