Photo Books International
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For me, there is nothing more enjoyable than buying used photography books. I scour second hand books shops and charity shops for these gems that you can pick up for a bargain price. Recently I picked up the bible of photo editing and layout, Pictures on a Page by Harold Evans for £8 from a book shop in Rochester in Kent. I already owned a copy for years but just couldn’t resist it. I gave it as a present to a friend who is a photo editor. Of course there are specialist photography bookshops in London and one I read about recently in this post by Michael David Murphy on his excellent blog is Photo Books International. I recently went to this shop which is located in a part of London I rarely visit. It’s run by Bill and Jasper, two lovely chaps who squeeze in between racks and piles of books that don’t seem to be in any order – but they are – all 5000 of them ! I picked up “Pictures of the Times” a wonderful book displaying 154 photos from the New York Times archive.
I love the picture on the cover from 1927. The press photographers of yesteryear. Are they Speed Graphics ? What little photo book gems have you picked up recently ?
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Recently? Depends on what you mean when you say recent. For me, most of the gems I’ve been picking up lately are biographies and a few other categories….
This includes Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, an excellent book on the different lives of two Afghani women and how their paths get to cross. Don’t want to give too many details there. Then there’s The Kite Runner by the same author, Emma’s War, The Zahir by Paulo Coelho and a few other authors.
But I’m currently looking for White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Anderson Cooper’s Dispatches From the Edge, The Bang Bang Club-a book by two journalists who covered the hot spots in South Africa in the early 1990s, and a photo book by John Freeman. Haven’t succesfully found those in our Kenyan bookshops.
Besides that, what photo books would you advise me to get? Any titles in particular?
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