Hmmm- looks good, Frank.
My choice might be Strand's 'Tir a Mhurain".
Hmmm- looks good, Frank.
My choice might be Strand's 'Tir a Mhurain".
I read Mercury Visions; it's a good bit of historical fiction. I think my favorite book though has to be Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall, by John Dugdale. That, and Kenro Izu's Passage to Angkor.
Robert Frank, The Americans
The 4 volumes of "The Work of Atget" by Szarkowski and Hambourg. If only one allowed then I would have to pick volume 3 "The Ancien Regime".
Wright Morris. Photographs and Words. Amazing photographs are accompanied by his story of being on the road to make the images.
Lee Friedlander's first book of self-portraits. Or maybe the 2005 MoMA retrospective on him.
It would be close between Clift's "Certain Places" (which Darr already picked) and Paul Caponigro's "The Wise Silence" (which I'll make my pick). But if I'm feeling a bit controversial, I might pick Sally Mann's "Immediate Family" because it moves LF out of its comfortable niche of landscapes and still life. (Actually I'm spending a lot of time right now looking at her "Deep South" which is all wet plate and antique, sometimes damaged, lenses to add interest to what would otherwise be mundane landscapes.)
Wright Morris, "The Home Place."
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