Read Any Good Books Lately?

[ClaremontPhoto]

As mentioned upthread 'Pictures on a Page' by Harold Evans is excellent about good use of photos in newspapers.

After reading it you'll watch tv news and see even more errors in the amateur picture-making and cut-price production values there.

 

[sjw617]

Someone mentioned a great site a while back in another thread photoeye.com A great source of photo books.

 

[retrocam]

I'm currently leafing through 'Creative Black and White Photography' by Les Mclean and also 'Plastic Cameras - Toying with Creativity' by Michelle Bates.

 

[FPjohn]

Hello:

I recently rediscovered my copy of "Women of Paris", Andre Maurois and Nico Jesse . Mid of last century candid photography was very good.

yours
Frank

 

[lushd]

A Russian Journal by Robert Capa and John Steinbeck

 

[visiondr]

"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. Brilliant!

 

[peter_n]

I'm currently reading Revolution in Hungary by Erich Lessing, which is all about 1956 in Budapest. Lessing's photos are fantastic, the one on the front cover alone is worth the price of the book. It is a very moving and salutary book and a reminder to those of us who are lucky enough to live in a free society that we should not take anything for granted. It is also an inspiring book in the sense that many of the photographs are of ordinary people doing (in hindsight) extraordinary things and 50 years later these documentary pictures are at the same time tragic and uplifting. A wonderful book; both in technical photographic terms and also in it's depiction of an unquenchable human spirit.

 

[BigSteveG]

Photpgraphy: Recto/Verso, Images (Photograms) by Robert Heinecken. Not much of read. Really about the images in which Heinecken used fashion magazines to create photograms which speak of the media treatment of women in western society. A psychedelic visual experience. Nazraeli Books.
Non-Fiction: Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper. CNN correspondent writes of his adventures at world disasters/wars interspersed with stories about his own tragic upbringing with famous mom Gloria Vanderbilt. An intense read.

 

[Kent]

1. National Geographic Photoguide: "Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie" (Well, it's in German.)

2. Horst Hamann: "New York Vertical" (Incredible, amazing pictures!)

3. Bill Bryson: "Made in America" (Probably one of the best books I've ever read.)

 

[kmack]

Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country by A. Aubrey Bodine

Some of the most sumptuous black and white photography I have ever seen in my life.
It is full of images like this and this.

I am keeping it handy to remind me of what a good black and white image should look like.

 

[peter_n]

Love the second one (of the ship). Awesome!

 

[Vagabond]

Recently finished Art & Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland. This book was mentioned somewhere on RFF and I finally got hold of a copy. Wonderful book! One or both of the authors are involved in photography. The book is described as being observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking. An excellent read.