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Attracted to Light
Doug Starn, Mike Starn, ...
powerHouse Books, 2004
I loves me the Starn Twins
+ Attracted to Light
+ attracted to the light
This book is great. I like the subject matter, the execution and, presentation. I won't go on and on, but these images of moths are both delicate and beautiful. Enjoy
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Mike Disfarmer: Original Disfarmer Photographs
Alan Trachtenberg, Steven Kasher
Steidl/Steven Kasher Gallery, 2006
Essential Disfarmer Collection
If you have any interest in the photography of Disfarmer or the story of his photos than this is a must-have book. This showcases the prints that Disfarmer made himself while he was alive. These vintage prints show us what he intended with his images. The production is first rate and this is a ...
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The Master Printers Workbook: A Professional Guide to Black & White Darkroom Technique
Steve Macleod
Rockport Publishers, 2003
Ditto re above review re printing details inadequate
+ I liked it
I agree with the above review 100%. I had great expectations about this book yet experienced disappointment about the sparse technique details. Bartlett's book is immensely more fantastic in its presentation and can't be beat!
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Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, ...
Thames & Hudson, 2005
Great Survey
+ here come the grownups
+ better than Sudoku!
Forget Gardener, these four giants of art history compile an international picture. Each year is represented by an article. One can read the book chronologically, topically, or by author. If you have to read a survey of art history, this is it.
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The Architect's Brother
Robert ParkeHarrison
Twin Palms Publishers, 2000
Surprised
+ Simply Beautiful
+ Gorgeous and ethereal
+ Simply a magical book!
+ Photographic Art
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PURE INVENTION PB (Photographers at Work)
Jan Groover
Smithsonian, 1990
Super duper!
Groover is super duper! Spell binding stuff. The book is great and of excellent print quality, but her stuff in a museum or gallery is truly special. The quality and technique of her work is astonishing. It's heartening to know that there are still people who have not only the eye but such ...
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Photography : A Critical Introduction
Routledge, 2000
Excellent choice for Visual Artists contemplating photography as a medium of expression
+ An absolute MUST for photographers and artists working in photography
As a Visual Arts student coming to terms with the whole conceptual ideology in contemporary art, I found this book an excellent choice for delving into the theoretical side of contemporary photgraphy. This book is definitely not bedtime reading. Trust me, I tried it and kept myself awake! There is ...
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Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski
Charta, 1997
Beautifuly haunting book, for a beautifuly haunting artist
+ This book will explain what you don't know about Boltanski
+ Buy This Book !!!
+ Brilliantly written book on a fascinating artist
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Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work
Britt Salvesen
Yale University Press, 2005
Wonderful biography of a gifted artist
+ Really nice photographer
This is a wonderful book on the creative life of one of the 20th century's most creative photographic artists. It is so much more than a "mere" biography.
What sets this biography (which a generous sampling of Callahan's work) apart from other books in this genre, is its elegant focus on the ...
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The Daybooks of Edward Weston
Beaumont Newhall
Aperture, 2005
The Weston experience- an introspective look
+ Yesterday, Today and tomorrow
+ About This Book...
+ A must read if you are an artist...
+ Daybooks of Edward Weston
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
Schocken, 1969
Just a quick note
+ Of Benjamin, Dwarfs and Angels
+ Clarity and Brilliance
+ Brilliance
+ Indispensable reading
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Robert Frank: Storylines
Ian Penman, Philip Brookman
Steidl, 2004
Exciting New Robert Frank Book!!
+ A story with no lines
This book is not hardcover (although it is not exactly typical softcover either). Instead, it has a flexible, durable plastic cover that seems pretty unique. The book itself is a catalog from the current Robert Frank exhibit at the Tate in London, but Frank himself helped put it together and you ...
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Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
Jean Baudrillard
University of Michigan Press, 1995
MA(t)R(i)X : Not Sci-Fi, Post-Marxist
+ The hyperconformist simulation of pure non meaning.
+ Good read.
I read this little book years ago as part of my grad studies. It is amazing to me how accurate many of Baudrillard's observations have proven to be. It's as if he were some kind of Prophet (LOL!). But, seriously, the loss of Reality is embodied in many different ways. Our use of the Internet is the ...
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New Zone System Manual: Previsualization, Exposure, Development, Printing
Minor White
Morgan & Morgan, 1998
A reader from New Jersey
Very good introduction to the Zone System of photographic previsualization. This book and the Fred Picker book are the best introductions to the Zone System for someone who wants to pick up and start using the Zone System to immediately improve their photographic results. Of course the Ansel ...
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Guy Davenport
Steidl/ICP, 2005
Ralph Eugene Meatyard is an American original, a true poet
+ why do these photos terrify me?
Ralph Meatyard is surely not one of the great names of photographic history, but he does deserve a place as far as originality is concerned. He is truly an American original, a poet, a visionary artist of the highest caliber. Using family and friends, Meatyard created a gothic world worthy of Poe ...
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