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Mr. Otter !!RaYANj+e83A
So, which photography books does /p/ recommend (either technical or purely visual) ?

I personnally like Mc Curry's series of portrait
>> Anonymous
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<<Purely coffee table but beautiful and inspiring - Ken Duncan turns me on.
>> Anonymous
I prefer portraits to landscapes.

Also, the Afghan Girl is hot.
>> Anonymous
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For shits and giggles. The Afghan girl then and in 2002.
>> Anonymous
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I've got plenty of landscape type stuff, the only portrait coffee table book I have is Dave La Chapelle
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This is basically the best photo book ever published.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
the only photography book ive got is the GT4 book, hardbound. Its just a bunch of photos from inside GT4, most of which look lifelike!

Other than that im too poor to buy photo books.
>> Anonymous
The Negative.
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This was shot over 20 years ago. On 35mm film. Eat that, digidigidigitalfags.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>79891
And it's currently being displayed on a computer. Get over it.
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
>>79892

I LOL'D
>> Anonymous
>>79886
Check to see if your local libraries have book sales. That's a great way to build up a photography library on the cheap. $1/bag day + Big photography section = InstaLibrary.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>79891

I'M not even that egotiscal about the fact that I shoot film. geez.

>>79892
hhehehe.


Unfortunately i've never read any photography books, so I cant' recommend anything :/
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>79904
I'm grumpy. It felt good.
>> Anonymous
technical:

the ansel adams series (the camera, the negative, the print, available light photography, making of 40 photographs) covers everything up to digital photography, which you should be using the internet for anyway.

mountain light by galen rowell. terrific landscape photos, with a pretty good amount of technical how-to. Reads sort of like a jack london-meets-ansel-adams.

history/criticism/visual:

The Photo Book by Phaidon is the first thing EVERYONE should buy after they get a camera. It's basically a catalog of 500 influential photographers with 500 photographs. Consider it your guide to a world outside of floral photography and snapshots of your girlfriend.

criticizing photographs, by terry barrett. required reading for all fine art photography students. not so much a "wrong f/stop moron" and more a "what does your photograph say?" book.

depth of field, by a.d. coleman. Another must-read by anyone who owns a camera. A.D. Coleman is a ruthless, snarky son of a bitch who'll make you want to smash your own camera and never want to call yourself a photographer again, and he's one of the few critics actually worth reading. An insider in the New York scene, he's got fascinating insight into and contempt for: MoMA, John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams, Susan Sontag, amateurs who shoot 35mm, most landscape photography, most color photography, himself, other critics, the gallery system, and pretty much the whole fucking process. He'll destroy your self-esteem, but that's a crucial first step in becoming even a halfway decent photographer. Honest to god, track down this guy's books.
>> Anonymous
that girl is not that old now, but she looks like she has aged 50 years
>> Anonymous
>>79939
Afghanistan years are a hell of a lot harder than normal years.
>> Anymonous
>>79939
>>79947
Especially the climate. Switching between dry and fucking hot and dry and fucking cold.
>> Mr. Otter !!RaYANj+e83A
The afghan girl was 12 years old on the first shot in 1984. Which makes her 30 on the second picture taken in 2002.

Lolz.

Also, thanks to>>79938
>> Anonymous
>>79966
>Especially the political and economic situation. Switching between communist with a civil war to batshit theocracy with heavy sanctions on it to dysfunctional infant state with a civil war and an economy dependent on opium.

Fixed.
>> Anonymous
>>79984
Yeah, that's more what I was talking about.

Climate doesn't help either, though.
>> Anonymous
>>79938
I like how A.D. Coleman thinks
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Arbus' 'Untitled'

fucking necessary
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>>80004
completely agree, diane arbus is a must.

<-- & don't forget joel-peter witkin
>> Anonymous
>>80010

joel peter-witkin lives like, 5 minutes away from me. i'm terrified of meeting him in a grocery store or something. seriously, guy freaks me out.

he's like if /b/ went to art school.
>> Anonymous
>>80021
Why be terrified? That's awesome.

And assuming JPW would be interested in actually doing some of the stuff he stages would be like saying James Nachtwey wants to be a one-man Rwandan genocide.
>> Anonymous
>>80022

oh, don't get me wrong. it's thrilling knowing that one of the great living photographers is in my neighborhood, and once or twice i've driven past his house and studio hoping to see him. but from everything i've read about him (first hand accounts, etc.), he really is disturbed. Not cut-my-head-off insane, but weird enough that I wouldn't call him up for sunday brunch.
>> Anonymous
oh man, why hasnt someone told me about Arbus earlier?
>> Anonymous
>>80033

see? that's why you need to get the photo book. there are lots and lots and lots of great photographers that most don't know about.
>> Anonymous
>>79938
>The Photo Book by Phaidon is the first thing EVERYONE should buy after they get a camera. It's basically a catalog of 500 influential photographers with 500 photographs. Consider it your guide to a world outside of floral photography and snapshots of your girlfriend.

Signed.
>> Hmm
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>> Anonymous
SPICES MUST FLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
>> Steven
>>80566

/p/ is not politics
>> Anonymous
>>80088
I am adding my support to this assertion.