wilfredo Posted April 24, 2010 Share #1 Posted April 24, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) What photographic treasures do you harbor on your bookcase? Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119183-whats-on-your-bookcase/?do=findComment&comment=1303842'>More sharing options...
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adan Posted April 24, 2010 Share #2 Posted April 24, 2010 I'd need a panoramic camera to shoot my photo book shelf About 15 running feet. I share with you the two fat Magnum books and the "H-CB, the man,....A Retrospective." Also "Family of Man" - just one copy, but I also have the Family of Man Two Project put out by the Leica Users Group. I also have the complete Peterson's Photographic "Masters of Contemporary Photography" series from the 1970's - still the best source of photographers explaining what they do and why that I've ever come across. By Jill Freedman - Firehouse, Circus Days, Old News A couple of Ralph Gibson's orginal self-published books, acquired in a swap for a Nikon 180 at some point. Most recent acquisition (Xmas gift): The Jazz Loft Project - transcripts of reel-to-reel tapes Gene Smith recorded with various jazz greats (Monk, Overton, Coltrane, Rouse) 1957-1965, illustrated with his pix from the era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgenper Posted April 24, 2010 Share #3 Posted April 24, 2010 Like Andy, several meters.... Lots from the "Californian landscape tradition (AA, Weston pa & sons, Minor White & c. European ones, like my favourite Josef Sudek. Irving Penn. Lots of Swedish ones, of course, mainly nature. A few by Michael Kenna: great images. Last and smallest by far, but VERY much cherished: a good original copy of "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" by Roy deCarava and Langston Hughes (text is just as important as images here). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maurometallo Posted April 24, 2010 Share #4 Posted April 24, 2010 Right now, on my bookcase I have "Never In Color", the latest book I wrote... :D http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1217552 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted April 24, 2010 Share #5 Posted April 24, 2010 Overspill.... But shamefully most of my photography books are 'overspill', stacked wherever they will go. The ones in my office are a bit more ordered and shelved, but one day I'll work out a way of getting them *all* off tables and the floor and onto shelves... Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119183-whats-on-your-bookcase/?do=findComment&comment=1304224'>More sharing options...
ismon Posted April 24, 2010 Share #6 Posted April 24, 2010 A True Believer, I started with the classics: Vith, Morgan & Morgan, Matheson, Kiesselbach, Stockler, Osterloh, Benser, Sheerer, and Lager. Add to that van Hastbroeck, Rogliatti, Laney and Keller, with about a meter of original factory literature. That's all suplimented with decades of both LFI, and Leica Photography magazines, as well as all publications of the Leica Historical Society of America. I fear that I am just getting started, since I bought another bookcase. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_K Posted April 24, 2010 Share #7 Posted April 24, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Except from some early instruction books from Michael Langford and the Life Library of Photography, then there are a few from Ralph Gibson, Helmut Newton, Joyce Tenneson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sally Mann, Herb Ritts, Norman Parkinson, Duane Michals, Pete Turner, Geore Krause, Albert Watson and some misc. ones here & there, i guess. Haven't bought any for the past 5 years as there seems to be fewer titles introduced to the local store i visit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adli Posted April 25, 2010 Share #8 Posted April 25, 2010 Right now I am trying to get a grip on "The Photograph, Composition and Color Design" by Harald Mante. Comprehensive walk through on composition. Also the first book I have that claims to be about photography, but does not incorporate one single picture of a camera. In fact the word camera is hardly mentioned at all. The book focuses on what is in front of the camera Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted April 25, 2010 Share #9 Posted April 25, 2010 This is going to sound odd, but there's nothing on my bookshelf. Ten years ago my job moved me to an office in a universary library. Every day I walked through tens-of-thousands of books to get to the office. At the same time I moved from a rural area to the little city I live in now, and put all my books (tons of 'em) into storage. Whenever I wanted a book, I either found it in the library stacks, or ordered it for the library. I still buy books, but when I'm done I give them away. What's in storage? Oh, first editions like Tulsa, The Bike Riders, Somnombulist, and more. Must divest. Must divest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share #10 Posted April 28, 2010 I wonder if Leica shooters have a more sophisticated collection of books on photography then say, Nikon shooters? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted April 28, 2010 Share #11 Posted April 28, 2010 I wonder if Leica shooters have a more sophisticated collection of books on photography then say, Nikon shooters? I'm quite sure many would like to think so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted April 28, 2010 Share #12 Posted April 28, 2010 Since about 90% of my book collection dates from the years when I shot Nikons and Canons - probably not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffry Abt Posted December 13, 2011 Share #13 Posted December 13, 2011 An empty hallway turned bookcase. (Sorry about the Nikon shot ...sold my M9, waiting impatiently for a new Chrome M9P.) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119183-whats-on-your-bookcase/?do=findComment&comment=1870121'>More sharing options...
Jeffry Abt Posted December 13, 2011 Share #14 Posted December 13, 2011 "A Primer of Visual Literacy" by Donis A.Dondis is not specifically about photography but full of interesting stuff. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119183-whats-on-your-bookcase/?do=findComment&comment=1870318'>More sharing options...
CalArts 99 Posted December 13, 2011 Share #15 Posted December 13, 2011 Mine are primarily authors who write about the image and the culture of image making. They include: Roland Barthes John Berger Jean Baudrillard Vilém Flusser Pierre Bourdieu Jean-Luc Nancy WJT Mitchell Walter Benjamin Marshall McLuhan Reading about the image's construct within a societal context personally helps me in trying to attempt to define my own work (with which I often struggle.) Here's an interesting book that many of you might enjoy. It was one of the first books on photography that I ever read: Photography: A Middle-Brow Art (Un art moyen) Pierre Bourdieu 1965 reprinted by Stanford University Press 1990 A synopsis here: Photography: A Middle-Brow Art - Pierre Bourdieu and associates Translated by Shaun Whiteside Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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