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ChrisLivsey said:
You may be interested in some links then?
My notes were a combination of several sources, Peter Marshall has written on Moore well, he knew him personally:
re-photo.co.uk/?p=878
And some images and comment here:
www.beautifuldaze.org/2013/07/murmurs-at-evert-turn-remem...

There was a BBC documentary in 1983, as part of a series called ‘Coast to Coast’.
In three parts on You Tube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrtaFo_tWIM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DT_kTTQlo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmJAj2nB1E
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Thx, the first 2 I din't know, btw, the second link is not complete but I got it: http://www.beautifuldaze.org/2013/07/murmurs-at-evert-turn-remembering.html

The BBC documentary I saw several times, thats how I discovered him in the first place. Too sad that there's still the ongoing uncertainty with his descendants in regards to publish more books or photos, same with exhibitions.

Jürgen
 
ian_watts said:
There's a Sally Mann retrospective in Washington DC this month and a new book, A Thousand Crossings, to accompany it. I only have one Mann book so, at £26, this new book looks like a good option to fill that gap.
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I live 0.8 miles from the National Gallery. Can't wait to meet Sally Mann on Sunday and have my book signed by her! 😀 I bought "Deep South" last week, which is absolutely wonderful, and I took forward to her new book "A Thousand Crossing".
 
Question: what b&w landscape photography books would you recommend? I am starting to dabble in landscape photography and would like to see what other photographers have done to inspire me.

I regularly visit the research library of the National Gallery to see the first edition of Michael Kenna's "Hokkaido" (bamboo cover -- amazing!), which is one of my favorite books. How I wish I could afford that book! 😱
 
"Holga" by Michael Kenna!

kenna-holga.jpg
 
Lewis Baltz 'Texts'

Lewis Baltz 'Texts'

jsrockit said:
Lewis Baltz - Texts
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I came across this the other day at a good price and have been wading through it. I say 'wading' because much as I like Baltz's photography I'm not so keen on his writing. For example 'Sekula was among the first to challenge the hegemony of the old regime, his erstwhile adversaries (e.g. The Museum of Modern Art's Photography Department and George Eastman House) are now so completely discredited that many of these texts read like dispatches from a victorious but distant half-forgotten war.' Well, sorry, but I for one think that MoMA, particularly under John Szarkowski, did a fantastic job in promoting photography as a serious artform and, as this article in The Guardian points out 'Everyone who cares about photography is in his debt'.
 
Lawrence, I agree with you on Baltz. Loved his early photo projects, less so his later ones. But over time he appears to have become highly negative in his outlook and it had a very negative effect on his work. It's evident in his writings. I only read a portion of "Texts" and found he had very little good to say about anything. But I still enjoy his pictures.
 
Patti Smith: Camera Solo

Patti Smith: Camera Solo

This is the catalogue of an exhibition of Patti Smith's Polaroids, called 'Camera Solo', held in Hartford, Connecticut in 2012. Polaroids have made something of a comeback in recent years, for example the exhibition of Wim Wenders held at The Photographers Gallery, London last year. Patti Smith's photographs present an intimate view of objects that are in many cases connected with artists she admires, Virginia Woolf's bed for example. They were almost all shot on a Land 250 Polaroid and all are monochome. My only criticism of this nice little book is that the reproduction quality isn't that good but, even so, I can recommend it.
 
lawrence said:
I came across this the other day at a good price and have been wading through it. I say 'wading' because much as I like Baltz's photography I'm not so keen on his writing. For example 'Sekula was among the first to challenge the hegemony of the old regime, his erstwhile adversaries (e.g. The Museum of Modern Art's Photography Department and George Eastman House) are now so completely discredited that many of these texts read like dispatches from a victorious but distant half-forgotten war.' Well, sorry, but I for one think that MoMA, particularly under John Szarkowski, did a fantastic job in promoting photography as a serious artform and, as this article in The Guardian points out 'Everyone who cares about photography is in his debt'.
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Dogman said:
Lawrence, I agree with you on Baltz. Loved his early photo projects, less so his later ones. But over time he appears to have become highly negative in his outlook and it had a very negative effect on his work. It's evident in his writings. I only read a portion of "Texts" and found he had very little good to say about anything. But I still enjoy his pictures.
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I read through all of Texts a few years ago. I agree about the negativity in his outlook (he was obviously a morbid guy -- in one of the essays he talks about his father's role as an undertaker in a famous forensic case) -- And once you know its there, you can see it in the photos. But I remember finding his thoughts on such disparate characters as Walter Evans, Andreas Gursky and Balthus enjoyable and illuminating.

The printing really is sumptuous for a book made up exclusively of text (unsurprisng for Steidl). A minor quibble, but I was surprised to come across glaring typos in several places.
 
Gary Stochl: On City Streets
Ed van der Elsken: Eye Love You
Jean Claud Gotrand: Willy Ronis
Manfred Heiting: Edward Weston
John Coplans: Weegee
Kazuo Nishii: Daido Moriyama
Thames & Hudson Photofile: Daido Moriyama
Lorenzo Merlo: La nouvelle photographie Hollandaise
Simmons, Pierce, Myers: Santiago, Saint of two worlds (essays & photographs)
Puetz & Borchardt: Universal Cycle Theory
Shefrin: Beyond Greed and Fear
Porton: Film and the anarchist imagination
Rosenthal: Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos
 
A few interesting new additions for me:

Nobuyoshi Araki - Sentimental Journey
Anders Petersen & Jacob Aue Sobol - Veins
Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris-Webb - Violet Isle
Joel Meyerowitz - Cape Light
Tom Licht - Vater, Sohn Und Der Krieg
Fyodor Telkov - 36 Views
Keiko Nomura - Soul Blue
 
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