What are you reading?

[CK Dexter Haven]

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.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Sounds more like Attention Deficit Disorder, rather than dyslexia, to me. 🙂

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?"

 

[peterc]

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?

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

 

[peterc]

I'm always looking for a good photobook or book about photography to help inspire me. Any other recommendations?

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

 

[wlewisiii]

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. 😱

William

 

[einolu]

'the long dark tea time of the soul'

no, not a photo book...

 

[Poptart]

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.

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.

 

[sf]

hmmm

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A textbook on Financial Accounting. And another on Marketing. Yummy.

 

[suzums]

I Know This Much is True - by Wally Lamb

 

[hugivza]

"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!

 

[Socke]

'the long dark tea time of the soul'

no, not a photo book...

Good idea, haven't read that for some years now.

 

[jorisbens]

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.

 

[markinlondon]

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

 

[Michael I.]

The last phototgraphy related book I read was Helmut Newton Autobiography.
The last book I read is Herman Hesse's Demian(finished yesterday)

 

[Pherdinand]

The last book I read is Herman Hesse's Demian(finished yesterday)

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.

 

[lido]

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.

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.

 

[Michael I.]

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.

I read it in English and a bulk of other Hesse books in russian cause my german is non existant

 

[Mr C]

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.

 

[o0dano0o]

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🙂.

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?

 

[rbiemer]

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