Recent Photo book acquisitions with one or two sentences about each
From top left and then clockwise:
5×7 William Eggleston
I swapped a Peter Beard book with Jeff Ladd of 5B4 for this.
Do you know what I mean Juergen Teller
Most of the book is (fantastic) work shot in Japan. Near the end there is also interesting photo of Eggleston, and a glorious photo of Meg White.
Girls Blue Hiromix
Actually I think I bought this book more for the photos OF Hiromix than the photos BY Hiromix.
なぜこの本を買ったというんですけど、実は、Hiromixが撮った写真より、Hiromixが写ってるの写真見たかった。
Kyoto White Sentiment Nobuyoshi Araki
Araki put out about a book a month last year. Wouldn’t that be great?
i am trying to resist buying girls blue, since i already have three other hiromix photobooks. the only one that still makes me go “aha!” is the hiromix works one. i find i’m quite over the kind of pictures she took to win the new cosmos award.
Comment by rachael — 8/25/2007 @ 4:27 pm
The Eggleston book is the one for the exhibition I saw at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. Good stuff.
Comment by Mark James Adams — 8/25/2007 @ 7:36 pm
Rachel- Actually I bought Girls Blue instead of the Japanese Beauty book that was on the shelf next to it because it is as close to the few photos that I’ve seen of Hiromix’s Shin Seiki award portfolio. It is interesting looking at her early work and seeing how it has influenced so many young photographers in Japan today. Did you catch her cameo in Lost in Translation? Sophia Coppola makes a small cameo in Girls Blue too.
Mark- Sorry I did not reply to your email about the show sooner. It is wild how huge everyone’s pupils are in the photographs. I hope you bought a copy of the book as well, because the end interview/essay is too good to miss, and the final little black and white photograph on the last page is one of the greatest ends to an art photo book that a photographer/photography person could ever ask for. Thank you Mr. Papageorge.
Comment by John — 8/25/2007 @ 10:48 pm
saw some preview pages for girls blue - seems more interesting than the “hiromix” one published by steidl, which is a lot more of her shots of objects and scenes. i don’t deny her influence on photographers - i was reading an australian fashion magazine that had a broad article about every girl wanting to get into photography, and of course hiromix was mentioned.
yes, i remember being very excited about her cameo in lost in translation when i first saw the film. i think sophia and hiromix’s work are very similar in spirit, if you know what i mean.
Comment by rachael — 8/27/2007 @ 3:35 pm
I think I do know what you mean.
Also, I think I know what Juergen Teller means. That book of his has had quite a strong pull on me for a while now- It is so beautifully economical how he resolves what is in front of him and his relation to that place/object/person with his camera.
Comment by John — 8/27/2007 @ 10:54 pm
Hey, why is the hiromix one the only one where you have an explanation in Japanese?
I’m going to scan a bunch of polaroids.
Comment by Nick — 8/28/2007 @ 9:14 pm