(Part 2) Best photography collections & exhibitions according to redditors
We found 345 Reddit comments discussing the best photography collections & exhibitions. We ranked the 158 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
This is in a book called Forbidden Erotica from Taschen, which also has a lot of other Victorian porn, including a photo of the Eiffel Tower going into a woman's ass and several (several!) of women putting kitchen knives right next to a man's penis as it sat on a plate, mimicking a sausage.
Victorians were FUCKED UP people.
I found this photo originally from the book New York Noir: Crime Photos from the DAILY NEWS archives The excerpt under the photo is from the full text of the case People v. Luscomb. Pretty interesting stuff. THe original newpaper caption for the photo is "In the depths of remorse, manacles, LeRoy Luscomb sits in a room with his dead wife . . . . [he] killed her with a deer rifle after she left him because of his interest in another woman". From the case report it wounds like he almost killed her whole family, or wanted to for a second.
Here's the description of the days leading up to the murder and the SUPER HARROWING description the in-laws give about the murder itself. Can't stand how someone asked the FIL "how could you just stand by and let it happen" as if it were his fault.
>When the defendant arrived home on Sunday, April 18th, he found that his wife had departed taking the youngest child with her. She had returned to the home of her father one Reuben Eck, at Corbett in the town of Colchester. To Eck's home the defendant sent a letter by his oldest son on Monday, asking the deceased to return saying that he would be "true to you from this day on." The deceased had previously left the defendant on two prior occasions because of his excessive indulgence in liquor. After the delivery of the letter the deceased did not return. On Tuesday morning defendant left a second letter on the kitchen table of his home asking the deceased to return to him. Deceased, however, failed to return.
>On Wednesday, April 21st, the defendant did not work but went fishing with his oldest son. They returned home about two o'clock in the afternoon and the defendant went to the village of Downsville, where he had some beer. At about six o'clock he came home and had his evening meal with his children. He obtained his Winchester rifle, loaded it and drove with the children to a restaurant where he had a bottle of beer and the children had soft drinks. He then drove to Corbett to the home of Reuben Eck. He entered through the woodshed door. The deceased was seated in the kitchen.
>Ida Eck, the mother of deceased, said that at about a quarter after seven in the evening one of her grandsons came in and asked her daughter to go outside to see the defendant; that when her daughter refused, she heard her grandson say, "Ma, you better go because he's got a gun and he's going to shoot you"; that then she heard the defendant enter the kitchen and say to her daughter in a loud voice "Ella, I want you to get your clothes and things and Dixie [the six year old child] and go home. Do you hear?"; that she then heard a scuffle in the kitchen but could not hear any conversation; that when her husband went into the kitchen she followed him as far as the doorway and stood there; that the defendant had a rifle which he held with both hands; that defendant said to her husband, "None of your funny business here. Don't come a step further"; that the rifle was pointed at her husband; that he swung the gun around "onto me" and said, "or you, either damn you, I think you are a lot to fault of this"; that he pointed the gun at her for a minute and when he swung it around she left the room; that she then heard the defendant say "I'll clean up the whole damn bunch of you"; that she then went upstairs and when she reached the top of the stairs she heard a shot.
>Reuben Eck testified that when he entered the kitchen he saw the defendant "with his wife with her back up against the kitchen table, and he had hold of her clothing like that and was a shaking her"; that when the defendant saw him "he let go of her and grabbed up the rifle, and he said to me, `None of your damn funny business, don't come a step farther'"; that the defendant, holding the gun in both hands, pointed the rifle right at him; that at that time Mrs. Eck stepped in the door and defendant turned the rifle in her direction and said, "G d you, I think you are a whole lot to fault of this"; that defendant then laid the gun back on the table and took off his jacket and laid it on the table, and said, "I'll clean up the whole damn bunch of you"; that he told the defendant that no one was at fault and defendant replied, "Rube, I don't think you are to fault. I have always liked you" and that they shook hands; that then the defendant picked up the rifle and swung around to the deceased and said, "Now, Ella, G d you, you are going home with me, or I'm going to kill you right here"; that decedent refused to go home with defendant and after a couple of seconds the gun was discharged; that at that time deceased was about three feet from the defendant and he (Eck) was about four feet from him; that deceased did not turn the defendant around; and that the witness never attempted to seize the rifle; that during the entire time he remained in one spot, that being the spot he reached when defendant told him not to come one step nearer. Eck was asked "Do you wish this jury to understand that you, the father of this girl, stood and took all that." His reply was, "What could I do?"
The Met in NY had an exhibit called Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. I saw it, it was a great survey of they type of stuff you're asking about. It's currently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. There was a companion exhibit of manipulation in the Photoshop age.
There's a catalogue of the exhibit which I think would answer all of your questions.
The short answer is people manipulated both the negative and the print, and made prints from multiple negatives. The results ranged from crappy to undetectable.
Also take a look at the work of Jerry Uelsmann, a master manipulator pre-Photoshop.
Late edit: Just stumbled across this 1955 article from Popular Mechanics called How to Make Incredible Pictures
Cars
Photography
Comic Books 1, 2
Apple
LEGO's
American Football
PostSecret
Video Games
Vinyl
Warhol
Outdoors
Star Wars
Motorcycles
The Dark Knight
Paris
Interior Design
World Atlas
Banksy
Wes Anderson
Tribal Cultures
Playboy
Girls
Libraries
The Cosmos
The Beetles
Travel
Preppy
Steve McQueen
The Moon
I love atmosphere, so I'm all about:
Would love any recommendations for similarly moody work?
I don't own the following, but would like:
This man is correct.
Other books by the same author: Play With Your Food, The Secret Language of Destiny, and Teddy's World.
Joost is sure the renaissance man!
Thanks for this. Great idea!
I've said in this sub before, the book from Family of Man should be in every photographer's collection.
For Trent Parke the only affordable one is Minutes to Midnight. He also has another affordable book The Christmas Tree Bucket but it's not a series on street photography. His other books "Dream/Life" and "The Seventh Wave" are rare and very expensive to buy for anyone but the most hardcore collectors.
For Alex Webb The Suffering of Light is a compilation that covers most of his career. There's also Instanbul: City of a Hundred Names that is just about to go out of print again.
For Josef Koudelka there is Exiles and Gypsies
For Jesse Marlow there is DON’T JUST TELL THEM, SHOW THEM and WOUNDED
For Martin Parr there is The Last Resort and Bad Weather
Here's the book I believe this picture is from: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Air-Ossian-Brown/dp/0224089706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335024429&sr=8-1
If you really enjoyed Moneyball, then The Only Rule Is It Has To Work might be up your alley. In it, two basebal writers run an independent league team, The San Rafael Pacifics, entirely on saebermetrics.
Where Nobody Knows Your Name is a great read about life in the minor leagues.
Smithsonian Baseball is another good choice.
If you don't mind books being team specific, I'd also recommend looking onto Finley Ball, Aces, Holy Toledo! and any of the Brian Murphy/Brad Mangin Giants books (incredible photography in those).
I work in a bookstore and one of my coworkers from Zimbabwe had Across the Ravaged Land as a staff pick. It's photographs of wildlife in Africa and the devastating effects of rampant poaching. Not a light read but very interesting
Yes, the Victorians were indeed into watersports, oral sex, threesomes and more. This book contains hundreds of eye-opening vintage photos.
Coworker: I immediately thought she should get a really graphic Batman poster. You could even get it framed if you have enough left over. Here are some from Etsy: 1, 2, 3, 4, this one's a little different.. but it's video game related so.. here! 5
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Boss: A nice photography book would probably be a safe bet: 1, 2, 3, 4, last one is $5 over budget, but 5
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Professor: I'm sorry I don't have more original ideas for him but here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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GOOD LUCK!!
board games: Apples to Apples is a good party game.
books: photography books are something people could pick up quickly and discuss. Try some Taschen book or some
nature book
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Photo books! I like Elliott Erwitt. His photos are an incredible mix of juxtapositional humor, emotive/profound, and historically significant. That kind of range makes them great to just pick up and page through for a few minutes too. It's basically decoration you can actually interact with. Good conversation piece, too. Especially for those times when you have a guest over who you don't know super well and the conversation hits a point where you're both thinking to yourselves, "oh shit neither one of us know what to talk about next and it's going to be awkward real in 3 seconds" but you can't really end the conversation there because because they're going to be over for a while longer. You have those times, right? Maybe its just me I don't know.
But anyway, his book Personal Exposures is a favorite of mine. Personal Best is another good one. If you want something that is guaranteed to make even the coldest motherfucker smile, and you're ok forgoing the heavy and historical photos, Dogs is absolutely awesome. Unfortunately it's out of print, and finding one new is likely to run you over $100, but you can get a used copy in good condition for about $50 (as linked).
Not into Erwitt? Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Capa are similar in that they are documentary photographers, but they're a little more traditional if that's your thing.
Or maybe you're looking for more abstract street scenes. Fan Ho's Hong Kong Yesterday shows some of the best use of light and shadow I've ever seen and creates geometric, high-contrast, often surreal images. It's stunning work, and the book cover and binding are amazing (fabric coating with foil embossed text and a high-quality print of his most famous work photo, "Approaching Shadow" adhered to the cover. It's an absolute steal at $65.
Want something with a little more edge? Ryan McGinley is your guy, and You and I is your book (as long as you're ok with a slightly NSFW cover and a handful of slightly NSFW images inside.)
Or you could go with the old standby, Ansel Adams. Some of the most stunning landscape images ever made. But because his images are so well known, most people have seen his stuff countless times before, so it may not be as interesting/appealing. Especially for those awkward moments. You have those moments, right?
Or really, any coffee table book works if you're just looking to fill some visual space somehow. Go to a chain bookstore and browse the clearance section. The're all like, $5 or something. I just really like my coffee table books to tell a story (or stories) in images, and to have a personality and reflect stuff I think is pretty cool. I'm also kind of into photography, so that probably has something to do with recommending photobooks specifically.
http://www.amazon.com/Photography-Definitive-History-Tom-Ang/dp/1465422889/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450875070&sr=8-1&keywords=history+of+photography
This is perfect.
Wow, thats bittersweet. I have a book called Teddy's World.
Check it out.
Seeda_Boo is correct. The photo is extremely famous, along with other photos from the CRM. If you enjoy pictorial histories, I suggest reading Seeing through Race by Martin Berger. Below is a link to the book on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-through-Race-Reinterpretation-Photography/dp/0520268644
Buy his book its amazingly beautiful!
http://www.amazon.com/Across-Ravaged-Land-Nick-Brandt/dp/1419709453
Happy thirtieth birthday! If you're going for goofy smiles, nothing can beat naked ladies. I'd be smiling all WEEK if I got this! :3
Shooting is good, but a good book will help teach you some good camera basics. When I was in high school a friend lent me her copy of this book. I've since bought one and lent my copy to everyone I know who ever asked your same question.
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Photography Changes Everything by Marvin Heiferman
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Magnum Contact Sheets by Kristen Lubben
Photography: The Definitive Visual History by Tom Ang
Michael Kenna: Images of the Seventh Day
Raised by Wolves by Jim Goldberg
The Photography Book: 2nd Edition by Ian Jeffrey
The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski
The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman
The Photographer's Vision by Michael Freeman
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson
For those interested, some dead tree resources:
Evidence: NYPD Crime Scene Photographs
Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
New York Noir: Crimes Photos from the Daily News Archive
Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures
Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive
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There was an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC a few years back, called Faking it: Manipulation before Photoshop, which was a good overview of pre-digital photo editing. There is a book associated with the exhibition.
If that's not the kind of thing you're looking for, then please explain further.
You're on the right track. I find that cosmology, astronomy, biology, and geology are a millions times more interesting then any book of stories written long before men had the capability to understand the world around them. Keep asking questions and keep learning. And they have the added benefit of being true.
> First, graph of Town and derivative cruisers during the war.
Nice one. I quite like your methodology of counting partials. The effects of Crete and Pedestal and how they line up with other things are also quite apparent.
There's always an issue aside from that of going just 'commissioned, fine' to 'at what point was the ship worked-up and capable?'. There's frequently not much delineation in RN ships (e.g. PoW sailing to Denmark Strait with contractors aboard), especially compared to the German working-up periods. It was something I started thinking about with my RN BB assessment - for instance when Warspite comes back into commission in early 1942 she theoretically partially offsets the Valiant/QE being damaged in Alexandria, but she's not worked up and of lower fighting efficiency (aside from being a bit uselessly on the US West Coast).
There are a few fringes where I'd look at your <3 month refits not counting. I did in my BB analysis take the line that 'if you were in for a 24hr boiler clean you could be out pretty sharply' but 3 month refits are probably hard to rapidly deploy from.
However there are some ships like Mauritius which are a bit tricky. I pick on her because I read 'The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse' recently where PoW/Repulse come into Singapore and Mauritius is sitting there like a lemon, a ship less than a year old basically knackered from boiler issues. When Force Z arrived she was ordered to hurry her refit as much as possible, but wasn't able to complete quickly, didn't sail with the Force (even though she'd already been alongside a month and would have been a decent addition) and then ended up sailing to England, finally completing by April '42, six months of near uselessness even if she'd been able to divert and intercept say a merchant raider on transit.
The minimum 'requirement' for cruiser numbers is also of note. There were several key utilization areas:
I do wonder what a minimum requirement would look like.
I'm also interested to know what the logic for the Operation Neptune deployments was. Ideally the RN should have been able to supply the entire covering force (it being within their sphere) but 4 USN cruisers and 2 USN battleships were required.
The RN bombardment force included a bit of a rag-bag of cruisers, 4x twin-6in, 3x triple-6in, 6x old single-6in, 4x Dido and 2x 7.5in CA. When Glasgow, Belfast and Mauritius were deployed on 6 June 1944 they were only 3 of 13 operational Town-types from your chart, suggesting they weren't heavily prioritized for the role.
> That would include a drydock breakdown, length, width, depth, when it was in use, etc. Do you have any references I can use to shorten the research time? I’ve found researching the building slips in the US to be hit or miss
Only this which included a good sketch of that yard layout and some interesting facts. My Dad back in the UK has a copy so I might ask him to scan over some sections, it's pricey as a single, niche source after all - after all 'only' 12 British yards built Dreadnought-type battleships/battlecruisers.
I've always been a big fan of the "I am a man" photos. Here is a view of my favourites:
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There are of course countless of iconic photos of the civil rights movement. If you are interested in the subject, I would suggest Berger's Seeing Through Race as an entry point to the the of photography within the Civil Rights movement, and more importantly, its affect. Take a look at the introduction (which you can do on Amazon without purchasing the book) to see some of the photos that Berger points to as iconic. Powerful images. I would suggest reading his analysis so maybe you and your partner can have a discussion about it as well!
Good luck, enjoy your holidays.
If you enjoy old Halloween photos, I suggest picking up this book. It's called Haunted Air. http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Air-Ossian-Brown/dp/0224089706
Well the good news is there's no end of old books about shooting film, and much of it is still valid advice. The most detailed books would be the Ansel Adams ones like https://www.amazon.com/dp/0821225758/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_0k6kzbT097SET
The most important book to read right now is the manual to your camera.
This is the textbook I used ca. 2000. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321011082/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_Rj6kzbZYN679A