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.

 

[logan2z]

Aperture has a 40% off sale on books until 12/1. Unfortunately, most of the books I clicked on showed 'Out of Stock' so I'm not sure what the point is of listing them with sale prices. But you might find something there you're interested in that actually is in stock...

 

[logan2z]

Photo-eye 20% off sale on all in-stock books ends tonight. Code BLACKFRIDAY2025.

Radius Books has a 20% off sale site-wide: Code HOLIDAY25.

Artbook-DAP has a 30% off sale through Monday 12/1: Code blackfriday2025

 

[logan2z]

I limited myself to three books (so far ) this holiday season. The first one just arrived:

I've only had a few minutes to flip through it, but it looks good so far.