How many have photo library?

[chip j]

How many of you have a library of books by the legends of Photography? I myself have about 50, but that's only because I can't afford more.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I have maybe around ten of those books.

 

[Vilk]

guilty as charged

 

[AgX]

Practically none. I almost only have technical books.

 

[benjiboy]

I have about 2,000 photographic books I've been buying them for about 60 years.my wife is an avid reader and has loads of books too our house is full.of them.

 

[pstake]

five - 10 for me ... Robert Frank, Bresson, Doisneau, Capa, Bourke-White, August Sander and one or two collections of various photographers.

 

[irvd2x]

I have a couple hundred..sold off a number during hard times.Bad idea.I think that books are still the best way to discover and enjoy other photographers.Better than galleries.The very first photography book I ever noticed was one that I passed on....but then searched frantically for years later..and finally found.It was a lesson for me.I buy on impulse.Never regret a purchase..I am always glad when I can go and pull a monograph off the shelf and look through anothers eyes.

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[Vaughn]

A bunch.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

I have a whole lot myself.

Jeff

 

[MSchuler]

I have 12 to 15 books on/by photographers who particularly inspire me (Michals, Tress, Newman, Morell, Madoz, and Samaras) as well as a few anthologies. Good photo books are expensive, so while I would like to have a more complete of canonical photographers, I have let to start building one.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I have about a meter long shelf full of photobooks, but only a few of them are by/about one specific photographer, Capa, DD Duncan, Produkin-Gorskii.

 

[miha]

About 20 monographs, Brasilia by Rene Burri is the most recent: http://www.scheidegger-spiess.com/i...ubject=1&artist=all&author=all&pd=ss&book=370

 

[AgX]

Practically none. I almost only have technical books.

Though if can get some interesting monograph for cheap, I'll take it.
It just came to my mind that actually my latest buy was such: Heinrich Kühn

 

[Jesper]

Some, about 2 meters of them.

 

[darkosaric]

A lot of them: Salgado, Bressson, Koudelka, David Bailey, Eugene Smith, Parkeharrison, Araki, photographic history books ...

 

[Ian Grant]

Plenty, 2 or 3 shelves full, about 3 metres worth

Ian

 

[removed account4]

a few, but i have more of a collection of work from unknowns ...

 

[jeffreyg]

More than two hundred. Mostly first editions and many signed. Predominately b&w but some color as well. One way to add to your collection is to request a particular book when asked what you would like as a gift for a birthday etc.

http://www.jeffreyglasser.com/

 

[Renato Tonelli]

The usual suspects - somewhere between 75-100.

 

[doughowk]

Around 300 monographs and another 100 technical. Its an obsession. Though a monograph can only suggest the appearance of a photographer's print, I do find them helpful in my personal journey. Having limited money to spend, a sequence of prints in a book, whether a retrospective or on a particular topic, are far more instructive than a collection of a few prints of comparable value.

 

[DannL.]

Just one. 0-87070-581-4

 

[andreios]

Too few. Only about two shelves.

 

[fotch]

Have a few, more of the technical books.

 

[Steve Roberts]

None, though twenty or so technical books.
Steve

 

[Jim Jones]

Over several decades I've accumulated a few meters of shelf space of photographic books, more technical than monographs. It was illuminating to compare 27 of the photographs in Ansel Adams: Classic Images with the same images in the large Adams exhibit in Peoria last year. Adams claimed that such quality reproduction came close to his intent in the originals. I agree: not identical, but close enough for us to appreciate his talent. Many other books compiled from his images in the public domain lag dismally behind.