The Photobook Thread

[Alex Benjamin]

It's all about self control - which I personally have very little of

At this point, I'd settle for "little of"....

Speaking of... recently discovered Deadbeat Club Press. Ordered (and received) Gure Bazterrak (Our Land) by Anne Rearick. Beautifully, well-crafted, honest and profoundly human photography.

Gure Bazterrak (Our Land) - Anne Rearick

Special edition available here. In the distance, there's the ocean. But here, it's the land of high, rounded mountains, of rivers, of pastures. Of those who cross, share and tend it. This land is the Basque hinterland. Straddling France and Spain, nestled between the Pyrenees and the Bay of...

deadbeatclubpress.com

 

[logan2z]

I hate to do this but...

Photo-Eye just kicked off its Black Friday sale.
20% off all in-stock books, including limited editions and out-of-print books.

Code: BLACKFRIDAY

Sale ends 11/29

Don't shoot the messenger

 

[MTGseattle]

I jumped on the Radius books 20% off holiday sale.

I bought the Albert Frey book to give as a gift, and I picked up the Callahan, Siskin, Sommer book for myself.

Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist — Radius Books

Albert Frey was in love with the desert and with architecture. By fully integrating his designs with nature in the small desert town of Palm Springs, Frey’s work became iconic on an international scale. – Brad Dunning A comprehensive volume on Swiss-American architect Albert Frey (1903-1998),

www.radiusbooks.org

Callahan, Siskind, Sommer: At the Crossroads of American Photography — Radius Books

Explores the intellectual genealogy of American photography, as well as the artistic personalities that helped define photographic education in this country for generations to come. Photographs by Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer Essays by Keith F. Davis and Britt Salvesen Hard

www.radiusbooks.org

 

[Pieter12]

Harry Gruyaert: Homeland.

 

[logan2z]

I took advantage of the holiday sales and picked up:

Mimi Plumb Megalith Still
Leonard Freed Police Work

 

[Arthurwg]

I jumped on the Radius books 20% off holiday sale.

With few exceptions, I think Radius books is answering questions that no one is asking.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

With few exceptions, I think Radius books is answering questions that no one is asking.

Can you develop? I'm curious to know what you mean by that.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Alec Soth's favorite photobook of 2024:

 

[Arthurwg]

With few exceptions, I think Radius books is answering questions that no one is asking.

I do have their edition of Jungin Lee, which I truly appreciate, but many of their other subjects are completely obscure, intellectually thin and more than a little uninteresting. Just MHO. But perhaps it's partly because I submitted a book proposal to them that was summarily rejected.

 

[MTGseattle]

I've been thinking of a fair and reasoned answer to @Arthurwg and all I can really say is that there are titles from every publisher from whom I own a book or two that I would not buy. I don't know that I find the ratio of interesting vs uninteresting skewed all that much where Radius is concerned. It does seem like the real "meat" of their catalog lies in the rare and out of print category which is annoying.

Sorry to hear about your project being rejected. have you shopped it around?

 

[Alex Benjamin]

From Mack, very nice text in praise of the photobook by Teju Cole

'In Praise of the Photobook' by Teju Cole

Where can one find temporary help in this hectic world? People go on retreats, join religions, cushion themselves in headphones, or lose themselves in novels. We counter the rush hour stampede with a walk in the park, and against the public squall of political debate we set the private...

www.mackbooks.us

 

[albireo]

From Mack, very nice text in praise of the photobook by Teju Cole

'In Praise of the Photobook' by Teju Cole

Where can one find temporary help in this hectic world? People go on retreats, join religions, cushion themselves in headphones, or lose themselves in novels. We counter the rush hour stampede with a walk in the park, and against the public squall of political debate we set the private...

www.mackbooks.us

I thought this was a great read, thanks for sharing!

 

[Pieter12]

From Mack, very nice text in praise of the photobook by Teju Cole

'In Praise of the Photobook' by Teju Cole

Where can one find temporary help in this hectic world? People go on retreats, join religions, cushion themselves in headphones, or lose themselves in novels. We counter the rush hour stampede with a walk in the park, and against the public squall of political debate we set the private...

www.mackbooks.us

Thank you. Many insights on the value and pleasure of phonebooks, as well as what goes into making them. Especially the part about sequencing.

 

[Mike Lopez]

Thank you. Many insights on the value and pleasure of phonebooks, as well as what goes into making them. Especially the part about sequencing.

I read your response, did a double take, and went back to see if Alex really did provide a link to a book praising phone books! I was recently thinking about the loss of something that used to be so ubiquitous and is now almost never seen anywhere. (P.S. Phone books were sequenced alphabetically )

 

[Pieter12]

Thank you autocorrect. What I meant to type was the Yellow Pages.

 

[MattKing]

I'm currently revisiting, courtesy of my local public library, Fred Herzog's "Modern Color".

Putting aside for the moment the misspelling of "Colour" , it is an excellent collection of his work.
I've seen a fair number of the modern prints in the book - the Vancouver Art Gallery regularly features his work - and the book is very faithful to them.
I wish I had known about the regular church basement and public rental hall slide shows that Fred Herzog showed his work at for years - for a very reasonable admission charge

On a related note, I thought I might share a link to this article, which I think is apropos this thread: https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-...paign=news&utm_id=1849132&orgid=315&utm_att1=

From that article: Does this make any of you participating regularly in this thread feel at home:

 

[logan2z]

From that article: Does this make any of you participating regularly in this thread feel at home:
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I demand to know how the author of that article installed a hidden camera in my house

 

[MattKing]

I demand to know how the author of that article installed a hidden camera in my house

Sent it in in a photobook

 

[AnselMortensen]

I jumped on the Radius books 20% off holiday sale.

I bought the Albert Frey book to give as a gift, and I picked up the Callahan, Siskin, Sommer book for myself.

Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist — Radius Books

Albert Frey was in love with the desert and with architecture. By fully integrating his designs with nature in the small desert town of Palm Springs, Frey’s work became iconic on an international scale. – Brad Dunning A comprehensive volume on Swiss-American architect Albert Frey (1903-1998),

www.radiusbooks.org

Callahan, Siskind, Sommer: At the Crossroads of American Photography — Radius Books

Explores the intellectual genealogy of American photography, as well as the artistic personalities that helped define photographic education in this country for generations to come. Photographs by Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer Essays by Keith F. Davis and Britt Salvesen Hard

www.radiusbooks.org

Thanks for the tip on the Albert Frey book, I'm a big fan.
Bought 2...one as a gift for a friend.

 

[logan2z]

Sent it in in a photobook

Then all is forgiven

 

[Pieter12]

Eggleston's Outlands after I went to the show at Zwirner, plus Sally Mann, Deep South on the way.

 

[logan2z]

Eggleston's Outlands after I went to the show at Zwirner, plus Sally Mann, Deep South on the way.

Two great choices.

 

[Pieter12]

Two great choices.

Oops. I bought A Thousand Crossings not Deep South. I had been looking at both books.

 

[logan2z]

Oops. I bought A Thousand Crossings not Deep South. I had been looking at both books.

Same comment still applies

 

[AnselMortensen]

Thanks for the tip on the Albert Frey book, I'm a big fan.
Bought 2...one as a gift for a friend.

The books arrived today.
WOW.
Beautifully done.
Impeccable packaging.
Gorgeous book.