Reddit mentions: The best photojournalism & essays

🎉 Congrats on your 50th gift!! 🎉

On my dream list there is a book called The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space that I would love to be able to give my boyfriend.

Currently, him and I are long distance and he’s getting ready to start school to become an aerospace engineer. Before him and I were together he was content in the job he had and didn’t really think his dreams were possible and somehow us meeting changed that. Just how me meeting him changed my whole life as well.

He’s the first person that’s just understood me and accepted me without me having to explain or apologize. He inspires me everyday to be better and is always there to make me laugh or remind me he loves me. He’s thoughtful and generous and the sweetest person I’ve ever know (don’t tell him I said that though, it’d ruin his image)

He’s absolutely enamored with space and I am always looking for new things to give him to keep his dreams alive and to inspire him to keep going and I feel like this book will help in that goal. He deserves the universe and so much more for the happiness and love he’s brought into my life, but this is the least I can do. 💜

Thank you for reading, for your positivity and kindness, and for contests like these that show how loving people still are. That, in itself, is a gift.

I nominate u/tamaralads as someone that deserves a thoughtful gift (because I have a feeling you won’t let me nominate you) because no matter what she’s always there with a kind word and an offer of friendship. She rarely thinks of herself and in my conversations with her is always looking for things she can do for others without ever asking or expecting anything in return. That kindness and selflessness makes her deserving in my book. 💜

Sorry for the wait, delivering!

I recently moved, so most of my books are still in boxes. However, I've already unboxed the best ones, so I'll list them here (note that most of them are not written by anthropologists per se, but are good books nonetheless):

1. Mechademia. Technically, it's not a book (it's a journal), but it's by far the best publication in the area. There are lots of articles on the most diverse subjects, and even reviews of related publications. (If you haven't got JSTOR access, come see us on /r/Scholar!);
   
2. Frederik Schodt's Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics is THE classic on manga. 10/10, will definitely read again. (there's a sequel, Dreamland Japan, but I haven't read this one yet);
   
3. Paul Gravett's Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics is a good overview on the history of manga;
   
4. Roland Kelts' Japanamerica: How the Japanese Pop Culture has invaded the U.S. is fairly good, specially the chapter on hentai. But beware: it's a little less academic than I would like it to be;
   
5. Patrick Galbraith's [The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider's Guide to The Subculture of Cool Japan] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Otaku-Encyclopedia-Insiders-Subculture/dp/4770031017/ref=pd_sim_b_6) is an amazing book, a fast read and full of awesomeness. I can't recommend it enough. (He has another book called Otaku Spaces and has recently edited a book about idols, but I have yet to read these two);
   
6. Last but not least, Hiroki Azuma's Otaku: Japan Database Animals is an excellent book on otaku culture. Azuma's overwhelming knowledge is well conveyed by the translation, IMO.
   
   OK, I'll stop here. If you want more recommendations (specially stuff on other languages, like Portuguese, French or Japanese, that I didn't bother listing here), feel free to PM me ;)

Two years ago, I applied for and was selected to attend the SpaceX CRS-3 NASA Social event, due to my activity on social networks. At the time, I didn't use Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, so my selection was largely due to the fact that my social network of choice was Reddit.

Over the course of three launch delays, I met a number of amazing people, including fellow redditor /u/mseeley1 (the guy capturing all those great shots of the Falcon 9 returning to Port Canaveral) as well as Bill Jelen, the brains behind the Mr. Excel empire. At separate times, we each found ourselves recruited by SpaceFlight Insider to act as photographers, videographers and writers following our time at the SpaceX CRS-3 launch, which enabled us to continue coming out to cover launches & other special events at Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. But we were finding that our pictures would get just a burst of attention right around a launch, then the news cycle would take over and people would lose interest. So we put our heads together on how we could share more of the photos we were capturing.

It turns out that Mr. Excel is a book publisher, and loved the idea of doing a full-color launch photo book, and from that, We Report Space was born. Our involvement with the media pool at KSC and CCAFS meant that we were on hand to witness & photograph the launch failure of CRS-7, as well as the triumphant return to flight (and return to launch site landing) of SpaceX during Orbcomm OG2-M2. We've shared a number of those pictures here, through /r/spacex, and now they've all been collected into a full color book documenting Florida rocket launches from April 2014-December 2015.

What really makes this book awesome, though, is that it's not just pictures of rockets lifting off. We've also collected essays from other NASA Social participants on their experiences, both in attending the event, as well as the impact it has had on their lives afterwards. If you've followed my account here for any length of time, you know I'm a pretty serious cheerleader for the NASA Social program, because it really is the best answer to "how can I get as close as possible to a rocket launch?"

The book is available through our website, and we're offering some specials right now that bundle the book with 8x10 prints of rocket launches (including three very nice SpaceX Falcon 9 photos) and free shipping in the US. If you buy direct from our website, we'll fulfill your order right away. If you're outside the US, you can order the book through Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble, and it'll ship June 1st.

Of course, We Report Space will continue to cover launches out of Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, and we'll continue to share those pictures here as we take them. The support of the /r/spacex community & moderation team has been invaluable in helping us to get the word out that human spaceflight didn't end with the Space Shuttle program.

You can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay up to date with all the launches & other spaceflight-related events we're covering.

For a book on one route, Doug Scott's book about the Ogre has a lot of history of the mountain, the area, then tells the story of the first ascent's expedition in detail (he and Chris Bonington were the summit team). https://www.amazon.com/Ogre-Biography-mountain-dramatic-ascent-ebook/dp/B0779F4RRG/

I also really enjoyed the mountain profile of Jannu in Alpinist magazine 57 https://shop.holpublications.com/products/alpinist-magazine-issue-57?variant=29425193844824 Jannu's north face is one of the great faces of the world and this digs into it in detail.

Edit: Also, 50 Favorite Climbs is a great book with profiles of some more challenging routes than a lot of the "classic climb" compilations along with profiles of a ton of badass climbers. The author interviews 50 of the top climbers of the day about their climbing history and he writes a profile of their favorite route in North America. It's a cool mix of rock, ice, and alpine. Goes in sort of the same category as books like Beckey's 100 Favorite Climbs and the old 50 Classic Climbs of North America. All three of those might be good for you. https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Favorite-Climbs-North-America/dp/0898867282 https://www.amazon.com/Beckeys-Favorite-North-American-Climbs-ebook/dp/B00GCDYVPE https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Classic-Climbs-North-America/dp/0871568845/

This is vegetarian and does the no-onion and no-garlic thing, but it's quite big and covers a lot of material - a good starting point. It really teaches a lot about the what and the whys of Indian food. It was written by the (American) personal cook of the Hare Krishna founder, she followed him around all over India when he travelled there, learning recipes from his hosts.

• http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Krishnas-Cuisine-Vegetarian-Cooking/dp/0525245642
  
  Some easy to get into books
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Home-Cooking-Introduction-Recipes/dp/0609611011
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Indian-Cooking-Recipes/dp/0778801705
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Street-Food-India-Greatest-Complete/dp/184885420X
  
  This is a classic Indian cookery books that grannies used to have
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Balbir-Singhs-Indian-Cookery/dp/0263700194
  
  Tarla Daral was a popular food writer in India
  
  
• https://www.youtube.com/user/TarlaDalalsKitchen
  
  Something from Punjab
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Punjabi-Khana-Tarla-Dalal/dp/8189491547
  
  This is not a beginners book, but very interesting
  
  
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/Food-Grand-Trunk-Anirudh-Arora/dp/1847739687
  
  These Kerala restaurants do lovely modern cookbooks
  
  
• http://www.rasarestaurants.com/rasa_books.html
  
  More from South India
  
  
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dakshin-Vegetarian-Cuisine-South-India/dp/9625935274/
  
• http://www.nimmypaul.com/html/nmy_recp_01.html
  
• http://www.kamalascorner.com/
  
  SOURCE: have been collecting books and shared cooking tips with Indian friends for a while

I'm reading and enjoying Letters of Note by Shaun Usher -- it has amazing correspondence throughout history's greatest figures, corresponding to history's greatest or most significant events, or just interesting correspondence exchanges! It's based on the blog of the same name, which you can check out online here: http://www.lettersofnote.com

Fascinating and very engaging!

I don't mind Lorenzo answering silly questions. What I mind about him is the same everyone's always disliked about him: his arrogance, his abysmally low self-esteem and with it, his incessant need for praise. At first it was just my default fanboy dislike of Lorenzo: "I like Rossi so I hate anyone who beats him". But as he earned his credits as a MotoGP rider, and as Rossi's career has begun its amazingly slow sunset, it hasn't become easier to like Lorenzo when his helmet's off.

It starts, for me, with the autobiography he had released when he won his first MotoGP championship. It was titled "The New King of MotoGP". This, despite the fact that Rossi was and still is the main man, and despite Casey Stoner's say in the matter (he trounced Lorenzo the following year). Lorenzo wanted so hard to be this new king that his post-race celebrations made fun of the man whose place he literally aspired to claim. And this season, more than ever Lorenzo has had to blow his own trumpet and it shows (again) in this interview.

He is rarely (if ever) compared to the greats of the sport, so he has resorted to doing that himself. It's not the pundits or the fans who compare him and his accomplishments to Rossi, Kenny Roberts Sr., Wayne Rainey or Ayrton Senna. He himself drops those names and outright says, "I'm part of that list now". I don't think I've ever seen another rider try so desperately to launch himself onto the lists of all-time greats. The men he mentions earned their respect, their fans and their achievements on track but also off it. Their legendary status wasn't taken by force, but given by those around them. I don't think it suits a rider to demand such status - the titles will get him high onto any list of legends, but it's up to the world at large to judge them.

Mind: Lorenzo is a phenomenal rider. He's absolutely right that he got five world championships, of which three in MotoGP, and that's pretty special. It just doesn't make me like the guy, whether I'm a fan of Rossi or not.

I would say a single book addressing the topics you are integrating would be difficult to find but either multiple books or a collection of essays and book chapters would be a good approach.

• Crowley and Hawhee's Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students is an introduction and move for historical contextualization and working through the movement of the field. (Classical Rhetoric, Philosophy, and English Composition approach)
  
• Palczewski, Ice, and Fritch's Rhetoric in Civic Life provides some very basic ties to classical rhetoric and looks at the move to rhetorical criticism in contemporary rhetorical studies. (Communication Studies approach) (Link to first edition; the edition this comment is based on)
  
• Miller's The Norton Book of Composition Studies has essays that address the English and Communication Studies divide but situates rhetoric as an important study regardless of the discipline that thinks owns it.
  
• Eyman's Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice gives a broad history of rhetoric and transitions this history into digital humanities. (Publisher's website link that has the full text of this book)
  
• Losh, Alexander, Cannon, & Cannon's Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing provides some significant background for constructing thoughts and arguments and situating what rhetoric is and what it can be.
  
• Dickinson, Blair, and Ott's Places of Public Memory is a fantastic edited collection with essays situating monuments and memorials.
  
• In a similar line to Dickinson et al., you could look at Hariman and Lucaites's No Caption Needed text to examine visual rhetoric as well or even their more recent text The Public Image.
  
  I don't know that any one of these texts would be necessary for students to purchase but a smattering of readings from them may be worth pulling into the course. Additionally, essays from significant scholars or journals (similar to what Miller's book has) that are reasonably up-to-date would probably go further than any textbook can. Although for understanding the Greek tradition or classical rhetoric, some of the tried-and-true texts such as Crowley and Hawhee's are a good place to turn.
  
  edit: added links to make it easier for me to find these things when I return to this post.

Great question! I have a couple of go-to cannabis books that I'd love to share! [Spliffs] (http://www.amazon.com/Spliffs-A-Celebration-Cannabis-Culture/dp/1579123600) and its sequels ([Spliffs 2] (http://www.amazon.com/Spliffs-Further-Adventures-Cannabis-Culture/dp/0932551726/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0CBT35HSTFRBBP9YFTFJ), [Spliffs 3] (http://www.amazon.com/Spliffs-Last-Word-Cannabis-Culture/dp/1843403102/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0T1B4E5QN5Z3XG3QTAKY)) are great if you want to read while you're stoned. They have articles about cannabis culture, broken up by cool quotes by famous people about weed, some of the science of getting high, and, of course, pictures of ganja.

If you're above a [7] and reading isn't really your thing, then you'll love the high resolution pictures and digestible descriptions of all the different strains in the [Cannabible] (http://www.amazon.com/Cannabible-Jason-King/dp/1580082084/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416022050&sr=1-2&keywords=Cannabible) and its sequels, [Cannabible 2] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Cannabible-2-Jason-King/dp/1580085164/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0HZ3CBSJ1NSXP6EMD746) and [Cannabible 3] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Cannabible-3-v/dp/1580087841/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0HZ3CBSJ1NSXP6EMD746).

"тaк... Chernobyl Photo Log"

I took a trip to Chernobyl last year... after I came back home and saw some of my photos, I just wanted to share my experience and feelings. Writing a book was the answer!

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Book Description:

Part travelogue, part memoir, and part visual poem, tak... showcases a young man's journey through the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the winter of 2018. This book is an appreciation of the beauty left behind in the wake of the biggest nuclear disaster in human history.

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https://www.amazon.com/tak-Chernobyl-Photo-Log-Hyun-ebook/dp/B07R63RVGM/

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The eBook is free. If you'd like to order a physical copy, please use "CHERNOBYL" code at www.takthebook.com/amazon for a discount!

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Also, I did a "making of" blog article if anyone wants some pointers on self-publishing a physical book! www.takthebook.com/makingof

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Thank you and enjoy!

John Szarkowski is awesome. I feel like he and I would be bros if he hadn't been born half a century before me.

Would also recommend John Szarkowski: Photographs which includes both photos that he made and personal correspondence between him and other people in his life. I read it the other day in my local library and it really amped up my respect for the guy as a photographer (and a person) in his own right. I like him so much, I can forgive him for introducing the world to William Eggleston.

Hey Lexington redditors! With the help of a friend/photographer, I created a book highlighting local coffee shops around town. While this is clearly a shameless plug for the book, I’m also here to answer any questions you have about local coffee, making/selling a book, or even CASA (the nonprofit I am donating a portion of the proceeds to).

The book will be available in local coffee shops this week, and is on Amazon now (though it's cheaper to buy in stores and I'd honestly prefer people buy it locally).

Edit: Thank you all for the support! If you’re interested in purchasing a copy, it’s currently available at Third Street Stuff & Coffee. It’ll be at Lussi Brown, Broomwagon, and Coffee Times by this weekend, with more places to follow. Thanks again!

If anyone wants to see this and many other brilliant photos in print get the book Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs, absolutely brilliant read.

http://www.amazon.com/Moments-Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Photographs-Buell/dp/1603760253/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319608529&sr=1-1

John Elway coming out of the tunnel in a blizzard

There's a much better version of this out there somewhere, but I can't find it.

It's in this coffee table book I got, "Best Shots: The Greatest NFL Photography of the Century"

Ah yes, the good Doctor with a fine prescription. Hunter Thompson is really a fascinating character and the "Gonzo" style is definitely one of the coolest literary movements in modern American lit. He wrote some really cool things especially concentrating on the "outsiders and outlaws" of American society.
I wrote a quick rundown (talking about Thompson's associate Oscar Zeta Acosta as well) of Thompson and Gonzo Journalism in another subreddit and you can actually read the entirety of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas online via The Rolling Stone where it was originally published in parts around 1967 (in case anyone is interested in some fantastic free literature.)

Edit: This letter was one of the many included in Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher. Thompson himself also released a complilation of his correspondence during his fear and loathing years The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman (both are also commonly available at public libraries if you don't feel like spending the money.)

I don't read Russian; I just want a book to sit on my desk and look pretty essentially, along the same vein as this one: https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-VII-XVII-Floris-Heyne/dp/3961711321/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=apollo+book&qid=1570574324&s=books&sr=1-2

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The link you gave is a fantastic start though; I'm definitely going to look around and see if there are some more versions of that book or maybe of his biography "The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling" which this reminded me of. Unfortunately "coffee table book" when translated to Russian doesn't mean the same thing as it does in English, and using amazon.ru has been no more help than the .com site. More searching to be done.

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Thank you so much for your help!

Gonna be awesome for sure.

I actually picked up a book on Apollo photography of the moon missions. It's awesome if you're interested in the space program and photography. Light on text though.

https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-VII-XVII-Floris-Heyne/dp/3961711321/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537245197&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=apollo+vii-xvii&dpPl=1&dpID=61LBlYKz3IL&ref=plSrch

Along with any gear she might not have I might suggest Fifty Classic Climbs and/or Fifty Favorite Climbs if she is into reading/is considering transitioning outdoors. Not necessarily to learn skills or techniques but more about climbing itself. The first one is a classic and the second one cover more modern climbers and their favorites. Lots of great perspective.

American Hair Metal http://www.amazon.com/American-Hair-Metal-Steven-Blush/dp/193259518X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394851294&sr=8-1&keywords=american+hair+metal

Pretty awesome book with a ton of awesome pictures and history on the 80's hair metal scene

Respect!

> All in all, the current Kurdish States are very young and I would like to watch them grow up.

Yes it takes a long while though! I'm about finding and powering significant Kurdish individuals, citizens of world whom make positive impact. Because if you look at the crowd and current political state, it's a bit of cluster mess.

Yeah, although I was born after Gulf war, but still had experience with S.H. horror stories and if you dig deep, you will find some similar trends still going on among kurds vs kurds these days.

If you got a chance, try contacting folks from the American Uni in Sulaimani. You can find a good bunch of educated folks.

Also here are my recommendations to learn more about the Kurds:

Invisible Nation

Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Second Edition

The Miracle of the Kurds

Here is the book that changed the way I worked out. I had been going to the gym for about two years and then switched to this workout. It's a pretty good place to start.

Basically the guy was a model and went into acting. With much less free time on his hands he had his trainer design a workout that packs 2 hours at the gym into about 45 minutes.

Warning: You will feel like a truck hit you the first couple of times. Like I said, I had already been lifting and the first couple of times I did this I could barely move.

Another fantastic read about MSF is The Photographer, I really recommend this book with all my heart.

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Safe Area Gorazde By Joe Sacco

The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Not non-fiction but

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware is about as non-pop, non-pulp as it gets.

My smile.amazon and Humble is set to MSF as well. I would recommend reading this graphic novel based on the real-life experiences of an embed photographer with an MSF team in Afghanistan. I got this from my library, fwiw.

This one seems pretty cool.

I generally feel awkward taking photos with people in them, particularly in economically... disadvantaged countries.

I don't have any sort of rule that I won't take a good picture when the opportunity presents itself, but there is an unspoken limit of what I'm willing to do, and it usually involves the feelings of the person/people in the frame.

As for the professionals who do these types of things, I think they're hokey. The one who comes to mind immediately is Jimmy Nelson's Before They Pass Away photography campaign. He has indigenous folks pose with traditional dress and spears and shit, even if it's not what that particular person wears or does. It's all very unnatural. Not to mention the title of the project is super demeaning and assumptive that these cultures aren't actually doing just fine on their own. I know he's defended his work in a certain way, but that doesn't make it any less cringey imo.

Ugh more idiocy. Have fun!

https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote

Links to Amazon
Book 1 https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Note-Collection-Correspondence-Deserving/dp/1452134251/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479315313&sr=8-1&keywords=letters+of+note

Book 2 https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Note-Collection-Correspondence-Deserving/dp/1452153833/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1479315313&sr=8-2&keywords=letters+of+note

:D :D glad to answer

The MSF stands for Médecins Sans Frontières, which is an international medical aid organization. It sends Doctors, nurses and associated fixers to areas that are badly in need of medical assistance, such as Sierra Leone recently, Afghanistan during the 80s (and until now) and fucking Rwanda during the genocide. I came across them in this book and have been following them off and on since. This is an organization that believes in not being neutral about conflict(unlike many other humanitarian organizations) and has long since earned the respect of many people (including me) for this stance. This is all I can say without Wikipedia haha.

i have this dude's book!
seriously unreal photos. for anyone else interested, here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Before-They-Pass-Jimmy-Nelson/dp/3832797599

That's just the XXL Edition. There's a cheaper version on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Before-They-Pass-Jimmy-Nelson/dp/3832797599/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382350226&sr=8-1&keywords=before+they+pass+away

Cars

Photography

Comic Books 1, 2

Apple

LEGO's

American Football

PostSecret

Video Games

Vinyl

Warhol

Outdoors

Star Wars

Motorcycles

The Dark Knight

Paris

Interior Design

World Atlas

Banksy

Wes Anderson

Tribal Cultures

Playboy

Girls

Libraries

The Cosmos

The Beetles

Travel

Preppy

Steve McQueen

The Moon

Nope.

http://www.amazon.com/Before-They-Pass-Jimmy-Nelson/dp/3832797599

Sixth image from the left in the images from the book

Get The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders + a magnifying glass. 288 pages, 20 bucks.

Jorge Lorenzo: My Story So Far

Jorge Lorenzo: The New King of MotoGP

as he said, you CAN order on amazon....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Report-Space-Reminiscence-Orbcomm-2-NASASocial/dp/1615470433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463155485&sr=8-1&keywords=we+report+space
no shame to be had, just order it!