1) Sarah Greenough, "Paul Strand: Sixty Year Retrospective", Aperture
2) Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall, "Time in New England"
3) Brett Weston, "The San Francisco Portfolio", Lodima Press.
4) Raghubir Singh, "River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh", Phaidon Press
Bill Brandt ; Shadow of Light,
Irving Penn; World in a Small Room,
Joel Sternfeld; American Prospects,
Chris Killip; In Flagrante
<ol><li>Intimations and Imaginations: Photographs by George Seeley
<li>A Poetic Vision: The Photographs of Anne Brigman
<li>Robert Maxwell: Photographs
<li>Landscape and Figure Composition: Sadakichi Hartmann</ol>
you guys are making it clear that i need a copy of Time in New England.
Struan, I trust you have a copy of The Ascent of Rum Doodle to accompany your Scrambles Amongst the Alps?
My goodness, we're close.
1) Time in New England (Paul Strand). Several years ago I gave my copy to a really good friend, and suffered almost daily until eBay came along and I was able to obtain another copy. It's my favorite of all photo books.
2) The Daybooks of Edward Weston.
3) 60 Examples (Ansel Adams).
4) Henri Cartier-Brssson.
and just to be contrary, I'll add a fifth:
5) Color Photographs (Marie Cosindas).
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
Playboy centerfold spectacular -all editions
CP Goerz
I failed to notice that it was limited to LF books, so HCB is out, and I'm back to only four.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
Oh brother, that'd be a tough one indeed. There's a whole bunch of books I'd like to be able to save from my library that I unfortunately don't (yet) have. But if the joint went up in flames I'd hope the following books would be at the top of a pile I could reach quickly:
Richard Avedon: "In The American West"
Laura Wilson: "Avedon At Work in The American West" (Gee, who'd guess?)
Fahey/Rich (Ed.): "Masters of Starlight - Photographers in Hollywood"
Yousuf Karsh: "Karsh"
(That's right, folks; only people-LFphotography books!)
Interesting to see the various answers here. Good idea and thread, Mr. Gittings!
Interesting question. Another way of asking who your influences are. I find that I learn more from images than I can from words. So while I also like Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs by Ansel Adams, I think if I can only have four books, they might be these:
Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light
Eliot Porter: Eliot Porter
Sarah Greenough: Paul Strand, An American Vision
Stephen Phillips: Margaret Bourke-White, The Photography of Design 1927-1936
Bruce Watson
"If your house was on fire and you could grab only four LF books to save, what would you choose?"
Caponigro's "The Wise Silence" and "Megaliths"
Ansel Adams' "An American Place, 1936"
Paul Strand's "Time in New England"
And if there were any Ann Geddes books on the front lawn, I'd throw them in whatever window had the most flames coming out.
Bill- "3) 60 Examples (Ansel Adams)" You must have the expanded edition?
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