What is your favorite book of photographs?

[PMCC]

Libraries and brick and mortar book stores work better for the possibilities of discovery beyond what's on the cover.

 

[peterm1]

I have tried the Nik product and found it to be superb. Mostly I use the prodcut that came built in with Corel Paintshop Photo X4 which is also very competent.

 

[Araakii]

Libraries and brick and mortar book stores work better for the possibilities of discovery beyond what's on the cover.

Only if you have ready access to one. Many libraries don't have any new photo books anymore. A lot of bookstores have closed, of course.

 

[John Robertson]

Paris by Willy Ronis.

 

[jordanstarr]

Any book by Robert Frank, Antonin Kratachovil, Alex Webb and Henri-Cartier Bresson. Wish I had some from Bruce Gilden, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, but money is tight and books are expensive.

 

[ramosa]

The Americans. No question.

 

[d.keljikian]

Josef Koudelka's Gypsies and Jason Eskanazi's Wonderland.

 

[gdmcclintock]

Itinerants, Mumbai's Nomads by David and Charmayne de Souza; Few Are Chosen by Dan Wagner, Record by Daido Moriyama...

 

[Benjamin Marks]

I am going to have to check some of these out. New names, new images! Very exciting.

Ben Marks

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Has anyone else seen a copy of Ernst Hass's "Color Correction"? Amazing book. Changed my sense of what color photography was "for." - Ben Marks

 

[gdmcclintock]

I have Color Correction and for some unknown reason am disappointed. The photographs are beautiful, the color dramatic, the compositions remarkable, yet the book leaves me indifferent. Perhaps I should sell it at a significant discount....

 

[chris00nj]

The Great Life Photographers

 

[Tom A]

I have a lot of the classics "The Americans",Gypsies (old/new), Almost all of Salgados work, about 20 books by HCB (including "The Decisive Moment") so those are standards.
Among the later ones - Bruce Davidson's "Outside Inside" is my current favorite. Massive tome (3 books) and what impresses me is his act of editing and selecting decades of pictures. Must have been a huge effort!

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Tom, I agree. I recently got a copy of Outside/Inside. So impressive. I particularly like it because, although many of the pictures are slightly before my time, it captures the New York City of my childhood. It is very interesting to see that place through another's eyes.

 

[fnorth1]

I return again and again to Edward Weton's Daybooks. Recently I have been enjoying Magnum's Contact Sheets.

 

[ChrisLivsey]

"What is your current favorite book of photographs; what are you looking at and why?"

Single Photographers: Although poles apart "The Americans" and "The Decisive Moment" are, despite the hype still there and I would never choose. But if you really twisted my arm and I was only allowed one it would be Masahisha Fukase’s 1986 book, Karasu (Ravens) 😀

"Collections" Between "Mirrors and Windows" 1978 MoMA and "The Photographers Eye" MoMA 1966 no coincidence, both by Szarkowski to whom we owe far more than people usually acknowledge. Here Mirrors by a short head.

Looking at now: Pre-Raphaelite Photography - Graham Ovenden Amazing portraiture and the potent mix and cross over of the artists.

 

[brainwood]

Particularly enjoying Bill Brandts 'Literary Britain' at the moment and I always keep returning to Fay Godwin's 'Landmarks'

 

[fireblade]

many favorites, Stanley Greene to Robert Adams.....at the moment i am enjoying Paul Fuscos RFK.

 

[semordnilap]

うたたね by 川内倫子. It's such great book.

That looks great... I just bought a copy and am waiting for it to arrive!

It's hard to have one favorite...

For me, the big Sugimoto book is wonderful, as is anything by Wright Morris: the photo-texts, or collections of his pictures.

 

[monochromejrnl]

Sacred Places - Kenro Izu
Africa - Salgado