Is this book any good?

haris

• Oct 21, 2005

• #1

Hi,

I found on net infprmations about book "Faces of photography", by authos Tina Ruisiger. From what I have seen on books web site, www.faces-of-photography.com, it could be good. Is anyone have seen whole book, and is it that interesting and good as excerpts on web site try to show.

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Bill Mitchell

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• Oct 21, 2005

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I haven't seen this book, but it appears to me that she got started too late to interview the best of the photographers while they were still in their primes. Instead, let me recommend a book called "Master Photographers," which is interviews by Pat Booth a few decades earlier. Booth was a former photographers' model who became a quite competent photographer herself. It is well written, and full of good "stuff," with the personalities of the photographers themselves clearly visible, from St. Ansel to Karsh to some of the Westons.

 

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• Oct 21, 2005

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I was almost afraid to look at this thread because I thought it was going to be about a certain unnamed publishing company and limited edition books...

There was also a set of "baseball" cards of famous photographers published in the 1970's... The "statistics" on the backs of the card were a hoot. "Shoots: Tri-X, develops with D-76" The pictures on the front had the photographers with baseball equipment posed like old fashioned baseball players.

 

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• Oct 21, 2005

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I do not know this book but your question caught my attention as I attended a presentation by Peter Adams this week on his book "Who Shot That?". From his website (www.peteradams.com): Peter Adams has been described as a ‘Photographer’s photographer’ and after working on his project for 23 years, the first in a series of books is now published and available directly from his studio.
His collection of portraits ‘Who Shot That?’ is now comprised of 500 interviews and portraits with the world’s master photographers – the people who made the world’s most famous images. Images like the ‘Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima’, the haunting picture made by Eddie Adams in Vietnam of the prisoner being executed in the street and the portrait of Winston Churchillm by Yousuf Karsh, that first appeared on the cover of Life Magazine. This first volume of ‘Who Shot That?’ contains over 60 portraits of some of these legendary photographers.
This book I can recommend.
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Susan

 

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• Oct 21, 2005

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Hey Joe.. me too. But other than that do you have any info on those cards? Sounds like something Topps would do. As someone who grew up near the end of the traditional (you know, when cards still came with gum and weren't printed with gold-foil logos) card-collecting time, these sound like a neat thing for me to go find.

 

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• Oct 22, 2005

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The 2 Vol series Darkroom published by Lustrum Press is still available on used book market. It features interviews with several photographers (such as Aaron Siskind, Cole Weston, Wynn Bullock, George Tice) on their darkroom techniques. 1st Vol edited by Eleanor Lewis & 2nd by Jain Kelly.