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Favorite photography book...and why...
I have so many favorites - I know it is a cruel question to ask! Nick Brandt's - On this Earth - I feel like I can see into the souls of the animals he photographs! I'm also going to Africa in July - my lifelong dream trip! Michael Thompson 'images' - His perspective is constantly changing, yet it doesn't lose exquisiteness...he never bores me. Any of Richard Avedon's work....I love photography that goes past capturing a beautiful image - it is more fascinating to me what is beyond the image. your turn!  Mar 02 06 01:52 pm Link telex iran - gilles peress haiti - bruce gilden motel fetish - chas ray krider los alamos - william eggleston american surfaces - stephen shore sticks and stones - lee friedlander why, mister, why - geert van kesteren Mar 02 06 01:56 pm Link the americans. period. Mar 02 06 01:57 pm Link Books? People still look at BOOKS??? Mar 02 06 01:59 pm Link I do....love to go to a park, the beach etc - bring a photography book and muse. I love the internet, but I love being outside...more. Mar 02 06 02:01 pm Link "Art of Woman" Mark 'WhiteBear" Henry Yes-my own. Got first print in the mail today and it's brought two of the models in it to tears [the cover model- a 56 year old woman] Will be making some changes to the format, removing some of the work and replacing it but it is impressive overall. I'm quite happy wwith it and it will go for sale by years end along with-hopefully, three others I'm working on. Mar 02 06 05:12 pm Link Art & Fear by Bayles and Orland. Why? Because it guides, simply and reasonably, the life of making art. I like photography books with other people's pictures and like biographies of photographers (reading Cartier-Bresson's bio right now) and don't have much use anymore for technical books, but a book that tells me how to face the next day and keep making my stuff is invaluable. -Don Mar 02 06 05:51 pm Link The Knife and Gun Club by Eugene Richards. Richards is a New York photo documentary genius who's inserted himself into some pretty closed communities. This is from time he spent in the Emergency room at Denver General Hospital some years ago. Mar 02 06 08:32 pm Link Black Ladies by Uwe Ommer (Photographer) feast your eyes on it and see Y Mar 02 06 08:35 pm Link Cygnet wrote: Heelllllloooooooo!! Laptop!! LOL Mar 02 06 08:39 pm Link Mar 02 06 08:41 pm Link people by roxanne lowit smile i-d (i-d magazine retrospective) any helmut newton book maripolarama deus ex machina by ralph gibson Mar 02 06 08:46 pm Link hmm. Still haven't found a park with Wi-fi. Mar 02 06 09:17 pm Link My fav oldies Galen Rowell's Vision - The Art of Adventure Travel From the master of outdoor photography. Arthur Zajonc's book, Catching the Light. Zajonc's book has no pictures and little specifically about photography - Its an interesting dissertation about the science and philosophy of light, which is, after all, the raw material of photography, and how light was perceived through the ages. I started back in photography after I finished it. Arthur Elgort's Model Manual Has pictures of his model shoots and insights. More modern choices - I kinda forget the title, but I think its Photo Icons or something like that, a little 6x8 volume that sells for 10-12 bucks at Borders. Marilyn Monroe is on the cover. Goes through the background story of many famous 20th Century pictures. My fav was James Dean in NYC - shows some different croppings of the picture - which would have made it different. The ponderously titled Mammoth Illustrated Book of Erotic Women, about 20 bucks. About 3-4 pages from about 20 photogs. Picked it up because one of my models was featured on the inside cover. Found about 4-5 more familiar faces I worked with from MM/OMP. Its a nice idea book. What I liked was that most of the results were achievable at my skill level and budget, not photos I could never afford to do. Should keep ya busy for a while Mar 02 06 10:01 pm Link Master Lighting Guide For Portrait Photographers .... just because I am teaching myself how to use the studio strobes that I purchased a few weeks ago. It's a great book because it is simple but very thorough and effective. Mar 02 06 11:45 pm Link D. Brian Nelson wrote: what he said Mar 02 06 11:52 pm Link Brasil incarnate raw unihibited natural sexuality, not over done Mar 02 06 11:57 pm Link An Autobiography, by Richard Avedon and The Eye That Shapes, by Minor White both have an incredible knack for finding beautiful forms in the the exotic and the mundane. Avedon in particular, who could photograph the highest fashion models as well as drifters and circus carnies, bringing both to the same level of humanity and dignity. i hope i can capture even 1/100th of that in my work. Mar 03 06 06:41 pm Link Joel-Peter Witkin, The Guggenheim Museum Book because it's incredibly disturbing and it really makes you feel something. Mar 04 06 05:39 pm Link Models: Sittings 1978-1988 by Marco Glaviano. I love the premise of the book -- some of the top supermodels of the world posed they way they wanted to be depicted, not the way the advertisers wanted them to be depicted. Beautiful images, and nice insight in to the models themselves. Mar 04 06 05:52 pm Link Mario Testino - protraits - amazin full colour and b/w pics of may of the world celebs from vanity fair and vogue and his personal collection that shows his amazin ideas Mar 04 06 05:55 pm Link Lachapelle Land by David Lachapelle and Water Dance by Howard Schatz Mar 05 06 04:34 am Link I think the OP asked for one--early Alzy's memory here, I guess--and from the collection I would choose the common Plisson's The Sea. it has an epic greatness in it. Double double-page fold out spreads as well as the printing itself add to effect. Mar 05 06 12:12 pm Link *Cough, cough* bump *cough* Mar 24 06 04:01 pm Link Since this is a model site. Hiroshi Nonami - Chaos, Eureka, E-Mode Gilles Bensimon - No particular order Albert Watson - Cyclops All Avedon 200 more out of category. Mar 24 06 04:07 pm Link Terryworld ROCKS!!! I honestly have so many favorites. Many are of personal work by fashion shooters but many are not. It's like asking me what's my favorite album? Or what's my favorite movie? Sheesh, gimme a couple of sheets of paper out of your notebook and let me compile a list, and I guarantee you I'll forget a few. FreshWidows wrote: Mar 24 06 04:12 pm Link That is sooo cooool that you can double post! Oopsie! Mar 24 06 04:14 pm Link "Let Truth Be The Prejudice â W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs" is my favorite photo book. I love that man's style for documentary photography. I also like Eugene Richards "The Knife and Gun Club." The images are amazing, and the book has sentimental value too. After speaking to photojournalism students at ASU, they presented me with a copy of the book -- and they had all signed it. Mar 24 06 04:16 pm Link http://www.highfashioncrimescenes.com/ Melaine Pullen. Beautifully shot. Morbidly hilarious. Surprisingly well researched. Mar 24 06 05:08 pm Link Magnum Stories - by Chris Boot The Great Picture Hunt - by Dave Labelle The Great Picture Hunt 2 - by Dave Labelle In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits - by National Geographic I pick these because they are all done by people who have done it differently. I consider myself a person who captures life and not an artist. James Mar 25 06 11:37 am Link I love Femme Fatale shot by Michael Thompson. Mar 25 06 11:45 am Link Helmut Newton Work The complimentary text. Also Layley. It has inspired me. I am looking for *my* Layley Mar 25 06 12:06 pm Link Howard Schatz-Pool Light Mar 25 06 04:30 pm Link The Negative - Ansel Adams It allowed me to learn to see what my film actually records as opposed to what I see. I learned to dicipline myself (in my darkroom at least) and the lessons are still used over a decade after I first read it. In addition it taught me that one of the responsibilities I have as a photographer is to share what I know and help others understand without being high and mighty about it. If Ansel Adams could share every detail I can too and do. I love this book. (His autobiography is excellent as well) David 6of7 Mar 25 06 04:41 pm Link I have tons of favs but my latest greatest is Scott Church, et. al. "Good Luck In Hell." Scott is a MM member by the way MM#1052. Mar 25 06 04:44 pm Link Irving Penn, really any book. Avedon- Made in France Bruce Weber- All American..any of them Mar 25 06 04:50 pm Link Cygnet wrote: I don't know that I have a favourite. I'm so moody that it changes.... Mar 29 06 06:59 am Link Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. A great book on using Apeture and Shutter priority effectively. I understand he's writing an update to the book and I'll definitely want to buy that. Hmm...I have the version pictured above. This version was updated in 2004, and may be the updated version to which I referred above...or not. Petersen's Learing to See Creatively is also very good. Mar 29 06 12:12 pm Link |
