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[Papercut]

Must agree with Ian and Lawrence. I'm certainly not buying fewer books simply because I could access many of them digitally through my work's library, though most are academic monographs instead of photo books. Screen time comes with headaches and eye strain that a print book does not and I'm getting very tired of replacing laptop screens ruined from writing on them with a pencil or fountain pen. 😉

To keep thread on track, I recently picked up Philip Perkis, Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled, 2nd edition. Thin, spiral bound volume of thoughtful rumination on the nature, distinctive features, practice, and conundrums of photography -- along with some of Perkis' assignments used in his classes. Worthwhile despite the lack of any photos. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing some of the thinking lying behind one of my favorite photobooks, Perkis' The Sadness of Men.

 

[Mcary]

JMO but I think a program/software in which the images were present via screen tablet or PC/TV with the audio for the text might be a nice idea.


Been watching a number of talk via B&H youtube channel lately especially enjoy the ones by Eileen Rafferty, have my mac connected to our 65" TV so images are nice and big

 

[Huss]

Picked this up at an estate sale:



Judging by the framed photographs on the walls of the house, the PO was a photographer. But try as I might, I did not see any Leicas or Hassies for sale!

 

[Papercut]

Oh I forgot in my earlier post to mention that my father sent me YAN Ming's Country of Ambition (Chinese title is 大国志). My father is teaching YAN's son English in the Philippines and knew I've followed YAN's work on flickr for years; he somehow got YAN to put a personal inscription as well. It's a lovely book of black and white medium format (6x6) images, most with a touch of the surreal to them. Well printed in soft greys. I have not yet had time to read YAN's text, but I look forward to that on a chilly evening sometime this fall.

 

[Dogman]

Put me down as also agreeing with Ian and Lawrence. Photography books and books on traditional art will be around in the future. Fiction, non-fiction, text books, etc., will probably only be available as ebooks or will be in paper editions only on a limited basis. Art books printed on paper can frequently be considered art in themselves, something I don't wish to ever give up. However, I now buy all my other types of books in ebook form and I prefer this format for these books.

And to continue to keep things on track, I recently bought from Amazon a copy of the 2017 career retrospective "Thomas Struth". I was not very familiar with his work although I do like the Becher's (the "inventors" of the Dusseldorf School style). Unfortunately, now that I've seen a fair sampling, I find Struth's photography boring beyond words.

 

[lawrence]

And to continue to keep things on track, I recently bought from Amazon a copy of the 2017 career retrospective "Thomas Struth". I was not very familiar with his work although I do like the Becher's (the "inventors" of the Dusseldorf School style). Unfortunately, now that I've seen a fair sampling, I find Struth's photography boring beyond words.

I find it boring like the other Dusseldorfers (in my view 'big' doesn't necessarily mean the same as 'good'). However I like William Eggleston's work and many find that boring.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

DSM-V
The Successful Internship
Art Psychotherapy
Trauma Stewardship
The Gift of Therapy
Development Through Life
Obedience to Authority
Trauma
A Colorful Introduction to the Anatomy of the Human Brain
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Hell's Angels

1800 Woodcuts
Anonymous Was A Woman
Self-Portrait: USA
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Farewell to Manzanar
The Private Journals of Edvard Munch
Drawings of Mucha

Phil Forrest

 

[olifaunt]

Anyone else interested in this? Seems like a pretty bold undertaking (I don’t mean that in a negative way). I look forward to checking it out despite the price and the fact that I never really could get into The Ongoing Moment.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dyer-winogrand-street-philosophy-of-garry-winogrand

from the publisher's description...
"Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography—an education in seeing".

The pictures are beautiful, of course. Dyer's text is at times good but in many cases impose wildly fanciful interpretations on the images, which to me goes against Winogrand's own philosophy, which, if anything, appears to have been quite resolutely "Against Interpretation." This is well-known, so I'm not sure if Dyer somehow missed it or deliberately ignored it.

 

[olifaunt]

Yours come yet Michael?

I withdraw comments about posthumous editing I made previously. The extensive articles in this new book are excellent and make a good case for a re-examination of Winogrand.
Highly recommended for both text and photographs.

Best
ChrisL

Great book and articles. Every time I look through it, though, I find myself having to delete some of my own Flickr stream. I only hope that at some point I won't have found it necessary to delete everything 😱

 

[fireblade]

A Complete Examination of Middlesex......Bruce Gilden.

Bruce at his best 🙂

 

[stephen.w]

Last week I received the recent Mack reprint of Allan Sekula's Fish Story and the Richard Kalvar 'Photo Poche', the last book designed by Robert Delpire before his death. My bookshelves are also at bursting point.

 

[capitalK]

Sam Abell - The Life of a Photograph

Weegee Serial Photographer (graphic novel)

 

[Dogman]

"The Sweet Flypaper of Life" by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. It's about 5x7" format and it deserves to be printed larger. The reproduction needs to be updated as well. It's a classic, however, originally printed in the 1950s. DeCarava did great work.

 

[PRJ]

And to continue to keep things on track, I recently bought from Amazon a copy of the 2017 career retrospective "Thomas Struth". I was not very familiar with his work although I do like the Becher's (the "inventors" of the Dusseldorf School style). Unfortunately, now that I've seen a fair sampling, I find Struth's photography boring beyond words.

You might like the work of Elger Esser if you like the Bechers but not Struth. i kind of think of him as a better Gursky. I think he is the best photographer out of the Becher school.

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Vivian Maier, The Color Work

Vivian Maier, The Color Work

I just received a copy of the newest book out about Vivian Maier's work, "Vivian Maier, The Color Work" published by Harper Design. I have two other books of her work, both B&W images. This new book is by far my favorite of the three. She clearly was able to use color without losing the strong content of her work. Highly recommend this book.

The book includes a foreward by Joel Meyerowitz.

 

[fireblade]

The Isle of Dogs, Before the Big Money...Mike Seaborne.
A look at the regeneration of London's docklands in the 80's.
Highly recommended.

 

[Dogman]

Two new releases I bought recently that I can recommend.

"Koudelka: Returning" is a retrospective look at the photographer's work. It commemorates his 80th birthday. It's heavy on the early work--"Invasion 1968", "Gypsies", etc., like the other monograph "Koudelka" from a few years ago. I haven't gotten into it too deeply, having read only small snippets but I'm happy with the purchase.

The other is "Gordon Parks: The New Tide, The Early Works 1940-1950". Parks was one of those photographers whose work seemed to have been around forever, from the day photography entered my life until his death. He lived and worked for a very long time--he was 93 when he died in 2006. This new book is a bit overwhelming with samples of his work from various sources and in various genres, including some newspaper clippings of his early published photographs. Indeed, he had an enormous output and this book only covers the first decade of his long working life. The book is beautifully printed. I just got it so I haven't read much yet but the photos are worth the purchase.

 

[rbiemer]

Bought this a month or so back, just now starting it:
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer (2005).
Haven't read much of it yet, but it seems like it will be an interesting take on some of the "classic" photographers--Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, etc--and how their works relate to each other. Maybe? (I am literally just starting this one this morning. )

Rob

 

[embee06311]

I now have all four volumes of The Work of Atget. Fascinating reading to go along with great photographs.

 

[lawrence]

I now have all four volumes of The Work of Atget. Fascinating reading to go along with great photographs.

Agreed, a 'must have' for the beautiful reproductions and wonderful essays.