Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-12 Thread Bob Shell
On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I won't do that again. What doesn't fit goes out, within six months. It's a discipline that I adopted and will keep to as it helps me retain my sanity. The only problem with that is that it is a law of nature that you will need any

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-12 Thread Scott Loveless
On 4/12/06, Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just like selling a lens you never use. Bob Sell a lens? I'm afraid I don't understand. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- You have to hold the button down -Arnold Newman

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On 4/12/06, Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just like selling a lens you never use. I just sold 12 of them. I guess there's a lot of work heading my way, eh? ;-) Godfrey

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Lon Williamson
Jane Bown - Faces: the Creative Process Behind Great Portraits A great BW photographer who used a meterless Oly SLR and carried a lightbulb in her purse as her only accessory. -Lon David Savage wrote: G'day All, OK, if you were to recommend just 2 books on or about photography, preferably

RE: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Bob W
-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations Just got another Lenswork book ... it's out of print so I bought it on CD, printed it and had it bound at the copy shop down the street. On Seeing Photographs Looks to be the same high quality standard that other Lenswork

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
, in my opinion. -- Cheers, Bob -Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 April 2006 06:56 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations Just got another Lenswork book ... it's out of print so I bought it on CD, printed

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Bob Shell
A couple of personal favorites: Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski A Creative Approach to Controlling Photography by Harry Boyd, Jr. The second one has unfortunately been out of print for some time and may be hard to find. Bob

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread David Savage
Thanks Bob Godfrey. I appreciate the suggestions, you can never have too many books. :-) Dave S. On 4/11/06, Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of personal favorites: Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski A Creative Approach to Controlling Photography by Harry Boyd, Jr. The

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Bob Shell
On Apr 11, 2006, at 10:35 AM, David Savage wrote: Thanks Bob Godfrey. I appreciate the suggestions, you can never have too many books. :-) You haven't seen my house! Bob

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Apr 11, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Bob Shell wrote: Thanks Bob Godfrey. I appreciate the suggestions, you can never have too many books. :-) You haven't seen my house! LOL ... mine used to be like that. I now do an edit and purge sweep twice a year to keep them all on the bookshelf and away

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Dave Kennedy
I'd recommend these as well. On 4/9/06, Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freeman Patterson : Photography and the Art of Seeing : Photographing the World Around You -Adam

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Scott Loveless
On 4/11/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that the Keepers are now almost filling the available bookshelf space to capacity, and there's no room for more bookshelves. Join the book club. ;-) After selling our house in St. Louis, we ended up in a much smaller house in

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Gonz
My wife would disagree! I dont know what our total book count is, but its in the thousands for sure. She wants to sell them. David Savage wrote: Thanks Bob Godfrey. I appreciate the suggestions, you can never have too many books. :-) Dave S. On 4/11/06, Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: Problem is that the Keepers are now almost filling the available bookshelf space to capacity, and there's no room for more bookshelves. Join the book club. ;-) After selling our house in St. Louis, we ended up in a much smaller house in

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-10 Thread David Mann
On Apr 10, 2006, at 3:14 AM, David Savage wrote: G'day All, OK, if you were to recommend just 2 books on or about photography, preferably not technical I have enough of those, which would they be. Street, landscape, whatever, it doesn't matter, I like them all. 1. On Being a Photographer,

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-10 Thread David Savage
Thanks for all your suggestions guys. A quick search on the various books turns up some potentially very inspiring reading/viewing. Mark I have to say, An Anthropologist on Mars sounds really interesting. I've already found a local source, so that will be the first pick of the bunch. Once

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Roberts
David Savage wrote: Thanks for all your suggestions guys. A quick search on the various books turns up some potentially very inspiring reading/viewing. Mark I have to say, An Anthropologist on Mars sounds really interesting. I've already found a local source, so that will be the first pick of

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Just got another Lenswork book ... it's out of print so I bought it on CD, printed it and had it bound at the copy shop down the street. On Seeing Photographs Looks to be the same high quality standard that other Lenswork books have shown. Godfrey On Apr 9, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Mark Roberts

RE: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-09 Thread Shel Belinkoff
I like biographies or photo books that have some biographical aspects to them. I just finished reading Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle by Roberta Ostroff and was fortunate enough to have received a recent gift of Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron.

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-09 Thread Adam Maas
Freeman Patterson : Photography and the Art of Seeing : Photographing the World Around You -Adam David Savage wrote: G'day All, OK, if you were to recommend just 2 books on or about photography, preferably not technical I have enough of those, which would they

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-09 Thread mike wilson
From: David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/09 Sun PM 03:14:59 GMT To: PDML pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations G'day All, OK, if you were to recommend just 2 books on or about photography, preferably not technical I have enough of those, which

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-09 Thread Scott Loveless
The Mind's Eye by HCB, and Honky Tonk by Henry Horenstein. http://www.honkytonkbook.com/ On 4/9/06, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, OK, if you were to recommend just 2 books on or about photography, preferably not technical I have enough of those, which would they be.

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Roberts
Several people have already suggest traditional photography books that I would have recommended so I'll offer something out of left field: An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks The famous neurologist presents a collection of essays, many of them dealing with sight and visual perception. This

Re: OT: Seeking Book Recommendations

2006-04-09 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Good one, Mark. Your suggestion reminds me of a couple of books: Tao of Photography: Unlock Your Creativity Using the Wisdom of the East The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing Shel [Original Message] From: Mark Roberts Several people have already suggest traditional photography