latest additions to your library

Wolfgang Sievers by Helen Ennis. National Library of Australia. A selection of his industrial photographs. He left Berlin in 1938, not only because he was part Jewish. He married an artistic talent with an important role in documenting one of the most important phases of our industrial and commercial expansion. Quite unique. The National Library ended up buying most of his extensive library of prints, negatives and transparencies. Their publishing arm turns out very beautiful books.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24410125

One selection: Aluminium rolls

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.pic-an24475499
 
I received a copy of Los Angeles 1964, signed by Bruce Davidson from Magnum. It is just wonderful - the result of a wide-eyed East Coast photographer's astonishment at first witnessing the different, brighter light and (to him) alien lifestyle of the City of Angels. It is a wonderful reminder that we should always be open to being amazed.
 
Some photo books in German, since November:

  • Absolut Analog (by Monika Andrae and Chris Marquart)
  • Schwarzweiß-Fotografie – Die große Fotoschule (by André Giogoli)
  • Die Essenz der Fotografie: Sehen lernen und bewusster gestalten (by Bruce Barnbaum)
  • Die Bildlooks der Profis (by Domquichotte)
  • One Night in Rio (by Paul Ripke)
  • Caffé all’ italiana (by Walter Vogel)
  • Das Photo Objektiv (by Hans-Martin Brandt, 1956)
  • Der eigene Blick (by Robert Mertens)
  • Die Kamera (by Ansel Adams)
  • Das Negativ (by Ansel Adams)
  • Das Bild (Time Life)
  • Licht und Film (Time Life)
  • Die Farbe (Time Life)
  • Die Kamera (Time Life)
 
Donovan Wylie - Outposts
Lee Friedlander - Self Portraits
Carl de Keyzer - Moments before the flood
Ed Burtynsky - Water (bought it for 50%; had wanted it for a while)

If any Europeans are watching, there's some amazing deals at Walther Koenig (some books 80%+ off)
 
ChrisLivsey said:
Just ordered: Eternal London ISBN-13: 9781907893520 Giacomo Brunelli

A cross between Brandt,Frank and Koudelka, all analogue and foot work.
Note his last book The Animals (2008) is now £300+

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/eternal-london

http://www.dewilewis.com/products/eternal-london

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ternal-london-photos-giacomo-brunelli-gallery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...terview-Walking-is-part-of-my-photography.htm
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Incredible work! Wasn't familiar with it, but great stuff! 40€ for a signed copy of Eternal London shipped to my door. Not a fortune, but it's only 48 pages long. Just a little hesitant, though I'm very intrigued by it.
Might just have to pull the trigger, but it's a little more than I'd like to spend for a such small book.
 
Tom Ang's "Photography, the Definitive Visual History" Dorling Kindersley, 2014.

A friend gave me this. It really is pretty complete. Good on the early images. It has a picture of Sassoon the young Kodak engineer who designed the first digital camera. It has a photo by Olive Cotton. It gives a double-page spread to the Nikon 80-200 Zoom which was the first very good zoom lens. It has a nice double-page spread on NASA photography, including the exhortation to clean the windows first. They used thinner film to pack more into the Hasselblad back. At every turn there is some little extra information in this book I haven't read elsewhere before. The iPhone 3GS gets a great mention, and I do miss mine and loved the rendering of that camera and don't necessarily like the subsequent improvements in my iPhone camera. It gets the important philosophical developments and features some of the key images, Paul Strand's abstract verandah shadows, Hoepker's 9/11 Twin Towers idyll etc.

Modern publishing really is miraculous. This is a wonderful book to browse in, with strong layout and lots of content and an amazing price for what it is. It staggers me the work that must have gone into it.
 
Faces by Jane Bown. An absolute treasure of portraits by this talented lady all taken with her inimitable style during her long career with the Observer.
 
Just bought today:

"1981" (2 volumes) by Jun Abe
"2001" by Jun Abe
"On The Road" by Daido Moriyama

All books are signed by the respective authors.
 
Steve McCurry Untold: the stories behind the photographs.

In my huge pile of "things to read". It may float to the top. :)
 
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