Which is your favorite photobook/s of all time that you can recommend to others? Which photobook/s are your least favorite ones? > FavoritesNew York in color by Ernst Haas. GOAT. Good quality and amazing photography.> Least favoriteMarvin E Newman Photographs 1949 - 1983. Shit binding, a handful of great shots (2-3?), some decent and a lot of shit. Some seems to have really fucked up colors (degraded color negative film?). I dont think whats shown in the book is good enough to be published in this format, a big Coffee table book with many pages. Should have taken the decent shots and put them in a small cheap pocket book. This is a cash grab. Honorable mention to; Ara Gülers Eye of Istanbul, saw a few images from it and was stoked before ordering but those 4-5 are the only really strong images. Lots of boring photos.
Favorites include Yokosuka Story & Yokosuka Again by Miyako, From Uncertain to Blue by Keith Carter, Sentimental Journey by Nobuyoshi Araki, The Pencil of the Sun by Shomei Tomatsu, and Das deutsche Volksgesicht by Lendvai-Dircksen.
>>4505102>From Uncertain to Blue by Keith CarterI discovered Carter few months back and it was a surprise. Very romantic and kino aesthetics. What are your thoughts on his work?
I hate any photobook that's "le epic alternative underground of new york"Fuck off with that shit
>>4505359The work of his that I like is very idyllic and a bit vernacular, much of it reminding me of a Texas that I can hardly remember; From Uncertain to Blue is touchingly nativist. Ezekiel's Horse is also fantastic, horses are quite difficult subjects and his composition there is great.
>>4505410Lots of younger american photographers are photographing the shit out of Texas these days. Why is that? Are they nostalgic about 19th century wild west? Lots of cowboys hats and horses. >a bit vernacularHow does he pull this off without falling into cliches?
I'm considering printing one with family photos, but it seems that binding it would be a pain. Seems better to either get it printed somewhere and loose out on QC / ability to fix and reprint individual pages, or print it normally and just put it into a document holder of some sort.
love looking through issues of B&W my mom and aunt have from the 90s and 2000s. I've looked for large archives or scans of them and havent really found any besides a small number on internet archive.
