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Uncommon Places (A New Images Book) 11 reviews
Stephen Shore
Aperture, 1982
I love it
+ A man who master his work.
+ Great Vintage Work
+ Awesome
+ a TRUE master
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Alec Soth: Niagara 4 reviews
Alec Soth, Philip Brookman, ...
Steidl, 2006
fall in love with photography all over again
+ Another great book
+ better than sleeping on the mississippi
Saw the exhibition that accompanied this book . Poignant and funny by turns, it was one of the best recent photography exhibitions i have seen .The inclusion of found love letters and the swans made of towels, stopped the collection from just being a collection of expected shots of odd looking ...
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American Surfaces3 reviews
Phaidon Press Inc., 2008
Helping us See Again...Beyond Critiques of American Consumer Fetishism
+ Excellent, beautiful book!
I loved this book, partly because I love this photographer's eye. Are the pictures documentary? Sure. Are they wry? Often, though not always. They are beautiful in the most strange, farfetched, formal aesthetic sense (shapes, colors, imaginary visual lines). That about sums it up. Stephan Shore's ...
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Crushed 3 reviews
Jason Fulford
J&L Books, 2003
A Book of Looks
As a visual arts professional since 1989, particularly dealing with photography, I have seen a lot of really good and incredibly bad art books. With most being outrageously expensive it takes quite a bit for me to spend my money on them. Having grown sick of photography and its lack of visual ...
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Dorchester Days 2 reviews
Eugene Richards
Phaidon Press, 2000
A Photo Documentary Classic Reissued
+ fabulous
Eugene Richards is arguably America's greatest living social documentary photographer, and "Dorchester Days" is his photographic portrait of the blue collar Boston neighborhood in which he came of age. Originally self-published and printed on a press intended for canning lables, this Phaidon ...
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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
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Winogrand 19642 reviews
Trudy Wilner Stack
Arena Editions, 2002
The best Winogrand collection, but maybe not $200 better
+ Stirring Images of the Seemingly Mundane
The work really is great, and does a marvelous job of evoking this era. He could even write--the grant proposal that got him the money for this (included) is perhaps the best, most concise, most haunting proposal I've ever seen.
Very puzzling why some of these images took 40 years to be ...
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William Eggleston's Guide.4 reviews
John Szarkowski
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002
An excellent re-release.
+ essential work
+ the original
+ Bill's artful snapshots
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Come Again2 reviews
Steidl, 2006
A great collectable work of art
+ I get a bang out of him Still
Robert Frank, a photographer's photographer, and really the Bob Dylan of the medium, has a stark and taciturn way of seeing things that is manifest in this book. It is published at the launch of a 5 year program for Gerhard Steidl, the finest publisher in the world, to release new Frank books, ...
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Winogrand: Figments From The Real World4 reviews
John Szarkowski
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003
Winogrand: Figments from the Real World
+ Go For It
+ If you like Winogrand, you'll love this book
+ winnogrand's eye
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Dog Days Bogota1 review
Steidl, 2007
Amazing images!
I am so clearly biased, as my wife and i adopted a baby girl from Bogota, Colombia in February of 2007. These images were part of our journey, adn speak to us on a very personal level. But, having shared the book with many non-adoptive friends and aquaintences, I know they speak to them as as ...
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William Eggleston, 2 1/47 reviews
William Eggleston
Twin Palms Publishers, 1999
Maybe look for a first edition?
+ Beautiful
+ Beg, borrow, buy or steal this book
+ A fine addition to the Eggleston catalog
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Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait2 reviews
John Szarkowski
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005
Inspirational
+ Wonderful collection of images
I love this book, a collection of unusual self-portrait work by Lee Friedlander. Often he's only shown as a shadow, or reflection. In many cases, his use of his image is a clever and even humorous comment on the other elements within the photograph. Sometimes, you even must hunt for him.. "where's ...
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Walker Evans: Polaroids2 reviews
Walker Evans, Jeff L. Rosenheim
Scalo Publishers, 2001
Pure Composition
+ Instant Pictures!
Superficially, this book of over 120 colour plates of Walker Evans' Polaroids could be categorised as a 'novelty' piece, much like the recent 'Ansel Adams in Color,' (Harry Callaghan, ed). Adams' colour work, however, never represented much more than a curious footnote in the master craftsman's ...
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Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth2 reviews
Magnum Photos, 2007
Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth
+ Interesting Images - Wouldn't Purchase it twice for that price
A unique pictoral entre in to the world of fashion by contemporary photography's favored son, Alec Soth. This is a beautiful book.
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Ed Panar: Golden Palms1 review
J&L Books, 2007
LA's finest
Panars book is a must have. JandL books have puplished another gem. Seeing the streets of LA trough Panars eyes opens a new perspective. Away from the usual scenery Panars view is intriguing and sometimes funny but beautifull in all aspects. I can't wait to see more from Ed Panar.
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Sleeping By the Mississippi6 reviews
Patricia Hampl
Steidl, 2004
Spectacular!!!!
+ A must-have in your photography book collection
+ Maybe not a CLASSIC, but close
Alec Soth builds on the tradition established by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld. But Soth dramatically moves beyond these masters by presenting a more eccentric cast of characters, a stronger thematic melody and a more personal insight.
Soth's photographic journey down the ...
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Reflection of a Man: The Photographs of Stanley Marcus3 reviews
The Cairn Press, 2008
A keepsake book!
+ His world through the eyes of a remarkable man
+ A Clear Eye
Every time I sit down with this book I see something new. It's like a trip back in time in every sense. I admire the elegant women in their gloves and hats, feel transported to places around the world I yearn to see, and of course marvel at Mr. Stanley's uncanny sense of style that is captured in ...
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Lee Friedlander1 review
D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery, 2000
A Peculiar Joy
I picked up this book not knowing what to expect. What I found was a collection of surprisingly moving and amusing self-portraits. General themes: Lee pretending to be asleep, taking his own picture; Lee, standing behind tree branches or bushes. This is my new favorite coffee table book. A ...
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Jason Fulford: Raising Frogs for $ $ $ 1 review
Jason Fulford
The Ice Plant, 2006
Raising Frogs
This book has nothing to do with raising frogs. It has a few tiny photos that are not about frogs and none too exciting otherwise. It was a waste of my money and time.
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