| |
|
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work 1 review
Susanne Lange
The MIT Press, 2006
Excellent overview
Anyone interested not only in industrial photography, but also avant garde photography of the last fifty is undoubtedly familiar with the work of the german husband and wife team of Bernd and Hilla Becher. The Bechers have devoted their careers to encyclopedically record different types of ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Photography of John Gutmann: Culture Shock1 review
Sandra S. Phillips
Merrell, 2000
Incredible Imaging
John Gutmann's immigration to the United States was so monumental in that the images he brought forth of normal occurances in this country, were largely ingored by his colleges- thus, his pictures are not the carbon copy variety of say Ansel Adams. This book is fanastic, excellent tonality, and is ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Bruce Davidson: England/Scotland 1960
Steidl, 2006
In 1960, after spending an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang called The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided that he needed to get away from the tension, depression, and potential violence connected to that work. He took on a commission to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's film The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then traveled to London on a ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Robert Frank: The Americans29 reviews
Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac
Scalo Publishers, 1998
The definitive "The Americans"
+ Robert Frank, not Jack Kerouac
+ iNTERESTING
+ It's not by Jack K.
+ Black and White and Grey
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph 16 reviews
Aperture, 1997
You Must Change Your Life
+ Exactly what I expected. . .
+ "Cast A Cold Eye On Life, On Death. Horseman, Pass By!" Epitaph of W.B. Yeats
+ Our World in the Eyes of Diane Arbus
+ Very Intriguing!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Grim Street4 reviews
powerHouse Books, 2005
Grim Street
+ Grim Street
+ Grim Street Revisited
+ 'Grabshots' Illuminate the Grim Streets of Wilkes-Barre, PA
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
August Sander: People of the 20th Century (7 Volume Set) 1 review
Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl
Harry N. Abrams, 2002
Timeless photos show an artist's progression
I can't say that I know a whole lot about photography, but I'd heard that August Sander was a pioneer in portrait photographs and so I decided to pick up this set. It's a little on the expensive side and I wish the pictures took up the whole page, but the pages are thick and glossy and the quality ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Chris Killip (55 (Series).)1 review
Gerry Badger
Phaidon Press, 2001
Moving
Some of the stoic figures could be out of Thomas Hardy. But also there are eccentric, intimate, noble and magical effects from ordinary people in an extraordinary world. Especially, for me, the composition and lighting in these photos show genius in this artist.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Walker Evans: Signs (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum)2 reviews
Walker; Codrescu, Andrei; J. Paul Getty Museum; Condrescu, Andrei Evans
Getty, 1998
Just Beautiful!
+ Graphics / Black & White fans MUST BUY
Walker Evans SIGNS are unique and wonderful. These images glow in there black and white surroundings. Some of the images are simple and delicate and other are busy and loud...a great mixure.Codrescu's essays give you a delightful walk through of Evans life.Andrei has an original insight... ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Immediate Family35 reviews
Aperture, 1994
Grand Photographic Book
+ Gorjus
+ Highly Recommended
+ pretty
+ I loved it!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture Monograph)5 reviews
Robert Coles
Aperture, 1998
Photographs of a Lifetime
+ a beautiful collection
+ Dorothea Lange
+ Photographs of a Lifetime Book
+ Beautiful Photographic Collection
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World: A Retrospective14 reviews
Peter Galassi, Jean Clair, ...
Thames & Hudson, 2006
A must if HCB is your cup of tea!
+ The overview or cyclopaedia of this master. Buy it!
+ Poor quality reproduction of photographs
+ Creo que el mejor libro de Cartier Bresson
+ This book is amazing!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Louis Faurer2 reviews
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Merrell, 2002
A MEMORABLE KEEPSAKE VOLUME
+ Seeing Through the Eyes of God's Lonely Man
Famed photographer Louis Faurer, who died last year at the age of 84, is remembered for his inimitable fashion photos and arresting street scenes. With camera at the ready he traversed New York City streets, searching for the moments he wished to preserve. The child of a blue-collar Philadelphia ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
August Sander: People of the 20th Century (7 Volume Set)1 review
Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl
Harry N. Abrams, 2002
Timeless photos show an artist's progression
I can't say that I know a whole lot about photography, but I'd heard that August Sander was a pioneer in portrait photographs and so I decided to pick up this set. It's a little on the expensive side and I wish the pictures took up the whole page, but the pages are thick and glossy and the quality ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Robert Frank: The Americans29 reviews
Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac
Scalo Publishers, 1998
The definitive "The Americans"
+ Robert Frank, not Jack Kerouac
+ iNTERESTING
+ It's not by Jack K.
+ Black and White and Grey
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Walker Evans: Signs (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum)2 reviews
Walker; Codrescu, Andrei; J. Paul Getty Museum; Condrescu, Andrei Evans
Getty, 1998
Just Beautiful!
+ Graphics / Black & White fans MUST BUY
Walker Evans SIGNS are unique and wonderful. These images glow in there black and white surroundings. Some of the images are simple and delicate and other are busy and loud...a great mixure.Codrescu's essays give you a delightful walk through of Evans life.Andrei has an original insight... ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Grim Street4 reviews
powerHouse Books, 2005
Grim Street
+ Grim Street
+ Grim Street Revisited
+ 'Grabshots' Illuminate the Grim Streets of Wilkes-Barre, PA
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Louis Faurer2 reviews
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Merrell, 2002
A MEMORABLE KEEPSAKE VOLUME
+ Seeing Through the Eyes of God's Lonely Man
Famed photographer Louis Faurer, who died last year at the age of 84, is remembered for his inimitable fashion photos and arresting street scenes. With camera at the ready he traversed New York City streets, searching for the moments he wished to preserve. The child of a blue-collar Philadelphia ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Bruce Davidson: England/Scotland 1960
Steidl, 2006
In 1960, after spending an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang called The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided that he needed to get away from the tension, depression, and potential violence connected to that work. He took on a commission to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's film The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then traveled to London on a ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Immediate Family35 reviews
Aperture, 1994
Grand Photographic Book
+ Gorjus
+ Highly Recommended
+ pretty
+ I loved it!
|
|
|
|
|
|
