Re: favorite photography books
Well I own just a few alt books and my absolute fave is James. This is not
only because of the quality of the text, but the diversity of the images.
Fave photographic books non alt are:
Man Ray, Taschen (the big hardback not the small softcover which doesn't
have as many images)
Imogen Cunningham, Taschen (ditto^) Text by Lorenz
Minor White, The Eye That Shapes
Camera Work, a Pictorial Guide
Art and Fear, Bayles and Orland (ok, not really a photography book but...)
Diane Arbus, Revelations
John
www.johnbrewerphotography.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt, List" <alt-photo-process-L@usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:46 PM
Subject: favorite photography books
Dear all,
I have a book I have been working through called Building a Photographic
Library, which has in it 138 photographers (etc.) responding with their
favorite 6 books. It is really an instructive book, ending with 500 books
in all mentioned, and the top 11 books mentioned the most (surprising to
me) were:
Szarkowski's Looking at Photographs, and Atget
Weston's Daybooks
Frank's The Americans
Barthes Camera Lucida
Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment
Adams The Negative
Aperture's Diane Arbus
Evans American Photographs
Koudelka's Exiles: Photographs
Kenna's 20 Year Retrospective
This book was done in 2001.
What I am working on is this: I got our librarian to put all of our TR
section books into an excel spreadsheet (we have about 3000 books at MSU
so I can do this; at the U of Minn and other places, this would be
astronomical.....) and I am weeding the list down to a sort of top 100 (or
top 500!--I only have it down to 2000 right now!) photography books. It's
easy to do this with alt because the number of alt books is not quite high
in general (I think I own most of them--Post Factory, Barnier, James,
Farber, Scopick, Arentz, Arnow, Blacklow, Sward, Van Keuren, Crawford,
Nadeau, Reed, Busselle, Frederick, Lewis, Laughter, Livick, blah blah
blah), so that is why I am asking if anyone has any photographic absolute
FAVORITE....let's say, 6, that they'd want to share? Especially any from
2000-2007? OR photographers if you don't know titles?
I think it would provide lively instruction to have this conversation on
this list, even though not pertaining strictly to alt, because we ARE
photographers. It also may encourage those who never post on alt to post
on something that I would think ALL of us have opinions on. Once done I
could make it available on my website for downloading because I know I
can't send attachments through the list and it might be too lengthy to cut
and paste into an email.
Chris
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