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    Dave Karp
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    If Only Four Books....

    I have books with photos by Adams, Weston, Caponigro, McSavaney, Sexton, Loranc, and others. But I think if I had to choose, I would grab four reference books that would help me make photographs instead of look at those of others (as much as I like to do the latter as well).

    If pressed, I would pick:

    Thornton, The Edge of Darkness, Adams, The Negative, Adams, The Print, Ctein, Post Exposure.

    If I could cheat and take a collection of photos too, I would take Explorations, by Ray McSavaney.

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    If Only Four Books....

    Volume 2 & 3 of the MOMA's "Work of Atget" series in 4 volumes.

    Walker Evans, catalog from the Met.

    Basilico's L'esperienza dei luoghi.

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    If Only Four Books....

    Surprisingly I have an awful lot of these books mentioned.

    Paul though the Robert Frank book "The Americans" is not a LF book. I would have to say that as a book, as a work of art in itself, "The Americans" and "Time in New England" are in my opinion the two finest photographic books ever made.
    Thanks,
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    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep"

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    If Only Four Books....

    Right now, only two.

    Edward Weston's "Daybooks", both volumes counting as one.

    Paul Strand's "Tir a Mhurain", which I don't own, but should.

    I really have a hard time with questions like this- I think books that are primarily of photographs should be considered seperately from books that are primarily text- but that's just how it is. Still worth thinking about, and fun to read people's opinions. Especially when I've never heard of some of the photographers mentioned.

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    If Only Four Books....

    About the only photo books I have are by George Tice (I like his urban landscapes) , and I have several of Ansel's books.

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    Eric Biggerstaff
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    If Only Four Books....

    Oh geeeeeeze! This is a tough one:

    Certain Places - William Clift
    Masterworks from 40 Years - Paul Caponigro
    Mirrors, Messages and Manifistations - Minor White
    One of my Brett Weston books

    Good question.

    Eric
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    If Only Four Books....

    Let Truth Be Prejudice - W. E. Smith; Essays; World At My Doorstep; Time In New England - P. Strand; Daybooks ; Last Years At Carmel - E. Weston; Immediate Family - S. Mann; Pictures Of People - N. Nixon; Lustrum Press Darkroom 1 & 2; Harry Callahan - H. Callahan; Darkroom Handbook - S. Anchell; 100 Year Book; Negative; Print; Examples; Classic Images - A. Adams; Zone System - M. White, etc. I would have to include my Edward Hopper book of his work; American Realism - a survey of modern American painters; as well as "On Writing" by Stephen King; "To Kill A Mockingbird", "Cold Mountain" ; "Letters of Van Gough" and the films Dekologe and the Three Colors Trilogy by Kieslowski. Is that four yet?

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    If Only Four Books....

    None of my photography monographs are irreplacable - yet - so I suspect I would grab the irreplacable oddballs like exhibition catalogues or the little book from the 1890s about how to photograph splashes of milk using the spark from a Leyden jar. They would all be consigned to the flames long before my first edition of Whymper's "Scrambles among the Alps", or even my own thesis which only exists in four copies.

    The two that I would most enthusiastically recommend a firefigher to risk their life saving would be Siskind 100 and Ray Metzker's Landscapes. Only one of those is LF though.

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    If Only Four Books....

    Eugene Atget John Szarkowski 2000,
    Eugene Smith Master of the Photographic Essay,
    Photography of Max Yavno: Ben Maddow, and
    Jeff Wall Catalogue Raisonne 2006

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    blanco_y_negro
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    If Only Four Books....

    Wow!.. That's heck of a question.. Although I'd consider my cameras and lenses more than anything else, and that we don't have the same books in our personal libraries, Adams's The Making of 40 Photographs is one of my favorites that I keep going back to often. Another one is Sexton's Listen to the Trees. A third one might be Marc Riboud In China: Forty Years of Photography.

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