Walking up Lafayette from Chinatown I saw this little gem…no website yet but a new photography store and gallery in downtown Manhattan.
 
 

(Paul Schroeder)
As you have probably heard, one of the greatest American icons in acting recently passed away, Paul Newman.
The Starworks blog has a great tribute over here.
A few days later after hearing this sad news, I was reminded of a book I once read: Adventures in the Screen Trade, by Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman.
I don’t remember […]

You have to love all the street vendors in Soho, especially this one.  (Carne asada?  Yes please)
Anyways one recent weekend I happened upon some gentleman selling many wonderful books of photography in fantastic condition.  It must have been the saran wrap coverings that kept it in such good shape.
First purchase - Polaroids, by Robert Mapplethorpe (a […]

A present from a friend, Todd Hido’s “Between The Two“.

And an interview over at Popphoto with Todd Hido about the book. + a great review at 5b4.
 

I actually haven’t picked any of these up yet, but if you happen to have received that government rebate cheque here are some fantastic new fashion tomes…

Karl Lagerfeld, Metamorphoses of an American 

Purple Anthology, Olivier Zahm and Elein Fleiss

Ezra Petronio Suzanne Koller Selected Works, Subjective Inventory
 
Rock Diary, Hedi Slimane
 
And something I did pick up….Tim Walker Pictures.  […]

If not, why not?

Book signing for True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste, published by Vice Books
Friday June 6th
6-8 pm
Dashwood Books
33 Bond Street
between Bowery and Lafayette
In the last two decades, a bizarre and violent musical culture has emerged in Norway.  Its roots stem often from a heady blend of horror movies, heavy metal music, Satanism, Paganism, and […]

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 […]