richard avedon - in the american west robert frank - the americans
richard avedon - in the american west robert frank - the americans
Brett Weston Master Photographer
The ABSOLUTE BEST reproductions of ANY photographers work I've ever seen. Well worth the $125.00 price tag IMHO
Sally Mann's "Immediate Family" and "Mother Land." She uses an 8x10 view camera and the former book especially shows how the use of selective focus in the hands of an artist can conjure up a world of dreams and memories. Her recent landscape work is deliberately vignetted in-camera (at least that's what it looks like) and exposed on collodion wet plates. The prints have a rough, primitive quality (while being grainless) which is very effective. "Mother Land" looks like it's beautifully reproduced until you see the orginals, then you realize it's not. But still buy it.
Robert-Parke Harrison, The Architech's Brother. Very interesting and extremely creative. Incredible textures and emotions. I was awe struck. James
Picked up a book at a used bookstore called "Images and Essays" edited by Beaumont Newhall. It is a fascinating and inspiring book with essays (in their own words) from photographers such as Adams, Steiglitz, Weston, Fox Talbot, Lange, Wendell Holmes etc. It covers from the birth of photography (newspaper reports of Niepce/Daguerre) up until around 1980. The essay from Ansel Adams alone is worth getting the book for. Plus it contains photographs that are truly inspirational.
photography books are okay to read. Sally Manns books are very interesting to read. They help me to know her life and her kids.
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