Reddit mentions: The best portrait photography books

1.) Something that is grey.

technically it's gray, but i have a feeling you won't quibble over semantics




2.) Something reminiscent of rain.

sometimes when you get a really good rain it sparkles




3.) Something food related that is unusual.

the ingredients are edible foods




4.) Something on your list that is for someone other than yourself. Tell me who it's for and why. (Yes, pets count!)

this is for my youngest daughter, she was named after it's author.




5.) A book I should read! I am an avid reader, so take your best shot and tell me why I need to read it!

you have probably already read this book, but it's always worth reading again




6.) An item that is less than a dollar, including shipping... that is not jewelry, nail polish, and or hair related!

a gift card for less than $1




7.) Something related to cats. I love cats! (keep this SFW, you know who you are...)

it even has a picture of a cat on it!




8.) Something that is not useful, but so beautiful you must have it.

this isn't useful in any way, but it's the Boss so I feel compelled to have it.




9.) A movie everyone should watch at least once in their life. Why?

this is one of my favorite movies of all time. it's magical, and funny, and beautiful, and it always makes me smile.




10.) Something that would be useful when the zombies attack. Explain.

if i get turned into a zombie i would be able to use the knowledge contained in this book to disguise myself




11.) Something that would have a profound impact on your life and help you to achieve your current goals.

I want to be a librarian. I need this to study for the GRE to get into library school




12.) One of those pesky Add-On items.

I think this may be my only add-on




13.) The most expensive thing on your list. Your dream item. Why?

This game is out of print, so it's hard to find. I loved playing it as a kid and want to share it with my daughter who LOVES board games




14.) Something bigger than a bread box.

this is definitely bigger than a bread box




15.) Something smaller than a golf ball.

These are smaller than a golf ball. Maybe I could wear them when I go golfing. (I don't golf)




16.) Something that smells wonderful.

i think this stuff smells lovely




17.) A (SFW) toy.

Playing with this at work could get you fired, but not because it's explicit.




18.) Something that would be helpful for going back to school.

If I were going back to school I would definitely take my iPad. iPads are definitely helpful. I would use this to keep it safe.




19.) Something related to your current obsession, whatever that may be.

I have been making a lot of bath bombs lately. I use silicone molds like these to make them in fun shapes.




20.) Something that is just so amazing and awe-inspiring that I simply must see it. Explain why it is so grand.

This book is about the song Hallelujah (which is a beautiful song) and how it became to be one of the most recorded songs in history. It was originally kind of a failure but somehow made it to the place where it is today where it has been performed by hundreds of musicians. I find it amazing that this song that almost didn't make it onto the album it was originally written for. When it did make it to the album it was a flop, yet here we are listening to this song that has become so popular.


fear cuts deeper than swords

i think that's a slightly strange comment, considering that it's not like these pictures weren't public already. My mum was proud of her modeling career and proud when she booked jobs in national and international magazines. She was proud BECAUSE they went out to so many people and people got the opportunity to see her looking great. The reason i know this isn't inappropriate is because she would love people getting the opportunity to see her at her most beautiful.

in addition, she was an artist and photographer and did a series of photos and had them published (which aspiring writers and photographers will tell you, is no small feat.) In the photos she was nude and showcased both her beauty and her amazing talent for photography. She wasn't a recluse, she wasn't shy, and that's why she was so Kick ASS. Here's a link to the front page of the book, and I'd just like to say that she did this in the 80's, when women were just figuring out the power of their sexuality. She was one of the first... I'm proud of that, she was proud of that, and I think everyone can be proud of that.

Can you imagine selling a book of nudes of yourself... I think it's pretty brave.

i don't know, I just grew up seeing that none of this stuff embarrassed her, so it never occurred to me to hide it in a back closet or not give her props for going out on a limb.

LINK NSFW -

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Portrait-Quartet-original-Booth/dp/0704323982

Books, books, books! My babies love(d) Look, Look! (three year old loves "reading" it to his brother), Black & White, Art Cards, the Babyfaces series (esp Hugs and Kisses and Smile!. The World Snacks series is also great; they're bright, (mostly) well-written, and not irritating. Plus, My toddler still loves them, and we started reading them to him when he was three months. I like Yum Yum Dim Sum and Let's Nosh! best. Indestructables are great for babies who eat books. And the Leslie Patricelli books have been a huge hit around here since toddlerdude was a wee baby.

Don't forget non-board books good for reading, such as a Mother Goose (there are also "chunky" ones that are kid-safe), Beatrix Potter, The Wind in the Willows, or even Shel Silverstein.

Toys for this age that I like are sensory balls, music makers, rattles (we had to buy two of those because wee babydude likes it so much), stackers, links, these bead things (a large, four-sided activity cube is gold for this age through toddler hood--like this), stacking cups, and baby's first blocks. We have veriations on all of these (or the exact one listed), and they are popular with both our three year old and the eight month old.

The Twitter beef with Louis was pretty wild and childish but fortunately the 2 did reconnect after Louis' mom passed away and I think they're good now.

The not touring thing isn't his fault, he has anxiety. He does want to tour - he even has a chapter/page in his book where he explains "I want to play live. I will play live and he has shared in the past how sick he felt before performances when he started out performing solo. I'm sure he'll tour in support of his upcoming album (whatever it's titled and whenever its coming) and he has been rehearsing, so I still have faith in him lol. Hopefully he does start out with smaller venues like he suggested in the book, and eventually be able to confidently do bigger shows/tours.

Huh, how did I miss that one? Definitely going to order it. I have the Brendan Mullen Oral and Visual History on my coffee table and that one is pretty sweet too.

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-History/dp/006135192X

Edit: so I added Me and My Friends to my cart on Amazon and this book called Fandemonium, apparently dedicated to the fans of RHCP, was a suggested purchase. Looks awesome! I'm into photography so it looks like a nice way to combine two of my favorite things haha

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762451483/ref=pd_luc_rh_bxgy_01_02_t_img_lh?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Tashi! He's good friends with my mum, so good to see him getting credit where it's due! Awesome guy and amazingly talented. I'll send him the link to this post, I'm sure he'd love to read the comments. :) Also, he just released a book called 'Sacred Scripts' if anyone is interested. https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Sacred-Scripts-Meditative-Journey-Through-Tibetan-Calligraphy/1608878791/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484005074&sr=8-1&keywords=sacred+scripts

I saw "Women and Flight" at a bookstore many, many years ago (so very long before having a daughter). I bought it and saved it so that if I ever had a little girl, she could read it and feel inspired. A beautiful book with descriptions and dynamic photos of everything from Wright Brothers era barnstormers, to Alaska bush pilots, to U-2 pilots, astronauts and cosmonauts.

Factoid: Can you believe the first female U-2 pilot is named "Colonel Troy Devine"? Seriously! So swashbuckling and heroic, you just can't make this stuff up! Here's her USAF page (because unlike Snooki, Devine doesn't have a Wikipedia page (ugh)) These heroic strong female figures aren't given enough media attention (1) (2) (3) (4) (5).

This list you provided at r/books is amazing! Thank you so much for this!

https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Elizabeth-II-Photographic-Portrait/dp/0500543887

This is an excellent gift!
I made a post a while back on book suggestions for people who want to do further historical research: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCrownNetflix/comments/5fghi9/history_in_the_crown_reading_list/

But for someone who just loves the show and (probably) loves the Queen too, the book I linked to is absolutely perfect, and it's a coffee table book that is wonderful for displaying for guests. The price is good for what you're getting, too.

I don't really think instruction books are worth it anymore. You can learn the basics much faster online for free. What the internet can't provide is a good printed book filled with classic photography. If she is going to Columbia (and perhaps hearing the great Rosalind Krauss), these classics are mandatory anyway.

One of the best books on photography ever written:
Barthes: Camera Lucida

A few classic photography books everyone with a faint interest in the medium will love:

Ansel Adams
Diane Arbus
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Photographers Eye

Magnum Contact Sheets is a great book that shows how many shots went into getting the perfect image and the different ways the photographers tried to set up the scene before getting the final shot.

Similarly, if your SO has any interest in Hip-Hop and the iconic photography behind it, Contact High is a great selection.

Back to how it use to be and how it should always be!


great book on the subject
"There was a time in America when two men pictured with their arms wrapped around each other, or perhaps holding hands, weren’t necessarily seen as sexually involved—a time when such gestures could be seen simply as those of intimate friendship rather than homoeroticism.

Such is the time John Ibson evokes in Picturing Men, a striking visual record of changes in attitudes about relationships between gentlemen, soldiers, cowboys, students, lumberjacks, sailors, and practical jokers. Spanning from 1850 to 1950, the 142 everyday photographs that richly illustrate Picturing Men radiate playfulness, humor, and warmth. They portray a lost world for American men: a time when their relationships with each other were more intimate than they commonly are today, regardless of sexual orientation. Picturing Men starkly contrasts the calm affection displayed in earlier photographs with the absence of intimacy in photos from the mid-1950s on. In doing so, this lively, accessible book makes a significant contribution to American history and cultural studies, gender studies, and the history of photography."

If you search "vinyl" on Amazon there are some decent options but, at least personally, I've read Vinyl Junkies which isn't too bad though it is about 10 years old. Dust & Grooves is a coffee table book but has some neat pictures and interviews. I personally would not recommend Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age as it is a difficult read, seems like a grad school sociology thesis to me. Super dense with information and citation but not necessarily entertaining.

It was indeed from late 1989 -- check the gig log here. Bleach did very well on college radio. If you were a college student into indie music at that point chances are you'd think of nirvana as a relatively big band by that point already.

Sub Pop artists also fared quite well in terms of recognition in Europe. IIRC the tour was pretty successful.

The photo is from Bruce Pavitt's (Sub Pop co-founder) book called Experiencing Nirvana that showcases his photos from the 1989 European tour.

Buy it. It's a fantastic book. I own it and love it and any huge Modest Mouse fan should buy it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1576876519/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1464487267&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Pat+Modest+mouse

Joy: You may be familiar with the German photographer, August Sander, who did many portraits during the years of the Weimar Republic. Poet, Adam Kirsch, did a book of poems inspired by Sander's work. The title is "Emblems of the Passing World". The preview on Amazon's website includes several photos and accompanying poems. You may want to have a look. I think your project sounds wonderful.

https://www.amazon.com/Emblems-Passing-World-Photographs-August/dp/1590517342

What you want to publish is called "ekphrastic" poetry BTW.

Are you interested in learning more about bands in general? Because if you want that, there's always The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal

Or, if you'd like a bit of a change and want to look at some fucking awesome pictures, there's True Norwegian Black Metal

I preach "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" by Bob Stanley to all my friends.

It has been the most informative book about the creation of different music genres over the last 50-60 years. I will cherish it until I die.

Runner-ups:
Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield

Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting by Eilon Paz

Pat Graham's photo book chronicling the band over 25 years would be pretty awesome

Here's the book by the famed photographer Sally Mann that is being referenced:

Immediate Family

It's a book of nude pictures of her own children. Here is the book description:

>First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality.

She's a photographer that is willing to tackle all kinds of subjects -- she has another book of her photographs of corpses and the corpse of her family dog entitled What Remains.

Would have been ok if it didn't have so much Led Zeppelin.

Kidding.

Great playlist. Thanks!

And, if you didn't know, Plant/Page/Jones have released a new book. It's expensive, but man, I want it.

https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelin/dp/1909526509

It's hard to do without knowing what ticks your eye. For example, Martin Parr & Ansel Adams do little for me, while I thoroughly enjoy Bresson's geometric intersections with life and wagnerian Salgado.

Having said that:

• Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
  
  
  
• Daido Moriyama's Tokyo
  
  
• Henri Cartier Bresson - The Decisive Moment
  
  
• Salgado - Migrations
  
  
• Sally Mann - Deep South

Nudity and pornography are not the same thing. You can buy books containing nude images of children, published by a major publisher on Amazon.com. It's perfectly legal because the images aren't sexualized.

It is the Peter Beste book. It's a pretty cool book.

My wife got me True Norwegian Black Metal for Christmas, which of course has prompted a black metal bender. I've been listening to a lot of Windir, but I don't have much black metal (I'm more into folk/Viking) so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to let me know:)

This is in the [Queen](Queen in 3D Slipcased Edition (3-D Stereoscopic Book) https://www.amazon.com/dp/095742468X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YfYUCbMDBFGF4) in 3-D book he put out recently- note the 3 lens camera. It takes 2 slightly different perspective images and you view them with special glasses. It's a really cool book.

For anybody wondering about the book they showed, it's True Norwegian Black Metal, and is an amazing photobook. Lots of really dope photography from all sorts of black metal bands.

Cherry-Picked CW Science part 8. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5a, 5b, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

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Paternal care has around three times more positive influence on boys than on girls. (Improvement of grades in high vs low paternal care was 16% M vs 5% F., N=14,000, GB.)

https://i.imgur.com/BLooiaf.png

https://osf.io/q6fpx (Emmott 2018, pre-print)

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There is no "police instinct". Unless immediately affected, people do not punish norm-violators for an intrinsic pleasure in norm enforcement, but for the mere benefits of virtue signaling.

https://psyarxiv.com/nybkr/ (Pedersen 2018)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045662 (Krasnow 2012)

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Men who are one standard deviation nicer, have an 18.3% lower income. For women it's only 5.47% lower.

http://doi.org/10.1037/a0026021 (Judge 2012)

Women find men scoring high on dark triad traits more attractive (d = 0.94). The dark triad traits are are narcissism (overvaluing one's importance), Machiavellianism (manipulativeness), and psychopathy (lack of empathy).

http://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-015-9142-5 (Gibson 2015)

https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Dark-Triad-Personality.pdf (Carter 2013)

Based on a British sample (146 women, ages 18-28), the preference for dark triad traits was superlinearly related to sexual experience (0-5 vs 11-15 partners r=.14 p=.15, 11-15 vs 21+ r=.48, p=.005) and also correlated with the desire for marriage (r = 0.18, p=.028).

In other words, women seeking commitment are drawn to men who are less committed (or rather who can afford to signal uncommittedness, or pretend to be able to afford it …).

http://doi.org//10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.032 (Haslam 2016)

Narcissist wives, on the other hand, predicted lower marital quality and more marital problems. For naricissist men, the predictions were non-significant or sometimes slightly reversed, indicating that women prefer and/or can withstand such partners.

https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000137 (Lavner 2016)

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Emotionality protects feminine women from stress, but not feminine men (−.23 F vs −0.01 M, N=206, AU.).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.075 (O'Connor 2016)

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Anderson (2009) and Ibson (Ibson 2006) theorized that the fear of being thought gay (homohysteria) has increasingly impeded the physical and emotional intimacy in male friendships.

Ibson illustrates the changing intimacy of heterosexual males in response to the acceptance of homosexuality with 5,000 images (1880s-1980s). By the 1980s, the intimacy was severely damaged.

The full chapter on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=x6-NAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA8&pg=PA81#v=onepage (Anderson 2009. Inclusive* Masculinity)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226368580 (Ibson 2006)

Some of the missing photos are here: https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/bosom-buddies-a-photo-history-of-male-affection/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homohysteria

There is a good summary also in this paper. Both Robinson and Anderson have observed a declining homohysteria more recently, but not very representative samples (e.g. students from a university sports department).

http://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X17730386 (Robinson 2017)

*Note that the term inclusivity is on Jordan Peterson's Cultural Marxism blacklist, so this is not exactly MRA stuff.

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In modern Western societies, 70% of the time it's women who initiate the divorce, probably because women are more choosy and get bored of their partner sooner.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-resilience/201508/women-initiate-divorce-much-more-men-heres-why

Cross-culturally though, the leading reasons for divorce are adultery and sterility, and men are especially unforgiving of adultery.

https://i.imgur.com/k7iA9LG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nRMO2GT.jpg

http://laurabetzig.org/pdf/CA89.pdf (Betzig 1989)

An explanation might be that "men, but not women, have recurrently faced the problem of uncertainty in their genetic parenthood".

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691617698225 (Buss 2018)

Hypergamy, the tendency that the husband has a greater human capital than the wife, can be formally derived from this premise by economic modeling.

Women can sell exclusive access to sex because men want to be certain about their fatherhood. Men can sell their amassed resources because women need them.

https://d-nb.info/997448148/34 (Saint-Paul 2009)

The economics of human sexuality have also been analyzed in a more recent paper by Baumeister et al.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X (Baumeister 2017)

Evolutionary psychology suggests the cause of most intergroup conflicts was over the relative availability of fertile women.

This predicts that an undersupply of women e.g. due to excessive polygamy, increases the chances of civil wars; and that women should be far less resistant to alien rule than men, because they have the option of marrying into the conquering group.

Supporting evidence was found in war data and Eurobarometer data.

http://faculty.washington.edu/hechter/KanazawaPaper.pdf (Satoshi 2005)

"Men who transition to a monogamous, or less competitive, mode of sexual behavior … reduce their risk of violence."

"Impressing and pleasing women, not just acquiring livestock, provide a strong incentive to participate in raids."

"Changes in sexual behavior were shown to be more consistent and stronger in predicting violence than marriage and employment." (Competition–Violence Hypothesis)

http://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2016.1216153 (Seffrin 2016)

https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/919262507910381568/photo/1

"Societies at war, polygynous societies, and nonstratified societies (where power is relatively decentralized) have costlier, more dysphoric male rituals and rites of passage."

https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/950080224636448768/photo/1

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85% of human societies have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage).

https://i.imgur.com/Yi9EW7O.png (Source: d-place.org > Search > Ethnographic Atlas > Marriage)

A histogram over the number of wives across 186 societies: https://i.imgur.com/NIfD0b5.png

Based on this histogram, the average number of taken women as a fraction of men was 0.805 1 + 0.141 2 + 0.036 3 + 0.012 4 + 0.004 5 + 0.001 6 + 0.002 * 7 ≈ 128%, so 1-1/1.28 ≈ 22% of men got nothing or the sex ratio wasn't 1:1.

http://doi.org/10.1086/203674 (White 1988)

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/367/1589/657.full.pdf (Henrich 2012)

In Africa, Rates of monogamous marriages are much higher than polygamous ones in proximity to historical locations of Christian Missions.

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0304387815000668-gr4.sml

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.06.005 (Fenske 2015)

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Prices of prostitutes reveal men's age preferences, showing a steep decline after 25 to only half the price by the age of 33.

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.01.002

(The age distribution of the prostitutes suggests that oversupply cannot explain lower price at older age. The age of the clients is possibly something like 35±10, so neither can a large supply of young clients. Men fearing STDs in older prostitues might explain their reduced price though.)

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A meta study found a large publication bias in literature on the attractiveness-IQ link and only found a very weak correlation of r=0.07.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415372/ (Mitchem 2016)

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Things that are universal to all human cultures:

• Norms against rape and murder.
  
• Norms encouraging sexual modesty and hiding of sexual intentions and activity for both men and women.
  
• Sexual jealousy (mate-guarding, Buss 2002)
  
• Gossip
  
• Art, music, painting, poetry…
  
• Inequality
  
  http://willsull.net/resources/HumanUniversals.pdf (Brown 1991)
  
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  Some STDs are hitting an all-time high. Syphilis rates increased by nearly 18 percent overall from 2015 to 2016.
  
  https://i.imgur.com/2wKLe65.png
  
  https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0926-std-prevention.html
  
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  "Today, anthropologists generally agree that cases of true matriarchy do not exist in human society, and that they most probably never have."
  
  https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/3/17/where-are-the-matriarchies
  
  "Dominance hierarchies, although widely considered to be aggressive, actually have the paradoxical effect of diminishing overt competition by establishing social rules of 'who dominates whom'."
  
  https://i.imgur.com/o6kmrrr.png
  
  https://books.google.com/books/about/Out_of_Eden.html?id=eMhAjgEACAAJ
  
  Related: "The surprising science of alpha males", a TedX talk by a coinvetor of the term "alpha male", Frans de Waal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s
  
  Ritualised status competition minimises (the costs of) aggression, and gives rise to many of the traits we call virtues.
  
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38959037_The_conflict-resolution_theory_of_virtue (Curry 2007)

Many years ago I was gifted True Norwegian Black Metal by the girl I was seeing at the time. For years I have been saying I planned to de-bind my favorite images and frame them.


I've finally started.

https://www.amazon.com/Queen-3D-Brian-May/dp/095742468X

This?

Brian May worked on it and released it shortly after that tour.

She's so lucky to have you as a dad.

I hope they do one more tour with Adam Lambert.

I think you’re thinking of Modest Mouseby Pat Graham. The screenshot was posted here awhile ago, and it’s definitely that book, not the green paperback this post is about.

I think the book you're thinking of is Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989

Nirvana by Everett True is probably my favourite Nirvana-related book. It's just entertaining and full of lots of the anecdotal shit you would get from someone who was running in the same circles at the time.

Doesn't come with the poster, but thought I mention for anyone not bothered by it, but it is on Amazon UK for £32, discounted from £50.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modest-Mouse-1992-2010-Pat-Graham/dp/1576876519/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482787111&sr=8-1&keywords=modest+mouse+pat+graham

Still think you get it for less on ebay, new aswell.

Yep!

easy