Category: Books

  • The Rape of a Nation

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    “The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human tragedy…” remarks John Le Carré in the foreword to this book. His words contain the indignation of a man who despairs at the state of humanity that allows the history of Congo to unfold unchallenged as the West looks on.…

  • Lewis Koch – Touchless Automatic Wonder « The PhotoBook

    Lewis Koch – Touchless Automatic Wonder « The PhotoBook

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    Lewis Koch – Touchless Automatic Wonder Copyright Lewis Koch 2009 courtesy Lewis Koch & Borderland Books The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from the real world”. There is no doubt that … via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/lewis-koch-touchless-automatic-wonder/ The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from…

  • David Carol – All My Lies Are True « The PhotoBook

    David Carol – All My Lies Are True « The PhotoBook

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    David Carol – All My Lies Are True Review by Douglas Stockdale • Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. … via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/david-carol-all-my-lies-are-true/ Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but…

  • 5B4: Distance and Slow Boat by Onaka Koji

    5B4: Distance and Slow Boat by Onaka Koji

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    Distance and Slow Boat by Onaka Koji Yutaka Takanashi in an interview once described his approach while working on Toshi-e as, “…two conflicting creatures settled into my b… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/02/distance-and-slow-boat-by-onaka-koji.html Yutaka Takanashi in an interview once described his approach while working on Toshi-e as, “…two conflicting creatures settled into my body. One is a ‘hunter…

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Short Track

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    Passion, drive and mud fill the pages of Jake Mendel’s book Short Track, published by powerHouse Books. In the 77 black and white photographs determination and the ghost of Dale Earnhardt show their faces. This is not a surprise, but gives credence to the authenticity of the fans, drivers and wrench turners pictured. Racing is…

  • Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s | eyecurious

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    The book contains essays by Kaneko and Vartanian. Kaneko’s essay recounts his personal journey with the photobook, a unique one since few people were buying photobooks when he did (to the point where he once ordered a book only to have the publisher turn up at his door to deliver it himself because he thought…

  • PDNPulse: 2009 Critical Mass Book Award Winners Announced

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    Link: PDNPulse: 2009 Critical Mass Book Award Winners Announced

  • Life Geos On – Per Englund « The PhotoBook

    Life Geos On – Per Englund « The PhotoBook

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    Life Geos On – Per Englund Copyright of Per Englund, 2009 courtesy of Per Englund and Dokument Press Per Englund spent a couple of summers photographing Cape Town, South Africa and his photobook Life Geos On provides an inve… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/life-geos-on-per-englund/ Per Englund spent a couple of summers photographing Cape Town, South Africa…

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Luxury

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    Luxury is a compilation of works created by Martin Parr between 2003 and 2009 whilst visiting a range of high profile and wealthy social occasions such as horse racing at Ascot, Art Basel Miami Beach or Sotheby’s auctions in Dubai. Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Luxury

  • Photobook: young soldiers and traumatic stress after war – lens culture photography weblog

    Photobook: young soldiers and traumatic stress after war – lens culture photography weblog

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    LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2010/02/hines.html Photographer Jessica Hines won an honorable mention in our global photography competition — and thus an opportunity to publish a photobook at Blurb.com. She took this as inspiration and teamed up with Elizabeth Avedon (the designer of many of Richard…

  • Don McCullin: War photographer

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    A couple of years ago I stumbled upon McCullins autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour‘ in Dublin and couldn’t put it down. It’s an unflinching account of his life. I really had no idea about the man at all (indeed might be due a re-read). Truly gripping a life like his defies fiction you really couldn’t make up the…

  • The Visual Student » 30 Years Photographing An American Family: Pam Spaulding

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    Pam Spaulding started at the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times in 1972, a year after her internship at those newspapers.  For over 30 years she has photographed one upper-middle class family as they raised three children and then as those children left home for lives of their own. All three of the children are now older…

  • Ain't That America – PDN

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    Photographer Gary Cialdella grew up on the Eastern edge of the Calumet in Blue Island, Illinois. When he left for college, he had no thoughts of returning, but as an adult he moved to nearby Michigan. More than 20 years ago, he reacquainted himself with the area and began photographing it. He recently released his…

  • Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture

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    Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo. via: Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture photography weblog

  • Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto

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    Have a look at the “trailer” for Stanley Greene’s new book Black Passport, a deeply personal journal of life and a career in conflict. Or perhaps it is, as compiled by Teun van der Heijden, a biography. Link: Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto

  • photo-eye | THE BEST BOOKS OF 2009

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    Welcome to the Best Photobooks of 2009. Continuing were we left off last year, we’ve expanded this long photo-eye tradition to include top 10 photobook lists from a group of prominent photographers, bookmakers, editors, publishers and critics. Above you’ll find a complete list of the contributors, each linking to that individual’s list. The range of…

  • Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture's Worth

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    This summer I’ve had the opportunity to get out of the city on two occasions: a weekend in the Hamptons with a bunch of fellow Hawaiians, and a wedding in upstate Connecticut. As a photographer, I wanted to capture moments from those weekends with no other intention but to share them through my website, but…

  • Larissa Leclair – Interview: Elizabeth Fleming

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    An interview with Elizabeth Fleming about using MagCloud and Blurb to publish her own magazine and book. Link: Larissa Leclair – Interview: Elizabeth Fleming via: Tethered

  • The Independent Photo Book

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    The Independent Photo Book a self publishing free zone Link: http://theindependentphotobook.blogspot.com/ THE INDEPENDENT PHOTO BOOK ANNOUNCES INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED AND/OR PRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OR ZINES, WHICH ARE NOT AVAILABLE VIA AMAZON OR OTHER STANDARD OUTLETS.

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "William Eggleston – Introduction to The Democratic Forest (1989)"

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    The Democratic Forest, a most remarkable and beautiful book, is what is even rarer, and original one. Consisting entirely of the eloquent photographs of the American photographer William Eggleston, it begins as an autobiography might, with a setting for a life. Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “William Eggleston – Introduction to The Democratic Forest (1989)”