The Photobook Thread

[logan2z]

I think it was five or six years for Friedlander’s Pickup and Workers to finally be released. I want to say that I had those both on pre-order back in 2017, the order got cancelled eventually, and the books finally came out in 2022 or 2023.

I had both of those on pre-order at one point too. I did buy them once they were eventually released.

I'll keep crossing my fingers for New Topographics. I'm sure it'll be released - someday

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I stopped by my local Goodwill bookstore the other day which I don't go to much anymore (pickers...) but I did find an extraordinary book in which I think most people here would be interested. Literature and Photography 1840-1990 ©1995 University of New Mexico Press. Not much in the way of pitchurssic, but the breadth of it is pretty extraordinary. I haven't seen anything like it. It is all older writing of course, but from authors like Nabokov, Neruda, Poe, Faulkner, Kerouac, Sartre and of course from photographers like Weston, Evans, Parks, White, Michals, etc. Can be had for peanuts.

 

[Mark Minard]

I stopped by my local Goodwill bookstore the other day which I don't go to much anymore (pickers...) but I did find an extraordinary book in which I think most people here would be interested. Literature and Photography 1840-1990 ©1995 University of New Mexico Press. Not much in the way of pitchurssic, but the breadth of it is pretty extraordinary. I haven't seen anything like it. It is all older writing of course, but from authors like Nabokov, Neruda, Poe, Faulkner, Kerouac, Sartre and of course from photographers like Weston, Evans, Parks, White, Michals, etc. Can be had for peanuts.

Thank you for this. Surprised I missed this one, especially as it comes in at nearly 700 pages! Looks to be excellent winter reading. Just picked up a copy off Amazon.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Thank you for this. Surprised I missed this one, especially as it comes in at nearly 700 pages! Looks to be excellent winter reading. Just picked up a copy off Amazon.

You're welcome! That is what this thread is all about.

 

[Nitroplait]

I stopped holding my breath for that one a long time ago. It has to be at least three years since it was first announced.

Same with Robert Adams' "The New West". Has been in "Reprinting" status for ages.
The "reprinting" It is not a typo on their site. The release date continues to move during the years I have been looking.

When Steidl did the big lot of Robert Adams books in 2023 with participation of Joshua Chuang, I asked Mr. Chuang (on Instagram) why The New West wasn't included, and he said Steidl would wait for 2024 and release it on the 50 anniversary of the original book (1974). Well, that didn't happen either.