Guest Metroman Posted October 19, 2006 Share #1 Posted October 19, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) With the dark nights drawing in here in the northern hemisphere I am getting into my winter routing of catching up on scanning negs, cataloguing, archiving and updating the web site. I am also putting together a photography reading list and was wondering what to put on it. I have some ideas but if you were stranded on a desert island, what worthy tome on photography would you want with you? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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derek_stanton Posted October 19, 2006 Share #2 Posted October 19, 2006 Richard Avedon :: Photographs 1947-1977 Irving Penn :: Moments Preserved Ralph Gibson :: Deus Ex Machina Eliott Erwitt :: Personal Best Robert Doisneau :: Paris Josef Koudelka :: Gypsies Edouard Boubat :: Edouard Boubat Richard Avedon :: Observations Ellen von Unwerth :: Snaps Richard Avedon :: An Autobiography Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted October 19, 2006 Share #3 Posted October 19, 2006 I agree with some of the above - in particular, Gibson's "Deus Ex Machina". I might also add Robert Frank's "Les Américains", Martin Parr's "Small World" and Eggleston's "Los Alamos" to the mix. Are we meant to only choose one? If so, I'd plump for the Gibson. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masjah Posted October 19, 2006 Share #4 Posted October 19, 2006 Just one?!!! I'd probably choose "Photogenic (from the collection of the Royal Phtographic Society)" edited by PamRoberts, Scriptum Editions, ISBN 1 902686 09 8. A wonderful compendium from Fox Talbot onwards. (The collection is now housed in Bradford, of course.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted October 19, 2006 Share #5 Posted October 19, 2006 Steam, Steel and Stars. O.Winston Link. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Metroman Posted October 20, 2006 Share #6 Posted October 20, 2006 Steam, Steel and Stars. O.Winston Link. I watched a cracking documentary about OWL's life - the good, the bad and the uglier moments - a couple of months ago on the Artsworld channel. They went back to some of the places where he had done his shooting and even found some of the locals who remembered him from when he was there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimF Posted October 20, 2006 Share #7 Posted October 20, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Josef Koudelka - Chaos (as Gypsies has already been namechecked, and I haven't seen it anyway ) Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places Alec Soth - Sleeping by the Mississippi Robert Frank - The Americans Homer Sykes - On the Road Again Diane Arbus - Revelations Don McCullin - Unreasonable Behaviour: an autobiography Denis Thorpe - On Home Ground Steve McCurry - South Southeast Tom Stoddart - iWitness Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted October 20, 2006 Share #8 Posted October 20, 2006 Incidently a copy of the Tom Stoddard book has been donated by Leica as a prize to the winner of the recent 'challenge' in Paris. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted October 20, 2006 Share #9 Posted October 20, 2006 Desert Island , yep sums up large parts of Australia at the moment due to drought, but we do not need a reading list yet........ the young damsels are out in short skirts and bikinis............ and for the girls the boys are out in their budgie smugglers ………………………………etrouko Imants Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stunsworth Posted October 21, 2006 Share #11 Posted October 21, 2006 My copy of Elloptt Erwitt's 'Personal Best' arrived this week. My what a big and heavy book :-) It also goes to show again that a great photograph can be tecnically quite poor. The only complaint I have is that the courier - TNT - left the parcel at the back of the house because no one was in. It was sitting in wet for a couple of days. Luckily the book was shrink wrapped. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted October 21, 2006 Share #12 Posted October 21, 2006 Thats a courier for you. Tom Hanks would have delivered it to you personally, albeit seventy years late or something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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