My Favourite BOOKS of 2008

BOOKS

1. new york dolls photographs by bob gruen

2. "hermes shop windows" by leila menchari

3. guy bourdin monograph by gilles de bure.

4. The James Brown Reader by Nelson George & Alan Leeds
5. "The Kitchen Readings: Untold stories of Hunter S. Thompson " Michael Cleverly & Bob Brandis

6. "Joseph Cornell; Navigating the Imagination" by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

7. richard avedon "performance"

8. . edward steichen in high fashion - the conde nast years by william ewing & todd brandow.

9. "Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers" by Barrington Edmonds

10. the clash' by topper headon, joe strummer, paul simenon & mick jones .

11. Body language (1970) by Julius fast.

12. paintings in proust: a visual companion to 'in search of lost time.'

13 "1 top class manager rob gretton" by lesley gilbert....

14 "basic checkers" by richard fortman

15. "Weather Language " (1979) by Julius Fast

16 NASA Art:50 years of explration...

.17 .. "scrapbooks: an american history" ...

18 Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric" by Bob Dylan & Barry Feinstein...."

19. Juliana hatfield "when I grow up"..."

20. . "We Have Ways of making You Laugh: 120 Swastika Cartoons" by Sam Gross

21 The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden...

22. "No wave. post-punk. underground. new york. 1976-80." by thurston moore/byron coley.

23 "The Body Language of sex power & aggression" (1976) by Julius fast

24 . with strings attached: the art & beauty of vintage guitars

25. "george lois & his creation of the big idea" (assouline)...

22. the chicagoan: a lost magazine of the jazz age

26 "the elvis encyclopedia" by adam victor ...

27. "redemption song: the ballad of joe strummer" by chris salewicz...

28. "coltrane: the story of a sound" by ben ratliff

29 . . le corbusier a life

30. . the new york times the complete front pages 1951-2008.

31. Horoshige: 100 famous views of Edo....

32 "The Beatles: the Real Story" (1968) Julius fast

33 pop surf culture by brian chidester & dominic priore

34 . "Black Postcards" Dean Wareham ..

35 . "Comedy at the Edge" by Richard Zoglin..



RUNNERS-UP: "The Little Black Book of Rock Lists" ... "Wetlands/ Feuchtgebiete" by Charlotte Roche ... "Comfortably Numb" by Mark Blake (Pink Floyd). "Everything by Design" Alan Lapidus .. "Slash" by Slash & Andrew Bozza.. .. "Skinny Bitch in the Kitch" by Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin
"Rock Star Babylon" by Jon Holmes. "Willing" Scott Spencer.. "Bright Shiny Morning" James Frey/ terry Richardson/Richard Prince.... "This years model" by carol alt . "sex love & fashion" by bruce hulse. "the adventures of grandmaster flash: my life, my beats." by grandmaster flash. "a romance on 3 legs: glenn gould" by katie hafner. ..'scuse me why i kiss the sky' by david henderson... van gogh & the sunflowers... "something in the air: radio, rock & the revolution that shaped a revolution" by mark fisher.... Hiroshige/Eisen: 69 Station1s of the Kisokaido...Le Corbusier:Le Grand..."The (mostly) true story of Helvetica & the NYC Subway" by Paul Shaw....Giants among men by jack cavanaugh.... The Glory Game by Frank Gifford ...

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AND The Best Books of 2007 : !!!!!

FAVOURITE BOOKS : READING LIST 2007:

1) 'peepholism' .into the art of the smiths & morrissey by jo slee.

2) warhol screen tests catalogue raisonne.

3) leroy grannis 'surf photography of the 1960s & 70s.'

4) designed by peter saville.

5) misshapes by geordon nicol

6) STP the rolling stones 1972 US tour by robert greenfield.

7) ralph lauren

8) rolling stones' 'a season in hell' by robert greenfield.

9) gonzo: the life of hunter s thompson

10) josef albers "interaction of colour"

11) bob richardson

12) andy kaufman revealed by bob zmuda

13) the assault on reason by al gore

14) the beatles second album by dave marsh

15) 'confessions from the velvet rope' glenn belverio + thomas onorato.

16) facts on the ground: archaeological practice and territorial self-fashioning in israel society' by dr. abu el-haj

17) the story of tea by mary lou & bob heiss.

18) 'a priveleged life' by susanna salk.

19) 'extreme weather, a guide & record book- climate change edition.'

20) the complete peanuts 1965-66

21) 'the israel lobby & US foreign policy," by john mearsheimer & stephen walt.

22) 'the terror presidency' inside the bush administration by jack goldsmith

23) 'fashion babylon' by imogen edwards-jones & anonymous

24) 'windswept; the story of wind & weather' by marc de villiers

25) 'the weather makers,' by tim flannery.

26) 'the storm chaser a photographer's journey' by jim reed

27) 'palestine peace not apartheid' by jimmy carter

28) andy warhol portraits by tony shafrazi

29) the kennedy's portrait of a family: richard avedon & shannon thomas perich.

30) skinny bitch by rory fredman & kim barnouin

31) inside the music of brian wilson' by philip lambert

32) 'tearing down the wall of sound: phil spector' by mick brown

33) state of denial by bob woodward

34) lisa ruyter 'one million postcards'

35) 'according to the rolling stones'

36) 'the headmaster ritual' by taylor antrim

37) the down to earth guide to global warming by laurie david & cambria gordon

38) 'the fantastic four omnibus'

RUNNERS UP: Peter Beard 'scrapbooks from africa & beyond, 'rhonda byrne 'the secret' . 'white bicycles' by joe boyd. 'wrestling babylon' by irv muchnick. the society of s by susan hubbard. 'prep' by curtis sittenfeld. 'teenage: the creation of youth culture' by jon savage. the art of the band tee shirt by amber easby & henry oliver. "margrave of the marshes:john peel" by shiela ravenscroft. james st james 'freak show.' bill evans 'category 7.' 'the real animal house' by chris miller. 'deluxe' by dana thomas . 'wonderful tonight' by pattie boyd. schulz & peanuts by david michaelis. the penguin guide to jazz recordings by richard cook. 'strange as this weather has been' anne pancake. 'edie' an oral history jean stein/george plimpton . jack kirby's fourth world omnibus.