Best individual photographer monographs according to redditors
We found 11 Reddit comments discussing the best individual photographer monographs. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 11 Reddit comments discussing the best individual photographer monographs. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Hmm. Some inaccuracies are in there.
> There is no Internet, cell-phones have been banned.
Actually not true. Koryolink is now operating a GSM service in the DPRK. It's a joint venture between Orasom (a middle eastern telco) and the local government. I spoke to a guy from Orascom a few months ago at a conference in Beirut and he said business was pretty poor.
> A six-day work week, and another day of enforced “volunteer” work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time.
Not universally true. Farm workers get the weekend off.
> The very first thing you do when you visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is visit and give a flower to a big statue of “Dear Leader”.
You do have to visit the statue but you don't have to give flowers.
> About 0.85% of the population are held in prison or detention camps.
They're worse than "detention camps" they are concentration camps. People are starved, tortured and abused and there are rumours of medical experiments being carried out on prisoners. The Yodok camp has a mortality rate of 20% per year and Camp 22 is likely the same.
http://www.travel-images.com/korean.html has some great photographs and Charlie Crane's book "Welcome to Pyongyang" is also excellent.
Used up my tomahawk missile inventory last month.
Also I am old, I already did my war fighting from 2001 - 2009. The most effective thing I can do is win hearts and minds.
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Have you read this?
We Came From Fire: Photographs of Kurdistan's Armed Struggle Against ISIS https://www.amazon.com/dp/1576878686/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_6NqODb3F8J7ZX
Taken from the excellent book "Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators." An interesting book, and it's currently only a buck. http://www.amazon.com/Alter-Ego-Avatars-their-creators/dp/1905712022
General 'snapshot' street photography is a matter of chance, with a small amount of composition. Very little work and thought goes into the output. What's notable about HCB is that he frequently framed a shot based on artistic composition; and waited for something to happen. Other times he had time to compose a shot he took the time to find the geometry. Even when just out snapping, he looked for scenes where geometry was striking. If you're curious about the way he does this, he talks about it in an old movie.
Asking someone else how to make your work stand out is inherently uncreative, for the record.
One of the most important things I ever learned about photography was that buying gear isn't really useful. Having a working camera and some working lenses is necessary; but if you have something 'semi-professional' or above, there's little to no advantage in upgrading. You have an M8 (or possibly an M6 by now?) and a lens. As long as both are in functional condition; that's all you need in terms of equipment.
Instead, buy books. Here's some suggestions that you might want to consider:
You can also look at libraries for these, and keep an eye on thrift stores and used bookshops. I think you're in London, right? There's a huge gallery on Oxford street, and in Mayfair there's a Leica store where exhibitions are held a few times a year.
The key point is to look at photos; individual photos, contact sheets and whole curated books and exhibitions. Think about how the artists made something like documentary and snapshot photography into an art. Look for ideas you can use, and look for things that haven't been done that you could use to be unique. Look at studio photography. Look at erotic photography. Look at cinema and still life and landscapes and architecture and paintings and drawings and every other image created with artistic intent, that represents a moment of reality. And go from there.
This is from the book Alter Ego by Robbie Cooper, for those interested.
Yes, Amazon BR.
https://www.amazon.com.br/Strokes-First-Ten-Years/dp/1944713174/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541683017&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX118_SY170_QL70&keywords=the+strokes+the+first+ten+years
I have this book, but I don't think I've ever seen that taxi picture before. It's freaking DEMOLISHED, did it get hit by a train?
You could try Richard Goodall Gallery for music/movie posters, not sure how many metal bands they have...if any. Also I'm not sure if anyone sells prints of Weegee's photographs but he is famous for arriving on crime scenes before the police to grab his shots, here are some examples and here's a decent looking book. There's also this book that I've been trying to track down a copy of in the UK, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes about working in a mortuary.
If he's into vinyl, a lot of metal bands put out limited edition releases which you can probably get for somewhere around £30-50 or even if he's an Argento fan, the Goblin soundtrack to Suspiria would be pretty cool
Fright Rags and Rotten Cotton do horror T-shirts and Rotten Cotton even has an Italian-Horror section with a few Argento items
> "Schweiger describes the fall-outs, tears, jealousy, screaming fits, hangovers and plain all-out exhaustion that went together with creating the book. One artist almost got cut out of the book completely after a row over picture rights."
This book sounds rad. I can't believe no other media has covered it! But I gotta say, the USD $55 price tag is a bit painful for me, as much as it is probably justified.