Landscapes in Focus,Stories in Silver
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 …
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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Title: Perspective on Landscape Author: edited by Bill Gaskins Published by: Art Council of Great Britain 1978 This release of my short review of the Photographer’s Library series will be about a small soft-cover book called Perspectives on Landscape. It was published by the Art Council of Great Britain in 1978. The book brings together …
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Yes, you are reading this right—a new camera. I decided to purchase a new camera, not an analogue but a digital one. 🙂 What’s more, it is not a camera you’re thinking of. It is something completely different, and so far I am enjoying it a lot. What is it, you ask? It is a …
Title: The Nature of Photographs Author: Stephen Shore Published by: Phaidon Press Limited, Second edition paperback 2027 Another short review in my series of the Photographer’s Library. Today, I will be writing about Stephen Shore’s book, The Nature of Photographs. It’s once again one of the books that talk more about how to look at …
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Title: Photographs Not Taken – A collection of Photographers’ Essays Author: edited by Will Steacy Published by: Daylight Community Arts Foundation, 2021 For today’s review in my series of Photographer’s library series, I chose a small book which does not include any pictures, nothing at all. It is a 135-page book edited by Will Steacy, …
Title: The Mountains of Snowdonia Author: John Clow Published by: Creative monochrome,1993 First edition, soft cover I was thinking about which book to pick for my next Photographers’ Library review, and my eyes found two books by John Clow on my shelf. I immediately started to think about how underrated this photographer is. The second …
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Author: Ragnar Axelsson Published by: Kehrer Verlag . 29 May 2025, 192 pages I heard a lot about Ragnar Axelsson in the past and I always wanted to own one of his books. Recently I realized there is a newly published book of his. I did not think much about it and purchased it pretty …
I own 3 Eliot Porter’s books . In this short article I will try to do a short review of all three of them. Let’s start with another review. Book Title: Eliot Porter Author: Eliot Porter Published by: New York Graphic Society Books. Little, Brown and Company, Boston . first edition 1987 This book is …
Author: Minor White ( Edited by Todd Cronan and Peter C. Bunnell) Title: Memorable fancies Published by: Princeton University Art Museum , 2024 I picked this book up out of interest. I knew Minor White as a photographer. Moreover, he was a photography critic, editor, and photography theoretic. Additionally, he contributed to the field through …