Keith Carter: Fifty Years

I am a Kieth Carter fan, but I can honestly say that this is truly an outstanding photography book. It is a compendium of 50 years of Carter's work. If you have other of his books you have probably seen many of these photos, but to have so many in one book and so large a format makes this book more that desirable for a collection.A little plug for Amazon here: I like the pre-order deal where you order before release date at a specific price, and if it goes lower before it is shipped you pay the new lower price, but if the price at release is higher you are only charged at the lower pre-order price. I pre-ordered this book from Amazon a month before it was released for $29.00. It is now about $41 on release and has an MSRP price in the dust jacket at $65.

It cost me $58 to buy the book but I only got $31 in return. Had I known that I would have kept the book & sold it myself! Bad show Amazon.

The array of images is outstanding. So is the text. At least the copy I received, the images were reproduced in a mediocre way. I have many - maybe most - of his other books and know his body of work. Some images known to m were almost unrecognizable.

Beautiful book. Being from Beaumont as well the images are lovely and familiar.

Love this

He is one of my all time favorite photographers and this book didn't change my opinion of him. Very happy I bought it.

A truly amazing body of work that is filled with humanity and genius.

Love the book, love the photographer. Beautifully done and lots of new images.

There are many images in this book. Many are large. Way too many are printed over two pages and therefore quite diminished in effectiveness. Why do artists and publishers do this so often? Instead of a portrait format, make the book a landscape format and give the photographs the space they deserve. Elsewhere in the book often two large photographs butt up against each other and, because there is no white space around them, one side of each disappears into the spine of the book. An example of getting it right is Nick Brandt's On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, where each photograph has it's clear space in each page, the only times photographs cross over two pages is where the images are panoramic. Really a pity.

Wonderful Book by an amazing photographer!

Wonderful photography from a brilliant photographer.