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ChrisLivsey said:
Patrick Lichfield "Perceptions"
Not a photobook I would necessarily seek out but found in a charity shop for £1 it's a yes.
Pleasantly surprised, a real nostalgia trip to now fondly remembered years and more perceptive and interesting photography than I expected. Yes a bold choice to have the dust jacket cover distinctly out of focus, an exception to the contents but then "sharpness is a bourgeois concept" after all, perhaps?


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Patrick Lichfield was one of the reasons I started using Olympus Cameras back in the day, he really knew his stuff, a brilliant photographer and undermentioned when talking of great UK photographers. I have a couple of his books somewhere in the collection.
 


An inquiry into the practice of photography with the central thread of the role of chance explored in (great) depth within the work of a selected number of icons of the genre. A strong bias to the U.S.A although in defence Talbot and Cameron begin the exploration.

Almost unreservedly recommended with the reservation being the neglect to examine the role played by the photo-book Frank “The Americans” does get a passing mention.

When around 15% of the content is devoted to copious, and in many places enlightening, footnotes you should suspect this is going to be a serious read and so it proved.

Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson do not escape a serious “putting in their place” and are convincingly deflated this should act as a warning to the sensitive reader not to venture within. They would however probably rather enjoy the forensic examination of the pernicious art-world bias against photographers.
 
Low-Light and Night Photography, by the much-missed Roger Hicks. As usual, full of sage advice, if sadly in many instances hopelessly obsolete when it comes to film recommendations. And spot the upside-down photo on page 113!

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The Rollei Way, L.A. Mannheim, tenth edition 1974. Another book about a camera I don't own, joining The Contax Way, Pentax Way, and Leica R Compendium in that respect, although I did justify the Leica M Compendium by buying an M2...

Although allegedly a seventies book, the photo examples must have been ancient and hackneyed when the first edition came out. When was the last time anyone raced a rigid 'n' girders motorcycle?

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My last book purchases - all illustrated books - were quite large and heavy, so they have to be stored sideways:
- Piotr Degler, Leica & Zagato, Europe Collectibles, Milano Bielefeld 2018,
- Abe Frajndlich, Penelope's hungry glaze, Schirmer/Mosel Munich 2011,
- Magnum Manifesto, Schirmer/Mosel Munich 2017,
- Holger A. Dux, Cologne after 1945, Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen (Germany), 2008,
- Michael Fackelmann, Hamburg black and white street photography 1960-64, Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008,
- Luis Trenker, Mountain world - wonderful world, Fikentscher Verlag Leipzig 1935.
 
Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Forgotten Photographer by James D. Horan. "PreOwned"--A former library book. Published in 1976. Poor reproductions but O'Sullivan seems like an interesting character and I wanted to know more about him.
 

Col tempo, 1956–2024 by Guido Guidi​


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Col tempo, 1956–2024

Coinciding with a major retrospective exhibition at MAXXI, Rome, Col tempo, 1956–2024 provides a complete and long-awaited retrospective of the career of Guido Guidi, sequenced by the artist himself in his typically illuminating, associative style. The book begins with some of the earliest...
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