Books
Okay, given that I’m notoriously hard to buy gifts for, here’s a list of some of the books I’m after. Far from exhaustive because I cant be bothered typing it all up, but a fair sample. BUY ME THINGS. Second hand books are fine, and preferred, generally.
Old style Phaidon 55s of any of the following photographers:
Lewis Hine
Jacob Riis
Martin Chambi
Lewis Baltz
Daido Moriyama
Werner Bischof
Aaron Siskind
Josef Sudek
Chris Killip
Tina Modotti
Manuel Alvarex Bravo
James Vanderzee
Willy Ronis
Eadweard Muybridge
Andre Kertesz
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Dorothy Lange
Eugene Richards
Wynn Bullock
Joan Fontcuberta
Eugene W. Smith
Eugene Atget
Joel-Peter Witkin
Lisette Model
Nan Goldin
Shomei Tomatsu
Boris Mikhailov
Lazslo Maholy-Nagy
Mary Ellen Mark
Julia Margaret Cameron
David Goldblatt
Joel Meyerwitz
Kurt Vonnegut:
Slaughterhouse Five
Breakfast of Champions
Timequate
Player Piano
Jules Verne:
20,000 Leagues under the sea
Paris in the 20th century
The Mysterious Island
In search of the castaways
Journey to the Centre of the earth
Master of the World
Robur the Conqueror
From the earth to the moon
Douglas Adams
Last chance to see
The meaning of liff
Mostly Harmless
General/Novels/all that:
Far from the maddening crowd
Gullivers Travels
Oliver Twist
War of the Worlds
Catcher in the Rye
Catch 22
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Vanity Fair
Breakfast at Tiffanies
The Invisible Man
Just so stories
A clockwork Orange
Passage to India
Out of Africa
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Peter Pan
American Psycho
The Canterbury Tales
The Once and Future King
The Little Prince
The things they carried
The Heart is a lonely hunter
Do androids dream of electric sheep
The Sun Also Rises
The Grapes of Wrath
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
All quiet on the western front
Leave of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Childhoods End (Arthur C. Clarke)
Technical:
The Camera (Ansel Adams)
Mechanisms of image deterioration in early photographs (Ware)
The Photographers Toning Book (Tim Rudman)
To Photograph Darkness (Chris Howes)
Places, people and places: The camera of Ilford Limited (Andew J. Holliman)
Camera Maintenance and Repair (volume 1 and volume 2) (Thomas Tomosey)
The Darkroom Cookbook (Any edition) (Steve Anchell)
The Variable Contrast Printing Manual (Steve Anchell)
Beyond the Zone System (Phil Davis)
Photographer’s Master Printing Course (Tim Rudman)
Photography:
Small Deaths (Kate Breakey)
Tulsa (Larry Clark)
William Eggleston’s Guide
America by the Yard (Robert B. Mackay)
Polaroids (Walker Evans)
Theory:
Treatise on the Sublime and the Beautiful (Edmund Burke)
Das Capital/Capital (Marx)
Futurist Manifestos (Umbro Apollonio)
Art and Life (John Ruskin)
Days of Reading (Marcel Proust)
Empire of Signs (Barthes)
Camera Lucida (Barthes)
Stuff:
Steal this Book (Abbie Hoffman)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Regained (John Milton)
The Aenid (Virgil)
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
How to Hide almost Anything (David Krotz)
The Iliad and the Odyssey (Homer)
Empire, How Britain made the modern world (Niall Ferguson)
