David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography5 reviews David Plowden W. W. Norton, 2007 Best American photography book of 2007--or the past 10 years + The best $100 you'll ever spend on a photography book + mesmerizing... + An elegiac look at America             London/Wales3 reviews Steidl The Masters, 2007 Setting the Stage for "The Americans" + Robert Frank: London/Wales + A superbly presented and enthralling compilation Robert Frank's previously unpublished photographs of London and Wales from the early 1950s are a revelation. With insightful text from curator Philip Brookman, this book is a must-buy for casual fans and scholars alike. Having recently seen the exhibition of this work at the Corcoran Gallery of ...             The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-19784 reviews Sarah Greenough, Diane Waggoner, ... Princeton University Press, 2007 Affecting and Engrossing + The Art of the American Snapshot + A glorious exploration + Our love affair with the camera             Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait2 reviews John Szarkowski The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005 Inspirational + Wonderful collection of images I love this book, a collection of unusual self-portrait work by Lee Friedlander. Often he's only shown as a shadow, or reflection. In many cases, his use of his image is a clever and even humorous comment on the other elements within the photograph. Sometimes, you even must hunt for him.. "where's ...             Martin Parr2 reviews Val Williams Phaidon Press, 2004 Martin's visual extravaganza. + If there is only one Parr on your bookshelf... In the last chapter of this fascinating book author Val Williams says of Parr 'He is a cunning photographer, sidling his way into situations where he shouldn't always be, looking as ordinary as the people he photographs'. How true and this could well explain how he manages to take such interesting ...             David Armstrong: All Day Every Day David Armstrong Scalo Publishers, 2002 Beauty was never a dirty word for David Armstrong. Untroubled by others' puritan fears of sensuality or by the follies of this or that zeitgeist, Armstrong has long pursued his twin vision of urban romance and bucolic serenity. All Day Every Day presents the artist's landscapes, interiors, and cityscapes, wistful and evocative images that discreetly suggest stories of love and loss, that ...             Mitch Epstein: Work2 reviews Mitch Epstein Steidl, 2006 Great transaction + very good Great to deal with. Would have recieved product as scheduled if DHL did'nt lose it for a couple of days during shipping, but this was not the sellers fault.             The Photographer's Eye10 reviews John Szarkowski The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007 A good overview of B&W photography I like collections of photos by many different artists, and this book has a good number of diverse pre-1970 photos to browse. There is a minimum of text and that is fine with me. The book's main contribution is that it suggests a means of systematizing photography, by frame, subject, time, details ...             Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views2 reviews Sharon Butala, David Carpenter, ... The University of Alberta Press, 2005 A truly beautiful collection that instills a great appreciation for the wide open spaces of nature in the reader + Excerpts from review by Christopher Wiebe, Dec 4, 2005, Vue Weekly, Edmonton Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views is a stunning, full-color photographic gallery of Saskatchewan's countryside. Only the barest minimum of commentary supplements this collection of stunning images of grasses, open parklands, crop fields, prairie, snowfields, hills and more. A truly beautiful collection ...             Bill Owens1 review A.M. Homes Damiani, 2008 An American Original Bill Owens is a significant American cultural figure due to his photography alone, but he has done so much more than that. He was one of the pioneers of the U.S. microbrew movement, created one of the first brew pubs, started American Brewer and several other magazines, and in his 8th decade of ...             Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Diners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments4 reviews Michael Eastman, William H. Gass Rizzoli, 2008 Catch 'em while you can + A Different Kind of Beauty + Worth getting The subtitle to this fascinating book is The End of Main Street and Michael Eastman has taken it upon himself to record as much of it as possible before progress or neglect flattens what's left. Flick through the pages and you'll see more than two hundred shots of small town commonplace. The five ...             The Nature of Photographs14 reviews Stephen Shore Phaidon Press, 2007 Short but deep + Worth a look and a read + Very good. A must for people who want more from photography. In this short essay, Shore manages to communicate some deep truths about photography in a refreshingly clear and accessible style. The arguments are simple, profound and convincing. Together with the photographs, the result is a thought-provoking and almost meditative book. It has become one of my ...             Stephen Shore: American Surfaces3 reviews Stephen Shore Phaidon Press, 2005 Helping us See Again...Beyond Critiques of American Consumer Fetishism + Excellent, beautiful book! I loved this book, partly because I love this photographer's eye. Are the pictures documentary? Sure. Are they wry? Often, though not always. They are beautiful in the most strange, farfetched, formal aesthetic sense (shapes, colors, imaginary visual lines). That about sums it up. Stephan Shore's ...             Driftless: Photographs from Iowa (Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography)4 reviews Danny Wilcox Frazier Duke University Press, 2007 Best Photo Book of '07 + beautiful pictures The sugar-coated, romanticized, or one dimensional view of "Middle-America" would have us believe that Iowa is only a land of covered bridges, fields of dreams, or over weight mall moms casting their red state ballots. But the world where Danny Wilcox Frazier lives is the real deal, and he ...             Scorpio1 review Mike Slack The Ice Plant, 2006 Interesting This is a interesting little book. I am a sucker for Polaroids and this book has a good selection of images.             Koudelka6 reviews Robert Delpire, Dominique Edde, ... Aperture, 2007 Excellent overview of Koudelka's opus + exercellent + Legendary photographer, amazing book + Wonderful Edition + outstanding             Robert Frank: Storylines2 reviews Ian Penman, Philip Brookman Steidl, 2004 Exciting New Robert Frank Book!! + A story with no lines This book is not hardcover (although it is not exactly typical softcover either). Instead, it has a flexible, durable plastic cover that seems pretty unique. The book itself is a catalog from the current Robert Frank exhibit at the Tate in London, but Frank himself helped put it together and you ...             Los Alamos5 reviews William Eggleston Scalo Publishers, 2003 It's not about Los Alamos + Egglestomania + No text distracts from the full-page photographs + Insanely great photography + Spectacular book!             Matthew Monteith: Czech Eden2 reviews Ivan Klima Aperture, 2007 Photographic Art Transformed to the Pinnacle of Perfection + Great young photographer I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s assisting my professional photographer father and taking quality photographs on my own; after that I owned and operated a professional photographic equipment and supply store for nearly a decade. In my 50 some years of exposure to fine arts photography, I've not ...             Jason Fulford: Raising Frogs for $ $ $ Jason Fulford The Ice Plant, 2006 Jason Fulford has arranged his third collection of photographs into eight distinct chapters that can be read as a game, a series of essays, an abstract visual narrative or all of the above. The design of the book is rigid and deliberate, while its meaning is flexible. "The intention of this edit and layout," Fulford explains, "is to create as many relationships as possible between the pictures as ...