latest additions to your library

Robert Frank: Looking In. The expanded Americans volume.

A lot bigger than I expected, might have to get a copy of The Americans too, even though Looking In contains it within.
I especially like the plates for Black White Things by Frank inside the volume. A very nice short precise set of photos that I wasn't previously aware of.
 
The Magnum Contact Sheets is pretty afforadable on amazon now, used, and as many others have noted, it's really something.

I got one :)
 
Recently:

Alec Soth - Gathered Leaves
Newsha Tavakolian - Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album
Rian Dundon - Fan
Siegfried Hansen - Hold the Line
Todd Hido - Khrystyna's World
Mary Ellen Mark - On the Portrait and the Moment
 
Here’s a list of photo books I bought this month, during my trip in Alberta and B.C.

Alec Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image, Aperture. Useful ideas, as well as pictures that provide even more ideas

America. Andy Warhol. Photographs I never realized he’d taken

Faces of Edmonton. Shayne Woodsworth. An interesting take on how to do a book like this

I Am A Camera. A collection of mostly contemporary work, by the Saatchi gallery

Lena Herzog Pilgrims, Becoming the Path Itself. Text by Werner Herzog. Great colour shots of pilgrimages to the most sanctified Buddhist sites, including the circuit of the holiest mountain in the world, Mount Kalash

Lisette Model. A pocket sized volume, in Pheidon’s “55” series

Love and Desire. edited by W. A. Ewing. Chronicle Books. An historical survey of a yummy topic

Night Vision, the Art of Urban Exploration, Troy Piava. Chronicle Books 2008. Discarded bits of cities in wild colours

Photography Today, edited by Mark Durden, and published by Phaidon. A survey of art photography from the 1970s to the 2000s

Rich and Poor, Photographs by Jim Goldsmith. Goldsmith included revealing texts by the subjects of his environmental portraits. This is an old fave of mine, and it was great to find this replacement for my damaged copy.

The Depression Years, as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein, 120 Photos, Dover. 1978. Part of the FSA project

The Photographer’s Choice, 1975, “a book of portfolios and critical opinions”

Using History. Greta Pratt. Steidl. 2005. Ironic views of American icons. It’s the sort of work I did in the 80s.

Village Portraits. Ursula Heller. Methuen. 1981. The kind of documentary work we tried to do in the 70s.

Vitamin Ph – New Perspectives in Photography. Phaidon. Essays by TJ Demos. 2007. “A survey of current international developments in contemporary photography”

Also: Aperture, issue #220, Fall, 2015. Strong interviews and portfolios from nine photographers, including William Klein and Paulo Gasparini

Because so many bookstores have died recently in Alberta, I also want to mention several excellent places in western Canada that are still fighting the good fight. The Camera Store, at 802 – 11 Ave., SW, in Calgary, Alberta, is a great source of reasonably priced photo books. Macleod's Books, 455 Pender St. W, Vancouver, B.C., is a living monument to the used bookstores of yester year. Russell’s Books, at 734 Fort St., in Victoria, B.C, is another great used bookstore.
 
Hi again,
As part of my preparartions for the oncoming assault of winter, I keep stocking up on foto books to inspire & teach me.
Here are my most recent acquisitions from the Edmonton Book Store.

Mardi Gras Indians. Michael P. Smith. Pelican Publishing. 2007. Photos of these folks in their extraordinary costumes.

Midlands Invitational 1997: Photography Joslyn Art Museum. Janet L. Farber. Omaha. A slim catalogue I picked up to see what folks have been doing.

Runningfence. Geoffrey James. Presentation House Gallery. A Canadian’s pictures of part of the fence the US built between itself and Mexico.
 
Purchased a used copy of The Jazz Loft Project off Amazon and a used copy of Photo Du Jour by David Hume Kennerly from a local independent book store.
 
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ETERNAL LONDON GIACOMO BRUNELLI

Manual white balance and exposure to get black black!!
 
Honk If You Love Stieglitz
Jerry Uelsmann, A Grid Portrait
by Stu Levy

Great little book (approx. 5-1/2" x 7-1/2"), published by Nazraeli Press. Part of a series, featuring a tipped in photograph signed by the artist. Called the "One Picture Books" series, it is now at #92. Each book is limited to 500, price rises as it sells.

http://www.nazraeli.com/one-picture-books
 
I recently purchased Rebecca Norris Webb, My Dakota.

The contents of this book are outstanding to me. I am so happy to have a copy of this beautiful book. I can't put it down. Easy to get lost in.

A few other's I've acquired over the past year that I love very much are:
Mermelstein: Sidewalk
Alex Webb: Istanbul / Sunshine State
Larry Towell: Mennonites / Afghanistan
Eskenazi: Wonderland
Harry Gruyaert: Retrospective
Soth: Gathered Leaves
Bruno Barbey: My Morocco

In the Mail -
Gueorgui Pinkhassov: Sightwalk
Matt Stuart: All life can afford
Jesse Marlow: Don't just tell them, show them

Releases I'm looking forward to
Eskenazi: Black Garden


Photobooks are very addictive and I feel so lucky to have all of them!
 
The latest edition of
Martin Parr - The Last Resort

Nice size book, good quality printing, but it'll take a few reads. I can see something in it, not sure if I like what I see though :eek:
 
On loan from a friend:
Vivian Maier Self Portraits
Vivian Maier Street Photographer
Vivian Maier Out of the Shadows

HFL
 
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