Last Chance and Please Help!

I wonder if I could ask for your help. I know that most TOP readers regularly visit other photo-related websites and forums, and in many cases spend more time there than you might here, since we don't run a forum.

 Our current "Four Book Photobook Sale" ends in three days—Saturday is the last day.

If you wouldn't mind, would you please mention the sale on any other photo sites you know of that might have readers who would be interested?

The sale has been very popular and a big success—TOP readers have so far purchased more than 2,000 books all counted. However, we have more than 200 sets left, and the sad thing is, this is the last chance to find those books good homes.

(Plus, TOP gets $6 per set, and frankly I could really use the money. Every purchase supports the site.)

Would you please help spread the word? Here's a quick link to this post:

http://tinyurl.com/hkjsjgs

...Please pass it along.

The four books are:

Clarence John Laughlin: Visionary Photographer (1990)

Todd Webb: Photographs of New York and Paris 1945–1960 (1986)

George N. Barnard: Photographer of the Sherman Campaign (1990)

The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (1995)

Marked down from $165 to $48.

Here's the order page; to get the discount,
enter the code 175212 at checkout.

And if you meant to order yourself but haven't yet, please don't put it off much longer. Saturday is the last chance.

Clarence John Laughlin's images are lush, rich large format, wonderful to look at for their technical beauty, but far from "straight." He played with photography in many ways: ripped pictures, double exposures, extreme angles. Many of the pictures seem to touch on the spiritual or give a glimpse of the occult; he makes the spookiness of old things come alive. He came close to catching ghosts—a face where you least expect it, a ghostly hand in a ruin. The pictures contain secrets. I enjoyed getting reacquainted with this strange, spooky book.

If you can help out, grateful thanks!

Mike

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(To see all the comments, click on the "Comments" link below.)
Featured Comments from:

Tim Auger: "If I could find a cheap way to get them shipped to Singapore or London I would order like a shot. Otherwise prohibitive."

Mike replies: Sorry again about that. The Museum Shop sells very little through its website (mostly they stock the shop inside the Museum) and just isn't set up for efficient international shipping, of which they normally do almost none. Each international order requires a lot of special handling by the staff. Although it might sound self-serving to say so, actually they were quite accommodating to offer international shipping at all. They really did it as a favor to me, I suspect.

Bryce Lee: "Are there any other photo sites as engaging as The Online Photographer? Tell me where...."

Mike adds: Bryce has been a big supporter of TOP for many years and has made many donations to help keep the enterprise afloat. Always grateful, Bryce.  :-)

Wayne: "In my opinion, the George Barnard book, alone, is worth the money. Aside from having great photographs, it is a well written account of photographic history related to Barnard's time. It is rare that I read much of the text in book on a photographer's life; but, the Barnard book sucked me right in."

David Bostedo: "I'll add that I bought the set for the Dorothea Lange, but the Todd Webb book is unexpectedly terrific!!"

Comments

[Simon King]

I have linked at http://www.digitalmonochromeforum.co.uk/

would love copy but can't afford shipping to UK!!!

[Anon]

You were going to write some more posts about the books?

[I was, but didn't have enough time to read them all. I probably shouldn't admit this, but...I am slowing down a bit. --Mike]

[Mike A.]

I just put in an order. I nearly did it right away when it was first announced but money was tighter than month than I would have liked.

Thanks for the sale. And for the work you do here at TOP.

[Rob L.]

Done! And thank you! I was;t able to order at the start of the sale, but I've money today, so this was welled timed. As much as I'm a fan of the print sales, these are great deals, and a lot more approachable.

[marcin wuu]

Passed along :)

[Rip Smith]

What? There are other photography-related web sites???

But seriously, I ordered the book deal and was early enough to get the bonus book but even without that the main four are fabulous and inspiring. And a great deal to boot.

[Andrea B.]

A good place to mention just how much I like the Todd Webb book. I was not familiar with Mr Webb and his terrific work and was surprised to find how much his images resonated with me. Cool stuff! I'm very happy that TOP gives me the opportunity to learn some photographic history and become aquainted with such good work through the book sales. (BTW, Mike, are you going to follow through with publishing some books of fotos?)

[paul in Az]

Perfect timing.
My daughter is heavily involved with a couple of art museums in Milwaukee and Eastman/Rochester NY and is specially interested in photographs. Her birthday is this month. A great gift for someone with her interests ~assuming I send all four on to her.

[Oskar Ojala]

A lot has been said about international shipping, but I'll say it again: it is prohibitively expensive. I have no idea if there are companies who could handle the shipping for a reasonable fee, but outsourcing the shipping itself to such a company would be an obvious way to solve the problem.

[Ivan Kiprei]

$100 for shipping? This must be a joke.

[Darlene]

I tried to get the word out. After all, this IS a great bargain if someone is interested in photography/photographer history. I posted it on my Facebook page and it was re-posted from there by a few photographers-in-the-education business and I also posted it on our local camera club page and it was given a bunch of likes, so hopefully it helped!