From: Allan Connery (allan.connery@shaw.ca)
Date: 01/16/03-11:04:53 AM Z
on 1/15/03 11:15 PM, Phillip Murphy at pmurf@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> The Photography Catalog (1976) edited by Norman Snyder. ISBN
> 0-06-013979-X pbk
>
> There is one from the eighties with the same outlook titled: The
> Photographer's Source by Henry Horenstein.
> (1989) ISBN 0-671-64591-9 pbk
>
> Surely someone has a copy on eBay.
>
> -Phillip
>
> Jeff Kwapil wrote:
>
>> A very hazy memory, apologies if this is too obvious, but can you name
>> this book? I would like to find a copy.
>>
>> I recall from the 1970s an 11x17 inch book, I think was modeled after
>> "The Whole Earth Catalog", titled something like Whole (or Complete?)
>> Photography Catalog.
>>
>> This book introduced me to gum bichromate, cyanotypes and the like.
>>
>> It told all about current publications, hardware, jobs, processes,
>> suppliers, museums, schools, art & much more.
>>
>> Reading it was a lite associate's degree in "What's Happening in
>> Photography"
>
Try abebooks.com and enter "norman snyder" and "photography catalog" in the
search fields. I found 17 copies this morning, priced from $3 to about $22.
Abebooks is a clearing house for book dealers all over U.S. and Canada. I've
used them a couple of times and found them reliable.
Allan Connery
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