tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post2694069008738098222..comments2024-03-26T23:27:56.399-07:00Comments on B: Photobooks FoundBlake Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-91844831135045138232012-04-28T09:18:02.820-07:002012-04-28T09:18:02.820-07:00This is sort of a sorry post for me, had photo boo...This is sort of a sorry post for me, had photo books in the tonnage back in the late 90's, and realized I was never going to be able to afford to move them around or buy more in the 'new amerika', and my waning ability to make a living, so sold them all. Love books over computers tho, that's for sure.<a href="http://www.pokerspelaren.se/" rel="nofollow">poker guide</a><a href="http://www.bingomania.com/paas/bmn/mobile-bingo-games.action" rel="nofollow">mobile bingo</a>orange color hphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06185067673612340207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-85617310416936576392012-04-07T04:45:19.299-07:002012-04-07T04:45:19.299-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.orange color hphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06185067673612340207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-19955694632176926832012-02-22T14:02:44.472-08:002012-02-22T14:02:44.472-08:00telax iran is one of the smoothest books ever, I l...telax iran is one of the smoothest books ever, I love how it lays flat when open and the double page spreads are luscious and make sensemarkalorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06128559237511221631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-75784736807487239512012-02-08T08:38:51.288-08:002012-02-08T08:38:51.288-08:00from Anonymous:
This is sort of a sorry post for ...from Anonymous:<br /><br />This is sort of a sorry post for me, had photo books in the tonnage back in the late 90's, and realized I was never going to be able to afford to move them around or buy more in the 'new amerika', and my waning ability to make a living, so sold them all. Love books over computers tho, that's for sure.<br /><br />Interesting to note, I found a guy in the greater Chicago area who specialized in photo and art books, he went to art shows and photo expos and sold off of tables, and also did plenty of work on fleabay. He gave me top dollar for my Keith Carter stuff, I was early on the Keith Carter train and had all of it, and he probably gave me two or three times what I paid for some of the early stuff, wish I had it back and was living someplace I could put it on a bookshelf.<br /><br />BTW, what's the deal with Telex Iran? Had a buddy, now dead, who was living in the Washington DC area and shooting video news, and he had a copy. I remember looking at it a few times and being really, really less than impressed. Are you guys buying it because it's rare, or because you think it's genius? Cetainly didn't think it was genius...Blake Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-78263242112200455042012-02-05T21:56:59.099-08:002012-02-05T21:56:59.099-08:00Thanks for confirming the page number Blake. I app...Thanks for confirming the page number Blake. I appreciate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-31038913061337030462012-02-04T17:20:49.507-08:002012-02-04T17:20:49.507-08:00So sorry to hear that Tim Whelan store does not ex...So sorry to hear that Tim Whelan store does not exist anymore. I think I learned to love photobooks in that place. Tim let me wonder and grab and smell books without any questions asked. Haven´t been in Rockport for about 8 years but I loved that place and that book store is forever in my memory. Tim was the outsider teacher at Rockport College. Hail to the King!!!<br /><br />Ricardo Peña Venezuelaelfotovoyeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14334623370013657870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-31579146817258066192012-02-03T17:59:08.372-08:002012-02-03T17:59:08.372-08:00The book has 40. You've got them all.The book has 40. You've got them all.Blake Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-62221591709055820692012-02-03T10:51:06.043-08:002012-02-03T10:51:06.043-08:00Blake I was given a copy of Winogrand's Grossm...Blake I was given a copy of Winogrand's Grossmont College catalogue and many of the middle pages have come unglued and I'm not sure if pages are missing. My book has 40 full images in it. Do you happen to know how many there should be? I couldn't find any data like that on the internet. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-47437345342156274632012-02-02T20:40:19.219-08:002012-02-02T20:40:19.219-08:00Yes, I too found a pile of Somewhere there's M...Yes, I too found a pile of <i>Somewhere there's Music</i>, new and wrapshrunk, for about that price. I bought a copy to give to a friend, and gave it to the friend. I should have bought a second copy.<br /><br />At another time, the same shop had remaindered copies of <i>The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings</i>. I was sufficiently intelligent to buy two copies of this.microcordhttp://microcord.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-73630997591464347142012-02-02T14:57:52.574-08:002012-02-02T14:57:52.574-08:00Recently found Larry Fink's "Somewhere th...Recently found Larry Fink's "Somewhere there's Music" for $20.00.<br /><br />Although not strictly a "found" photo-book, I managed to score a copy of Trent Parke's "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" before the Flickr crowd when gonzo for it.<br /><br />Best non-photobook find was Neil Young's Complete Music Vol 1&2 (sheet music) for $5.00 each. <br />Bargain!Phillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17851471902489434282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-31451946795233831152012-02-02T06:03:36.936-08:002012-02-02T06:03:36.936-08:00Among all the remaindered copies at "Book Off...Among all the remaindered copies at "Book Off" of humdrum titles from the vanity imprint BeeBooks, the exceptional <i><a href="http://microcord.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/day-to-day-life-in-asakusa-ikegami-and-south-wales/" rel="nofollow">Kayabuki Tōkyō</a></i> and <i>Photographs by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Toriyama_%28ophthalmologist%29" rel="nofollow">Akira Toriyama</a></i>. Both books deserve non-vanity publication -- though here (as usual), BeeBooks' printing quality is as good as you might dare to hope, which isn't something I can say for some prestigious publishers here.<br /><br />Ville Lenkkeri's <i><a href="http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00001880&lang=en" rel="nofollow">Reality in the Making</a></i> from another Book Off. I'd never heard of it or him. (Plus Tony Ray-Jones' <i>A Day Off</i> at yet another Book Off, but I already knew of this.)<br /><br />Martin Parr's <i><a href="http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=GB004" rel="nofollow">Bad Weather</a></i>, no signature but no water damage either, in my father's house. He'd noticed a pile of these in some shop selling remainders; and as it was funny and going very cheap, he bought a copy.<br /><br />Spotted in a very old-fashioned used bookshop in a Tokyo suburb two decades ago: a bunch of "erotic" western photobooks from the 1950s and 60s. Harrison Marks and so forth: mildly amusing, but not so amusing that I'd want to buy any. Among them, however: Bill Brandt's <i>Perspectives of Nudes</i> (1st ed). Mine for ¥3000.microcordhttp://microcord.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-39592163255884950712012-02-01T20:06:18.358-08:002012-02-01T20:06:18.358-08:00Terry Toedtemeier's inscribed gallery exhibit ...Terry Toedtemeier's inscribed gallery exhibit booklet of Basalt images- $8 at library book sale.<br /><br />Walter Rosenblum Photographer book inscribed to a physician friend with enclosed card from wife/author Naomi similarly thanking for gettogether- $15 at Moe's Bookstore in Berkeley,CA. <br /><br />Not to mention ebay and Goodwill finds....SRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-15833659121302893392012-02-01T18:49:35.245-08:002012-02-01T18:49:35.245-08:00Good stories all.
The anecdote about wet Suburbi...Good stories all. <br /><br />The anecdote about wet Suburbia reminds me of Martin Parr's article in the recent Aperture PhotoBook reader. His first book Bad Weather didn't sell well and he was offered the chance to buy the remainders back at 40 cents apiece. He stored them in his car and tried to sell them here and there and sometimes give them away. But they got wet in the process and so all of his copies of Bad Weather became literally weatherized. The irony is that one of those water damaged, signed copies now is quite valuable. <br /><br />The moral? Books work in mysterious ways.Blake Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-71747357847984113352012-02-01T17:37:22.871-08:002012-02-01T17:37:22.871-08:00oh and I got a water damaged but signed copy of Su...oh and I got a water damaged but signed copy of Suburbia direct (by mail) from Bill Owens. Don't remember what I paid but it wasn't much. And the water damage isn't that bad.Benhttp://www.bennettlevinephotographs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-3043040473871067472012-02-01T17:04:59.085-08:002012-02-01T17:04:59.085-08:00Around 1977 I bought a copy of Women Are Beautiful...Around 1977 I bought a copy of Women Are Beautiful from Economy Bookstore on Salina Street in Syracuse, New York. It was a great store. I didn't like the book all that much but it was a Winogrand and I didn't have any others at that point. The price on the cover is $15 but I didn't pay that much. Around 1985 or so, Economy Bookstore was going out of business and everything was on sale. I think at the time I forgot that I had a copy and bought another for about $5. I remember feeling like a total idiot when I realized I had two copies -- until years later when I felt like a genious.Benhttp://www.bennettlevinephotographs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-25430807309877262582012-02-01T06:25:27.240-08:002012-02-01T06:25:27.240-08:00Blake, great post. I got Figments for $38.50 and T...Blake, great post. I got Figments for $38.50 and Telex Iran off Sportsshooter for $20. Before my local bookstore closed I bought a bunch of vintage Aperture mags on average for $5 per copy including some of the monographs in one or two issues.Dave Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-82630263153935661562012-02-01T01:50:57.164-08:002012-02-01T01:50:57.164-08:00Hunting for photobooks in local bookstore, here in...Hunting for photobooks in local bookstore, here in Tunis, Tunisia, is a habit I have been maintaining for nearly a year now. Finding the photobooks is often a challenge as books are rarely sorted by themes. So I really don't know what I might find which makes the hunt even more enjoyable.<br /><br />two of the books I acquired in the last couple of months are: <br /><br />- Paris! Photos, 1950-1954 , by Ed van der Elsken<br /><br />-1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Compter en s'amusant. A counting book for children, with 12 black and white Rotogravure printed photos by Robert DoisneauYassine Hakimihttp://yassinehakimi.carbonmade.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-24720796612147415872012-02-01T00:44:34.275-08:002012-02-01T00:44:34.275-08:00Not a bookstore find, but I came across Raymond Mo...Not a bookstore find, but I came across Raymond Moore's "Murmurs at Every Turn" in my local library. I had never heard of him, and very nearly didn't borrow the book. In the end, I did borrow it and by the time I came to return it, I was a different photographer as a result. I never saw it in our library again, and finally tracked down my own copy ten years later, when I first got Internet access.<br /><br />I missed a copy of Don McCullin's "Open Skies' on a trip to Hay-on-Wye. I'd seen it and made a mental note to come back to the shop and buy it before I headed home, but when I got there, someone else had beaten me to it. D'oh.Paulhttp://www.morrisp43.fsnet.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-49837408671833973652012-01-31T20:18:49.142-08:002012-01-31T20:18:49.142-08:00A couple off the top of my head:
Ghosts Along th...A couple off the top of my head: <br /><br />Ghosts Along the Mississippi by Clarence John Laughlin, 1948 edition, $5.00 at a library book sale in Kalamazoo, MI, 2001<br /><br />Photogrids by Sol Le Witt, $2.00 at a thrift store in Ann Arbor, MI, sometime in the mid 90's<br /><br />Suburbia by Bill Owens, autographed, $3.00 at the Ann Arbor library book sale, in the early 90's<br /><br />Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske, $8.00 in a used bookstore in Chicago, last fall.Tyler Hewitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com