Category: Books
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A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2023 PhotoBook Awards
A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2023 PhotoBook Awards These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2023-photobook-awards/ Now in its eleventh year, the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards are an annual celebration of the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. The…
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How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon?
How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon? The team behind Stanley/Barker speaks about the bookmaking process—and how a sequence of photographs can create an emotional experience. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-can-photobooks-expand-the-canon/ Gregory and Rachel Barker founded their photobook publishing house, Stanley/Barker, based in Shropshire in the West Midlands of England, in 2014. Their first publication, Tod Papageorge’s Studio…
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photo-eye | BLOG: Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews Book Review Coming and Going Photographs by Jim Goldberg Reviewed by Blake Andrews “At 66, Jim Goldberg is edging into his golden yea… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2023/10/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_30.html At 66, Jim Goldberg is edging into his golden years but still young at heart. Give him a pair of scissors and…
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Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years | The New Yorker
Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years Barbara Mensch’s new photographic history, “A Falling-Off Place,” begins in the early eighties, and shows a city transformed. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/watching-the-southern-tip-of-manhattan-change-for-forty-years She spent some two years making inroads with the market workers, visiting them as they worked at night, at first, hiding her…
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‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ – The Washington Post
Perspective | ‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ Moises Saman’s new book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” attempts to unwind 20 years of covering war in Iraq. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/09/27/this-work-is-haunting-haunted-by-ghosts-history-its-casualties/ Photographer Moises Saman’s book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” (GOST, 2023) starts off with this banger of a…
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‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict | Photography | The Guardian
‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict The esteemed photographer has spend more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/26/corinne-dufka-war-photographer-book As the acclaimed American war photographer Corinne Dufka sorted through the pictures and negatives for her new book,…
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The Stunning Work of a Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Killed by the Taliban | PetaPixel
The Stunning Work of a Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Killed by the Taliban His untimely death serves as a reminder of the dangers war zone photographers face. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/18/the-stunning-work-of-a-pulitzer-winning-photographer-killed-by-the-taliban/ Siddiqui’s photos have now been collated into a new book that showcases the photos he captured in his native country of India and beyond.
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Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines
Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines The inveterate zine-maker speaks about his artistic practice, learning under Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and why “everything is worth photographing.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ari-marcopoulos-on-the-essential-art-of-zines/ All through the weekend, as I passed by, there were different people, different characters. I photographed them whenever I saw someone different. When…
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Revisiting Portland’s “Summer of Rage” | The New Yorker
Revisiting Portland’s “Summer of Rage” Rian Dundon’s new book, “Protest City,” captures the unrest in the Oregon capital in 2020, through curated portraits and scenes of unusual intimacy. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-portlands-summer-of-rage Rian Dundon’s new book, “Protest City,” captures the unrest in the Oregon capital in 2020, through curated portraits and scenes of unusual…
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Ed Templeton’s Unsparing Photographic Diary of Skateboarding Life | The New Yorker
Ed Templeton’s Unsparing Photographic Diary of Skateboarding Life Templeton’s images, taken between 1995 and 2012, capture the intimacy and aimlessness of being on tour. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/ed-templetons-unsparing-photographic-diary-of-skateboarding-life Templeton’s book is unsparing but nonjudgmental. The damage accumulates slowly, as what seems at first like youthful fun grows more uneasy. Young female fans lift up…
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The Little Paper with an Outsized Visual Impact | The New Yorker
The Little Paper with an Outsized Visual Impact Over fourteen issues between 1968 and 1971, the downtown broadsheet “Newspaper” recruited a stunning list of contributors to chronicle the times in pictures. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-little-paper-with-an-outsized-visual-impact Newspaper, published out of an East Village apartment between 1968 and 1971, was one of a number of scrappy…
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A New Photo Book Celebrates Furry Skiing & Other Weird Sports
A New Photo Book Celebrates Furry Skiing & Other Weird Sports For years, Sol Neelman has traveled the world photographing weird sports, such as furry skiing, disco bowling, live monster wrestling, &more. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/04/a-new-photo-book-celebrates-furry-skiing-other-weird-sports/ Sol Neelman was at Copper Mountain in Colorado to attend Furry Ski Weekend. Running since 2007, the annual event…
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The Lenscratch Favorite Books of 2022 – LENSCRATCH
The Lenscratch Favorite Books of 2022 – LENSCRATCH Today we feature some of our Favorite Books of 2022 (and a few from previous years). I’m not a big believer in the word BEST as that definition is different for everyone. There were so many spectacular books created this year but we had to narrow it…
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Top 10 Photobooks of 2022 | 1000 Words
1000 Words | Top 10 Photobooks of 2022 As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2022 – selected by Assistant Editor, Alex Merola. via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2022/ As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases…
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Lakeside – Photographs by Shane Rocheleau | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Lakeside – Photographs by Shane Rocheleau | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Weaving together portraits, landscapes, found objects, and advertising imagery in his new photobook, Shane Rocheleau presents an unsparing view of complicated American history via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shane-rocheleau-lakeside Weaving together portraits, landscapes, found objects, and advertising imagery in his new photobook, Shane Rocheleau…
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photo-eye | BLOG: Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews Book Review Why Omaha? Photographs by Darius Koehli Reviewed by Blake Andrews “I’ve encountered many photobooks over the past few dec… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2022/12/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_26.html Then he discovered wrestling. The old AWA professional circuit held sway in the midwest at the time, hosting regular matches at the Omaha Civic…
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Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH
Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH Over 67 years ago on the summer of August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was tragically lynched in Mississippi by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after he was accused by Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant, of allegedly making an advance at he via LENSCRATCH:…
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In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction
In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-the-midwest-alessandra-sanguinetti-blurs-fact-with-fiction/ The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.
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Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH
Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH This past year we have been focusing on books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photobook landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pa via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/publishers-spotlight-brown-owl-press/ Brown Owl Press is an independent publisher…
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Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture
Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture 28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-2022 28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list…