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Photobooks

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 08:24:44 No.4442598 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4442635 >>4442761 >>4442996 >>4445065

Photobooks recommendations

Also Photobooks are insanely hard to pirate.anyone willing to share a MEGA?
or should i fuck off to /t/ ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 09:11:40 No.4442605 Report

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Also wondering this

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 10:02:03 No.4442614 Report

Quoted By: >>4442617 >>4442656 >>4442996

I really want David Lynch's photobook of industrial England in the late 70s and early 80s but the fucking book is going for over $1000 used.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 10:08:00 No.4442617 Report

Quoted By: >>4442619

>>4442614
holy fucking reddit

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 10:09:42 No.4442619 Report

Quoted By: >>4442620 >>4442621

>>4442617
Oh no, Reddit likes something, the horror.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 10:11:32 No.4442620 Report

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>>4442619
gb2r

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 10:12:19 No.4442621 Report

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>>4442619
>>4442620

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 11:36:53 No.4442635 Report

Quoted By: >>4442645 >>4445173

>>4442598
archive dot org, zlibrary or annas archive if you actually know what you're looking for but photo books don't seem to be a easy to find as other books on those

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 13:30:59 No.4442645 Report

Quoted By: >>4442798 >>4445173

>>4442635
OP here.Trust me ive tried everything before making a post, i even have a zlib premium but theres only a handful of books available most of them are very badly scanned and heavily discolored. same with internet archive.

Sugar !egyYvoBZV2

Sugar !egyYvoBZV2 Wed 02 Jul 2025 14:08:08 No.4442656 Report

Quoted By: >>4442705

>>4442614

Tell me someone saved that thread posted here a while back of the guy who found all those slides being thrown out and it was 1970's and 1960s England and I think they even tracked the guy down who shot them, was a very good thread with a lot of very good compositions. Almost lost to time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 15:41:39 No.4442673 Report

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in italy we have some good publishers like Contrasto but yea, quite frustrating the artificial scarcity - i dont think theres that little interest in photobooks or just regular photography books.. but idk

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 17:26:52 No.4442705 Report

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>>4442656
Bump!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 20:55:26 No.4442761 Report

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>>4442598
>Photogooks

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 00:52:52 No.4442798 Report

Quoted By: >>4443024

>>4442645
Yeah I know they're not great for photo books, I've found probably less than half of what I was looking for and usually in poor quality. I don't know how it is where you live but as a last resort I think you can request books from your local library and they can bring them in from other locations if they exist in the archive. I've never done that however, I just heard that you could.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 06:29:50 No.4442881 Report

Quoted By: >>4442895 >>4443027

Nothing personal by Nikita Teryoshin. It's recent so you can actually get it and I thought it was very good. If your into street you can also still get Melissa O'Shaughnessy's recent photo book which was spectacular.

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Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 09:32:54 No.4442895 Report

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>>4442881

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 15:02:47 No.4442961 Report

Quoted By: >>4443019

I can take pictures of the photo books I have if you want

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Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 15:11:19 No.4442963 Report

Quoted By: >>4443018 >>4443188

>>4442895
>picrel
holy kino, some of the other stuff on there looks bleh but this one

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 17:11:12 No.4442996 Report

Quoted By: >>4443021

>>4442598
On Youtube and vimeo you can find almost every photobook. Just search the google images if you need high res shot and sort them in separate folders.

But yes you're right. Photobook collectors should be shot thrown into mass graves for doing this >>4442614

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 17:58:58 No.4443018 Report

Quoted By: >>4443494

>>4442963
https://nikitateryoshin.com/
check out the website then. few other kino on there

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:00:32 No.4443019 Report

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>>4442961
that would be nice, how do we connect?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:03:22 No.4443021 Report

Quoted By: >>4443052

>>4442996
You mean watch people flipping through the pages?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:06:08 No.4443024 Report

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>>4442798
OP : Too bad I live in shit ass third world country, there's not even decent English books in the library shelves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:07:10 No.4443027 Report

Quoted By: >>4443234

>>4442881
You have nice taste,anon. Drop some more suggestions

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:14:00 No.4443033 Report

Quoted By: >>4444772

I have the city of darkness and it's pretty cool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:25:31 No.4443052 Report

Quoted By: >>4444774

>>4443021
Yes, why not? Here's what I do:

>checkout the video of a photobook that I am look for
>watch the vid
>if it's cool search the web for photos
>spend few hours searching them on every major and minor platform
>put them in a separate folder
>go back to that video and start arranging those photos according to sequence

That's how we poorfaggots live, by eating the scraps off of the rich's asshole. What other options do you have? Do you have thousands of dollars to give to swine that are ebay collectors?

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Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 04:47:31 No.4443188 Report

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>>4442963
For some reason I thought of Wang Ningde when I saw that photo. He has a lot of funny staged photos featuring dudes in uniform.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 04:49:57 No.4443190 Report

Quoted By: >>4443191 >>4443237

I don't own a single photo book and never been interested in owning one, but is there really this huge market for them? I seem people talk about Leica pricing when referring to some of them. Perhaps I should start looking for them when out thrifting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 04:50:59 No.4443191 Report

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>>4443190
*I've seen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 07:12:25 No.4443234 Report

Quoted By: >>4443240

>>4443027
The Decline of Mall Civilization by Michael Galinsky was interesting book I picked up a couple weeks ago. Not as interesting as the other 2 but I thought it was fascinating how pretty uninteresting pictures from that time were now interesting. Time will make almost anything interesting I guess. Other than that I've been looking at a lot of Brian Karlsson's work lately.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 07:16:09 No.4443237 Report

Quoted By: >>4444776

>>4443190
Not a huge market but there is definitely collectors. It's honestly just mostly scarcity due to their not being much demand. They are expensive to print and don't really appeal to normies. They are really satisfying to make though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 07:52:40 No.4443240 Report

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>>4443234
A problem when most of today's photographers expect instant gratification and recognition. I think, granted that civilization continues that pictures of the mundane from our era will stand out. Very few are taking photos of ordinary things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Jul 2025 01:12:32 No.4443494 Report

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>>4443018
good shit thanks for sharing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 19:04:44 No.4444772 Report

Quoted By: >>4444904

>>4443033
I am absolutely fascinated by kawloon, any way you can share it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 19:09:58 No.4444774 Report

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>>4443052
touche! ill try to do it when im bored.

meanwhile i came up with another way, to download photos from instagram, steve mcurry basically has his whole work up there but no everyone is so generous tho.

found this thing to download the photos: https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader

couldnt make it work yet cause im retarded.
fa/g/s from /g/ might know how to. ill look into it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 19:12:02 No.4444776 Report

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>>4443237
Nat Geo magazines are still resold like high collectible items. The average person just does not pick up a photobook and its expensive to print

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Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 19:15:03 No.4444777 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 22:28:35 No.4444846 Report

Quoted By: >>4445062 >>4445064

>>4444777
That's a good book. Pretty much anything from Alex Webb is just incredible

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jul 2025 01:55:20 No.4444904 Report

Quoted By: >>4445062

>>4444772
nta but that is one that can be found in a few places online
https://pcm.annas-archive.org/md5/41c3bdd6f1316fceff671a71fd711c98

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jul 2025 08:22:00 No.4445062 Report

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>>4444904
thank you,anon

>>4444846
Sadly alex webb books are nowhere to be found on any piracy sites

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jul 2025 08:40:21 No.4445064 Report

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>>4444846
OP: Found this and its perfectly crisp!
https://youtu.be/8F5NLnMMkEA

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jul 2025 08:49:24 No.4445065 Report

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>>4442598
Photography is not for the poor. How many times I need to tell you this, old man?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jul 2025 14:19:33 No.4445173 Report

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>>4442635
>>4442645
It's mostly a compression thing. Those archives are really meant for text and simple pictures to supplement the text. With good photo books, text supplements the pictures. It's frustrating, but there's still good stuff to grok.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 08:34:47 No.4446955 Report

Quoted By: >>4447046 >>4457407

What are some good tips to get photo books for cheap? On second hand online websites here people try to sell even the common stuff for either retail prices or more expensive, where usually Amazon second hand has better prices. Local yard sales are a miss because those books are not really popular to that kind of demographic

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 15:49:31 No.4447046 Report

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>>4446955
Live in a more civilized city with decent used bookstores?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Aug 2025 19:16:53 No.4457407 Report

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>>4446955
I often find them in thrift stores. The library is also a good place if you don't actually care about owning them.

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