EddieB
11th August 2013, 04:40 PM
While in York for a holiday recently with my lovely wife and her mother we paid a visit to Harrogate. While they wandered in and out of every shop in the town (or that's how it seemed to me) I called in to Waterstones for a browse.
They had a copy of Salgado's Genesis (published by Taschen) still in the plastic wrapper - untouched by human hand (well, almost). I asked the assistant if she would remove the plastic so I could view the contents - I know they don't mind, but I always like to ask first.
After a fairly lengthy viewing, it was an easy decision to buy - not so easy on the wallet though; at £44 it meant I couldn't criticise my wife for whatever she was going to turn up with!
I know there's been some discussion re' this book on a few posts previously - especially re' some of the printed images being double page spreads, and therefore printed across the spine of the book. However, even though there are a number of these, it's easy to view the photographs without breaking the binding or losing the "spirit" of the picture. There are also a number of fold-out spreads, which present a number of photographs as a sequence or a collection of portraits etc. Overall it's been beautifully done.
The standard of the content is every bit as high as I would expect from Mr Salgado and, in my opinion, is well worth the price of the book.
I'm a huge admirer of this photographer and his works. There's enough in this book to keep me coming back for a long time to come. Whilst the main content - the images - is left without text (I assume to let the viewer contemplate the offering), there is a booklet included as a separate document which lists information about each photograph. Very useful, since it's possible to reference this while viewing without using up valuable page space with text. Print quality is excellent!
At over 500 pages it's a weighty tome - definitely wasn't possible to hide from my wife and smuggle it back to the car!
Definitely recommended...
They had a copy of Salgado's Genesis (published by Taschen) still in the plastic wrapper - untouched by human hand (well, almost). I asked the assistant if she would remove the plastic so I could view the contents - I know they don't mind, but I always like to ask first.
After a fairly lengthy viewing, it was an easy decision to buy - not so easy on the wallet though; at £44 it meant I couldn't criticise my wife for whatever she was going to turn up with!
I know there's been some discussion re' this book on a few posts previously - especially re' some of the printed images being double page spreads, and therefore printed across the spine of the book. However, even though there are a number of these, it's easy to view the photographs without breaking the binding or losing the "spirit" of the picture. There are also a number of fold-out spreads, which present a number of photographs as a sequence or a collection of portraits etc. Overall it's been beautifully done.
The standard of the content is every bit as high as I would expect from Mr Salgado and, in my opinion, is well worth the price of the book.
I'm a huge admirer of this photographer and his works. There's enough in this book to keep me coming back for a long time to come. Whilst the main content - the images - is left without text (I assume to let the viewer contemplate the offering), there is a booklet included as a separate document which lists information about each photograph. Very useful, since it's possible to reference this while viewing without using up valuable page space with text. Print quality is excellent!
At over 500 pages it's a weighty tome - definitely wasn't possible to hide from my wife and smuggle it back to the car!
Definitely recommended...