lee_shively Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 It's Friday afternoon. I've caught up with my work for the week, I've checked all the PN forums of interest and now I'm bored. Thought I'd see what the forum members are reading these days, photo bookwise. Personally, I recently ordered 4-5 books on Paul Strand's work through Amazon. When I went home at lunch today, "Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work" was in the mailbox. I'm about to start it in a few minutes since my office is pretty much deserted this afternoon. What are you reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_m__toronto_ Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 vogue, ikea catalogue, russian phrase book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Just got the brand new Lodima Press "Edward Weston: Life Work." Virtually perfect life-size reproduction of Weston's prints, (overseen by Michael A.Smith). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_schroeder Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I am re-reading Richard Zakia's Perception & Imaging. This is the best photography book I have ever read, and it doesn't even deal directly or exclusively with photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob soltis Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 National Geographic, "Big Russ and Me," "The Da Vinci Code", Russian Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_kennedy1 Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 i read and re-read 'the negative' and 'the print' as far as camera stuff is concerned. for fiction, i have been reading haruki murakami: 'wind up bird chronicle', which restored my faith in modern literature, and now 'norwegian wood' and 'wild sheep chase' - i can't recommend him highly enough. also finished in the last two months: 'vernon god little', 'the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime', 'geek love' and 'middlesex', all enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Today? Leica Manuals from the 1930's and 1940's to answer a querry here about an old Leica Exposure meter made by Weston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_portera Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 currently Mark Twain "Life on the Missisippi" during breaks View Camera Magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 kerouac, mostly....and photo books of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constance_cook Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Non-fiction = Japan Unbound Fiction = Conspirators Photography = Still working my way through Bystanders Work = Quality Management and Supply Chain Management with Philip Kotler's new Marketing Management book for fun Conni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dford Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I'm a product of pubic edjamecation so I ain't big on book learnen. Most recent picture book - Susan Meiselas, Carnival Strippers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I find that there's only so much one can read about photography. It's not something I feel that can be written about that much. <em>Talking</em> about it though, that's another story! <br /><br /> Hope you enjoy the da Vinci code, Bob. Even if only 10% of it is factual it will make you think twice. ;-) <br /><br /> I'm thinking of reading Cecil Beaton's Photobiography again. ATM I'm reading about IP chains in Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Photo Book: Photo Nomad by David Douglas Duncan Non-fiction: Leica, Witness to a Century Political fiction: Clinton's autobiography Science Ficton: Leica Lens Compendium by Erwin Puts Children's Humor: photonet Leica forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary w. Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 <em>Hitler versus Stalin - the Second World War in the Eastern Front in Photographs</em></p> - does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert knapp md Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Beautiful. Yet another thread peed on by our own resident class clown, Jay. Weren't you banned? Didn't you learn anything? Oops! The whole notion of "learning" admits the possibility of growth and change, and an internet icon can't allow that, can he? Oh yeah, reading material: "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icuneko Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Just finished two by Bharti Kirchner: "Darjeeling" and "Pastries." Now starting "Uniform Justice" by Donna Leon. And, of course, PN's Leica Forum ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingell Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Just borrowed from the local library Richard Whelan's biography of Stieglitz after watching the library's DVD copy of the American Masters program on that fascinating individual. Paul Strand, another interesting character, was part of Stieglitz's coterie of artists and photographers. Also poring through a recently-acquired copy of "Bystander." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Karim, you read "IP chains in Linux" ? My God, do you suffer from insomnia or something? ;) I'm about to get me "Da Vinci code". Now, the only problem is time to read it. I have yet to finish HCB's bio by Assouline which I started reading... two years ago. Photo magazines while eating. Lots of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I have Eugene Richards' "Americans We" on my dining room table, open to a page at random, evryy few days I move on to another page. In what we Canadians delicately call the "washroom" I have a small reading table.On it I have an old issue of Wallpaper magazine, a picture/text book on the Renaissance, and book from 1937 by William Mortensen, a Hollywood portraitist from that era. He's an incredibly intelligent and witty writer, and the portaits and explanations are quite lucid. I got it at a Goodwill store for $.75 last year. I look at one or the other of these about 1/2 hour per day, when "seated". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_s.1 Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Yesterday: Cannery Row Today: Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorge Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Talking Photography by Frank van Riper. Also re-studying Gradient Light by Eddie Ephraums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
________1 Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 "Lisette Model", National Gallery of Canada. Great book, I would think it might be the best thing published on Model. Got the first copy of the MOMA series on Atget recently and I always have a history book on the go. Recently finished "The Search for Modern China" by Jonathan D. Spence and now wending my way through "The Columbia History of the World". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socke Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 To busy shooting Latinas on digital and HP5+, in between tunc by Lawrence Durell getting to nunquam next month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 <<Yet another thread peed on by our own resident class clown, Jay.>> It's a nice summer night Kevin...why not keep up the family tradition, grab a sixpack of Miller and take the family out for a joyride? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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