the other Martin Taylor
10 Books to Buy Before You Even Look at Mine
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I finished a Blurb book based on some of my Street Parking pictures last week: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/757658
I hadn't mentioned it here before because finishing a large project can be a bit anti-climatic and just in case one of my Flickr buddies felt like they had to buy it. Really I only finished the book to enter the Blurb contest and there are so many better books to spend your money on than my sophomore effort. With that in mind I pulled a few of my favorites from the shelves to illustrate my point - if you don't own these books don't buy any more self-published, ego-press books like mine until you've at least taken a look at these 'real' books. Ask me tomorrow and it will be a whole different list. Come over for dinner, and after a couple of glasses of wine, I'll bombard you with 10x this many of my 'other favorites'.
PS - It's just been brought to my attention that Crosstown is now going for $700+ because it's out of print. I didn't mean to put any 'collectible', over-priced books on this list but you should still look at Levitt's work so how about this one instead: www.amazon.com/Helen-Levitt/dp/157687429X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U...
Also, my edition of The Americans is a bit spendy but the slightly smaller, reissued edition is cheap: www.amazon.com/Americans-Robert-Frank/dp/386521584X/ref=s...
10 Books to Buy Before You Even Look at Mine
194/365
I finished a Blurb book based on some of my Street Parking pictures last week: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/757658
I hadn't mentioned it here before because finishing a large project can be a bit anti-climatic and just in case one of my Flickr buddies felt like they had to buy it. Really I only finished the book to enter the Blurb contest and there are so many better books to spend your money on than my sophomore effort. With that in mind I pulled a few of my favorites from the shelves to illustrate my point - if you don't own these books don't buy any more self-published, ego-press books like mine until you've at least taken a look at these 'real' books. Ask me tomorrow and it will be a whole different list. Come over for dinner, and after a couple of glasses of wine, I'll bombard you with 10x this many of my 'other favorites'.
PS - It's just been brought to my attention that Crosstown is now going for $700+ because it's out of print. I didn't mean to put any 'collectible', over-priced books on this list but you should still look at Levitt's work so how about this one instead: www.amazon.com/Helen-Levitt/dp/157687429X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U...
Also, my edition of The Americans is a bit spendy but the slightly smaller, reissued edition is cheap: www.amazon.com/Americans-Robert-Frank/dp/386521584X/ref=s...