Alan writes >Oh dear Karl - you need to expand your library, quick! ;) Actually there's one or two AA's I like, but on the whole.. no. The collections gathered by Roger Maile at Creative Monochrome (Best of Friends) are amazing collections, well worth hunting down. At least the earlier ones are (number 11 seems to have evoked a rather detrimental reaction in this reviewer: http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com/2004/12/best-of-friends.html ) The idiology behind the publishing was interesting too, accept thousands of entries, the editor hand picking the ones he alone liked and publishing the results. The publishing house went to the wall sadly, but it has always been an interesting experience showing people these books and seeing their reactions. Passing them to non-photographers evoked little reaction, they'd flip through and hand back the book often having expressed no reaction - however at college, I kept the ones I owned in the photo store and they were the most poured over books of them all.
