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Favorite coffee table books
Pool Light - Howard Schatz. A collection of underwater photography focusing on people, some glamour, some fashion, some figure study, this is the book that turned me on to photography. I bought myself this book after flipping through it in a bookstore when I was a senior in high school, before I ever knew there was such a thing as a coffee table book. I didn't know crap about photographers. I knew of painters and studied their work at the Louvre, but didn't know a damn about the work of photographers. This is the book that opened my eyes to this medium. Dec 05 05 06:03 pm Link I've caught a jones for big books--among others, Plisson's The Sea; Avedon's Woman in the Mirror; Derrick and Muir's Unseen Vogue. The dumb thing is I've got them living on the bookcase beneath the coffee pot (no spills, please). Dec 06 05 08:50 pm Link Diana Moffitt wrote: i like all those magazines. in fact, i've saved (multiple) issues of each one. perhaps noise most of all. Dec 06 05 09:33 pm Link Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote: it's a very nice thread...good job Dec 06 05 09:34 pm Link Rick Edwards wrote: No, thanks. Got my own. Dec 06 05 10:04 pm Link Not really a coffee table book but one of the most useful books I have ever had. Eddie Ephraums, Creative Elements. It has been lying around my studio for years and the number of times I refer to it is amazing. Anyone interested in Fine Art photography should have it in their collection. Dec 07 05 05:06 am Link I want a copy of Kramers coffee table book. A book about coffee tables which also had foldable legs on it so the book itself became a small table! Anyone remember that episode,lol. But in all seriousness, I like a lot of the Taschen books dealing with art nudes, pinups, they have a few good ones on still life and such. And I have also become a HUGE Imogen Cunningham fan over the last year or two. There is also a female photographer whose name escapes me but she did a lot of industrial and skyscraper architecture photography around the 1940s. If anyone might know who I am talking about please email me her name. I would love to see if she has books. I only saw her on some PBS special a couple years back. Dec 08 05 01:50 am Link Timothy M. Hughes wrote: hehehe Dec 08 05 02:35 am Link kumi wrote: heehee!!! Dec 08 05 02:37 am Link hmmm to start Inferno - by Nachtwey Vietnam - by Burrows robert capa: the definitive collection - whelan Dec 08 05 02:47 am Link I didn't read everyone's post as its getting late and I actually have to try to get some sleep tonight. But one I purchased recently and I think is totally awesome is "Voice Within" by Craig Blacklock. Its a book of nudes taken around Lake Superior with his wife modeling. The photos are stunning, and I believe taken with a 4x5 camera. Craig Blacklock is very well known for his nature photography and has several books out. -P- Dec 08 05 03:12 am Link Glamour Boulevard wrote: Margaret Bourke-White perhaps? There are others but she is arguably the most known of that period and genre. There were a few others, but she's the only woman who's stuff of skyscrapers and smokestacks and such from the 40's that people would be talking much about today. Dec 08 05 06:15 am Link Femme Fatale - Serge Norman PhotoGraphy - Gilles Bensimon American Women - Calvin Klein Bryan Adams Portraits - Timothy White Notorious - Herb Ritts and for pure fun Physiognomy - Mark Seliger Dec 09 05 02:07 pm Link |
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