What are you reading?

Robert Doisneau: Paris.

I already have Doisneau: A Photographer's Life, but i think the new Paris book may be better. Great reproductions, and most of the images are new to me.
 
ray_g said:
Sounds more like Attention Deficit Disorder, rather than dyslexia, to me. :)
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Yeah, I know...it's like...I...ah...what was the question? :angel:

Hey, I have all these books, they have to be read, somehow. I still haven't finished "Ulysses". To read it, at this pace, it's going to take me as long as it took Joyce to write it. I started the first chapter in 1994. I'm on Chapter II; it's not funny. I already read "Finnegan's Wake". A very Joycian sequence to read it, if you ask me.

It really all depends on my state of mind. I guess I've met two books that are clearly my Moby Dicks (no puns, please). When I finish either of them, I know another personal milestone has been accomplished.

Maybe I should just stick to "Where's Waldo?"
 
ray_g said:
I just picked up a copy of "The Creative Photographer" by Andreas Feininger for a couple of bucks. I am waiting to receive it. Anyone have/read this book?
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I have it and it's an interesting read. Not something I ever read all the way through, but I've read it a piece here and a piece there. My favourite Feininger is "A Manual of Advanced Photography".

Peter
 
Tuna said:
I'm always looking for a good photobook or book about photography to help inspire me. Any other recommendations?
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Two books I find quite inspiring photo-wise are:
Henri Cartier-Bresson the man, the image and the world
Andre Kertesz - On Reading
I have a printout from the AP wire of Kertesz's obit in my copy of On Reading. I work at a wire service and had the book with me (subway reading) when he died in 1985.

Peter
 
Hrm. Nothing even slightly photo related right now... John Maynard Keynes "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" to be followed by a re-read of "Socialism - Past and Present" by Michael Harrington. Can you tell I've got a bit of economics geek about me? :)

Probably time to dig out both Adam and Karl for a re-read as well. :eek:

William
 
CK Dexter Haven said:
Robert Doisneau: Paris.

I already have Doisneau: A Photographer's Life, but i think the new Paris book may be better. Great reproductions, and most of the images are new to me.
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I especially dig August Sander, although I don't yet have any of the good volumes. I did get Atget recently, and that's very good.

And gabrielma, I could never make it through any of the experimental Joyce stuff either, or Pynchon for that matter. If I need to become confused I turn to the postmodernists. Have you ever read Donald Barthelme? His last novel The King is one of my favorite books ver.
 
"The Tyrranicide Brief" by Geoffrey Robertson - a fascinating account of the barrister who drew the short straw to prosecute King Charles I of England, eventually being executed for his effrontery!
 
Unfortunatley I'm not reading a photo book, but I'm reading (studying) Earth: portrait of a planet by Stephen Marshak. It has some nice pictures though.
 
Don't worry, Gabriel, that's just Ulysees Syndrome. I had a copy for 25 years, but I can't say I actually read it. :)

I've just finished Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and now need a lie-down, but am reading an old Ilford Manual of Photography from 1953.

Mark
 
The last phototgraphy related book I read was Helmut Newton Autobiography.
The last book I read is Herman Hesse's Demian(finished yesterday)
 
Michael I. said:
The last book I read is Herman Hesse's Demian(finished yesterday)
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That's a great book. Although a bit too romantic, maybe, but still a great read. Hesse was a true master.
I've read it in hungarian; i guess the translator has an important influence as well. My german sucks, i wouldn't try to read it in original.
 
FrankS said:
It's fluff but it's great entertainment: Da Vinci Code, and his other book: Angles and Demons. I enjoy books on religion and I'm somehow naturally predisposed to believe in conspiracies.
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Hey Frank, I could not put those down. Read them twice already and I think the time has come to do it all over again.

Currently reading History of Photography : From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall. This book is quite fascinating. And from 7-8 pm every night reading
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to my 6 year old.
 
Pherdinand said:
That's a great book. Although a bit too romantic, maybe, but still a great read. Hesse was a true master.
I've read it in hungarian; i guess the translator has an important influence as well. My german sucks, i wouldn't try to read it in original.
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I read it in English and a bulk of other Hesse books in russian cause my german is non existant
 
Just completed 'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque.

If you fancy a laugh try 'French Revolutions' or 'Spanish Steps' by Tim Moore.
 
Bobbo said:
I just finished Robert Capa's "Slightly Out of Focus," and I have no idea what's next...I'll find out when I get there:).
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I read that a few months ago, really enjoyed it. Another book in the same vein is the book about Magnum by Russell Miller - Great Book!

Does anyone have any other books they know of like these two?
 
Not reading much photo-related right now but I am enjoying Intamacy a collection of photos by Joyce Tenneson.
I usually am in the middle of 2 or 3 books at a time.
I'm about 1/3 of the way through Tariq Ali's Book of Saladin . Almost done with the last Carl Haissen(not sure about the spelling) romp I bought. Darkly funny as all of his novels are. Tourist Season maybe?
Another author I look for is Christopher Moore.
Rob
 
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