The Photobook Thread

[Pieter12]

This was posted on Pier 24's Instagram this morning. Dawoud Bey in front of a display of photobooks at the current/last ever Pier 24 exhibition

How many of these books do you have in your collection? I count nine in mine.

First of all, Pier 24 is an amazing discovery for me. A must-see next time I am in San Francisco.

On their website, they list the photographers featured, but not the book titles:
Richard Avedon | Libby Black | Rose Marie Cromwell | Rineke Dijkstra | Robert Frank | Masahisa Fukase | Jim Goldberg | Curran Hatleberg | Rinko Kawauchi | Baldwin Lee | Helen Levitt | Zanele Muholi | Cindy Sherman | Donavon Smallwood | Alec Soth | Larry Sultan | Ed Templeton | Vasantha Yogananthan |

 

[logan2z]

My 2 are correction, 3

The Decisive Moment
American Prospects
Los Angeles Spring (the new version)

What are the 3 books 2nd row up from bottom, right side of image, 2nd-4th books in from right side? 3 copies of same book with different dust jacket images?

I guess I'm at 10. I somehow missed American Prospects.

 

[logan2z]

What are the 3 books 2nd row up from bottom, right side of image, 2nd-4th books in from right side? 3 copies of same book with different dust jacket images?

That's Mark Steinmetz's South Trilogy, all from Nazraeli press (and still available).

From left to right:

South Central
South East
Greater Atlanta

 

[logan2z]

...Pier 24 is an amazing discovery for me. A must-see next time I am in San Francisco.

You've got a year. Pier 24 is closing in July 2025.

Pier 24 remains vital to SF while 'Turning the Page' in last exhibit

 

[MTGseattle]

Thank you for the book identification.

 

[logan2z]

Thank you for the book identification.

You're welcome.

 

[logan2z]

Twin Palms Publishers is selling some signed, NOS copies of Danny Lyon's The Bikeriders. According to the email I received from Twin Palms:

These copies of the 1997 gravure edition of Danny Lyon's incredible documentary project are new old stock from our archive, and are signed by the artist.

I was almost afraid to look at the price, but it actually isn't that bad at $95.

My book budget is firmly in the red at the moment, but I thought someone here might be interested.

The Bikeriders

This is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling...

twinpalms.com

 

[Pieter12]

Twin Palms Publishers is selling some signed, NOS copies of Danny Lyon's The Bikeriders. According to the email I received from Twin Palms:

These copies of the 1997 gravure edition of Danny Lyon's incredible documentary project are new old stock from our archive, and are signed by the artist.

I was almost afraid to look at the price, but it actually isn't that bad at $95.

My book budget is firmly in the red at the moment, but I thought someone here might be interested.

The Bikeriders

This is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling...

twinpalms.com

Damn!

 

[logan2z]

Damn!

That was exactly my reaction

 

[logan2z]

Aperture interviews Danny Lyon on the making of 'The Bikeriders'

Danny Lyon on the making of 'The Bikeriders'

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Interesting book-related exhibit at the Howard Greenberg Gallery. From the website:

Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book celebrates the decades long collaboration of Howard Greenberg Gallery and Lumiere Press. The exhibition will present a selection of fine art books by the Press alongside works by Bruce Davidson, Dave Heath, Consuelo Kanaga, William Klein, Dorothea Lange, Saul Leiter, Leon Levinstein, Ruth Orkin, Gordon Parks, Flip Schulke, W. Eugene Smith, and Edward Steichen, who were featured in books by Lumiere Press.

Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book | Howard Greenberg Gallery

Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism...

www.howardgreenberg.com

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Aperture interviews Danny Lyon on the making of 'The Bikeriders'

Danny Lyon on the making of 'The Bikeriders'

It's a great interview.

My favorite part:

— But I was in Wisconsin when these motorcycles pass us—I see them behind us, and Skip’s driving, and I start yelling, “Keep up with them!” I’m shooting through the front window with a 105mm lens, and I make this picture called Route 12, Wisconsin, which I think the British Museum later declared as a masterpiece of photography. I was twenty years old. It’s a pretty good picture. It’s perfectly arranged. It’s done through the front window of a moving car, and it’s very geometrical. That’s the cover of The Bikeriders.

Really looking forward to reading his autobiography.

 

[Pieter12]

Twin Palms Publishers is selling some signed, NOS copies of Danny Lyon's The Bikeriders. According to the email I received from Twin Palms:

These copies of the 1997 gravure edition of Danny Lyon's incredible documentary project are new old stock from our archive, and are signed by the artist.

I was almost afraid to look at the price, but it actually isn't that bad at $95.

My book budget is firmly in the red at the moment, but I thought someone here might be interested.

The Bikeriders

This is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling...

twinpalms.com

I hope it's not the one that Lyon calls in the in the Aperture interview, "This is the worst version of The Bikeriders."

 

[logan2z]

I hope it's not the one that Lyon calls in the in the Aperture interview, "This is the worst version of The Bikeriders."

I don't think it is. In the interview, Lyon says:

Twenty years later, Jack Woody, who’s a wonderful publisher, wants to do it in gravure, and he makes it a little bigger. There are no additional pictures, but the format’s a little different, and I write a second introduction. So that’s the second edition. That’s really gorgeous.

According to the Twin Palms site:

In 1997, Lyon worked with Jack Woody to re-issue the book in this sheet-fed gravure edition.

So it sounds like the version being sold by Twin Palms is the version that Lyon called "gorgeous".

Moot now since it looks like it's sold out.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Posting this interview with Tim Carpenter here instead of in the "Photographers" sub-forum because it's essentially about three of his books, Local Objects, Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road, and To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die. Goes pretty in-depth into the how and the why of each of them.



Learned in the conversation that he was one of the founders of TIS Books.

TIS books

TIS books publishes unique photobooks in small editions.

www.tisbooks.pub

 

[logan2z]

Posting this interview with Tim Carpenter here instead of in the "Photographers" sub-forum because it's essentially about three of his books, Local Objects, Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road, and To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die. Goes pretty in-depth into the how and the why of each of them.



Learned in the conversation that he was one of the founders of TIS Books.

TIS books

TIS books publishes unique photobooks in small editions.

www.tisbooks.pub

Thanks for posting this. Local Objects was one of the first photobooks I ever purchased and I found a lot of inspiration in it. Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road, on the other hand, seemed like a bit of a sophomore slump to me and I never purchased it.

The same YouTube channel did another interview with him about Local Objects. Full disclosure, I haven't watched it yet so I don't know how interesting it is.



There's yet another discussion with him on the Penumbra Foundation channel. I saw the live stream of this one and thought it was pretty good.

 

[Pieter12]

I don't think it is. In the interview, Lyon says:

Twenty years later, Jack Woody, who’s a wonderful publisher, wants to do it in gravure, and he makes it a little bigger. There are no additional pictures, but the format’s a little different, and I write a second introduction. So that’s the second edition. That’s really gorgeous.

According to the Twin Palms site:

In 1997, Lyon worked with Jack Woody to re-issue the book in this sheet-fed gravure edition.

So it sounds like the version being sold by Twin Palms is the version that Lyon called "gorgeous".

Moot now since it looks like it's sold out.

What threw me was the math: "Twenty years later, Jack Woody, who’s a wonderful publisher, wants to do it in gravure, and he makes it a little bigger. [1988]...Then, in another ten years, [1998] Chronicle Books offered me money to publish it again if I added pictures. This is the worst version of The Bikeriders." The Twin Palms listing for the book states "december 1997" so it left me a little confused which edition they were selling. It is NLA because I bought the last one.

 

[logan2z]

What threw me was the math: "Twenty years later, Jack Woody, who’s a wonderful publisher, wants to do it in gravure, and he makes it a little bigger. [1988]...Then, in another ten years, [1998] Chronicle Books offered me money to publish it again if I added pictures. This is the worst version of The Bikeriders." The Twin Palms listing for the book states "december 1997" so it left me a little confused which edition they were selling. It is NLA because I bought the last one.

Yeah, the math was a bit off but I figured that was just Danny Lyon getting tbe dates wrong.

Congratulations on the book! Please post about it when you receive it.

 

[logan2z]

On the heels of The Bikeriders, Twin Palms is now offering a new old stock, slipcased gravure edition from 1998 of Bruce Davidson's Brooklyn Gang. It was selling for $155 when I first looked about an hour ago, but now it's up to $200 - apparently they're treating it like an editioned artwork and raising the price as it sells. I don't think I've seen that done with a photobook before...

Brooklyn Gang

In the spring of 1959, I met a group of teenagers in Brooklyn who called themselves "The Jokers." I was twenty-five and they were about sixteen. I could easily have been taken for one of them... In time they allowed me to witness their fear, depression, and anger. I soon realized that I, too...

twinpalms.com

 

[Pieter12]

Aperture is offering signed prints from the book. https://aperture.org/sale/bikeriders-print-set/

 

[Arthurwg]

BTW, have any of you seen "Antipersonnel," by Raphael Dallaporta (Muse de L'Elysee, Lausanne)? It's a collection of studio portraits of antipersonell mines, shot against black backgrounds as it they were objects of art. The contrast between these evil and lethal devises with their treatment and setting will make your hair stand up.

 

[MTGseattle]

has anyone bought the accompanying text to this exhibition? One of our half-priced-books locations had a few copies.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented in twenty-five years. The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and will premiere at the Whitney in June 2016 before traveling to San...

whitney.org

 

[Pieter12]

BTW, have any of you seen "Antipersonnel," by Raphael Dallaporta (Muse de L'Elysee, Lausanne)? It's a collection of studio portraits of antipersonell mines, shot against black backgrounds as it they were objects of art. The contrast between these evil and lethal devises with their treatment and setting will make your hair stand up.

Possibly less visually disturbing than his previous project, where he photographed body parts in during autopsies in the same style.

 

[Arthurwg]

Possibly less visually disturbing than his previous project, where he photographed body parts in during autopsies in the same style.

Yes, I would be horrified.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

has anyone bought the accompanying text to this exhibition? One of our half-priced-books locations had a few copies.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented in twenty-five years. The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and will premiere at the Whitney in June 2016 before traveling to San...

whitney.org

I have it. Great book. It's a Yale book, so of course there are many essays — 80 pages in a 300-page book—, but Dannny Lyon is a fantastic subject, and all the essays are interesting. The rest is an excellent retrospective, perfectly curated for who wants to get a sense of the variety and depth of his work. More than worth it at half price.