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Ordered this earlier in the week –
Through The Lens : National Geographic’S Greatest Photographs
http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/10497420/Through-The-Lens/Product.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;No idea if it is any good or not… but at €9.99 for a 504 page hard back it’ll make a good coffee table filler at the very least.
Hi Mark, good to hear from you again :)
and thanks for the suggestion :)
I’ve just come back from the Jane Brow’s Exposures exibition: really really great :D
and I love Eggleston’s works, I think I’m going to follow your advice about this book!
Cheers
a.These are what I got recently.
I got another Kenna book, a relatively inexpensive softcover, very beautifully printed.
http://www.michaelkenna.net/publication_detail.php?id=39″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;A book on Modernist Photography, I randomly found it in a bookstore, it has become one of my favourite photography books
http://www.artbook.com/3865211585.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;A book by a Japanese Photographer called Ihei Kimura, a friend of HCB. I saw an exhibition of his recently.
http://www.kahitsukan.or.jp/ihe_e.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;The Printed Picture. Not exactly photography, but related. It got a great review on theonlinephotographer site.
It looks very good but I haven’t gotten into it yet.
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/12/book-review-the.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;i think ill try and source one of these…
THE FILM DEVELOPING COOKBOOK By Steve Anchell
aoluain wrote:
i think ill try and source one of these…
THE FILM DEVELOPING COOKBOOK By Steve Anchell
mmmmmmmmmmm interesting :P
I’ve recently had “Photobook” edited by Thames&Hudson, full of great pics (and proudly I must say, lots of great italian photographers!)Alessia wrote:
I’ve just come back from the Jane Brow’s Exposures exibition: really really great :D
Jane Bown ;)
Ha! You were in the National Portrait Gallery in London. That’s a fab exhibition, really brilliant, she’s now in her 90’s. Good interview with her in last months B&W Photography magazine, she seemed painfully shy and modest about her work and very charmingly explained she didn’t know many of her sitters, I think it was Mick Jagger, she’d said she’d never heard of. Classic!
I had the book in my hand but didn’t buy it. I still might do though.
Bought, Irving Penn, Portraits, instead. Still not unpacked, but it looked fantastic!
Want to get a copy of Patti Smith’s book Just Kids. It’s about her time spent with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Did anyone add to their collections over Xmas ?
I got Nick Brandts latest book A Shadow Falls (large book btw)
Camera Lucinda – Roland Barthes
Criticising Photographs – Terry BarrettThe last 2 books are not easy reading :)
Mark wrote:
Did anyone add to their collections over Xmas ?
I got Nick Brandts latest book A Shadow Falls (large book btw)
I got this as well. Absolutely outstanding pictures. Would love to see them in an exhibition.
In general, one of the most important books on photography would be the one from Susan Sontag ‘On photography’, it is one I always recommend to anyone who’s intention is to learn the fundamental intellectual approach, in other words, to understand why you pressing the button. A bible of photography.. :)
There is hundreds of top quality photography books, hundreds of names, projects but I guess it’s hard to recommend a particular one if I don’t know what interests you mostly. Perhaps a visit in NCAD library on Thomas street could help you decide.
Vlad wrote:
In general, one of the most important books on photography would be the one from Susan Sontag ‘On photography’, it is one I always recommend to anyone who’s intention is to learn the fundamental intellectual approach, in other words, to understand why you pressing the button. A bible of photography.. :)
There is hundreds of top quality photography books, hundreds of names, projects but I guess it’s hard to recommend a particular one if I don’t know what interests you mostly. Perhaps a visit in NCAD library on Thomas street could help you decide.
couldn’t agree more, great book, had to read it as part of my degree:)
however from a technical point of view i think 3 must read books are by ansel adams:
the camera
the negative
the print,although alot of the technology is entering its twilight years and some already obsolete(this could cause me a world of pain so no offense intended: i shot film alot to this day) i think it gives a huge understanding of light and how light “works” it also gives an understanding of the evolution of current technology by drawing on conventions of the darkroom.
and some fantastic titles have been listed in this thread.
stew:)
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