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Robert Mapplethorpe – The Complete Flowers
Robert Mapplethorpe is possibly best known in the UK for his iconic portraits of Patti Smith and for the shock value his homo-erotic work brought to the ICA in the late eighties. Robert Mapplethorpe...
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Vivian Maier – Street Photographer
Street Photography is a style of photography that celebrates the small wonders of everyday life. In the last couple of years it has become something of a fashion statement and some very wonderful...
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Annie Leibovitz – Pilgrimage
I picked this book up several months ago at Charleston, home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and refuge for many of the Bloomsbury Set of artists and intellectuals. Annie Leibovitz had given a talk...
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David Bailey – Delhi Dilemma (Steidl 2012)
The question of David Bailey’s relevance in 2012 is one that to my mind ranks alongside the improbability of one hand clapping or of fish needing bicycles. Yes, he was the man responsible for creating...
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Paul Strand – Tir A’Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides
Paul Strand was an American photographer and film maker whose work I was only vaguely familiar with, as one of a number of modernist photographers who helped establish the form in the United States...
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McCullin
McCullin the man is a real, live, photographic legend, best known for portraits of war. McCullin the film is a documentary that presents the man and his work and so doing attempts to throw some light...
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Martin Parr – The Non-Conformists (Aperture 2013)
Martin Parr “The Non-Conformists”As Christmas presents go, Martin Parr’s “The Non-Conformists” was probably number one on my wish list. Which may seem odd for someone who is primarily a landscape...
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Michael Levin: Zebrato (2008)
Michael Levin: Zebrato Milky seas and murky clouds have become something of a cliche these days as a short trawl through Flickr will certainly demonstrate. Its a device I’m certainly guilty of using,...
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The Street Photographer’s Manual – David Gibson (2014)
Cover Shot A gem of a book. Beautifully designed and produced. Great photographs reproduced really well, a bargain price and a decent, if slightly contentious read. What could possibly go wrong?...
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Trent Parke – Minutes to Midnight (Steidl 2014)
Published in 2013, the first edition of this book created something of a stir by a) being brilliant and b) being almost impossible to get hold of. Happily that situation has been resolved by the good...
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William A Ewing – Landmark – The Fields of Landscape Photography (Thames &...
Landmark – The Fields of Landscape Photography My favourite, of all the books I have bought this year turned out to be an outsider. “Landmark – The Fields of Landscape Photography” is a compendium of...
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