What's in your library?

[nesrani]

"I'm interested in DOING, not looking at what others have done."

 

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yawn...

[andy_piper2]

I have about 40 shelf-feet of photo books. Earliest purchase was

probably Aperture monograph on W. Eugene Smith - most recent is Peter

Turnley's PARISIANS. The ones I go back to most often:

 

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Constantin Manos A GREEK PORTFOLIO; Danny Lyon CONVERSATIONS WITH THE

DEAD; Jill Freedman FIREHOUSE, CIRCUS DAYS, OLD NEWS; Mary Ellen Mark

WARD 81; David Douglas Duncan SELF-PORTRAIT USA, WAR WITHOUT HEROES;

Ken Heyman & Lyndon Baines Johnson (no joke!) THIS AMERICA; Magnum

AMERICA IN CRISIS; Paul Fusco LA CAUSA; W. Eugene Smith MINAMATA.

 

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Also the Masters of Contemporary Photography series already mentioned

(although 'contemporary' means a quarter-century ago!!). This series

taught me more about photography than any other single source,

including 4 years of college (which were contemporaneous with the

publication of these books, fortunately!) Trivia: The series was

published by Larry Schiller, most recently famous for writing PERFECT

TOWN PERFECT MURDER about the JonBenet Ramsey case, and also the guy

who smuggled out Lee Harvey Oswald's autopsy pictures for the tabloids

in the 60s.

 

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I sympathise with Peter's comment without agreeing to it. Most of the

books I mentioned are documentary 'projects' - I go back to them now

less to learn photography than to think about how to structure/

organize my own projects, and to revive the creative juices in a time

that doesn't value the photographic document as highly as it once did.

[bobtodrick]

On the 'doing v.s. looking'. It has been said (and of course at this

time I can't remember who by) that if you keep yourself in a vacuum

you are bound to remain at a basic level. It is by seeing something

that you have never tried, having it pique your interest and then

expanding your thinking that one improves.

[stefano_ravizza2]

Just a list (not in order).

H.C.Bresson -Fotografo-(Alinari)

Ray Metzker -City Stills-

Raymond Depardon - Errance-

Louis Stettner -Wisdom Cries Out In The Streets-

[alfie_wang]

Well I pull out the following books:

 

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1) Leica M Photography by Brian Bower

 

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2) Collecting and Using Classic SLR Cameras by Ivor Montale

 

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3) Last Days of Summer by Jock Sturges

 

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4) Photographs by Robert Capa

 

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5) Leica/Leicaflex Way

 

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6) any book by Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

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7) Atget's books in various compilations

 

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8) other books by Jock Sturges if I can find those suckers

 

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9) The Complete Nikon System (wonderful handbooks to all those Nikon

outfits)...

 

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Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Brian Bower's book Leica

Reflex Photography? That dang book is OP. :(

 

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Alfie

[andy_piper2]

Alfie: email me. A couple of Denver stores had Bower's SLR within the

past couple of weeks, if you want to bother with mail-order.

[john_collier5]

What!! No Larry Clark? Get yourself to a library and find a copy of

"Tulsa". You had better sit down before openning it.

 

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Cheers,

[wilhelm]

What a great thread! I presumed that I had a lot in common with many

of the posters to this forum, but with only a couple of exceptions

the books listed aren't part of my library, in fact I've not even

seen many of them.

[karl_georg_wolf]

Am I too late for an answer? If not, here are some of my favourites:

 

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Ralph Gibson: TROPISM ( and others),

 

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Herber List: NAPOLI,

 

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Dr. Paul Wolff: GROSSBILD ODER KLEINBILD,

 

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H. C. Bresson: PREMIERES PHOTOS (and others),

 

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Andreas Feininger: DIE SPRACHE DER NATUR,

 

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Werner Bischof: HIS LIFE AND WORK,

 

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Inge Morath: FOTOGRAFIEN 1952- 1992,

 

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Danny Lyon: .................... (can´t find it right now),

 

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And of course quite a few ones havin been mentioned above:

R. Frank, Salgado etc.

 

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When I startet with my first Leica (too many yrs. back) I decided to

get all the samples of the LEICA- FOTOGRAFIE- magazine to improve my

technique. Now I have all of them in my shelf starting from 1949 or

so. When you go through these, specially the old ones, you can meet

all the later cracks, being interviewd professionally, along with

beautiful examples of their early work. It´s a real joy for me going

through these old magazines.

 

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Have a good time

 

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K. G. Wolf

[karl_georg_wolf]

Sorry, forgot one good piece:

 

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Bill McBride: I, WILL MC BRIDE

 

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And there are quite a few more.

 

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All the best

 

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K. G. Wolf

[MTC Photography]

<ul>

<li> Lao Tse : Dao De Gin

<li> Sun Tse Art of War

<li> I Ching-- The Book of Change

<li> Leonardo da Vinci: Treatise on Painting, translated into Chinese

by martin tai

<li> Complete Poems of Li Po

<li> Edward Weston: Forms of Passion

<li> Ralph Gibson: Deus Ex Machina

<li> Andy Warhol Photography

<li> David Muench & Louis L'Amour: Frontier

<li>Freeman Patterson: ShadowLight

<li> Karl Lagerfeld: A German House

<li> Alfred Stiegliz

<li> Correspondence of Alfred Stiegliz

<li> Bernard Shaw on Photography

<li> Willy Ronis: Sundays by the River

<li> Morris Moses: Spycamera the Minox Story

<li> Hubert Heckmann: Minox Variations in 8x11

<li> Joseph Cooper: Minox Manual

<li> Freeman Patterson : Photography for the Joy of it

<li> Harold Merklinger: The Ins and Outs of Focus

<li> Harold Merklinger : Focusing the View Camera

 

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[roberto_watson_garc_a]

Martin, "Bernard Shaw on photography", haven´t heard of this book, is

this a book of photography images made by Shaw, or literature on

photography wrote by Shaw. I´m very interested in this book, what

ever is the meaning of it, I know Shaw was a avid photographer, but

also could hab wroten many interesting things about it.

Is it an old book?, can it be found in libaries now?