The Lost Border <\/span>as one of them.<\/span><\/p>\nHere’s the list from Reciprocity Failure with Stan Bantos’s comments:<\/span><\/p>\n1) In The American West — Richard Avedon; one of portraiture’s giants at his peak.<\/span><\/p>\n2) Ambiguous Ambassador- Tseng Kwong Chi; from humorous to majestic, all great photographs that happen to be self portraits.<\/span><\/p>\n3) Uncommon Places- Stephen Shore; the common made uncommon in color.<\/span><\/p>\n4) Madness- Claudio Edinger; beautiful images straight from hell.<\/span><\/p>\n5) Glory- Robert D’allessandro; the epitome of early seventies, wide angle, Tri-X documentary.<\/span><\/p>\n6) The Killing Fields; “art” by genocide…<\/span><\/p>\n7) The Inner City- Joseph Mills; street photography in dream time.<\/span><\/p>\n8) American Prospects- Joel Sternfeld; Americana redefined.<\/span><\/p>\n9) The Silence — Gilles Peress; genocide and poetry in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n10) Farewell To Bosnia– Gilles Peress; genocide and poetry in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n11) The Lost Border- Brian Rose; lyrical ghost imagery of bygone era.<\/span><\/p>\n12) Coney Island- Bruce Gilden; mid seventies NY at its grainy, idiosyncratic best.<\/span><\/p>\n13) Seydou Keita- Scalo (publ); the king of “outsider” portraiture, whether in his village in Africa or on opening night at the Gagosian in NYC on 10\/23\/97.<\/span><\/p>\n14) Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue- Eugene Richards; beauty in the depths of the human condition.<\/span><\/p>\n15) Inferno – James Nachtwey; high intensity, world wide drama crammed into 1 x 1 1\/2.<\/span><\/p>\n16) Rich & Poor- Jim Goldberg; an intimate look into rich v poor. Guess who comes out looking worse…<\/span><\/p>\n17) Diane Arbus- Aperture (publ); the queen of portraiture.<\/span><\/p>\n18) William Eggleston’s Guide- The Revolutionary Handbook.<\/span><\/p>\n19) The Last Resort- Martin Parr; stories within stories, live and in color.<\/span><\/p>\n20) Troubled Land- Paul Graham; tension and forboding in the land of beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n21) A Green And Pleasant Land- John Davies; landscapes past, present and forever.<\/span><\/p>\n22) Central Park — Bruce Davidson; wonder and discovery in the manmade microcosm.<\/span><\/p>\n23) Sticks And Stones- Lee Friedlander: the swan song of swan songs.<\/span><\/p>\n24) Along the Ohio- Andrew Borowiec; middle America made familiar and magical.<\/span><\/p>\n25) The Black Triangle- Joseph Koudelka; a land laid waste in all its epic grandeur.<\/span><\/p>\n26) The Oxford Project- Peter Feldstein; the most simple of projects, the most brilliant of presentations.<\/span><\/p>\n27) Found in Brooklyn- Thomas Roma; neighborhood wonderland.<\/span><\/p>\n28) The Innocents- Taryn Simon; American tragedy as real as it gets.<\/span><\/p>\n29) At Dusk and By The Ground- by Boris Mihailov; two hard cover volumes of the most depressing panoramics imaginable sold in one package, haphazardly printed and toned into… true works of art.<\/span><\/p>\n30) The Americans — Robert Frank; The New Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While checking my web stats I noticed several visitors coming by way of Stan Bantos’s blog Reciprocity Failure. Stan, who is a talented photographer and writer about photography, recently compiled a list of his “top 30 photo books.” I am honored to see that he has included my book The Lost Border as one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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