The Photobook Thread

[logan2z]

Yale University Press is having its spring sale. 50% off books site wide. This is only on 'eligible titles', but every photography book I looked at on the site was 1/2 price.

2026 Spring Sale - Yale University Press

Receive 50% off eligible titles, indicated on product pages with language callouts and visible price reductions, via our website shopping cart from May 1, 2026 to 11:59 pm EST May... READ MORE

yalebooks.yale.edu

 

[Arthurwg]

Would love to have a copy of the "Kurdistan " book he talks about, but at $250-$300 a pop I'll have to pass.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Would love to have a copy of the "Kurdistan " book he talks about, but at $250-$300 a pop I'll have to pass.

Same. I'll put it next to John Gossage's The Pond on my "What to Buy When I Win the Lottery" list

 

[logan2z]

Same. I'll put it next to John Gossage's The Pond on my "What to Buy When I Win the Lottery" list

I just checked prices online. The Pond does seem to be going for outrageous prices now. I bought my copy several years ago from Aperture. Maybe they'll do another print run of the book at some point and you can grab a copy at a decent price.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

I just checked prices online. The Pond does seem to be going for outrageous prices now. I bought my copy several years ago from Aperture. Maybe they'll do another print run of the book at some point and you can grab a copy at a decent price.

I wish I understood the economics of photobooks a bit better. This is such an influential book, you figure they would reprint often. Other influential books, such as Cartier-Bresson's Images à la sauvette, Walker Evans' American Photographs or Robert Frank's The Americans are easily available these days.

 

[Arthurwg]

Same. I'll put it next to John Gossage's The Pond on my "What to Buy When I Win the Lottery" list

Wow! The Pond. Now that's esoteric.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

This seems like an interesting book, rencently published by Princeton University Press: Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan

This is how it's described:

Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan carved out a new role for photographers and their art in the decades after World War Two. Photography as a Way of Life traces how these influential teachers and theorists reimagined the medium as a livelihood and a life’s work.

Together with growing markets for snapshots and photojournalism, the postwar years saw the emergence of photography as an established field of study in higher education. In this beautifully produced book, Brendan Fay takes readers from the late 1940s through the 1970s to explore how White, Siskind, and Callahan transformed the ways photography was taught, shown, and understood.

Photography as a Way of Life

A richly illustrated look at three visionary artists who charted new directions for photography in midcentury America

press.princeton.edu

Princeton has a 50% sale on their books until June 9th. I've tried the coupon code, but doesn't seem to work with Canadian orders...

 

[Pieter12]

This seems like an interesting book, rencently published by Princeton University Press: Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan

This is how it's described:

Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan carved out a new role for photographers and their art in the decades after World War Two. Photography as a Way of Life traces how these influential teachers and theorists reimagined the medium as a livelihood and a life’s work.

Together with growing markets for snapshots and photojournalism, the postwar years saw the emergence of photography as an established field of study in higher education. In this beautifully produced book, Brendan Fay takes readers from the late 1940s through the 1970s to explore how White, Siskind, and Callahan transformed the ways photography was taught, shown, and understood.

Photography as a Way of Life

A richly illustrated look at three visionary artists who charted new directions for photography in midcentury America

press.princeton.edu

Princeton has a 50% sale on their books until June 9th. I've tried the coupon code, but doesn't seem to work with Canadian orders...

It doesn't work for that title on US orders either.

 

[TJones]

It doesn't work for that title on US orders either.

PUP30 works for a 30% discount.

 

[bjorke]

I wish I understood the economics of photobooks a bit better. This is such an influential book, you figure they would reprint often. Other influential books, such as Cartier-Bresson's Images à la sauvette, Walker Evans' American Photographs or Robert Frank's The Americans are easily available these days.

All the books you cite have gone through inaccessible dry spells. Library?
Books also need champions at a publisher. If you want to see it happen, at least let Aperture know!