Category: Books
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Danny Lyon Lived His Photography
Danny Lyon Lived His Photography The photographer’s autobiography takes us on a long voyage from East to West and back again without smoothing over the potholes in the road. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/957792/danny-lyon-lived-his-photography/ The photographer’s autobiography takes us on a long voyage from East to West and back again without smoothing over the potholes in the…
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All About Zines: October Issue – LENSCRATCH
All About Zines: October Issue – LENSCRATCH In a conversation last year, an artist friend of mine and I discussed the need for a space to discover zines. In some ways a space like the one we discussed, digitally available to an international audience, is antithetical to the very idea of the zine which is…
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Lumes: Rural Depopulation & Cultural Extinction in Galicia – Photographs and text by Adra Pallón | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/adra-pallon-lumes-rural-depopulation-cultural-extinction-in-galicia With a thoughtful gaze born from a deep concern for his surroundings, Adra Pallón explores the devastating consequences of rural depopulation on the culture of Galicia, its environment and the last of its aging inhabitants.
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Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH
Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH Kyler Zeleny has a particular way of seeing the world, or more specifically, seeing the Canadian prairie, that is both historical and theatrical, cinematic and apocalyptic. When combined, the results are riveting. His newest book effort is the the final chapter in his prairie trilogy.…
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Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH
Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH To say that I’m a fan of Meryl Meisler’s photographs would be an understatement. Her approach ot documenting life is what drew me to photography — black and white square photographs that so perfectly capture a moment in time, seen with humor and pathos. Her archives seem endless as she…
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Louis Carlos Bernal’s Intimate Portrayals of Chicano Experience
Louis Carlos Bernal’s Intimate Portrayals of the Chicano Experience For Bernal, photography was a potent tool in affirming the value of Mexican American communities who lacked visibility and agency. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/louis-carlos-bernals-intimate-portrayals-of-the-chicano-experience/ With every photograph that he’s taking of every Mexican American person, he’s making a political statement. He’s saying, Look at this person. This…
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Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Ludwig Schirmer | Ein Dorf 1950–2022
Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Ludwig Schirmer: Ein Dorf 1950–2022 Published with Hartmann Books, Ein Dorf (A Village) 1950–2022 is a photobook by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler in posthumous collaboration with their late family member Ludwig Schirmer. It allows the viewer to travel through time yet stay in the same place – Berka, a small…
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Txema Salvans: The Waiting Game III – LENSCRATCH
Txema Salvans: The Waiting Game III – LENSCRATCH With the dog days of summer on our doorsteps. we thought we’d share three days of posts on dogs. Enjoy the last days of summer…and the dogs! I first learned of Txema Salvans’s work from an Instagram post recommending his book The Waiting Game III. Since the…
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Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys
Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/941553/ron-tarver-photographing-the-lives-of-black-american-cowboys/ The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US. https://hyperallergic.com/941553/ron-tarver-photographing-the-lives-of-black-american-cowboys/
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I, Tokyo – Photographs by Jacob Aue Sobol | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-aue-sobol-i-tokyo “As much as possible, I worked from instinct. Taking photos resembles an improvised game. I feel that the more a photo is spontaneous and unplanned, the more it becomes alive, the more it moves from showing to existing.”
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photo-eye | BLOG: Haiti: Reviewed by Blake Andrews
Haiti: Reviewed by Blake Andrews Book Review Haiti Photographs by Bruce Gilden Reviewed by Blake Andrews “At first blush, Bruce Gilden photographing Haiti does not se… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/07/haiti-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html That might be the expectation. But the actual results are more nuanced. It turns out that Haitians can hold their own with Gilden’s camera. In photo after…
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Agnieszka Sosnowska | För
Agnieszka Sosnowska: För Published by Trespasser, Agnieszka Sosnowska’s debut monograph, För, is a coming-of-age story about relocating a remote corner of Iceland, which introduces us to her students, showcases her farm, and captures the passage of time as she and her husband age over two decades. As SFMOMA’s Assistant Curator of Photography Shana Lopes writes,…
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‘From normality to madness’ French photographer Antoine d’Agata on capturing the invisible pain of war in Ukraine for Jonathan Littell’s new book — Meduza
‘From normality to madness’ French photographer Antoine d’Agata on capturing the invisible pain of war in Ukraine for Jonathan Littell’s new book — Meduza: Just before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, French-American writer Jonathan Littell and French photographer Antoine d’Agata traveled to Kyiv’s Babi Yar ravine, where the Nazis carried out one of the…
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How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation | PetaPixel
How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation I want to give you five quick ideas from the book to get you thinking the next time you travel with your camera. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/30/how-the-strobist-david-hobby-has-spent-his-permanent-vacation/ So at some point, it made sense to both expand and generalize that content into, say, a real book…
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Book Talk: How Design Elevates the Success of Your First Photobook – LENSCRATCH
Book Talk: How Design Elevates the Success of Your First Photobook – LENSCRATCH (Stranger Fruit by Jon Henry published by Monolith Editions. Stranger Fruit sold out in six weeks, and went into a second edition, with solo shows at Abakus Projects, UCR Arts and Photographic Center Northwest, and press including, the Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Dazed…
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Book Review: ‘Corky Lee’s Asian America’ – The New York Times
One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’ A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/review/corky-lee-asian-america-fifty-years-photographic-justice.html A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/review/corky-lee-asian-america-fifty-years-photographic-justice.html
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Rahim Fortune | Hardtack
Rahim Fortune: Hardtack In his new book, Hardtack, Rahim Fortune compiles nearly a decade of work, blending documentary with personal history within the context of post-emancipation America. Through coming-of-age portraits that traverse survivalism and land migration, Fortune illustrates African American and Chickasaw Nation communities. As Taous Dahmani observes, the iconography of the American South is…
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Café Royal Books
Café Royal Books Currently exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Craig Atkinson’s Café Royal Books presents an eclectic collection of social relics where regional pasts intermingle, and previously unseen or half-remembered social histories are vividly recalled. With a sense of relative authenticity, the exhibition invites viewers to delve through a collection of three hundred…
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Water tells a Tale as it Goes – The Leica camera Blog
Water tells a Tale as it Goes In his photo book ‘Water’, the soon-to-turn-90, British photojournalist Ian Berry presents the impressive outcome of a long-term project.
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12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers
12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous image making, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/ From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle…