Long before I got interested in photography, I grew up on a steady diet of hardboiled detective novels and film noir movies. I read novels by the likes of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and later on James Ellroy. On my must watch list of film noir were classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Double...
A friend of mine recommended that I check out Saul Leiter’s photographic work quite some time ago and it was on my ‘to do list’ for over a year. I finally got hold of a copy of his book Saul Leiter: Early Color and have been browsing through the book over the last two weeks. Some...
After I did the write up on the Vivian Maier: Street Photographer book, I was thinking about why there were relatively few well-known women photographers compared to men photographers. I had a look at my bookshelf and found only 5 books by women photographers. Maybe it has something to do with the way men and women are...