I just went a little crazy…
I was at Barnes & Nobles the other day and came across a book that I had no idea what it was… but I wanted it. It had Kate Moss walking down a flight of stairs looking ridiculously good. I opened the book and it had some great photographs in it and also came with a DVD. So I decided to pick it up. Ended up being $40, which isn’t really a bad price for a photography book. After I came home I happened to check Amazon and it was only $26 and change. So I returned the book to B&N immediately the next day. Thankfully I hadn’t taken it out of the plastic. I also found out that it was basically a book that is used as an advertisement for Agent Provocateur, a lingerie company. All marketing schemes should look this good.
I decided to place my order on Amazon for it tonight and also browsed around looking at some of the other photographers I like. I came across a ton of books that I didn’t even know about that came out. There were like two Richard Kern books that I missed, so I had to order one of them. Also a new Jan Saudek book was released so that’s a definite purchase. There are some Roy Stuart books coming out that I will have to keep my eye on too. As well as two new Joel-Peter Witkin books put out by Phaidon that I want, so I ordered one of them. I also wanted to get the new Silent Films book that was released recently so that got thrown into the cart. AK wanted a Carole Lombard DVD set that was dirt cheap so that sneaked it’s way into the shopping cart.
What was supposed to be saving me $14 basically ended up costing me an extra $100. But I didn’t want to miss out on these books. Over the years I have skipped on purchasing some of these art books and then next thing you know they are out of print. So I went a little crazy, but maybe these things will give me some of the inspiration I mentioned looking for in my last post.