Michael Markey
Mentor
I picked that up some months ago as promised .... very enjoyable .
Low key nothing contrived a very singular vision .
fireblade
Vincenzo.
Oh you think that is bad? I got the special edition version that is 2 feet long and in a box. I did not
read the dimensions and I hate it. I had to put it in my closet because it does not fit anywhere. He certainly went all out but I cannot help but have some of the same feelings as you.
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fireblade
Vincenzo.
Having researched this guy, i find that he has, with this book shown the very raw side of his country. What was interesting, but did not shock me was this......."Photographer Matt Black’s five cross-country routes. From 2014 to 2020, beginning in his hometown in California’s Central Valley, Matt Black travelled over 100,000 miles across 46 states, taking routes that allowed him to cross the country without ever crossing above the poverty line. Each dot on the map represents a city or town in which more than 1 in 5 people live in poverty, the federally-defined threshold of 20% for a high-poverty area. Each community is separated by no more than a two-hour drive."
May be worth purchasing. Cheers.
Michael Markey
Mentor
Robert Frank : Books and Films .
Published by Steidl
Published by Steidl
Oh completely, but once you see the book, you might feel the same way as us. It does not mean we do not think the project is fantastic and powerful. Of course we already knew what the project was about before buying. The poverty tag line has been used a lot when referring to the project.
Michael Markey
Mentor
I watched one these new young ,mainly film ,photographers do a favorite books review recently.
All he seemed to talk about was how the books were constructed and how they felt in the hand .
He seemed to place great importance on their portability .
Never once did he mention the photographs .
I found it very odd .
Nitroplait
Well-known
I just pre-ordered a signed copy of Alec Soth’s new book “A Pound of Pictures”.
My favorite online photo book shop, www.artbooksonline.eu, also had a few books by Bill Owens and Robert Adams with good discounts so I filled up the basket to get free shipping.
My favorite online photo book shop, www.artbooksonline.eu, also had a few books by Bill Owens and Robert Adams with good discounts so I filled up the basket to get free shipping.
Andy Kibber
Well-known
My most recent purchases:
- Jim Jocoy Order of Appearance. Colour photographs from 1977-1980, taken in SF. Published by TBW Books. Very enjoyable.
- Roger A Deakins Byways. Black and white photographs, many from rural England in the 1970s, but other eras and locations represented too. Beautiful stuff. Deakins is a cinematographer who worked on a number of Coen Brothers movies.
I have a couple more books on order, which I expect to arrive any day now. They're more on the gear side of things:
- Robert Shanebrook Making Kodak Film (2nd ed)
- Gerjan van Oosten The Definitive Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide 1952 - 1977
- Jim Jocoy Order of Appearance. Colour photographs from 1977-1980, taken in SF. Published by TBW Books. Very enjoyable.
- Roger A Deakins Byways. Black and white photographs, many from rural England in the 1970s, but other eras and locations represented too. Beautiful stuff. Deakins is a cinematographer who worked on a number of Coen Brothers movies.
I have a couple more books on order, which I expect to arrive any day now. They're more on the gear side of things:
- Robert Shanebrook Making Kodak Film (2nd ed)
- Gerjan van Oosten The Definitive Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide 1952 - 1977
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Latest charity shop find - great pictures in it.
Evergreen States
Pierre Saget (they/them)
My copy of Byways, a collection of still photography by cinematographer Roger Deakins came in in December. I've not yet made my way through it. Some very good photos but also many I would have cut out.
I moved to a neighboring town a year ago this month to be with my partner. I'm in a new public library system and they have a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank. Before we lived together my partner checked it out for me so we could look at it together. This past weekend, with a library card of my own, I checked it out again and am going to spend the rest of the month revisiting it.
I moved to a neighboring town a year ago this month to be with my partner. I'm in a new public library system and they have a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank. Before we lived together my partner checked it out for me so we could look at it together. This past weekend, with a library card of my own, I checked it out again and am going to spend the rest of the month revisiting it.
Dogman
Mentor
Two books on two photographers I knew little about until recently. First, "Sabine Weiss, Exhibition Catalog", from 2016. A very good retrospective look at her work and history. As most here know, she died recently. I had only seen a few of her photos over the years. She was one of the greats.
Another great was Izis. Not nearly as well known to me as the other "humanist photographers" of the time but just as gifted. The book, "Captive Dreams: Photographs 1944-1980". The man "had eyes" to borrow a term from Kerouac.
Another great was Izis. Not nearly as well known to me as the other "humanist photographers" of the time but just as gifted. The book, "Captive Dreams: Photographs 1944-1980". The man "had eyes" to borrow a term from Kerouac.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Latest charity shop find. I am going through it now. Great pictures in there although I am more attracted to the classic ones of the early magnum members.
Jeffrey Ladd "A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture"
Luigi Ghirri "Cardboard Landscapes"
Luigi Ghirri "Cardboard Landscapes"
Larry Cloetta
Mentor
boojum
Mentor
I have bought a bunch of books on Vivian Maier. I like her work and she is an interesting person. And, no doubt, she appeals to a secret fantasy that I, too, will someday be recognized as a great photographer. You can bet against that happening but I am sure I am not the only one who has that fantasy on this board. Like the line from South Pacific, "If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" ;o)
Iceboy
Member
Wanted to share my recent discovery of a Spanish photographer ; Ramón Masats. Love many a great black and white images of 'slice of life' from throughout Spain town and villages These small pocket size books are published by Photo Bolsillo.
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Malcolm M
Well-known
A baker’s dozen of Camera magazine, non-continuous, 1967-72, for £5, or a little more than twice the original three-and-a-tanner, but I suppose that’s inflation for you.
“How would you like to take pictures without using film? To own a colour television set so thin that you could hang it on the wall? To possess a family photo album that could hold several thousand pictures?”
Utter balderdash- it’ll never happen.
“How would you like to take pictures without using film? To own a colour television set so thin that you could hang it on the wall? To possess a family photo album that could hold several thousand pictures?”
Utter balderdash- it’ll never happen.
Stephen Shore - Modern Instances
Luigi Ghirri - Puglia
Ulrich Wust - Stadtbilder
Mark Cohen - Frame
Alec Soth - A Pound of Pictures
Saul Leiter - Early Black and White
Luigi Ghirri - Puglia
Ulrich Wust - Stadtbilder
Mark Cohen - Frame
Alec Soth - A Pound of Pictures
Saul Leiter - Early Black and White
Arnold Layne
Well-known
Amazing thread, lots of information.
I had been looking for this book for many years. I have finally found it:
José Ortiz Echagüe - Tipos y Trajes
I had been looking for this book for many years. I have finally found it:
José Ortiz Echagüe - Tipos y Trajes