ellis_vener_photography Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 and you can't take a camera (darn!) but you can select six photography related books. (Don't include the new Testament / Koran / Talmud, etc. -- those will be available from the Prison library or religious facilities and beingthe warden i wantto keep the thread strictly tied to photography) my choices: Requiem (by the photographers who died in Indochina and Vietnam) In the American West, R. Avedon The Range of Light, Ansel Adams Beauty and Photography, Robert Adams Decisive Moments, Henri Cartier Bresson Workers, Sebastio Salgado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_rybolt Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 W. Eugene Smith: Let Truth Be the PrejudiceShadow and Light-W. Eugene SmithEdward Weston: Daybooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_rybolt Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I'm sorry. I don't know how to create a list in plain text and I sent a garbled mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_shakeshaft Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 <P>Public Relations - Gary Winograd</P> <P>The Man, The Image, The World - Henri Cartier Bresson</P> <P>Vietnam Inc - Phillip Jones Griffiths</P> <P>Steam, Steel and Stars - Winston O Link</P> <P>Anything by Trent Park, book on the way!</P> <P>Enjoy!</P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_franklin Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 OK. Sticking strictly to stuff I have at time of writing: 1. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works - Stephen Shore 2. Quiet Light - John Sexton 3. On Home Ground - Denis Thorpe 4. The English - Ian Berry 5. Prague Panoramic - Josef Sudek 6. Don McCullin - Don McCullin If I'm allowed an extra "imaginary" book (because it doesn't exist, except in my head) - a selection of photographs by Brian Tompkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 The Map - Kikuji Kawada '71 NY - Daido Moriyama Black Sun - Various Some Future Book - Edmo The Americans - Robert Frank In the American West - Richard Avedon Avedon at Work: In the American West - Laura Wilson www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 1. The Focal Encyclopeida of Photography (old 1950s edition two huge volumes, keep me happy for hours) 2. Morgans (again a 1950s edition) Leica Handbook, I just love the language. 3. Ilford Manual of Photography ('50s again) lots of useful stuff in there. 4. Gene Nocons Photographic Printing, a genius if ever there was one. 5. Any old (pre '60) BJP almanac, good advice, supurb gravure photos, and lot of old kit reviewed. 6. Why I like Leicas by me, well got to write a book in jail. I guess this sums me up, working at the sharp edge of modern (electro optic) design I like the simple functionality and precision of Leicas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I will opt for net access. I don't like to re-read books. But then, I have not read 6 whole books to list. I will read this thread with interest to identify some potential candidates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 In prison it would have to be something with a lot of naked women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Thinking about it, if 'newbies' had one of the first two on my list half the questions asked on this forum wouldn't be. You can't beat the value for money from second hand books, I find that quite a lot of the modern ones are more style than content, the binding is usualy better on the old ones too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zpuskas Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 How about: Edward Weston: His Life by Ben Maddow Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography Photography Speaks/150 Photographers on Their Art Michael Kenna: A Twenty Year Retrospective Intimations of Paradise:Photographs by Christopher Burkett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd_phillips1 Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Mark.....just take a bunch of Helmut Newton books (excluding his horrible auto biography). That should do the trick. Or maybe (and I'm dating myself here...I thought these were really cool when I was very young) some Bunny Yeager beach photos (Al...do you remember these?). Or some Peter Gowland... This should last you for your sentence!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_doyle Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 <i>In prison it would have to be something with a lot of naked women.</i> <p> Todd beat me (doh!) to it, so you could take Madonna's SEX, that covers many forms of purient behavior... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 "you are being sent to prison for one year" I assume this is the next step Brian will take in minimising bad behaviour on the Leica Forum! I would not take books of photos to my prison (or desert island or whatever) they take too little time to 'read'. I would take Herodotus and Austen and Churchill's Malborough biography and Homer's Odyssey (for a comforting re-read) and 'Religion & the decline of magic' and W.G. Hoskins 'Devon' and 'In search of England' by H.V. Morton. I can make far better pictures in my head by reading such books. I also claim a 'bonus book', Simon Schama's Landscape & Memory. Some of these I have read before, some I mean to complete reading and one I have never yet read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 A year without job, cameras, internet and just books to read sounds fantastic. Can I do this year in a remote Orkneys cottage instead? No? Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Never mind all the naked women. It would be good to have a year away from them. Naked women are so stressful at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 W. Eugene Smith, Dream Street. James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The American Image: Photographs from the National Archives, 1860-1960. Robert Capa, Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection. Don McCullin, Unreasonable Behaviour. Atget, Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Be serious, Folks. We don't know why Ellis is so interested --you'll notice that he hasn't been around the Forms much, lately (has he been otherwise "occupied?"). So, to my list. Without question way at the top: Weston's Daybooks. And my favorite of all photography books: Paul Strand's "Time in New England." Then the Gene Smith biography; "Ansel Adams at 100"; "Bystander"; and the only pure book of photographs: "J'ame Paris" by Kertesz. Only six, Ellis -- it's going to be very hard to go a year without Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Larry Clark.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summitar Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Any book by Ivor Matanle on classic cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aizan_sasayama Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 well, if i'm going to jail, i'd probably go with as much eggleston as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awahlster Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I guess I'm the different one in the group. I would take 6 of the thickest 8.5 X 11" bound 4 squares to the inch notebooks with nothing in them preferable legal pad yellow or white with blue lines. With a whole year I could easily fill them with ideas, designs, notes, lists, and maybe even a book of my own. I could completely design a darkroom a studio a business plan a car an airplane dozens of projects to keep my mind busy. A few picture books or story books would be worthless by the second week. IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
________1 Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 This summer I managed to find, and purchase, four clean copies of the MOMA four volume set on Atget. That's plenty for quite a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I'm sure I'd take at least one of Elliott Erwitt's books, and very likely more than one -- books like "Dog Dogs" or "Snaps" -- as I'd need a good laugh once in awhile. Probably also want to bring something by Canadian photographer Freeman Patterson, not only for the photos, but also because he writes so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfimages Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Any book that shows foolproof ways (with pictures) to escape from prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john da Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 How about taking some books by photographer, Norman Mauskopf, who actually uses Leicas? All published by Twin Palms: Rodeo (published 1985) Dark Horses (published 1988) A Time Not Here (published 1996) Also, if you can score on some internet access time while in The Big House... you could visit Norman's web site (www.normanmauskopf.com) and view some of his other work, like "Mustang". You might just learn a little about seeing and sequencing images. Just my recommendation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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