Top 10 Photographer Monographs for 2015

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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For the final video of 2015, I've compiled a list of my top 10 photographer monographs for 2015. Actually there are 11… Magnum Contact Sheets http://amzn.to/1Vqe3dH Louis Faurer http://amzn.to/1Vqea99 Keith Carter :: From Uncertain to Blue http://amzn.to/1QZiAov Builder Levy Photographer http://amzn.to/1QZiEVw Alexey Titarenko :: The City Is A Novel http://amzn.to/1VqehkU Chris McCaw :: Sunburn http://amzn.to/1Vqek0a David Brookover :: The Road http://amzn.to/1Vqel4n Rothko | Sugimoto http://amzn.to/1QZiOvO Heinrich Kühn :: The Perfect Photograph http://amzn.to/1Vqeuob Saul Leiter :: Early Black And White http://amzn.to/1QZiRrA Henri Cartier-Bresson :: The Decisive Moment http://amzn.to/1VqeAfz Also see my Creative Spaces TV teaser from Sara Dietschy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDt5m88xnrs SPONSOR Lynda.com - for a 10-day free, unlimited trial visit http://lynda.com/aop Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!

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0:00.0	So welcome to the final show of 2015. This has been an amazing year on the art of photography and I feel like the community aspect of it has been what has been so special to me.
0:09.4	There's a lot of really
0:15.0	excited about some of the really neat things that are coming up in the next couple weeks
0:18.0	and I'm really excited about some of the things that are coming up.
0:20.0	And of course that entire thing was made possible with funding from you guys
0:24.1	and I just want to say thanks again for that I really appreciate it and for the
0:28.0	last show of the year today I want to do something that I don't normally do on
0:31.6	here but somebody suggested that I do a recap of my top 10 favorite books of this year.
0:37.0	And as most of you know, I do a lot of book reviews on this show.
0:40.0	Photography monographs, I think, are so important to learning, to the appreciation of photography, and to really, they represent a lot of my passion, and that's why I like to share so many of those here on the show.
0:51.0	So this was hard to whittle down to 10. There's a lot of books
0:54.0	that I bought this year and I want to say that not all of these books were
0:57.8	published this year and that's very important to note these were just books that
1:01.6	came into my collection this year and some of
1:04.3	them I've shared on the show with you guys and some of them I haven't so let's get right
1:07.8	down to it so this is my top 10 picks of my favorite books for 2015 so in no particular order here I'm just going to go through these. My first pick is Magnum
1:16.5	Contact Sheets, which is a really special book. This is one I did an entire show on
1:20.3	earlier this year and contact sheets are fascinating to me and what they've done with this
1:25.2	book is they've taken some very well-known photos by Magnum photographers and you get to see the contact
1:30.2	sheets and all the selects and everything that was on the film roll as you go through here.
1:34.9	And what's really amazing to me about this and just I think it's something that is really special
1:39.2	about the era of when everybody used film for photojournalism,
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