Since the Morgan Library unfortunately did not have reproduction rights to the amazing Irving Penn portraiture exhibition they hosted the last few months, I had to ’settle’ for a book by Penn called A Notebook At Random, which I found to be fascinating…a method to this man’s amazing artistry.  Worth picking up for sure.

New blog…the anonymous photography book dealer…Further More Books.
Tipped off by a reader…thanks!

(Roe Etheridge)
Sorry for the lack of posting…busy with work!  Recession be damned!

Got this invite for Ari Marcopoulos’ new book exhibition at Dashwood Books, “The Chance is Higher”, consisting of 40 black-and-white images printed entirely on a Xerox machine.
I guess that’s what one did before iPhoto!

Fell behind on my book collecting, and a recent visit to the Aperture gallery in Chelsea (with a 10% member’s discount) helped fuel some purchases…
Forthwith, the latest additions to the ‘library’…
A classic that should be in every decent photography book collection…Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places.

Face of Fashion…featuring the works of Mert & Marcus, Corinne Day, Paolo […]

Shane Lavalette talks about the Martin Parr’s best photography book picks for 2007…and look at what’s #1…

Stephen Gill’s Hackney Flowers…a present from a friend.
I am not overly familiar with his work but perusing his site his work is reminiscent of peers such as Martin Parr and Paul Graham, truly British photography, making the everyday interesting, even amongst planned estates and roadworks…focusing on a wide variety of subject matter.

A good review of […]

As it was my ahem, birthday recently, a good friend of mine gifted me my book of the month.
William Eggleston’s new monograph “5 x 7″. (I can’t really write a better description than that.)

From Style.com…in honour of Irving Penn’s upcoming 90th birthday, a limited edition (90, of course) book has been created by the Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie in Hamburg, with 42 photographs shot in the Penn style.
How AMAZING is that?

One of the resolutions I gave myself a few months ago was to buy a new photography book each month, to try and build my small and rather sad collection.
This month, I purchased “Life and Work. Bernd and Hilla Becher” by Susanna Lange. I’ve been an admirer of their work since coming across it a […]

Popped by the Deitch Gallery on Wooster to check out the latest exhibition - Jason Schmidt’s “Artists” series to promote his new book by the same name. He spent the last 6 years taking portraits of some of the most prominent modern artists of our day, including Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Aida Ruilova and Vanessa […]