The Photobook Thread

logan2z · Nov 18, 2025

Alex Benjamin said:
As long as we're talking Japanese photographers, anybody has one (or more) photo book by Takuma Nakahira they could recommend?

I don’t know if this is coincidence or you also got the email from Aperture today, but they just published a new book by Nakahira. It sounds like it’s more a book of his writings than his photographs, however, although some photographs are included.

At the Limits of the Gaze (2025) | Aperture Photobooks

The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira’s influential writings on photography.

aperture.org

Alex Benjamin · Nov 18, 2025

logan2z said:
I don’t know if this is coincidence or you also got the email from Aperture today, but they just published a new book by Nakahira. It sounds like it’s more a book of his writings than his photographs, however, although some photographs are included.

At the Limits of the Gaze (2025) | Aperture Photobooks

The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira’s influential writings on photography.

aperture.org

Yes, that's what prompted my question. Got the email, ordered the book, but since it is a book of essays, I'm looking for a photobook to complement.

logan2z · Wednesday at 1:10 PM

I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a copy of this, but not for the hundreds or even thousands of dollars that people are asking for it on eBay and AbeBooks.

For a Language to Come

(I would have embedded the video directly here, but Vimeo won't allow it.)

Alex Benjamin · Wednesday at 1:18 PM

logan2z said:
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a copy of this, but not for the hundreds or even thousands of dollars that people are asking for it on eBay and AbeBooks.

For a Language to Come

(I would have embedded the video directly here, but Vimeo won't allow it.)

Yeah. Saw it on Biblio...

That's 960$CAD...

logan2z · Wednesday at 1:28 PM

Alex Benjamin said:
Yeah. Saw it on Biblio...

That's 960$CAD...

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That's ridiculous. I can't see anyone in their right mind paying that. His work isn't dramatically different from Moriyama's, so you can get your fix of are, bure, boke for a lot less.

logan2z · Wednesday at 2:50 PM

Pieter12 said:
Sale is on now. Coupon code for 30% off is VIP25.

Unfortunately, that code no longer seems valid.

Pieter12 · Wednesday at 3:01 PM

logan2z said:
Unfortunately, that code no longer seems valid.

Yeah, it was only good for the day I posted it.

logan2z · Wednesday at 3:30 PM

Pieter12 said:
Yeah, it was only good for the day I posted it.

Bummer

logan2z · Wednesday at 4:00 PM

logan2z said:
Bummer

All is not lost, they have a 25% off sale for Black Friday.

Nitroplait · Thursday at 11:52 AM

logan2z said:
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a copy of this, but not for the hundreds or even thousands of dollars that people are asking for it on eBay and AbeBooks.

For a Language to Come

(I would have embedded the video directly here, but Vimeo won't allow it.)

Is that the “new” 2010’ish edition? I have that but I seriously doubt anyone would really pay that much.
Delirious sellers I think.

logan2z · Thursday at 1:17 PM

Nitroplait said:
Is that the “new” 2010’ish edition? I have that but I seriously doubt anyone would really pay that much.
Delirious sellers I think.

Yes, that's the 2010 reissue.

https://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation/ZE196

Pieter12 · Friday at 1:16 PM

Here's the Getty discount for this weekend:

Use code IRISES25 at checkout

3 Days Only

Sale ends Sunday

logan2z · Friday at 5:02 PM

Pieter12 said:
Here's the Getty discount for this weekend:

Use code IRISES25 at checkout

3 Days Only

Sale ends Sunday

I received the email too. Just bought the new Graciela Iturbide book.

logan2z · Friday at 5:05 PM

Pieter12 said:
Here's the Getty discount for this weekend:

Use code IRISES25 at checkout

3 Days Only

Sale ends Sunday

Also note, that if you are an email subscriber, you get free domestic shipping too.

logan2z · 2025-11-24T14:46:09-0500

Yale University Press has its Winter Sale on now. All books 30% off with code GIFT30.

Home - Yale University Press

yalebooks.yale.edu

Alex Benjamin · 2025-11-24T15:18:33-0500

logan2z said:
Yale University Press has its Winter Sale on now.

Very tempted by the David Goldblatt book, but a bit short on funds these days (blame Ilford's photo paper prices...).

nikos79 · 2025-11-24T15:29:23-0500

Alex Benjamin said:
Very tempted by the David Goldblatt book, but a bit short on funds these days (blame Ilford's photo paper prices...).

Don't you have second hand bookstores there? There is a guy here in Lausanne that gets books in amazing prices.
I bought HCB "America in Passing" for 15 Euros.

logan2z · 2025-11-24T16:33:50-0500

Alex Benjamin said:
Very tempted by the David Goldblatt book, but a bit short on funds these days (blame Ilford's photo paper prices...).

There's a couple of books that I'm interested in as well. Although I just bought the new Graciela Iturbide book from the Getty Museum Shop sale and I too spent a small fortune on Ilford Art 300 paper.

logan2z · 2025-11-24T16:37:14-0500

nikos79 said:
Don't you have second hand bookstores there? There is a guy here in Lausanne that gets books in amazing prices.
I bought HCB "America in Passing" for 15 Euros.

We do and I buy from some of them as well. I don't really have any local to me, but I buy from some used shops that also sell online. I've found a few decent deals, but it seems like most of the better shops I know of use eBay pricing so they tend to be overpriced.

Alex Benjamin · 2025-11-24T16:43:36-0500

nikos79 said:
Don't you have second hand bookstores there?

Yes, but the Goldblatt is a new book.

I often buy used online from Biblio. And once in a while I get lucky in our local used book stores, like last week, when I found Aperture's new release of Lyon's The Bikeriders for 20$.

logan2z · 2025-11-24T16:45:41-0500

Alex Benjamin said:
And once in a while I get lucky in our local used book stores, like last week, when I found Aperture's new release of Lyon's The Bikeriders for 20$.

One of my favorite photobooks.

Pieter12 · 2025-11-24T16:54:01-0500

Many independent bookstore carry used books. It can be an adventure. While traveling earlier this year, I found two out-of-print books I had been looking for at independent shops.

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