LF Photography books 2011

[QT Luong]

As in the couple of past years (see http://www.largeformatphotography.info/books/) I've compiled an eclectic list of ten books of large format photography published in the past year (2011), which caught my eye. This year, instead of publishing it as a page on this site, I am using the new social site Pinteret.com as it makes it faster to create good-looking lists.


Updated (May 31 2003) link: http://pinterest.com/qtluong/photo-books-lf-2011/

Let's hear about your favorites from last year !

[Darin Boville]

Don't really know if it is a LF book or not (don't really care) but one of the year's top stand-outs for me is Lee Friedlander: The New Cars 1964.

--Darin (never heard of Pinteret either....)

[Holdenrichards]

Pinterest is perfect for this sort of list making. very smart. Thanks for the list.

[chris_4622]

Well I'm not sure this is a photography book, more of a book about a photographer. "A Restless Eye" the biography of Brett Weston was a great read.

[mdm]

My favourite photobook of the year is a very reasonably priced book of Pt/Pd prints by J M Ferreira made on the port wine route in Portugal, sold through alternativephotography.com . It is not terribly pretentious but has a wonderful sense of place and made me look around and think how I could describe this place to people who have never been here. I want to go to Portugal now.

[Doug Howk]

Thanks, David, for the tip on the Ferreira book. I ordered a copy.

[mdm]

I hope it dosent disappoint.

[mathieu Bauwens]

A really good book with some lovely photographs inside.

[flycatcher]

Oddly, this link no longer works?

[rdenney]

Oddly, this link no longer works?

Not so odd. The thread was started over a year ago. If you PM the OP, he might send you the list directly, or provide a new link. I'm not sure he'll see this thread otherwise.

Rick "noting that free online service are not always persistent" Denney

[mdm]

Anyway my favourite books over the last while in no particular order:
William Clift - Shiprock and Mont St Michel
Johsel Namkung - A Retrospective
Berenice Abbot - Documenting Science
Ivan van Coller - Interior Relations
Paul Strand - The Garden at Orgeval

What are your favourites?

[andreios]

This LINK (http://pinterest.com/qtluong/photo-books-lf-2011/)works here...

[andreios]

Anyway my favourite books over the last while in no particular order:
William Clift - Shiprock and Mont St Michel
Johsel Namkung - A Retrospective
Berenice Abbot - Documenting Science
Ivan van Coller - Interior Relations
Paul Strand - The Garden at Orgeval

What are your favourites?

This could be worth a separate thread, don't you think, David? I am sure many would be as interested as I am.

My latest favourite, though not very LF is Pentti Sammallahti's Here, Far Away.. Excellent photography and a really beautiful book.
But I would gladly hear about other's favourites, especially from LF photographers.

[QT Luong]

This spurred me to complete my 2012 list (which includes 3 of 5 mdm's favorites):
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?104163-LF-Photography-books-2012
Please continue discussion of 2012 books there.

[h2oman]

Thanks for th tip on Sammallahti. The web page I found with images was fairly comprehensive - definitely fun viewing for dog or cat lovers!

[andreios]

You're welcome. One small tip - if you decide to purchase the book, the English edition is becoming very sought after and therefore expensive. You can get Italian or Spanish edition for peanuts. Relatively speeking.

[QT Luong]

The Online Photographer states that there will soon be a reprint of the Sammallahti retrospective, one of my favorites from 2012 as well.