The Holiday Gift Guide for the Photo Enthusiast, 2014

A photography book that's a visual puzzle.

This Equals That, $15.45

British actress Jane Birkin's brother Andrew shares photos from the 12-year love affair of his sister  and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. 


Jane and Serge, $40.44

"Tennis in the Bahamas"

 "Verbier Vacation"

Large Scale Photographs by Slim Aarons, available at Jonathan Adler. $995-3395

A look into the creative process of contemporary photographers. 

Photographer's Sketchbook, $42.45

 Subotzky and Waterhouse photographed Ponte City, the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa. They shot every door, every window, every resident.

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse: Ponte City, $72.40

Used by the likes of Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Bruce Davidson and Vivian Maier, it's a pretty bang up camera. You won't be sorry.

 Rollei 2.8, $1272 

 

Also, this Pinterest. Free.

Stephen Shore's new book Survey. $43.80

See his work at Dox, Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague,
$8.10 entrance fee, through March 2015

Ticket to Prague during mid-winter break from NYC, $700.

Membership to the International Center of Photography, $75

Camera patent print, $6.99

Because you really need to print your stuff.
Epson 3880 Printer, $1,158.97

Refurbished Super 8 Camera, $395

Film kit (including developing), $88.88

And always and forever, film.

Impossible color film, $20.49


Portra 800, 120, $46

Happy Holidays!


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The Six by Seven Tee - $29

Build Your Own Camera!

The Konstruktor DIY Kit - $35

"'Vermeer Noir' might be an apt description of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's disquieting image repertoire." 

Erwin Olaf book - $47

It shoots instant film - but offers advanced features: bulb and double exposures, macro mode and high performance flash. The Fujifilm Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic, $225

The subtlety of chance and the invitation to experiment bring this visual literary collaboration together: an impeccable design by Hans Seeger, stories by John Cage and images by William Gedney. The pages, simply folded into place, allow readers to remove and rearrange the stories and images into new creations of their own imaginations, turning endings into beginnings. --Nathanial Grann of the Washington Post 

Iris Garden, $95 

Gossen Sixtomat F2 Light Meter, $250 

It's a toss-up between this bag and the Tenba Messenger Bag (below). While the Ona is prettier, Tenba is vegan (and cheaper). You decide. Ona: $269, Tenba: $129

One-of-a-kind portrait taken at the 

NYC Space Impossible Project Portrait studio on 8x10 Instant Film, $45

Vintage Camera iPhone case, $35

There's really nothing better than seeing your photos in print. 

Artifact Uprising, Softcover Photo Book, starting at $16.99

 Engineering Print of Paris, $45 (by yours truly)

Camera Ring, $27

Customized Smena 8M Flower 35 mm camera, $34

"At a time when photobooks are overloaded with diverting tricks, Hier is a refuge of calm and a lesson in what can only be described as the ideal elements for a great work. Hanzlova's books have always combined the delicate insight of her portraits with a strong personal vision of the abstracting powers of the medium and Hier is another elegant book to reinforce Hanzlova's position as one of the most significant yet unassuming voices in contemporary photography."

Hier, $61

Your own tintype by Clarke Galusha for Portland Tintype, $60

One of my all-time favorite photographers. 

"A beautiful and long awaited monograph of quiet and intimate influence from a master photographer and teacher Emmet Gowin—whose writing is as eloquent and profound as his images are beautiful and sincere."

—Phil Bicker, senior photo editor, TIME.

"There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don't write them down, if you don't make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard."—Emmett Gowin

Emmet Gowin, $41

And always and forever, film, $15

Past Holiday Gift Guide for the Photo Enthusiast: 2012, 2011

Happy Holidays!

Holiday Gifts for the Photo Enthusiast

Matthew Brandt makes photographic prints using physical elements from the subject itself. Here, he submerged and soaked the photograph in water from Stone Lagoon. 

 Stone Lagoon, CA 3, 2008
From the series Lakes and Reservoirs
C-Print soaked in Stone Lagoon water at Yossi Milo Gallery, price upon request

A one-of-a-kind portrait by 20x24 on their large-scale Polaroid camera, price upon request. Photo courtesy of the lovely Mara over at A Blog About Love, photo by 20x24.

Or if you're not in New York, a tintype at PhotoboothSF, $60 each (they have gift certificates!)

The beautiful vegan-friendly camera bag from Kelly Moore, $249

Vintage Polaroid SX-70 camera pillow from intheseam, $50

Kinfolk Magazine, for its beautiful photography, $18.

The Leica M9-P Edition Hermes, because even though it's digital, it's beautiful . . . and a Leica, price available upon request.

A stroll through The Gallery of Hermès  (691 Madison Ave, New York, NY), because who doesn't want to see amazing photography in a gallery that makes you feel like you're the only one to discover it, free

At left: Jerry Thompson, West Broadway near Broome Street, 1979. Gelatin Silver Print, 8 x 10 inches.
At right: Walker Evans, Untitled [Landlord, Hale County, Alabama], 1936. Archival Pigment Print, 25 7/8 x 20 5/8 inches.

The Best of Becker, $120

Delicious camera cookies from Manjar, $36

T-shirts from the aptly named Dodge and Burn, $29

 Camera Ornament from MoMA, $28

The Dutch-born, Kenyan-raised Viviane Sassen's Parasomnia, $32.97

And always and forever, film

Happy Holidays!

To see the Holiday Gift Guide from 2011, click here.