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Papercut said:
Looking forward to your and John's reactions too.

For my part, I'm grateful for these reprints, even when they aren't 100% faithful to the originals -- they let me pick up books I couldn't really ever afford (or justify) otherwise.
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I'm really glad I got this one. It is so much nicer than my 1975 East River Press reprint.

Out of curiosity, I also just picked up a small book titled, More American Photographs. This an exhibition catalog for a show at California College of the Arts. The premise was to create a contemporary follow-up to Roy Stryker's FSA project of the 30's & 40's. The museum commissioned several contemporary photographers to document the look of America today. The book is presented in 2 sections. The first showing some of the original FSA work and the second, the new material.
Photographers involved include Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Larry Clark, Katy Grannan and about half a dozen more. The cover of the book mimics Evans' book to a "T".

Gary
 
Vivian Maier Out of the Shadows by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. CityFiles Press, Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-9785450-9-3. This book arrived a few days ago and when I looked at it the first time I wasn't too taken with it. I didn't like the presentation of many of the photographs, they bleed off the page with no border and alternate with a white bordered page - the book is square in shape, appropriately enough. There are a few pages with small pictures taken in France (probably with 620 film) and one or two pages with 12 small prints of a complete roll from her Rolleiflex. There seemed to be a lot of writing.

Each evening last week I looked at sections of the book and came to terms with it more and more. I was drawn in by the writing as the authors speak to her personal life through various stages and she is less of an enigma after some of it. Also the pictures in this book surely reflect her life more than the pictures in the first book as there are many pictures of children and family life. Presumably the title Out of the Shadows is an allusion to the biographical and personal content. There is also comment on her talent by people like Joel Meyerowitz and discussions of her empathy with those who suffer from inequality. She took up photography at an early age and appears to have been obsessed with taking pictures. She was a voracious shooter her whole life except for the beginning and end. She used a huge amount of film and sometimes would process in two different labs at once. She sometimes had difficulty paying for developing and printing and the authors think that all the undeveloped rolls are a casualty of her inability to pay for processing later in her life.

The pictures are similar to those in the first book except that there are many more of them. Like the first book many are very good, but if a comparison is to be made between the two books this is more personal, the first one was edited more for image content and composition. There is some social commentary especially during the year of 1968; the deaths of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, also the race riots and violent Democratic Convention in Chicago that year. There are many portraits of children and older people that are powerful and humane. She was clearly able to relate to her subjects in the way Willy Ronis did and HCB didn't, yet she was a very private person and apparently socially awkward. The book has given me the context of her persona to set beside the pictures she took and there's a remarkable contrast there. Now I'm glad I have it. I still don't like the page bleeds though.
 
GOOD BOOK - Strange name.

I received an early birthday present from my son and his family in Colorado.

So of course I opened it early. Inside was a fresh-off-the-press copy of "From Oz to

Kansas" by photographer Vincent Versace.

I was perplexed until I saw the subtitle, "Almost Every Black and White Conversion

Technique Known to Man." Included with the book is a pass to download

Color Efex 4 from NIK.

Will it stop me from buying a Leica MM?

No, my budget did that... But, this is an interesting approach that I'm certainly

going to try. (Even if he mangled my favorite quote from Eric Hoffer;

the one that starts, "In times of change, learners inherit the earth... "

Old Rick in Maryland
 
peter_n said:
Vivian Maier Out of the Shadows by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. CityFiles Press, Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-9785450-9-3.
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The book has given me the context of her persona to set beside the pictures she took and there's a remarkable contrast there. Now I'm glad I have it. I still don't like the page bleeds though.
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Nice write up. I just received this today and there are *a lot* more images than the first book, which I'm happy about. I haven't dug into yet but like you, I'm not so jazzed about the full page photos with no border (it's not all of them, thankfully). But it seems to be comprehensive and I look forward to digging in, with the text it seems to offer a lot of context for her photography.
 
The reprint of Walker Evens' American Photographs came in today! Despite having shipped a week or more ago I am still waiting for Alec Soth's Upstate newsprint.
 
all of these!

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daido moriyama / "the complete pocket-sized monograph" by kazuo nishii
the nature of photographs by stephen shore
raumtheorie (theory of space) by jörg dünne and stephan günzel (descartes - lotman)
organs without bodies by slavoj zizek (on deleuze and lacan)
foucault by gilles deleuze
discipline and punish: the birth of the prison by michel foucault
life below by christophe agou
and
das leben ist ungerecht ("life is unfair") by thomas macho.

now all i need is time to read.
 
William Klein Contacts.
Large format paperback in a paper slip case.
Two frames or two and a half frames to a page...the shot high lighted in paints of various colours rather than a grease pencil.
Very graphic ....heavy gloss paper.
Published by Contrasto .
 
HCB's The Decisive Moment (YEAAAAAH!)

Am I happy out of my mind? Yes I am...! I don't know what print it is, but it's not the version with the Matisse painting on the front and back. It's just blank with the title and HCB's name on the spine.

I only recently started buying photo books (after I moved to the US - praise Amazon and Abebooks!) because I discovered I just love scrolling through them. The library at my university has quite a big collection of good photo books. Every couples days I spend some hours looking through them. We have a great analog department and there's a lot of old camera books. Love it! Hopefully we have a similar collection back home (which I doubt, since we don't have a photo department; but we'll see!)
 
Tijmendal said:
HCB's The Decisive Moment (YEAAAAAH!)

Am I happy out of my mind? Yes I am...! I don't know what print it is, but it's not the version with the Matisse painting on the front and back. It's just blank with the title and HCB's name on the spine.
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Do you mind sharing what condition it's in and how much you paid?
 
Jack Robinson - On Show

$10 at the local "book barn" that's closing down. I love it. I'd never heard of him but I sure recognize some of his images. Lots of great portraits of actors and musicians from the 60's.

He left photography in the early 70's and became a stained glass designer.
 
Tijmendal said:
HCB's The Decisive Moment (YEAAAAAH!)

I only recently started buying photo books (after I moved to the US - praise Amazon and Abebooks!) because I discovered I just love scrolling through them.
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I would think carefully about this! I've been collecting for forty years and the question I find myself asking is 'Do I own them or do they own me?'
 
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