Book Catalog

[TheFlyingCamera]

I've been asked before about my collection of photography books. Here is a comprehensive but incomplete inventory of the photographic monographs/anthologies/exhibition catalogs in my collection. These are only the books that center around photographs, not having anything to do with philosophy of photography or the mechanics of taking and producing photographs (that's an entirely separate catalog, which I'll compile at a later date). Also not included are periodicals, which run into the hundreds. I'll mention a few periodical titles that I've collected, but not detail the volumes - Black-and-White, (Not Only) Blue, Not Only Black+White, Provocateur and Photographers International. As far as I know, all but Black-and-White are no longer published.

Title	Artist/Author	Publisher	Publication Date	Notes
4 A M	Adu	Formosa Books	2000
Olympic Portraits	Annie Liebowitz	Bullfinch	1996
(Don't) Call Me Shirley	Brett M. Cochrane	Knopf Australia	1995
Burma: Something Went Wrong	Chan Chao	Nazareli Press	2000
The Great Wall of China	Chen Changfen	Yale University Press	2007
Beauty of Darkness	Connie Imboden	Custom & Limited Editions	1999	1st Edition
The Raw Seduction of Flesh	Connie Imboden	Silver Arts	1999	softcover, Signed
Piercing Illusions	Connie Imboden	Foto Book Press	2001	softcover, Signed
Beijing Spring	David and Peter Turnley	Stewart, Tabori and Chang	1989
All My Lies Are True	David Carol	Kabloona Press	2009	Signed, personalized to me
Edward Curtis – The Master Prints	Edward Curtis	Arena Editions	2001	Hardcover
Edward Steichen – The Early Years	Edward Steichen	Princeton University Press	1999
Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude	Edward Weston	Phaidon Press	2005
Margarethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration	Edward Weston, Margarethe Mather	W.W. Norton	2001
Suffering The Ideal	F. Holland Day	Twin Palms	1995	Hardcover, 1st Edition, Limited Edition
F. Holland Day	F. Holland Day	Van Gogh Museum	2001	Exhibition Catalog
Faces of the Eastern Shore	Frank Van Riper	Qesada House	1992	Softcover, signed, personalized to me
The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans	Frederick Evans	Getty	2010	Exhibition Catalog
Foro Italico	George Mott	Powerhouse Books	2003	1st Edition, slipcovered
Inside Life	Greg Gorman	Rizzoli	1997	1st Edition, Signed, Slipcovered with signed print
As I See It	Greg Gorman	Powerhouse Books	2000	1st Edition, signed
Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa	Hans Silvester	Thames & Hudson	2008
Kazu	Herb Ritts	Parco	1995	1st Edition
Daguerreotypes	Jerry Spagnoli	Steidl	2006	First Edition, Softcover
Tuscany: Inside the Light	Joel Meyerowitz	Main Street	2003
The Mural Project: Photography by Ansel Adams	John Armor, Peter Wright	Reverie Press	1989	Hardcover, Signed, personalized - “To John – thanks for your help”
Manzanar: Photographs by Ansel Adams	John Armor, Peter Wright	Times Books	1988
Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall	John Dugdale	Twin Palms	1995	Signed, personalized to me, dated 2006
Life's Evening Hour	John Dugdale	August Press	2000	Hardcover, Limited Edition
Picturing Men – A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography	John Ibson	Smithsonian	2002
The Luminous Years	Karl Bissinger	Abrams	2003
Passage to Angkor	Kenro Izu	Friends Without Borders	2005	1st Edition, signed
Homo Sum	Konrad Helbig	6x6.com	2010	Not dated – guessing at publication date
Skin	Laurent Elie Badessi	Edition Stemmle	2000
Red Color News Soldier	Li Zhensheng	Phaidon Press	2003
Panoramas of the Far East	Lois Conner	Smithsonian	1993
Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes	Lyle Rexer	Abrams	2002
American Photographs: The First Century	Merry A. Foresta	Smithsonian	1996
At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian	Merry A. Foresta, Jenna K. Foley	Smithsonian	2003
The Pre-Raphaelite Camera	Michael Bartram	Little, Brown & Company	1985
Eye Mind Spirit – the Enduring Legacy of Minor White	Minor White	Howard Greenberg Gallery	2008
Face to Face: The Art of Portrait Photography	Paul Ardenne	Flammarion	2004
Collaboration: The Photographs of Paul Cadmus	Paul Cadmus	Twelvetrees Press	1992	1st Edition, Limited Edition
Physique: Classic Photographs of Naked Athletes	Peter Kuhnst	Thames & Hudson	2004
Man to Man: A History of Gay Photography	Pierre Borhan	Vendome Press	2007
The Hyena & Other Men	Pieter Hugo	Prestel	2007
Shooting Soldiers – Civil War Medical Photographs by R.B. Bontecou	R.B. Bontecou	Burns Archive Press	2011
Torero	Reuven Afanador	Edition Stemmle	2001	1st Edition
Sombra	Reuven Afanador	Merrell	2004	1st Edition
Mil Besos	Reuven Afanador	Rizzoli	2009	1st Edition
Cuba in the 1850s Through the Lens of Charles DeForest Fredricks	Robert M. Levine	University of South Florida Press	1990
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition	Robert Mapplethorpe	Guggenheim Museum	2004	Exhibition Catalog
Hymn to the Earth	Ron Rosenstock	Silver Strand Press	2003	Signed, Numbered Edition # 597
Maryland's Civil War Photographs: The Sesquicentennial Collection	Ross Kelbaugh	Maryland Historical Society	2012	Signed, Numbered Edition # 130, personalized to me
America and the Tintype	Steven Kasher	ICP/Steidl	2008
Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of The American Indian	Tim Johnson	Smithsonian	1998
In Defense of Beauty	Tom Bianchi	Crown Publishers	1995
Tseng Kwong-Chi	Tseng Kwong-Chi	Paul Kasmin Gallery	2008
Taormina	Wilhelm Von Gloeden	Twelvetrees Press	1986
Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography	William Henry Fox Talbot	Aperture	2000
William Henry Fox Talbot	William Henry Fox Talbot	Phaidon	2008

This is not intended as just an ego-stroking exercise but to encourage conversation about photography books, book collecting, and sharing work that inspires us. Please post your own lists and/or comment upon/critique mine.

 

[doughowk]

I sometimes wonder why I collect books. The Internet provides enough info on most subjects I'm casually interested in; but books still provide the satiation of my deeper curiosities. For example, I recently began photographing the carpenter Gothic churches built in late 19th century here in Florida. That interest led me to books on Gothic Revival, then back to the Gothic beginnings in France. The result is about 10 books just on history of Gothic churches.
For photography, however, I seem to buy only 1-2 monographs for each photographer I'm interested in. That still has led to over 300 monographs some of which are on your list above. I could of course just peruse the Internet for those photographers, but physically holding a collection of their prints is almost as satisfying as a gallery exhibit. Many predict the demise of paper prints and books, but digital display does not do justice to a real print (or well-printed facsimile as in books).

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Yes, there absolutely is something unquantifiable about holding a book in your hands and turning the pages. It's a completely different interface with the content. It makes it easy to compare back and forth at random between two different pages. It has weight. It has texture. It has a smell - a newly printed book smells one way, an old book a different way. None of those apply to e-books. For that reason, especially when talking about photography books, the death of the printed book is greatly exaggerated.

 

[removed account4]

ho scott

i have a ton of photography books but they arent catalogued.
some include
the complete works of atget, and nadar,
monogrqphs of karsh ( portraits of greatness and the one with sofia loren?on the cover )
the collected portraits from the national portrait gallery in london,
david lynch's book
beaumont newhall's hostory,
emil schildt+linda mcartney+sam portera+clay harmon
scrapbooks photoalbums bought at 2ns hand stores
chicago skyscrapers,
books on armenian architecture in eastern anatolia+preaent day armenia
and a few hand stitched ones made by me ..
a bunch technical stuff too
photo lab indexes, air corps manuals
complete course books from the
institute of photography in nyc
martin reed's silver gelatin
american west,
food books/ european landscapes
pro- series from amphoto
irving penn .. small room
kertsez .. early work

wish i could name them all for you but they are
not all together ..
i agree there is something special about books

 

[Molli]

Scott, I'm coming to your house!


Apologies, what a threat to make so early in the New Year!
I am embarrassed to admit that I have absolutely NO books about photographers or of their prints at all. I am awaiting my first ever book of prints from Mr. Bill Schwab. I do have a few thousand books, however. I more or less skipped the whole "picture books" growing up, so learning a visual language is still rather new to me. I'll keep an eye on this particular thread and see which books show up in the most peoples' libraries and take that as a recommended reading list.

 

[doughowk]

A partial list (I stopped the inventory at the B's):
Richard Avedon - Woman in the Mirror
Ansel Adams - Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail
Eugene Atget - Atget (ed. John Szarkowski)
Steve Anchell - Nudes at Bif Sur
Dick Arentz - British Isles
Robert Adams - West from the Columbia
Eve Arnold - All About Eve
Howard Bond - White Motif
Linda Butler - Inner Light
Morley Baer - the Wilder Shore
David Bailey - Birth of the Cool
Ed Burtynski - Manufactured Landscapes
Ruth Bernhard - the Eternal Body
Laura Brown - Recent Terrains
Tim Barnwell - Hands in Harmony
Bruce Barnbaum - Tome Poems
Wynn Bullock - Enchanted Landscape
Clyde Butcher - Living Waters
Nick Brandt - Across This Ravaged Land

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

ho scott

i have a ton of photography books but they arent catalogued.
some include
the complete works of atget, and nadar,
monogrqphs of karsh ( portraits of greatness and the one with sofia loren?on the cover )
the collected portraits from the national portrait gallery in london,
david lynch's book
beaumont newhall's hostory,
emil schildt+linda mcartney+sam portera+clay harmon
scrapbooks photoalbums bought at 2ns hand stores
chicago skyscrapers,
books on armenian architecture in eastern anatolia+preaent day armenia
and a few hand stitched ones made by me ..
a bunch technical stuff too
photo lab indexes, air corps manuals
complete course books from the
institute of photography in nyc
martin reed's silver gelatin
american west,
food books/ european landscapes
pro- series from amphoto
irving penn .. small room
kertsez .. early work

wish i could name them all for you but they are
not all together ..
i agree there is something special about books

For the purpose of this list I left out all the technical/how-to/mechanics of photography books. That's probably a longer list than this, and certainly more diverse (everything from The Zone VI Workshop to Primitive Photography to Digital Negatives for Palladium and Other Processes). I love both kinds of books - they provide different kinds of inspiration.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

A partial list (I stopped the inventory at the B's):
Richard Avedon - Woman in the Mirror
Ansel Adams - Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail
Eugene Atget - Atget (ed. John Szarkowski)
Steve Anchell - Nudes at Bif Sur
Dick Arentz - British Isles
Robert Adams - West from the Columbia
Eve Arnold - All About Eve
Howard Bond - White Motif
Linda Butler - Inner Light
Morley Baer - the Wilder Shore
David Bailey - Birth of the Cool
Ed Burtynski - Manufactured Landscapes
Ruth Bernhard - the Eternal Body
Laura Brown - Recent Terrains
Tim Barnwell - Hands in Harmony
Bruce Barnbaum - Tome Poems
Wynn Bullock - Enchanted Landscape
Clyde Butcher - Living Waters
Nick Brandt - Across This Ravaged Land

I can't believe I skipped Ruth Bernhard! I have the same one, and she's one of my favorite photographers.

 

[jeffreyg]

My collection is now over two hundred books not including technical nor periodicals. As has been mentioned there is nothing like turning the pages and lingering on a favorite image in a well printed book. I could never afford a collection of prints that encompasses a similar selection nor do I have enough wall space. The majority of the books are first editions and many are signed. Some have appreciated quite a bit from the original purchase price although that is not my motive for buying.

http://www.jeffreyglasser.com/

 

[benjiboy]

I have about 1,100 photographic books on my shelves, but can't be bothered to catalogue them, they just accumulate.

 

[doughowk]

Some more monographs in my collection:
Paul Caponigro - New England Days
Tillman Crane - Olden Stones
Patrick Cariou - Yerasta
Paula Chamlee - High Plains Farm
Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Modern Century
Linda Connor - Odyssey
Martin Chambi - Photographs
Steve Crouch - Fog & Sun/Sea & Stone
Edward Curtis - Portraits
Roy de Carva - the Sound I Hear
Alfred Eisenstaedt - Remembrances
Walker Evans - American Photgraphs
Jose Miguel Ferreira - the Port Wine Route
Robert Frank - the Americans
Frank Gohlke - Mount St Helens
Ralph Gibson - Infanta
Lois Greenfield - Airborn
Laura Gilpin - the Enduring Navaho
George Hurrell - the Hurrell Style
Fay Godwin - Land
Richard Garrod - Visual Prayers
Kenro Izu - Passages to Angkor
Yashuhiro Ishimoto - Hana
Don Kirby - Wheat Country
Michael Kenna - In Japan
Andre Kertezs - A Lifetime of Perception
Josef Koudelka - Gypsies
Yousuf Karsh - a Fifty-Year Retrospective
Robb Kendrich - Still
Peter Lindberg - Ten Women
Clarence John Laughlin - Ghosts along the Mississippi
Roman Loranc - Two-hearted Oak
Jack Leigh - the Land I'm Bound To
O Winston Link - Life Along the Line
Elaine Ling - Mongolia
Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura
Sally Mann - Deep South

As I look over my collection, I realize its all over the place (just as with my photography;-(

 

[Alan Klein]

Whick photographers would you all recommend for B/W photo books?

 

[Alan Klein]

I'm looking for ones that reflect the full range and tones.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I don't know that you can recommend photo books based on the photographer... So much depends on the printer/publisher and the budget the photographer has at the time of publication. Ansel Adams is a prime example- I have a little volume of his illustrating Yosemite for the Sierra Club- it may as well be black-and-white copies of Roy Lichtenstein paintings. Then there are coffee-table editions that if cut apart and framed would be hard to distinguish from his actual prints.

 

[removed account4]

For the purpose of this list I left out all the technical/how-to/mechanics of photography books. That's probably a longer list than this, and certainly more diverse (everything from The Zone VI Workshop to Primitive Photography to Digital Negatives for Palladium and Other Processes). I love both kinds of books - they provide different kinds of inspiration.

i don't have them catalogued,
those were just off the of my head ..
too many to list, it was just to give an idea ..

 

[RalphLambrecht]

OK;here is the listing from my library:
:munch:

 

[Jim Jones]

I don't know that you can recommend photo books based on the photographer... So much depends on the printer/publisher and the budget the photographer has at the time of publication. Ansel Adams is a prime example- I have a little volume of his illustrating Yosemite for the Sierra Club- it may as well be black-and-white copies of Roy Lichtenstein paintings. Then there are coffee-table editions that if cut apart and framed would be hard to distinguish from his actual prints.

Adams claimed that the best reproductions were true to the intent of the photographer. The Ansel Adams books published by the New York Graphic Society imprint of Little, Brown and company, have consistently maintained high quality. While at a recent exhibit of AA images, many from the holdings of his family, I compared those prints with 27 of the images in Ansel Adams: Classic Images. The book captured almost all of the tonality of the originals. A few of the exhibition prints were quite large, and invited excessive scrutiny. In these instances, the book images were certainly as satisfactory. Many other books published posthumously have been of images in the public domain and reproduced from government sources. They are more valuable for textual information than for image quality.

 

[removed account4]

OK;here is the listing from my library:
:munch:

nice list ralph !
im glad i recognize some of those from my shelves too

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Adams claimed that the best reproductions were true to the intent of the photographer. The Ansel Adams books published by the New York Graphic Society imprint of Little, Brown and company, have consistently maintained high quality. While at a recent exhibit of AA images, many from the holdings of his family, I compared those prints with 27 of the images in Ansel Adams: Classic Images. The book captured almost all of the tonality of the originals. A few of the exhibition prints were quite large, and invited excessive scrutiny. In these instances, the book images were certainly as satisfactory. Many other books published posthumously have been of images in the public domain and reproduced from government sources. They are more valuable for textual information than for image quality.

Then we agree. I picked AA as an example because he is more widely reproduced than most folks, in a wider range of qualities than many.

 

[MattKing]

OK;here is the listing from my library:
:munch:

Hey, this list doesn't have "Way Beyond Monochrome"!!!

 

[irvd2x]

a few I'm partial to:

Michael Ruetz Scottish Symphony
Eye on Australia

Barbara Bosworth (Sp?) Champion Trees

William Eggleston
Democratic Forest,
Chromes

Jan Staller Frontier New York

Christopher Burkett
Intimations of Paradise

David Plowden Floor of the Sky

Terry Evans Prairie:Earth and Sky

Gary Irving Places of Grace

Dick Arentz British Isles

Joel Meyerowitz The Arch

Michael Kenna Japan

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[removed account4]

Hey, this list doesn't have "Way Beyond Monochrome"!!!

and none of them "count" because they are technical manuals &c .. :munch:

 

[bill h]

One of my favorite "books" is 15 years of Swiss Camera magazine. Such variety.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

sorry.I forgot to return them.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I found a few more of my art books I forgot to catalog the first time around:

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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
Temple University Press
2013



Eros & Thanatos
Duane Michals
Twin Palms Press
1992
Hardcover, First Edition, Limited Edition


Dance Ink: Photographs
J. Abbott Miller and Patsy Tarr
Chronicle Books
1997
Anthology of photos from Dance Ink magazine, featuring the work of nearly 100 photographers


Case Histories: The Presentation of the Victorian Photographic Portrait 1840-1875
John Hannavy
Antique Collectors Club
2005



Mediterranean
Mimmo Jodice
Aperture/PMA
1995
Exhibition catalog from the Philadelphia Museum of Art


The Eternal Body
Ruth Bernhard
Chronicle Books
1986


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