I recently visited photoeye.com to check out some of their new arrivals. I found a bunch of photography books that I would love to have in my home someday. Here are a few that look quite interesting.
Avedon Fashion
1944-2000.
Photographs by Richard Avedon. Text by Carol Squiers, Vince Aletti and Philippe Garner.
Harry N Abrams, New York, 2009. 372 pp., 245 illustrations, 45 in color, 9¾x12½".
China Paused.
The Plastic Eye Series.
Photographs by Faustinus Deraet.
Tumbona Ediciones, 2008. 128 pp., Numerous black & white illustrations, 6½x6¼".
Works 80-08.
Photographs by Andreas Gursky. Text by Martin Hentschel.
Hatje Cantz, 2009. 272 pp., 174 color illustrations, 8x10".
His optical fanaticism is not an effect of specific consumerist critique so much as a desire to set before the eye what was deemed too much for the mind, pressing the extreme surfeit of the world's contents against its limits.
Horizons.
Photographs by Sze Tsung Leong.
Yossi Milo Gallery, 2008. 40 pp., 36 color illustrations., 11¾x8½".
http://www.szetsungleong.com/horizons_index.htm
Simen Johan
Published: 10/2004
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, www.kunstnerneshus.no
11"x12" Catalog, 25 color plates, 47 pages
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