interesting books

[Mark Hampton]

hi hi,

LINKY

I may get number 10 ! the comments on the books are fun reading.

any thoughts world.

cheers

[Ken Tanaka]

That's a nice list. I highly recommend Bruce Davidson's "Outside Inside". It's simply a glorious retrospective collection of a lifetime's work. I met Davidson in 2006 and, at that time, he was already deep into collecting work for this. He was also preparing to return to Paris to complete a photo project he had contemplated for decades. (The results are in the final volume.) It's rare that such an accomplished photographer gets to assemble his definitive retrospective, which is also what makes this set so unique. The printing is also absolutely first-rate. Steidl can be good or mediocre, but in this case they've outdone themselves.

I also recommend "The Jazz Loft Project". This book accompanies an exhibition that's traveling through the U.S.. (I was very fortunate to see it this past fall here in Chicago.) It's not purely about E. Eugene Smith's photography, although that's the mainstay. It's more a coverage of the American jazz culture that existed here in the mid-20th.

I own, or have seen, several of the others but those are the two that I most highly recommend to a general public audience. "The New Topographics" is a new edition of what was, in its day, considered a landmark collective body of work. Your affinity for what most people will consider utterly banal photography will determine whether or not it's worth it for you.

[Mark Hampton]

Originally Posted by Ken Tanaka

That's a nice list. I highly recommend Bruce Davidson's "Outside Inside". It's simply a glorious retrospective collection of a lifetime's work. I met Davidson in 2006 and, at that time, he was already deep into collecting work for this. He was also preparing to return to Paris to complete a photo project he had contemplated for decades. (The results are in the final volume.) It's rare that such an accomplished photographer gets to assemble his definitive retrospective, which is also what makes this set so unique. The printing is also absolutely first-rate. Steidl can be good or mediocre, but in this case they've outdone themselves.

I also recommend "The Jazz Loft Project". This book accompanies an exhibition that's traveling through the U.S.. (I was very fortunate to see it this past fall here in Chicago.) It's not purely about E. Eugene Smith's photography, although that's the mainstay. It's more a coverage of the American jazz culture that existed here in the mid-20th.

I own, or have seen, several of the others but those are the two that I most highly recommend to a general public audience. "The New Topographics" is a new edition of what was, in its day, considered a landmark collective body of work. Your affinity for what most people will consider utterly banal photography will determine whether or not it's worth it for you.

Ken,

and you should right ,wright,right and your right..ffs ! will...