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**The Art of Photography: A Collection of Rare and Valuable Books**

I recently had the opportunity to go through a collection of rare and valuable photography books, including some amazing pieces by renowned photographers such as Kappa, Taro, and Brans. I also came across a few books that were not as well-known, but still held great value.

One of the highlights of the collection was the book on Robert Capa's Paris years. This is an outstanding book that showcases Capa's incredible talent and dedication to his craft. It's a must-have for any serious photography enthusiast.

Another notable book in the collection was one by David C, which I found to be very impressive. The book covers a wide range of topics, including tear sheets, contact sheets, and early street scene photos that showcase Capa's skills as a photographer.

I also came across a Mexican suitcase that contained some amazing negatives, including ones taken by Takashi Yoshida, known as the "Trosky" for his incredible talent. The book on this collection is a rare find, and I feel lucky to have had the chance to see it.

The collection also included a few books on lesser-known photographers, such as Charles Sheer, who was primarily known for his architectural photography. His work is incredibly detailed and showcases his mastery of high contrast black and white photography.

Another notable book in the collection was one by Carl Baselt, which features some stunning Botanical photography. The level of detail and attention to texture is incredible, making this a standout in any photography collection.

The final book I want to mention is one by Robert Kappa, who was known for his work as a photographer in Paris during the 1960s. This book showcases his incredible talent and dedication to his craft, and is definitely worth seeking out.

Overall, I was blown away by the quality and diversity of this collection of photography books. Each one offers a unique perspective on the art of photography, and I feel lucky to have had the chance to see them all up close.

**Giving it Away**

As a special treat, I'm going to be giving some of these books away to my audience over the coming weeks. To enter, simply follow me on social media and submit your own work using a specific hashtag. The grand prize will be a rare book that's sure to impress even the most seasoned photography enthusiasts.

Stay tuned for more information on how to enter this giveaway, and don't forget to check out my other content for all things photography-related. Thanks again to Andrew for joining me on this episode, and I'll see you guys in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Ted Forbes and welcome back to another episode of The Art of Photography if you watch the show often you know that the bane of my existence right now is this crew that is resurfacing the street out in front of the studio they make a ton of noise and it's very difficult to record video well they're not actually making noise today but somebody has decided to run a chainsaw and cut down a tree over on the side of the building so anyway here's the deal we're getting out of here today so come with me we're going on a little field trip going to head out on a little field trip and before we do that I want to give you a little bit of a preamble so you know where we're headed and why I chose to do this so the deal is is is um the last episode that I put up we running we're running a contest and I have an extra copy of one of my favorite black and white darker room books of all time this is John Blake Moore's black and white photography workshop and uh basically the deal is uh I asked people if you want to know how to enter the contest and all it's still running we're probably going to run it for another week here so um but if you go to Twitter and you use the hashtag that everybody's using on this which is it's # aop BG that's Art of Photography book giveaway so it's # aop BG a PBG I'll put that in the show notes Below in a link but uh go check out the work people are doing cuz I literally I have been blown away first of all by the number of entries that I've had and then also by the high quality that people are turning in I mean it's kind of a vague description just put a black and white photograph in but uh people are doing some outstanding and amazing work in there so go check that out it's going to be really hard to pick a winner on that well anyway uh in in the midst of all this twittering uh my friend my Twitter friend Jessica and I were going back and forth cuz she noticed that the half price book sticker on the top of this book and I don't know where Ben Royal came across this book um but anyway it did come from Half Price Books Half Price Books is a chain that stretches across Texas it's based here and they have stores in Dallas they have one I believe in Houston they have a really nice one in Austin and uh anyway half pric books I kind of forget sometimes that I'm lucky enough to have a really good use bookstore and we talk about books a lot on this show and people have been frustrated when something you know that I talked about on a show a year or two ago has gone out of print and they're having a hard time finding it and so I thought it'd be kind of fun to go book shopping with you guys today and so we're going to go check out Half Price Books um anyway this will be kind of fun what I'm going to do actually when we get over there U my friend Andrew I think is going to join us and we're going to pick out some more books for this giveaway because you know it's going to be hard to narrow it down to just one so I'm going to grab a couple extra photography books and so we're going to see what we can find um so anyway come with me and check it out um just to let you guys know for the tech nerds out there that might be interested in this um I'm going to be filming this I've got uh two of these little portable cameras and a couple years ago I really to get a GoPro for doing shots on the road and stuff like that um and I borrowed one and I really wasn't that impressed I thought the GoPro for the for the money you had to spend on it it didn't really have a lot to offer and I was having white balance problems and stuff like that I tried these um this is the Mobius action cam and I've talked about these on the show before but it's been a while I've actually got two of these and they're really small there's no viewfinder or anything on here they shoot video they'll shoot time-lapse Stills um they'll and obviously it records audio as well and I've also got two of these suction cup mount tripods that I'll use in the the car and so I'm just going to give you some behind the- scenes Tech information for the Nerds out there that want to know how I'm shooting this anyway um I highly recommend these I'll link to them in the show notes also you can get these on Amazon.com for about 70 bucks so they're like you know what is a GoPro cost like 400 these days depending on the accessories you load on there it could even be more um these are cheap they get the job done and they're awesome they have a little tripod mount that it fits into and they fit right on here and I like them better than the GoPro so anyway uh come along and let's head out and go to Half Price Books picture this picture hey picture this that's good stuff dude so what do you think the negative if you if you uh if you were to try and win a book on this show you would go for the negative I go for the negative you do the negative would you do a copy of the negative that has all this ballpoint pen on yeah somebody else has already done all the notes for me you know oh I got to read that I should probably pay attention to those lines I don't know if their lines are good or let's see if they have another one uh they do but it's wait a minute the negative right here oh okay oh it's the paper uh let's let's look and see all the nice thing about the paperback one why is this more expensive well I don't know who owned it book their name's on the inside C all and martley we have your books and martley your book is here all right um let's see wait a minute here's basic principle to the negative how about yosity and the range of light o feel good about that this one looks like it's reduced that's I think it is is this the cliff notes of the negative yeah I think it is oh no it's the little print should I introduce you I don't think I uced you this is my this my oldest friend Andrew Murphy fellow photographer um amazing dude and uh yeah we've known each other a while yeah years since we were in diapers actually yeah I think you were technically before diapers okay so we are going to narrow this down to five okay all right so what do you got first up first up car bossel bossel it's a good one dude it's good yeah no it's good quality is good it's good shape quality is decent I mean that's a big important factor I mean being able to see the image and detail you do want to see the end it's always nice yeah all right so that stays or goes I would say this is a definite stay addition to any any Library yes all right so this okay so we go there so next look up we have the susman the susman is a assessment is a classic now it's more of a uh it's a large chunk of it is more of a shelf reference now but it does have some very applicable True Modern information okay it's Weston Weston aperture masters of phographer number seven Series S yeah Seven's a good one it's um that one's good though it does it's well printed it's aperture foundation so it's well printed it's going to have good information it's really pretty much mostly images uh some quotes and comments um there is you know it does it's a very general wide openen sort of coverage um Craven's commentary onra WRA RH RH West Craven's dad R crav RH Nightmare on Weston Street yeah Street these are some loud announcements yeah this is sheer Charles yeah aming this is the Rarity because he was more known I guess for his painting so much than his photography however he was an amazing photographer um industrial modernism uh architecture kinds of things yeah very very architectural it's well printed I mean it's not the best printing there's a little more Amber in them so yeah but that's classic photo right there yeah that's the class so maybe somebody will get that one I kind now the trick with this is though you owe us a report if you get it back all right now you're going to do the last one because this is your specialty Andrew is a major Robert Kappa fan so I'm going to let him take the Kappa so what is it first off this is Kappa in the parish years uh 1933 to 54 four so this covers early the Early part of when he first moved to Paris as a refugee from Berlin and was this unknown photographer basically starving to death and he met gret ataro well who that wasn't even her real name either and he went from Andre frean to Robert Kappa and we were referring earlier I called it the Spanish suitcase it was not Mexican suit the Mexican suit suit what was the Mexican suitcas Mexican suitcase was a series of photographs that were Tero Bron and Kappa that were lost at a certain point in time they were lost in transitional States wherever they were going and they they ended up getting found lost luggage years later 70 plus years later yeah baggage claim was a little sorry but the bag was delayed today yes 17 years and it was it was all of these negatives in prints contact sheets from Kappa and Taro and and bran and and I don't know Chim might have been in there too David C character okay this book is pretty awesome actually it's it's definitely worth the $20 I have a personal copy of this um now of your C books is this one essential this one is very much an essential book because it really covers the formation of who oh look it shows like what we call tear sheets now right ual negatives there's Tak real true negatives that were found in in his apartment or an apartment that he had lived in at one point in time um early street scene photos that really show the it's not going to be easy it's not going to be easy now I will say this um there's trosky yeah there's the trosy here's here's stuff from the Mexican suitcase no that is the Mexican suitcase parts of the negativ from only yeah yeah and all of the uh so there's bris 's letter too okay I'm going to do something that I didn't think I should do earlier I think I think my audience is worth 10 extra dollars should we should we go over our budget here um that's a good one I think this is this is the uh this is the preeminent book in the pile my audience is worth $10 only 10 one of you is worth 20 okay one of you is worth 20 yeah all right you know what I think uh because here's the deal okay H I love but bad printing bad print you can get all these in other places those Weston is fairly common and the susman we can find cheaper and the susman's the susman somebody's going to like what did you s like 1960s technique book I mean it's kind of fun there my fav though there's some great Basics I mean well here's the deal if we do this again we will find the sust so this one we won't somebody's really going to like this to this is this is a much newer book I don't want to give this away I want to it but not we're here Spanish Soldier yes the the controversal which is there's some discrepancy on whether or not that was staged or real but um I don't think it matters he was still amazing yeah he was still I think he took enough other shots to make me realize he can do it um so all right so that's what we're going to do yep all right all right somebody's going to get lucky there we're going to go over budget here all right sorry done no it's all right so we got to go check out yeah so to wrap this up I went ahead we went over budget a little bit but I think it's okay cuz this is still a lot of fun I'm not keeping any of these books for my own personal use I'm giving them away on the show to you guys so anyway what we're going to do is this week on Friday I'm going to wrap up the uh and make a selection and we're going to announce the winner on the show and it's going to be hard but this is for the John Blakemore book um and then we're going to do some other themed stuff that you guys can submit via social media um we do have Charles sheer which is this is uh it's kind of rare to find Charles sheer books in general uh sheer was as I said earlier known as a painter uh mainly but did some amazing architectural photography very early um Carl baselt which is uh this is the Tashan book and this is a really nice one as well um save that one for the end we have the Hannah book which uh is some amazing Botanical high contrast black and white photography which is really cool we have the rer duo so if you're in the street photography and like I said we'll do themes for each of these if you want to win them and then finally the grand Pua of the hall here yesterday it's the Robert Kappa the Paris years uh this is amazing this is an outstanding book and I don't think it's too hard to find but it it will be a nice book for one of you guys to win so anyway so stay tuned we're going to be giving all these away in the upcoming weeks and we'll have little social media themed things where you can uh promote your own work and uh get a chance at winning a book as well and so anyway uh once again special thanks to my friend Andrew for joining us um a little bit different episode today I want to get out on the road and get out of here and do something and and avoid the burnout and uh keep it fresh so anyway once again guys this has been another episode of The Art of Photography I'll see you guys in the next video laterhey everybody this is Ted Forbes and welcome back to another episode of The Art of Photography if you watch the show often you know that the bane of my existence right now is this crew that is resurfacing the street out in front of the studio they make a ton of noise and it's very difficult to record video well they're not actually making noise today but somebody has decided to run a chainsaw and cut down a tree over on the side of the building so anyway here's the deal we're getting out of here today so come with me we're going on a little field trip going to head out on a little field trip and before we do that I want to give you a little bit of a preamble so you know where we're headed and why I chose to do this so the deal is is is um the last episode that I put up we running we're running a contest and I have an extra copy of one of my favorite black and white darker room books of all time this is John Blake Moore's black and white photography workshop and uh basically the deal is uh I asked people if you want to know how to enter the contest and all it's still running we're probably going to run it for another week here so um but if you go to Twitter and you use the hashtag that everybody's using on this which is it's # aop BG that's Art of Photography book giveaway so it's # aop BG a PBG I'll put that in the show notes Below in a link but uh go check out the work people are doing cuz I literally I have been blown away first of all by the number of entries that I've had and then also by the high quality that people are turning in I mean it's kind of a vague description just put a black and white photograph in but uh people are doing some outstanding and amazing work in there so go check that out it's going to be really hard to pick a winner on that well anyway uh in in the midst of all this twittering uh my friend my Twitter friend Jessica and I were going back and forth cuz she noticed that the half price book sticker on the top of this book and I don't know where Ben Royal came across this book um but anyway it did come from Half Price Books Half Price Books is a chain that stretches across Texas it's based here and they have stores in Dallas they have one I believe in Houston they have a really nice one in Austin and uh anyway half pric books I kind of forget sometimes that I'm lucky enough to have a really good use bookstore and we talk about books a lot on this show and people have been frustrated when something you know that I talked about on a show a year or two ago has gone out of print and they're having a hard time finding it and so I thought it'd be kind of fun to go book shopping with you guys today and so we're going to go check out Half Price Books um anyway this will be kind of fun what I'm going to do actually when we get over there U my friend Andrew I think is going to join us and we're going to pick out some more books for this giveaway because you know it's going to be hard to narrow it down to just one so I'm going to grab a couple extra photography books and so we're going to see what we can find um so anyway come with me and check it out um just to let you guys know for the tech nerds out there that might be interested in this um I'm going to be filming this I've got uh two of these little portable cameras and a couple years ago I really to get a GoPro for doing shots on the road and stuff like that um and I borrowed one and I really wasn't that impressed I thought the GoPro for the for the money you had to spend on it it didn't really have a lot to offer and I was having white balance problems and stuff like that I tried these um this is the Mobius action cam and I've talked about these on the show before but it's been a while I've actually got two of these and they're really small there's no viewfinder or anything on here they shoot video they'll shoot time-lapse Stills um they'll and obviously it records audio as well and I've also got two of these suction cup mount tripods that I'll use in the the car and so I'm just going to give you some behind the- scenes Tech information for the Nerds out there that want to know how I'm shooting this anyway um I highly recommend these I'll link to them in the show notes also you can get these on Amazon.com for about 70 bucks so they're like you know what is a GoPro cost like 400 these days depending on the accessories you load on there it could even be more um these are cheap they get the job done and they're awesome they have a little tripod mount that it fits into and they fit right on here and I like them better than the GoPro so anyway uh come along and let's head out and go to Half Price Books picture this picture hey picture this that's good stuff dude so what do you think the negative if you if you uh if you were to try and win a book on this show you would go for the negative I go for the negative you do the negative would you do a copy of the negative that has all this ballpoint pen on yeah somebody else has already done all the notes for me you know oh I got to read that I should probably pay attention to those lines I don't know if their lines are good or let's see if they have another one uh they do but it's wait a minute the negative right here oh okay oh it's the paper uh let's let's look and see all the nice thing about the paperback one why is this more expensive well I don't know who owned it book their name's on the inside C all and martley we have your books and martley your book is here all right um let's see wait a minute here's basic principle to the negative how about yosity and the range of light o feel good about that this one looks like it's reduced that's I think it is is this the cliff notes of the negative yeah I think it is oh no it's the little print should I introduce you I don't think I uced you this is my this my oldest friend Andrew Murphy fellow photographer um amazing dude and uh yeah we've known each other a while yeah years since we were in diapers actually yeah I think you were technically before diapers okay so we are going to narrow this down to five okay all right so what do you got first up first up car bossel bossel it's a good one dude it's good yeah no it's good quality is good it's good shape quality is decent I mean that's a big important factor I mean being able to see the image and detail you do want to see the end it's always nice yeah all right so that stays or goes I would say this is a definite stay addition to any any Library yes all right so this okay so we go there so next look up we have the susman the susman is a assessment is a classic now it's more of a uh it's a large chunk of it is more of a shelf reference now but it does have some very applicable True Modern information okay it's Weston Weston aperture masters of phographer number seven Series S yeah Seven's a good one it's um that one's good though it does it's well printed it's aperture foundation so it's well printed it's going to have good information it's really pretty much mostly images uh some quotes and comments um there is you know it does it's a very general wide openen sort of coverage um Craven's commentary onra WRA RH RH West Craven's dad R crav RH Nightmare on Weston Street yeah Street these are some loud announcements yeah this is sheer Charles yeah aming this is the Rarity because he was more known I guess for his painting so much than his photography however he was an amazing photographer um industrial modernism uh architecture kinds of things yeah very very architectural it's well printed I mean it's not the best printing there's a little more Amber in them so yeah but that's classic photo right there yeah that's the class so maybe somebody will get that one I kind now the trick with this is though you owe us a report if you get it back all right now you're going to do the last one because this is your specialty Andrew is a major Robert Kappa fan so I'm going to let him take the Kappa so what is it first off this is Kappa in the parish years uh 1933 to 54 four so this covers early the Early part of when he first moved to Paris as a refugee from Berlin and was this unknown photographer basically starving to death and he met gret ataro well who that wasn't even her real name either and he went from Andre frean to Robert Kappa and we were referring earlier I called it the Spanish suitcase it was not Mexican suit the Mexican suit suit what was the Mexican suitcas Mexican suitcase was a series of photographs that were Tero Bron and Kappa that were lost at a certain point in time they were lost in transitional States wherever they were going and they they ended up getting found lost luggage years later 70 plus years later yeah baggage claim was a little sorry but the bag was delayed today yes 17 years and it was it was all of these negatives in prints contact sheets from Kappa and Taro and and bran and and I don't know Chim might have been in there too David C character okay this book is pretty awesome actually it's it's definitely worth the $20 I have a personal copy of this um now of your C books is this one essential this one is very much an essential book because it really covers the formation of who oh look it shows like what we call tear sheets now right ual negatives there's Tak real true negatives that were found in in his apartment or an apartment that he had lived in at one point in time um early street scene photos that really show the it's not going to be easy it's not going to be easy now I will say this um there's trosky yeah there's the trosy here's here's stuff from the Mexican suitcase no that is the Mexican suitcase parts of the negativ from only yeah yeah and all of the uh so there's bris 's letter too okay I'm going to do something that I didn't think I should do earlier I think I think my audience is worth 10 extra dollars should we should we go over our budget here um that's a good one I think this is this is the uh this is the preeminent book in the pile my audience is worth $10 only 10 one of you is worth 20 okay one of you is worth 20 yeah all right you know what I think uh because here's the deal okay H I love but bad printing bad print you can get all these in other places those Weston is fairly common and the susman we can find cheaper and the susman's the susman somebody's going to like what did you s like 1960s technique book I mean it's kind of fun there my fav though there's some great Basics I mean well here's the deal if we do this again we will find the sust so this one we won't somebody's really going to like this to this is this is a much newer book I don't want to give this away I want to it but not we're here Spanish Soldier yes the the controversal which is there's some discrepancy on whether or not that was staged or real but um I don't think it matters he was still amazing yeah he was still I think he took enough other shots to make me realize he can do it um so all right so that's what we're going to do yep all right all right somebody's going to get lucky there we're going to go over budget here all right sorry done no it's all right so we got to go check out yeah so to wrap this up I went ahead we went over budget a little bit but I think it's okay cuz this is still a lot of fun I'm not keeping any of these books for my own personal use I'm giving them away on the show to you guys so anyway what we're going to do is this week on Friday I'm going to wrap up the uh and make a selection and we're going to announce the winner on the show and it's going to be hard but this is for the John Blakemore book um and then we're going to do some other themed stuff that you guys can submit via social media um we do have Charles sheer which is this is uh it's kind of rare to find Charles sheer books in general uh sheer was as I said earlier known as a painter uh mainly but did some amazing architectural photography very early um Carl baselt which is uh this is the Tashan book and this is a really nice one as well um save that one for the end we have the Hannah book which uh is some amazing Botanical high contrast black and white photography which is really cool we have the rer duo so if you're in the street photography and like I said we'll do themes for each of these if you want to win them and then finally the grand Pua of the hall here yesterday it's the Robert Kappa the Paris years uh this is amazing this is an outstanding book and I don't think it's too hard to find but it it will be a nice book for one of you guys to win so anyway so stay tuned we're going to be giving all these away in the upcoming weeks and we'll have little social media themed things where you can uh promote your own work and uh get a chance at winning a book as well and so anyway uh once again special thanks to my friend Andrew for joining us um a little bit different episode today I want to get out on the road and get out of here and do something and and avoid the burnout and uh keep it fresh so anyway once again guys this has been another episode of The Art of Photography I'll see you guys in the next video later\n"