What is the last photo book you bought?

When I travel to a certain area or country, and I find a photo book (that I like) that depicts that particular place I always get it. I always look for them wherever I travel (whoever the photographer might be), coz it gives a different perspective, and I think it’s always interesting to see how others have photographed a place/people/country.

After running into him, and not knowing it, I thought I owed him. I’m glad I bought it. I showed it to my wife, and I don’t think she appreciated how incredible it really was.

Stephen Shore : Uncommon Places

Nothing makes me want to shoot 8×10 more than looking through this book.

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My last buy was Babel, taken on and around the set of the movie by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, I loved the movie, and I’m more than happy to have the book as well

Sorry no scanner here :-)

than bought this one:

Last Saturday I bought again this book…now I have two in my library.. I dunno why but I just love everything in this diary…

like i said, $15.00, mint, 1st edition…dont kill me… ;))

I WANT A COPY, TOO, OF DEAD FISHY! :))))))))))))))

…but so does shinjuku, sayanaro, dog, etc etcetc….my dream: that somehow i’ll get COMPLETE MORIYAMA…or to get him drunk ;)))

b

Moksha by Fazal Sheik. Incredible!

www.shadowland-book.com

Also considered the moksha talked about earlier but but could carry from varanasi, had several trip to the shop to keep looking at it, a very beautiful book.

all the best rich

An hour ago, to my door arrived Bruce Davidson: Circus ; just started looking through.

Good stuff, covering Winogrand’s entire career. Many photos I hadn’t seen before, in particualr from his last years in Los Angeles.

and

“My America” by Christopher Morris.

Easily the most frightning and creepy book I have seen since I don’t know when. There is a thinly veiled undercurrent of an implied threat to this book that gives me the willies.

Perfectly captures the countries post 9/11 flirtation with fascism during the Bush years (were not out of the woods, yet).

The work is very unusual. Imagine if Magritte, Stanley Kubrick and Leni Riefenstahl got together and made a movie. I had a chance to briefly talk to C. Morris at the VII seminar and either he is the most humble man on the planet or he really doesn’t realize what he has put on film, eh captured. I’m betting that in hindsight this book will offer a rather uncomfortable look back at a time, when the countries psyche changed dramatically and took on parallels to some very ugly events of the past. John Morris who was standing near by, certainly seemed to be of that mindset…

we’ve a bunch and each book is heart-tumping!

:))

b

Josef Sudek – Smutna Krajina

jonas bendiksen – satellites

“Satellites" is a compelling journey through unrecognized countries and isolated regions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia. In this lyrical but unsentimental collection of photographs, Jonas Bendiksen takes us into the little-known worlds of Transdniester, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ferghana Valley, the Jewish Autonomous Region, and the spaceship crash zones near the Kazakh Steppe, and in the process reveals that the narrative of the Soviet collapse continues to evolve.

link to the magnum shop

a really nice book I think.

at the same time I say hello to everyone. I’m new here today :)

or check it out here

i’m only sorry i haven’t took this before…

by Stephan Vanfleteren

Exposure: Mary Ellen Mark

I do recommend finding a tape of the movie, that David made of the book, “Shooter”… notnotnot the new one, w/Mark Wahlberg. The Kennerly movie stars Alan Ruck, who was Ferris Beuhler’s best friend, and the Captain of The Enterprise, briefly, after James T. Kirk, in the movie “Generations”. The Kennerly movie is about the UPI bureau in Saigon, during the Viet Nam war.

Another new book is “Sharp”, by Nigel Parry. I love his work. I also recently got “Picture This”, by Gary Haynes… the story of United Press International photos. A great book, recently acquired, is “Proof” by Jim Marshall. Mostly of interest to other photographers… it shows the whole proof sheet, of the roll of film shot around one or another of his famous pix. A great lesson in editing…

Hmmmmmmmm… all B&W…

Greg.

This is my comment…

www.jorgemm.com

love it.

ben – where did you find your copy of “side walk”? i’ve been searching forever and i can’t find it anywhere.

Here’s a line Frank Horvat wrote to me a year ago: "I looked at your photos Petar. I like the fact that you are photographing very different subjects, with different techniques. This is the advantage of living in a place with not too much competition: in a capital like Paris, London or New York, young photographers are encouraged to stick to what they believe to be a style, but what is often not much more than a few tricks.. While by trying many different ways, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph – and this is where photography really interests me .. "

That words opened a little new world for me .. ;))

Jardim Gramacho by Marcos Prado

His film on the same topic is amazing, highly recommend it. Estamira.

waiting for arrival Magnum Stories

found it used for 10 pounds.looking through this book with a group o people creates a hmmm,interesting experience.
btw as i am quite new on LS – hello everybody,have a nice thuesday.

It’s a classic. I encountered its first edition in the 1970s after it was recommenced as part of some instruction I was getting. This version has been slightly updated. It focuses on the subject, the detail of the shot, and the frame. It is prefaced by an excellent short essay by Szwarkowski. While the photos are journalistic in that they convey the reader to a situation to be understood, the book focuses on the photograph not as a story but as a symbol, an important distinction.

I like this book!

Just bought Where War Lives by Paul Watson.

I don’t think it’s technically a photo book but I’m sure there are photographs in it. Couldn’t find it locally so I haven’t peeked inside. Can’t wait to get it.

that is SO FUCKED! :))))…I JUST BOUGHT DELAHAYE’S L’AUTRE BOOK TODAY!!! for only $2….at BookCity on Bloor (near Balthurst)…i bought it more for the essay by Baudrillard at the end….(love the cover and the exhibition much more than the books’ content: i wonder why the book editor and Delahaye used only 1 image of the people instead of multiple, like the cover/exhibition???…

so weird, ’cause I was going to post this today too :)))))))))))))

how much did you pay??

synchronicity ;))))))

b

Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices

You mean last and first pages in the book… I really loved them as they show all scenario in one page. I also loved his self portrait, indeed cool…

we live in a small world and have got almost same shits :))) so synchronicity?? :))))

gotta go out to Annex and look for another cool book tonite :)))I am desperately looking for a book by MICHAEL von GRAFFENRIED, I will post here again when I got it…

c ya

yea: i mean the first and last pages of the Delahaye book…exhibition looks brilliant: i wished the book had been laid out like that (triptych/diptych each page instead of 1 photo), would have made more sense to me and more interesting….but, i do like the book, especially given my long project FACES ;))))

running
b

Over a career of more than 50 years (and counting) of work in Saida, Lebanon, El Madani has documented a people who have suffered great social upheaval but who, when posing for his camera, felt free and safe to be who they wanted. The subjects of his photographs exude dignity, strength, good humor, and individuality. The conventions of studio photography remain static, but over time, the parade of faces who passed in front of El Madani’s lens would change with the times, forming a shifting collective portrait of a Middle Eastern town in the last half of the 20th century. “I would have liked to have photographed all the people of Saida,” he said, “because that is where I live.”

check out the above site. the book erica cites are all images from a now famous studio portrait photographer who worked in 60s/70s Lebanon and took anything ranging from passport pics, wedding, family, and friends that the arab image foundation put together in this brilliant book as a fascinating record of the time. I think this foundation and its series of books is one of the most exciting visual records to emerge from the Middle East in a long time.

and perhaps has the potential to overcome and defy many boring stereo types around the middle east.

i’ll see it i can find the book here to flip through :))

thanks
b

going to the link now, thanks a million

cheers,
brother b

Im reading now the website Tanya mentioned: the mandate and photos on the website are extraordinary….

Tanya, i noticed that Walid Raad is a member of the Arab Image Foundation!!!!

I LOVE LOVE WALID RAAD AND HIS THE ATLAS GROUP ARCHIVES! :)))))))))))…he’s one of the most (for me) brilliant thinkers/photographers around….i saw his exhibition here, in 2005, at York University….o, prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……….

reading more now :))))

i send her a kiss from you :)))))))

brother b

An article from PDN last year says he now sells real estate, and does crop dusting…

You can see images from the book here

His website is very well done!!

theperfectsoldier

Jim Goldberg’s Raised by Wolves.

Susan Sontag – On Photography

Walker Evans – The Hungry Eye

American Photographs – James Danziger

Henri Cartier Bresson – The Man, The Image & The World: A Retrospective

Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment

Dorothea Lange – By Mark Durden

Andre Kertesz – By Noel Bourcier

Brassai – By Jean Claude Gautrand

All have been very inspiring!

Thanks Erica for starting this discussion, it’s been very useful to people like me who want to improve their knowledge of photography and photographers.

Me, coming a little late for this classic.

Doug

and

Divided Soul by David Alan Harvey

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War by Ashley Gilbertson

“The Collected Works of Billy The Kid” by Michael Ondaatje

Simply ESSENTIAL.

Book Description

Description: Nice to Meet You is a book of family photographs, except that sometimes, the people in them aren’t family. Photographer Txema Salvans seeks to explain, through people’s interaction, the quotidian in a culture and a way of being and living that is “Mediterranean”—direct, close, sincere. Nice to Meet You also references a form of work in which Salvans does not impose his presence, but is accepted by the system or the personages he wants to photograph. A brief text by journalist Guillem Martinez preceeds each group of rich black and white images, and provides a guide to understanding the following scene—through them readers are invited to delve into the family logic of families that have, perhaps, never happened. /amazon.com

about Txema Salvans_ http://www.txemasalvans.com

Today, I bought “In America by Eve Arnold”… Online pictures

This is another great book about America and its lifestyle…

A

I think next will be Harvey’s Divided Soul… I need color books.

by Danny Lyon just arrived. Great book. Oddly, I found I already had a copy on my bookshelf. I did that recently with Requiem by Tim Page and Horst Faas. I really need to start checking my shelves before buying. LOL.

http://www.kaylynndeveney.com/bertintro.html (images are online, but the printed book is stronger)

An excellent tribute to the most expressive part of our body, and more..

and

The Education of a Photographer

Buy this book. It is amazing. I wrote more of a reaction to it than review on my blog.
http://wordsonphotography.tomleininger.net/

If you only do one thing, buy the book, but if you have chance feel free to check out the blog.

Tom

[View images from Driftless: Photographs from Iowa]

Danny Wilcox Frazier, a freelance photographer who also teaches at the University of Iowa, has won the 2006 Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.

Robert Frank, one of America’s most important and influential photographers, judged the competition and chose Frazier for the prize because of his “passionate photographs without sentimentality. . . . his work reaches out: let me tell your story, it is important.”

“Frazier’s work will survive,” Frank wrote, “his book will be the foundation for more to come. . . .”

Danny Wilcox Frazier will receive a grant of $3,000, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in an exhibition of prizewinners. Frank will write a statement for the book, Driftless: Photographs from Iowa, which will be published in fall 2007 by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies.

Frazier, who has a master’s degree from the University of Iowa, has received awards from the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year International, including their 2004 Community Awareness Award, for selections of his work from Iowa. He was also awarded a Stanley Fellowship in 2003. An image Frazier made at the University of Iowa on September 11, 2001, was part of the National Museum of American History’s show “September 11: Bearing Witness to History.” This collection of photographs of Midwestern rural culture will be his first book.

“During winter in the Midwest, one can drive along endless gravel roads divided by windblown fields of black earth as dark as tar,” writes Frazier of the world he depicts in his arresting black-and-white photographs. “Snow drifts along fencerows, leaving the landscape a harsh contrast of black and white. But the feeling of openness that so defines the Midwest’s rural landscape is being replaced by one of emptiness. This work sheds light on people and places often ignored by mainstream media. As the economies of rural communities across America continue to fail, abandonment is becoming commonplace; these photographs document the human effect of this economic shift.”

Frazier made these powerful photographs over a three-year period. “Ultimately, many rural communities across the Midwest will die,” he writes, and “in some ways the pictures I have made simply document the process.” Frazier has immersed himself in the collective experiences he photographs—in the lives of people who continue to find comfort among friends and family in small communities, and meaning and purpose in the enduring traditions and customs which mark the seasons. His interest in rural issues is rooted in his own life as he was raised in a small Iowa town that sits on the Mississippi River, not unlike the places he reveals through his images.

Poetic and dark, but illuminated with flashes of insight, Frazier’s imagery has a brilliance of feeling. One turns away from his photographs feeling the heartbreak of our shared loss, for this is an America all of us are losing.

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/driftless.html#

Gallery

and

http://www.steidlville.com/books/445-Haunts.html

He just released a re-print of this book.
on the same day I picked up Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Ashley Gilbertson

http://shopping.icp.org/store/product.html?product_id=27133

American Pictures by Jacob Holdt

I first saw it in Arles this year. I was shocked how close he got to his models.

Funny thing is that book was published in 80. in Poland but i dont know anybody who is aware of it, and actually in that old layout it looks really bad… And now the new edition is shortlisted for Deutsche Borse Prize 2007!

Front cover of old polish edition below:

Really enjoyable.

On the way (a birthday present from my in-laws) is Nachtwey’s Inferno.

Interesting compilation of fotos and commentary by various war photographers.

I’m new here aswell. Hi all!

which my wife brought back from Moscow….

Последняя Империя: 20 Лет Спустя (EXTRAORDINARY BOOK! )

(THE LAST EMPIRE: 20 YEARS LATER)

EXCERPTS HERE:

http://www.visapourlimage.com/anglais/expos_couventminimesmaximishin-2007.php3

http://yoursgallery.pl/exhibitions.php?action=details&exh_id=7

http://blogetpolitique.typepad.com/oena/2007/08/1-16907-sergey-.html

http://www.prolab.ru/en/news/4

I got the book “Magnum Stories” for my birthday last year. The most valuable and meaningful gift I have ever received. The book presents portfolios of various Magnum photographers with each photographers’ words on their reflections over photography. As a rookie photographer I found it very educative.

Life Below by Christophe Agou

just powerful stuff

A photograph everyday for a year. Mostly fashion but other great personal pictures.

http://www.sean-ellis.com

Not the last, but worth mentioning, Humanity and Inhumanity: The Photographic Journey of George Rodger, possibly my prefered photo-book ever.

http://www.naogino.to/index_e.html

Tamer.. great gift you got! I saw that book is great!Last books (and only albums i have) i got are:
Vietnam Inc. and Divided Soul which i got from David Alan Harvey, so it’s like a treasure!

I just purchased Iraq: the space between by the german photojournalist Christoph Bangert.
It is a very interesting aproach to photograph a war where the enemy isn’t really visible…

You can look at many of his photographs on his online portfolio at www.christophbangert.com

Just ordered last night: Chris Morris’s “My America” (wanted it for a while, but now I need to get it signed at the seminar!), and David Hurn & Bill Jay’s “On Being a Photographer.”

Does anyone else have an addiction to buying photo books? I think I need an intervention.

The Cars That Ate Bangkok by Philip Blenkinsop.

Scooped up the last two for me and a buddy at Orchid Books in Silom Plaza in BKK. A thousand printed and I got No. 666!

Ok.. We continue with the latest books… has been while in this thread….The Blue Room by Eugene Richards…

Ok.. We continue with the latest books… has been while in this thread….The Blue Room by Eugene Richards…

Beautiful, large book with giant panels!

Between the Lines

I’m also hoping to get my Araki order from Amazon, that’s if the SA postal service didn’t go all arty on me and steal them.

the other is “Shadowland” by Jan Grarup.

i’ve been looking hard for Trent Parke’s “Dream/Life”. anyone know where i can snag a copy?

Louis Faurer and Strangely-Familiar, Michal Chelbin

recent purchases

Recollections, Philip-Jones Griffiths,
FrenchKiss, Anders Petersen,
Prague, Invasion, Koudelka

An amazing collection of pictures from the greatest war photographers.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1600781632/sportsshooter-20

http://www.amazon.com/Brassai-Paris-Night/dp/0821227386/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1230997502&sr=1-1

“House Calls” is my favorite, but the nice things is that they are all affordable, which is not always the case with photo books.

“The Blue Room” Eugene Richards. Its been referenced here in earlier posts so won’t blather on about it, but it is breath taking.

While at Photo Expo last October, I didn’t get the chance to sit in on Bill Eppridge’s converstion with Peter Arnett.
Just by coincedence, he walked into my new store (Camera Wholesalers in Stamford,Ct.)and we spoke for over an hour on his work (which is incredible)and his book of RFK’s images that were published in Life magazine in 1968-69.
RFK had such an effect on me in those days, I asked my folks to name my younger brother Robert (turned out he sorta honored my request but opted for Roberto in honor of Roberto Clemente – also a good choice). And I remembered his work, so I picked up A Time it Was…, and it shows that Eppridge is up there with the best pj’s of his time.

http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/mShowDetailsbycatAmazon.cfm?Catalog=ZD595&i2=9781934334058

heavy duty indeed…

10 × 13 in. / 48 pgs / 31 color.
Edition of 250 plus A.P.

http://coleybrown.com

and

Kenneth Cappello: Acid Drop
TinyVices

7.25 × 9 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color.

http://www.artbook.com/9781597110815.html

In Kathmandu during December I came across this total gem – Vittorio Sella’s “Summit”… an AMAZING collection of black and white alpine landscapes from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries… and you thought Ansel Adams was the master of the black and white landscape? Think again! Check it out if you can find it… awesome.

Received it as a Christmas gift. Fantastic book.

Also, Heath Ledger book. My photographs from the Wake and Funeral are in it. Also picked up another Ledger book, and two more photographs published in it.

/// a t t

http://MattJelonek.com

Satellites by Jonas Benediksen

i have ordered it for my Kyrgyz friend but when it arrived cannot give it away

2-3 images there can put you on your knees espacially if you are one of 250 mln of former Soviet Union citizens

GERDA TARO – Irme Schaber, Richard Whelan & Kristen Lubben (ISBN: 3-86521-532-1) IPC/Steidl

As well as some great images (particularly by Capa), both books have detailed biographical information and analysis. I found the direct comparisons of images taken by Taro and Capa of the same subject very interesting. Capa was clearly the better photographer, but who knows what Taro might have achieved had she not died so young.

I also just picked up Benjamin Lowy’s “iraq | perspectives.”

This book is GENIAL!