Modernism and Manga
From LEft to RIGht–>
Winogrand 1964
Public Relations
The Animals
Arrivals and Departures
The Man in the crowd
Zokushin by Hiromi Tsuchida
(I can’t get enough of this book!! I might be able to meet him next year and hopefully I can get it signed..)
the Art of Nausicaa
Araki by Araki
(If you only have one Araki book, it really ought to be Sentimental Journey, BUT this one is a good overview/introduction to his genius)
a Jr. High school art textbook
collected articles from Dave Read’s history of photography class, circa 1984
The Americans by Robert Frank
a few more books whose titles I forgot.
and at the end, The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore.
If there was a fire or something I would grab this book and probably Winogrand 1964 before I sprinted outside. This is the book for begining to understand photographs as Photographs. If there was one book I could hand out to anyone I see with a camera in their hands this would be it. Alas, it is out of print and has become quite expensive on the used market.
Below that collection of late 20th century modernism I have proof of my greasy backsliding into time I thought I moved out from, that of OTAKU. . . Among the manga on the bottom sheld there is some work from Shiro Masamune, Tokyo University Story, EDEN, Blame.. um.. my entire collection of Blade of the Immortal is on loan to various other 20-something teachers in my office.
