Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---------- From: "Sal DiMarco,Jr." <sdmp007@pressroom.com> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:26:30 -0400 To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Cc: <leica@topica.com> Subject: [Leica] Suggested Leica Reading List- MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTED LEICA READING LIST- Part Three -- Non Photo Photo Books The books are in alphabetical order by author. No one will accept any responsibility for errors. Selections were recommended by member of the Leica Users Group and the Leica Enthusiasts Group. Quotes following each book are from the person who has read the book. (I hope!). Enjoy! ADAMS, Ansel "The Camera" New York Graphic Society, 1980, ISBN 0-8212-1092-0 "The Print" New York Graphic Society, 1980, ISBN 0-8212-1526-4 "The Negative" New York Graphic Society, 1980, ISBN 0-8212-1131-5 Most helpful and I still turn to them from time to time. -- Joe Stephenson "Ansel Adams, an Autobiography" with Mary Street Alinder Little, Brown and Company,1985, ISBN 0-8212-1596-5 Published a year after his death. I was drawn to this book to learn a little more about the Master. I find it well done if a little distant, as so many of Adams' photographs strike me also. -- Godfrey DiGiorgi ADAMS, Robert "Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews" Aperture, 1994, ISBN 893815977 Johnny Brownlow BENSER, Walther "My Life with the Leica" Hove Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0-906447-58-5 Pascal Heyman BOSWORTH, Patricia "Diane Arbus--a Biography" Knopf, 1984, ISBN 394-50404 Denton Taylor BRINNIN, John Malcolm "Sextet: T.S. Eliot & Truman Capote & others" Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981, ISBN 0440077850 He accompanied Henri Cartier-Bresson on a drive across America and his tale suggests why Bresson does not like to reveal too much of his private self. -- Damian Dlugolecki CHATWOOD Arthur Brunel see JOHNSON, Robert COLES, Robert "Doing Documentary Work" Oxford U. Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-5116291 . Compilation of a lecture series at the NY Public Library.Provides food for thought about what documentary photography, and writing, really is, or should be. Includes lengthy discussion of the work of Dorothea Lange.Very thought provoking. -- B.D. Colen COLLINS "English Dictionary" Where would I be without it? -- Martin Howard DEPARDON, Raymond "La Ferme du Garet" -autobiography - Acte Sud, 1997, ISBN 2-7427-13-05 Full of humanity, humility and kindness by one of the greatest photographer of these times. -- Bernard Degaute DePONCINS, Gontran "Kabloona" Graywolf Rediscovery Series, 1965, ISBN: 1555972497 He spent a year with the Eskimos in Northern Canada in the1930s Very philosophical and spiritual. -- Mike Durling DUNCAN, David Douglas "Yankee Nomad, a Photographic Odyssey" Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1966, LoCC #66-10627 Classic DDD text and photographs from North, Central and South America 1938-42, the Pacific Theater (WW II) as a Marine,Palestine and the Mid-East 1946-48, Korea 1950, to Picasso and Great reading! (And re-reading.)-- Bill Caldwell EVANS, Harold "Pictures On A Page" Heinemann, 1978, ISBN 0434905534 This book is required reading for anyone interested in making or understanding photo features. -- Rob Appleby HARBUTT, Charles Travelog, by Charles Harbutt. Published by The MIT Press1973. ISBN 0-262-08064-8 Cogent and inspiring writing about photography and photographic process The bonus is these essays act as bookends for some fine, striking and often surreal photography. -- Robert Schneider HERMANN, Armin "Nur der Name war geblieben", Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1991 , ISBN 3-421-06515-2 Hans Peter Lammerich HUGHES, Jim "W. Eugene Smith- Shadow & Substance" McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.; 1989; ISBN 0-07-031123-4 THE biography of Gene Smith. It shows the reality of this brilliant photographer and flawed human being. His last wife, Aileen couldn't bring herself to finish reading it. -- Sal DiMarco, Jr. HURN, David & Jay, Bill "On Being a Photographer", Lens Work Publishing,1997, ISBN 1-888803-06-1 Nathan Wajsman JACKSON, Michael H. "Galapagos, a Natural History" University of Calgary Press, 1993, ISBN 1-895176-07-7 Henning J. Wulff JAY, Bill See HURN, David JOHNSON, Brooks "Photography Speaks II" Aperture, ISBN: 0-89381-652-3 A collection of artists statements from the history of photography. Some of the heated LUG debates turn out to be as old as photography itself. -- Mark E. Davison JOHNSON, Robert & CHATWOOD Arthur Brunel "Photography- Artistic and Scientific" London, Downey and Co., 1895 From the Book.. "The aim of the photographer should be to produce by means of his camera, and by the aid of greater or less technical skill, not merely exact and minute copies of the objects which he photographs, but photographs which shall be the expression of his feeling and taste, and as such shall be entitled to rank as work of art...." Submitted by Luiz Marinho LIPINSKI, J. "Miniature & Precision Cameras", Illife & Sons, London, 1955 A fascinating glimpse of the golden age of the classic camera. They A well-written text densely packed with technical information. It makes no attempt to be 'popular' or to talk down to the reader. Dopug Richardson MADDOW, Ben "Let Truth Be the Prejudice. W. Eugene Smith His Life and Photographs: Aperture ISBN: 0893811793 1998 (latest edition) The tragic consequences of the excess that people can go to. And yet, one has to admire many aspects of his personality. -- Eric Welch McCULLIN, Don "Unreasonable Behaviour' Jonathan Cape, 1990, ISBN 0-244-02655-0 The searing autobiography of one of our greatest living war photographers. -- Tim Atherton McELHENY, Victor K. " Insisting on the Impossible- The Life of Edwin Land" Perseus, 1998, ISBN 0-7382-0009-3 Rich Palmer MEYEROWITZ, Joel See Westerbeck, Colin MITCHELL, Stephen "The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke" Random House, 1982, ISBN 0-394-52434-9 Dan Honemann NABAKOV, Vladmir "Lolita" 1954, ISBN 0679723161 Nabakov teaches us all that I've ever needed to know about esthetics. -- Buzz Hausner NICOLL, Maurice "Simple Explanation of Work Ideas" 1996, ISBN 1-85398-081-1 Benny McBeth PAGE, Tim "Page After Page" Atheneum, 1989, ISBN 0689120885 Damian Dlugolecki ROBINSON, William F. "A Certain Slant of Light - The first 100 years of New England Photography, 1980, ISBN 0 8212 0752 0 This book was the first one to open my eyes to the review of photography in the course of history. A simple book, concentrating on a smaller topic, but with a wider message. -- Alastair Firkin ROTHSTEIN, Arthur "Photojournalism- Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers" American Photographic Book Publishing Co. Inc. LOCC 56-11558 Being a photojournalist and what it takes to be successful. --Ted Grant ROTH, Sanford "James Dean" Taschen 1987, ISBN 3-8228-0064-3 I bought this book as a 17th birthday present for myself, before I'd heard of Leica. Now I just wish I could use a Leica like Sanford Roth. -- Gary Elshaw SHAW, John "The Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques" Amphoto, 1984, ISBN 0-8174-5006-8. Jay Coleman SONTAG, Susan "On Photography" 1989 Anchor Books - ISBN 0-385-26706-1 A good book about photography as art. -- Steve LeHuray THESIGER, Sir Wilfred "The Life of My Choice" Harper Collins, 1987, ISBN 0-00-637267-8. Autobiography of the highly individual explorer and adventurer who documented disappearing peoples and their worlds with his camera. A Leica SM and Leicaflex user. -- Emanuel Lowi VERNE, Jules "L'ile mysterieuse" by Jules Vernes, published at the end of the XIXth century. Jean-Claude Berger WESTERBECK, Colin "BYSTANDER A History of Street Photography" Bullfinch, 1994, ISBN 0-8212-1755-0 Steve LeHray WHELAN, Richard "Robert Capa Biography" Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, ISBN 0-394-52488-8 The biography of Robert Capa! -- Uwe Flammer