New Books- Part 1

這是5月份進的新書:

1)Memories of a Dog - Diado Moriyama
這是Daido自述的書(原版是日文) ，較偏重於文字， 部份作品，還沒時間好好看。

2)Richard Avedon: Photgraphy 1946-2004
Richard老先生於04年過世後，Louisiana Museum of Modern Art於2007年出版的。
由早期時尚作品開始介紹，包括著名的“美國西部”的作品，印刷和紙質都很棒。

3)As I was Dying- Paolo Pellegrin
一位馬格蘭新銳攝影師，拍攝風格和手法相當有現場感、動感。
這本是中東戰亂的作品集。曾獲2007 Leica European Publishers Award。
部份作品很喜歡，但整體編輯還好，似乎當中參雜了數位和銀鹽作品，印刷並沒想像中理想。

4)Leros - Alex Majoli
The Greek island of Leros was for 20 years and more the site of the world’s most notorious and brutal asylum for the insane. Alex Majoli has chronicled its inmates and their return to a sane world and integration into island society.

Thirty years ago, in the balmy Aegean blue, the island of Leros was commandeered for a social experiment that was to become a secret so terrible as to rival that of the Nazi death camps or the Stalinist gulags.

When the Greek psychiatric medical establishment reached the end of their perfunctorily useful treatment of their patients they sent them to Leros, and the asylum set up in the former political prison there. The staff were not doctors or nurses and had no medical training, other than herding goats. They were local islanders, and were used as guards, or filakès.

The guards quickly degenerated into thugs, who sought to control the madmen with the only methods available to them — brute force and terror. The inmates were systematically beaten, even tortured, and crushed of whatever sensibilities they once had.

They became animals, who defecated where they stood or crawled, who fought and killed themselves or each other, according to their needs, in a veritable Golgotha of despair, filth and violence. No human traits were recognisable among the inmates — even speech had become redundant.

In 1990 a team of Italian psychiatrists from Trieste, aided by volunteer care workers, managed to break down the walls of this madhouse. What they found shocked even them, as did the blank indifference of the guards — how else should they behave in a world deprived of reason?

曾在巴黎書店時看過（當時沒買），照片質感和印刷都很棒，帶點棕色味道，
如果在編輯上能多加一些照片，讓整體內容更為全面性一些會更好。
個人也蠻喜歡他的作品。
這也是馬格蘭新銳其中一員。