The Photobook Thread

[logan2z]

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

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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Unfortunately, that code no longer seems valid.

 

[Pieter12]

Unfortunately, that code no longer seems valid.

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

 

[logan2z]

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

Bummer

 

[logan2z]

Bummer

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

 

[Nitroplait]

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]

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]

Here's the Getty discount for this weekend:

Use code IRISES25 at checkout

3 Days Only

Sale ends Sunday

 

[logan2z]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.