How Many Photo Books Do You Own?

Jeremy

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Just counted and there are somewhere around 70. Lots of stuff I keep going back to like Weston and Atget and Don Hong-Oai and Kenro Izu.
 
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I have about 50 books, another 25 on the history and another 10 on thoughts of photography and the creative idea.
From what I see I need to catch up with some of you all!
 

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Around 110 to 120. Kenna, Eggleston, J. Sexton, Plowden, Kertész, A. Adams, Newhall, Rogovin (a favorite among favorites), Stieglitz, Shapiro, Maeda, Richard W. Brown, Blacklock (Les, Craig & Nadine), E. Porter, Clyde Butcher (autographed), Brandenburg, Yousef Khanfar and others. Then there are the books from personal friends, Ted Nelson, Howard Bond and Bruce Montagne. My favorite books are from my late-uncle, Fred Hazelhoff. He was a nature photographer from The Netherlands. He wrote me encouraging letters regarding photography and I keep them in the books.

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Just counted 51: Robert Adams, Tarkovsky, HC Bresson, Callahan, Walker Evans, Atget(4), Kertesz(7), Szarkowski, Wenders, Citret, Kenna, DeCarava, Plossu(21), and a few greek photographers.
Favorite: Bernard Plossu's "L'Europe du sud contemporaine"
 

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I went to Borders today with a 40% off coupon and bought Stephen Shore's "The Nature of Photographs" and his latest book, simply called Stephen Shore. Got them for $24 each. Not bad.
 

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Something over a hundred currently in shelves. Almost all bought from the net. We have one decent bookstore for photo books called Parsons. I wish we had better options - nothing beats perusing before purchase, or a good find initiated from an interesting cover.

Solitude of Ravens - hmmmm daaark.
 
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I've got at least a dozen signed books, yeah. Probably more... the sigs are genuinely for my own interest, I've zero interest in selling any of them and don't care if the editions are more-than-first. Just bought a signed Sarah Moon book last week, probably the only one that I received already signed -- the others I've had signed when the opportunity arose to meet the creators.
 

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Most of my photographers' monographs are first eds, but that's been by luck more than by design. I've got perhaps four autographed volumes - John Dugdale, Kenro Izu, Greg Gorman, and perhaps one other. There's a couple others I'd like to get signed - I'll have to get back up to Baltimore some day and have Connie Imboden sign my copy of her book, and if I ever get the chance to meet Reuven Afanador, I'd like to get his signature as well.
 

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I never looked for signed books but at used book stores you never know what it is until you open it. I recently bought an Ansel Adams, the large Range of Light book, opened it and there was the notice and the Ansel Adams signature. Luck and inexpensive.

I recently bought a Voyage of the Eye copy on eBay and a b u n c h of pages were missing. Now I am going to have to get another copy.

My new addition is Dune EW/BW, I should have gotten it sooner, Hawaii is on the way. I'm a little slow in adding these days. BTW the Dune book is Excellent as in capital "E". Get one if you don't have a copy.
 

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Wotcha got?
 

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bjorke

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John McCallum said:
Wotcha got?
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Off the top of my head, I know I have these signed:
  • Parr/Badger Photo History 1 & 2
  • Sarah Moon "Photo Poche" collection (tiny but good)
  • Rinko Kawauchi "Cui Cui," "Aila," "Hanabi," "The Eyes, the Ears," "Utatane," and "Semear"
  • Alec Soth, "Sleeping by the Missisippi"
  • Arno Rafael Minkinnen, "Saga"
  • Stuart Rome, "Forest"
  • Linda Connor, show catalog from "Sacred Places"
  • Vince Versace, "Welcome to Oz" (oops, a technique book ^_^;; )
  • Michal Daniel, "In Your Face"
  • Gary Schnieder, "Portraits"
  • Juan Buhler, "Street Photographs"
  • Michio Yamauchi, "Holiday"
  • Bee Flowers, "Russia"
  • An-My Le, "Small Wars"
  • Eikoh Hosoe, "Ba Ra Kei" (aka "Ordeal by Roses")
I think there might be some others lurking around but the piles get... well, piled up. I have something Bruce Davidson signed but I can't remember if it was "Central Park" or "101st Street." And I think my copy of Boogie's "It's All Good" came already signed.
 

Jose A Martinez

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I just discover this thread and have no clue how many books, under the description stipulated, I have, so I think is the time to make an inventory to know how many they are. A guess, round 150.
 

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I love photography books, particularly monographs, but their prices tend to the prohibitive, at least on my budget, so I probably only have about twenty - on the upside, they are all treasured and frequently perused. I have three technical books - two from Ansel's series and Fred Picker's "The Fine Print." Most are first edition, but how many of these ever make it to a second edition? Only rarity is "Garry Winogrand 1964," and it is the one I'm least likely to sell.

Tim
 
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