Landscapes in Focus,Stories in Silver
Title: Faces of The North Author: Ragnar Axelsson Published by: Querndu, Iceland Small Edition 2019 I recently returned from my trip to Iceland and I have to share latest addition to my Photographer’s Library. Ragnar Axelsson‘s work is well known and l admired it long before I travelled to Iceland. I already have a small …
Title: Beauty In Photography Author: Robert Adams Published by: aperture ,second edition 1996 Sometimes you have to be lucky. I think this time I was. I picked up this small beauty in a second-hand shop in great condition. A new addition to my Photographer’s Library series is a small but intelligent and quietly profound book …
Quote of the month 08/26 “ Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.” Edward Weston Previous QOTM here.
Title: Contact: theory Author: Lustrum Press Published by: Lustrum Press 1980 Today’s review in my Photographer’s library series will be a slightly different. Different because I am not entirely sure if this book is an art book or just a photography technique book. In any case, it’s both. The book is called Contact: Theory. It …
Title: Our Forbidden Land Author: Fay Godwin Published by: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1990 paperback This week I will carry on with yet another book by Fay Godwin from my Photographer’s library. This is the last one I own and maybe the most important. I think this book is one of Godwin most powerful works. Combining …
Quote of the month 07/26 “The eye should learn to listen before it looks” Robert Frank Previous QOTM here.
Title: Land Author: Fay Godwin Published by: Heineman, London 1985 Today I will carry on with another book by Fay Godwin from my Photographer’s library. I mentioned before that I am a massive fan of Godwin’s work. I do own three of her books. Land is one of the books that perfectly displays Godwin’s creative …
Title: Elmet Author: Photographs by Fay Godwin, Poems by Ted Hughes Published by: Faber and Faber, Revised edition 1994 It’s not that many British photography books of 20 century which you can call defining. This book certainly is. It brings together the striking black-and-white photographs of Fay Godwin with a text by Ted Hughes. The …
Quote of the month 06/26 “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.When images become inadequate,I shall be content with silence” Ansel Adams Previous QOTM here.
Title: A Tree, A Blade of Grass Author: Shinzo Maeda Published by: Taschen Verlag GmbH 1993 I do not own many books by Japanese photographers. This one is one of them and it has a prominent place in my Photographer’s Library. Shinzo Maeda was a Japanese photographer famous for landscape photographs and movies. He published …
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