okay so over the last bunch of videos that I've done you guys have seen me
wearing this jacket that Brian Abrams over at Amabilis is making they've got
a Kickstarter going right now also has this awesome hoodie use the Force Luke
well here's the deal this is the last week of the Kickstarter campaign so if
you want one of these you want it to say deeper pixels or whatever it is you're
into now's the time to do it and they even have kind of an end of the campaign
sale going on so I will put a link in the show description go check it out
so Happy New Year it is awesome see you guys back and I've got a couple things
that I want to cover today so let's get started I've got a few really cool
photography books that I want to share with you guys today and so basically
what happened was last year at the end of the year I did a video and it was my
top ten book recommendations this was the end of 2016 and I just because I'd
done a lot of book reviews in videos over the year I decided to kind of
summarize them and kind of get my top picks and most of you guys know I have a
lot of books I buy a lot of books I love photography I love printed material and
it's just something that's very inspiring to me and so this year rolled
around and people started asking me on social if I was gonna do another end of
the year book roundup again and I didn't realize it was a thing but I'm happy to
do it I did by not as many books this year as I did last you because I'm
rapidly running out of space and because the mail you guys send me
I really am tight on space and so just depends on what comes out and how
interested I am in it but I did buy a few that I want to share with you we're
gonna go through these in just a second but one thing I want to mention before
we get started here is something that to me is kind of exciting news I started
The Art of Photography in 2008 that was when I made the first video this year is
2018 I have now been making this show for 10 years which is unbelievable I started
out on iTunes I guess about 2010 or so I put everything on YouTube and I started
producing on both platforms and now I have a Facebook Watch channel it's been
an amazing experience and I try to communicate this to you guys pretty
frequently but this show has changed my life in a very profound way it's an
unusual thing to do for a living I love it
I love
opportunities where I get to meet you guys I love the community that we've
kind of built around this thing and I've had some opportunities to do some
amazing things that I didn't ever think that I would be able to do things like
the Artist Series even like just last month were kind of at the last minute I
ended up just saying I'm going to Arizona I'm gonna do this video that
I've been wanting to do for over a year now and I ended up doing like three
videos out of that and there was a Grand Canyon video and then I did some stuff
in New York and there's some footage that I haven't shown you guys yet from
the New York trip and so there's a lot of opportunity to do some interesting
stuff with the show and because it's the tenth year I want it to be as epic as I
possibly can make it and I just don't want it to be another year I want it to
be something that's really cool and so that's kind of where I am with this and
I don't have anything to announce just yet although I am working on some stuff
that will announce it when the time is right but this does impact the show in
the following way because I will have to move a few things around to make some
other things possible and the big one that gets affected is going to be photo
assignments now we have been doing photo assignments on kind of this weird
schedule where every Monday we're gonna do something with photo assignments so
I'll either give you an assignment or I'm… two weeks or so or a week I'd have a
turnaround time and then I share the work that was submitted with you guys
and the biggest complaint that I get by far from people is its just too short
and it's too fast to turn around and it's also I think been confusing a
little bit in terms of what is the current photo assignment when is the
next one coming out and so I want to make a big change there and I think it's
gonna be a change for the better I'm gonna slow this down we're gonna do
one a month I think that's a much better way of doing it
I think rather than having a whole bunch of photo assignments at the end of the
year I would rather focus on the quality more than the quantity of it so what I'm
gonna do is just do it once a month that way it's easy to remember what's the
photo assignment for February what's the photo assignment for January and it's
just by the month you know when it's gonna be due it's gonna be due at the
end of the month I'll need a day or two to put the video together but you know
when that's coming up you can share your work on social and I'll see it there so
that's the big change that I'm gonna make I just think it's gonna work a lot
better I would like to get your opinion so please leave me a comment on this two
things one does the schedule work for you guys do you think this is a fair
compromise with all this is just going to be a little less frequent work for me
to do like the giving the assignment is not hard but
putting together those videos where I've got to put everybody's names in it and I've made a
couple errors in the past it's it's a lot of work and I think this will just
open it up and it allows us all to focus on the quantity and not the quality plus
it'll give me during the month some other chances to merge other content in
with that too depending on what the subject is so I want to know what you
think of that idea and 2) do you want a photo assignment for January I can do
one but we're already a couple days in it's up to you guys so would you rather
wait and we'll kick it off in February and we'll just do something totally cool
so anyway I would like to hear from you guys on that so let's look at a few book
recommendations I will put a list of everything in the show notes below so if
you're interested in getting one of these they're all in a list together and
you can find them on Amazon but anyway what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna
start with the color stuff and color photography is a little bit of a stretch
for me because historically my interests and my tastes have always been with
black-and-white photographers but more recently I think this probably started
with a Saul Leiter to a large extent Ernst Hass who is an incredible
photographer had a collection that… actually there were two books that were
released this year this one's called color correction and
the other book is okay it's more of his set photography that he did for movie studios
but color correction is insanely good highly recommended and there's another
color photographer that I start checking out more in-depth as well and I've been
aware of Luigi Ghirri for a long time but Luigi Ghirri a well-known Italian
photographer has a book called Kodachrome this is not a new book this
is an older book I don't know that it's in print and so you could have some
trouble tracking this down but it's worth being patient to check out this
book I actually bought several years ago and I've talked about it a zillion times
on this show but this little trilogy I want to make complete with Sail Leiter's
early color it's still in print if you don't have it it's well worth it and
what's interesting to me and the reason I'm including him in this conversation
is that all three of these photographers they all shot on Kodachrome and this was
pre digital and so there really wasn't a lot of post-processing that was involved
and the interesting thing to me is all three of these people have radically
different styles Ernst Haas' work has this lush feel to it - these deep rich
colors then kind of the opposite would be Luigi Ghirri who works in kind of these
pastels with very minimal compositions and their work looks completely
different even though they were using the same film and then Saul Leiter who
also Kodachrome comes into the picture and
he's got a very different approach to what he does in a very stylized look and
I think there's an important reminder here that we get really involved in the
camera side of things and then also in the post-production side of things
particularly when working with color and I think it's a really wonderful reminder
all three of these photographers to me that there's so much that you can do
they all look different because of their approaches are different the subject
matter is very different the lighting conditions are different and they're
kind of tailored to each individual photographer and that's where your
talent and your sense of style are gonna end up coming from not so much on the
post into things so that's why I wanted to include these three in the color
trilogy here next up is this very thick and very awesome book from probably my
favorite photographer in the history of photography and this is Irving Penn I
have covered Irving Penn a lot on the show before
and there was a book that came out a couple years ago and the exhibition that
I was covering I think was called Beyond Beauty this is even better this is very
much more complete in terms of what was included here this was I don't know that
this was done around a specific show the Met was involved with this but they are
very involved with the Penn Foundation highly recommended is the Irving Penn
Centennial this book was actually sent to me as a gift from Gabriel Wertman and
Gabriel lives in Mexico City I met him when I was down there last year and he
sent this to me I it was actually in the last video I did an unboxing this is
Flor Garduño and she is a wonderful photographer very much in the vein of
Graciela Iturbide her work has a mystical quality with a lot of symbolism
included in it and I had to include this as one of my favorites of this year it's
not one that was on my list to buy it was given to me as a gift and I have
absolutely fallen in love with it there is some amazing work here so once again
Gabriel thank you for sharing this the last two books that I want to share with
you guys these are not yet big-name photographers I think they're extremely
talented they're not done by big publishing houses but you guys send me a
lot of work during the year I've done a lot of mail time shows this year and I
want to recognize two people both these books are available and I will link them
up in the show description but I wanted to give them a shout out because I think
this work to me is extra-special and I've really enjoyed it a lot and the
first one up is Shetland OO which is done by Tom Barr and some of you guys
might remember Tom or recognize him he goes by the name Ootlier in the comments
section he's a hell of a guy and credible photographer this is not
exclusively a photography book Kate Davies wrote the text in here and is a
documentary book on the shetland island wool industry and I think the
photography in here is absolutely outstanding and what I like about this
book is that it is not photography for the sake of showing off photography he
is telling a story he is documenting in here but it is extremely good and Tom
shoots at such a high level and I am really glad that we become friends since
he sent this to me and so Tom I didn't tell you guys that I was gonna be doing
this so special shout out to Tom you guys need to check out Shetland Oo it is
fantastic the second book that I want to recognize was sent to me by Bastiaan Woudt
this is called In Marokko Bastiaan has a very ethereal quality to the work that
he does and this is my other favorite book that was sent in this year I really
enjoyed this as a very dreamlike quality to it a lot of interesting things are
done with focus points and where your eye is supposed to go in the composition
and the work is just beautiful and absolutely outstanding so I want to give
a shout out to Bastian once again too and again both these books are available
I will link them up in the show description
I hope this has provided some inspiration for you guys and this was
kind of my picks for I guess 2017 but we're in to 2018 now that's over with
although I have cool books to draw inspiration from now anyway a lot of
cool stuff coming up this week including this disaster you don't want to miss my
review on the light l16 I will have that out this week I've got a bunch of other
stuff coming up as well love to hear from you please leave a comment and
until the next video Happy New Year and I will see you guys
next time later
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