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reviews and essentials –

Henry Wessel:

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Henry Wessel — by, about

  • Lyons, Nathan, ed. Vision and Expression. New York: Horizon Press, In Collaboration with The George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1969.
  • Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
  • “Henry Wessel Jun.” Camera 52 (5) (May, 1974): 12-19.
  • Wessel, Henry. Henry Wessel California and the West, Odd Photos, Las Vegas, Real Estate Photographs, Night Walk. Boxed set of five books. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006.
  • Zander, Thomas, ed. Henry Wessel. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2007.

Cy’s Rollei

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A very short book — one of many short books published by Nazraeli Press.. this one caught my attention because of my interest in Cy Twombly. 

It answers a question that it never asks:

does the camera make the image (interesting)

Of course not — not even the more famous of the photographers makes an interesting image (Sally Mann.) — that is further example of her limitation — she placed third in a very short race with few rules. Of course, my choice of the ‘good’ shot is because it mimics what I’d have made —

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Photographs by Sally Mann, Rob McDonald and Even Rogers.

I rarely buy a book because of the name, or the title — this time I did, just because I was curious, and because I was tempted by the touch of celebrity: Cy’s

It is a curio book… what you will learn, you will learn from the Rob McDonald link above