latest additions to your library

Arlene Gottfried - Sometimes Overwhelming. Gritty photos of NYC in the 70s and 80s. She died a few weeks ago and her obituary prompted my purchase of her book. Too bad that I didn't know about her sooner.
 
Michael Nichols and Mike Fay, "The Last Place on Earth" with Fay's "Megatransect Journals". An exhibit of their journey and other Nichols photos now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
 
Just yesterday, I got a copy of Rebecca Norris Webb's "My Dakota". This is a second edition that apparently was recently published. It's really an outstanding work although the photos are reproduced rather small.
 
Today in a One-Euro-box on a local fleamarket:

Karl Bloßfeldt: Urformen der Kunst, second edition 1929
Paul Wolff/Alfred Tritschler: Schönheit am Wege, 1949
E. A. Heiniger: Tessin, 1956
 
my so far most expensive purchase when it comes to photo books arrived yesterday:

Robert Adams - The Place We Live
(Second edition published by Yale University Art Gallery and Steidl).

@gns thx for the tip for The American Monument
 
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations 1951-1998. Aperture. 2017. Eds Clément Chéroux and Julie Jones.

Fascinating. So much clearer his vision here, in comparison to the misinformtion scattered across the web.
 
Time to mention some of the magazines and books that have covered my desk forever!

GUP, issue 50, 2016, The Netherlands. I bought this for the portfolios.

GUP, issue 51, 2017, The Netherlands. For the portfolios

PDN, Photo District News, August, 2017, NYC. Information about getting exhibitions in art galleries
 
More periodicals -

Ciel Variable, Issue # 106, September, 2017, Montreal, Quebec - published in English and French; gorgeous printing; articles on everything from Sudek to contemporary Quebec photo-artists.

The Point, Issue #12, Summer, 2016, Chicago - I bought this literary quarterly (at least I think it appears quarterly) for the essay on Instagram and its ecology, but then found myself reading all with pleasure.
 
"Iowa" by Nancy Rexroth. Newly published expanded edition. The original publication from the 1970's. I can see how this was considered by many as revolutionary at a time when sharp focus and print quality were the order of the day (despite Robert Frank). The book has less impact today but it's still a fine historical document on art photography. Again, the images are reproduced too small for my taste.
 
August Sander, "People of the 20th century", Schirmer/Mosel 2013/2017.

A new, revised edition. Includes the complete "Portfolio of Archetypes".

All new scans, beautifully printed.

Erik.
 
Dogman said:
"Iowa" by Nancy Rexroth. Newly published expanded edition. The original publication from the 1970's. I can see how this was considered by many as revolutionary at a time when sharp focus and print quality were the order of the day (despite Robert Frank). The book has less impact today but it's still a fine historical document on art photography. Again, the images are reproduced too small for my taste.
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This one looks very interesting to me. I first heard about it on TOP a few weeks ago.
 
Dogman said:
"Iowa" by Nancy Rexroth. Newly published expanded edition. The original publication from the 1970's. I can see how this was considered by many as revolutionary at a time when sharp focus and print quality were the order of the day (despite Robert Frank). The book has less impact today but it's still a fine historical document on art photography. Again, the images are reproduced too small for my taste.
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I remember seeing her work around 1974. I passed on the book when it came out a couple of years later because it just wasn't really where my interests were. Kind of wish I had it now. I think she triggered the whole Diana/Holga craze with that work.
 
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