Re: favorite photography books
I'm a big fan of Ed Rushca's photography (albeit a small portion of his work...mot are paintings). He's got a book (in the MSU library, in fact) aptly titled Ed Rushca and Photography, published in 2004. Great book for anyone interested in conceptual photography. It provides a chronology of Rushca's photographs, along with explanations of each series (which in many cases add a great deal of depth to the images). Camden Hardy camden[at]hardyphotography[dot]net http://www.hardyphotography.net On 5/3/07 6:46 AM, "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net> wrote: > 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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