What book of photography have you bought lately?

I'm going to stop buying so many magazines and instead buy books that I should probably already own. Today I bought:

"The Americans" by Robert Frank

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How do you like that book? I saw a smallish documentary about Robert Frank and 'The Americans' on The Genius Of Photography and I quite liked his pics

I recently bought 'The Moment it Clicks' by Joe McNally, fantastic book, very interesting with loads of anecdotes. Highly recommend it, the guy is a hell of a photographer too

In fact it's soo good, I'm going to read it again, not something I've ever done with any book!

Bas wrote in post #6000808
How do you like that book? I saw a smallish documentary about Robert Frank and 'The Americans' on The Genius Of Photography and I quite liked his pics

I love the book. I'm going through it again slowly; it is easy to want to go through it in one sitting. Each of the photographs is powerful in its own way but when you hold them together, it is amazing seeing a slice of America like that. At that time (mid 50's) there was no slavery, of course, but so many signs of overt racism before the Civil Rights Movement. As a child of the 70's and 80's, this is a fascinating glimpse into the country's history where we thought were we doing so well but so many were still oppressed. This book was what first made me interested in short series of works, all done in one place, that make you feel what it was like to be alive then and there.

I picked up a copy of the new "Steidl" print version of the book and the actual material is lovely. Robert Frank was directly involved in transferring his original prints to the book, he chose the printing paper, the cover, etc. The paper itself is gorgeous, but you may not be into the tactile printing things like me.

New Steidl version of The Americans

My previous purchase before that was:

Last one I got was a huge volume full of photos of mountains. I really don't have an eye for mountain shots, so I thought I'd look at some of the best pics and see what I could learn.

TheHoff wrote in post #5997420
I'm going to stop buying so many magazines and instead buy books that I should probably already own. Today I bought:

"The Americans" by Robert Frank

What book of photography have you bought lately? (Books of photos, not books teaching you how)

For Christmas, I received Paris by Robert Frank.

Last photography book I bought was the Taschen "Arnold Newman." One the least expensive Taschen books out there. Wonderful portraits on every page. I was thinking of picking up Stephen Shore's "Uncommon Places" and one of Gregory Crewdson's books sometime soon.