Category: Books

  • Book Review – 'The Last War,' by Ana Menéndez

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    Book Review – ‘The Last War,’ by Ana Menéndez – Review – NYTimes.com: The narrator of “The Last War” has received an anonymous letter accusing her war correspondent husband of infidelity. So, unfortunately, did the book’s author. It speaks to Ana Menéndez’s maturity — as a woman and a writer — that her novel doesn’t…

  • 5B4: Playas by Martin Parr

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    5B4: Playas by Martin Parr: If I understand correctly, Martin Parr and the publishers of his new book Playas, Editorial RM and Chris Boot, left all creative control of the book to the printer they employed in Mexico. That is, the design, sequencing, format, everything. This decision was made after asking several different low cost…

  • 'Digital Barbarism – A Writer’s Manifesto,' by Mark Helprin

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    ROSS DOUTHAT – NYTimes.com: Mark Helprin could have ignored the barrage; he could have sifted it for arguments worth replying to. Instead, he decided to write a furious treatise against the comment-happy horde. The resulting book, “Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto,” is a vindication of the aphorism about the perils of wrestling with a pig.…

  • Interview with Lisa Kereszi

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    photo-eye: Lisa Kereszi’s first monograph, Fantasies, interweaves images of the empty interiors of strip clubs with photographs of new burlesque dancers to create a narrative in between the environment of a fantasy and the expression of one. The tawdry nocturnal spaces are an emotional void, paralleling the possible emptiness of those who occupy the stages…

  • Superficial Snapshots Zine 3: Things I Like About Texas

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  • 5B4: Visible World by Fischli & Weiss

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    5B4: Fischli and Weiss’ Visible World (Sichtbare Weld) published in 2001 by Walther Konig is another worthwhile exploration of the book as mass of information. No text and with 8 photographs per page, Visible World is a globetrotting description of landscape and cityscape contained in a few hundred pages.

  • Edition One Studios Makes Books For Photographers

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    A Photo Editor: Ben Zlotkin is the founder of Edition One Studios, a company that makes books for photographers (here). I wanted to ask him a few questions about publishing short-run photography books, because I feel like there’s not a lot of good information available on the subject. Also, I was curious if it really…

  • 5B4: School by Raimond Wouda

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    5B4: School by Raimond Wouda: Wouda started to observe the relationships among groups of teenagers while they were on the school playground across the street from his studio. Something about those observations drew him to approaching the institutions in order to gain access to their hallways and common areas with his view camera and strobes.…

  • 'The Photographer,' by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier

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    NYTimes.com says: It is impossible to know war if you do not stand with the mass of the powerless caught in its maw. All narratives of war told through the lens of the com batants carry with them the seduction of violence. But once you cross to the other side, to stand in fear with…

  • Review: Boarding House by Roger Ballen

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    Conscientious says: Roger Ballen’s work is often deemed to be disturbing. I don’t think is actually is (my idea of “disturbing” might be different from yours), but we can probably easily agree on calling him one of the most creative photographers currently producing work.

  • Tim Hetherington – Long Story Bit by Bit

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  • dan winters gotta new book

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    whats the jackanory ? – dan winters gotta new book

  • Home: Tom Arndt's Minnesota

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    photo-eye says: Having had the pleasure of sitting down with a big box or two or three of Tom’s prints, having seen an exhibition of prints on the walls of the Howard Greenberg Gallery two years ago, as a fellow craftsman, I tip my hat. His prints, to borrow Bill Arnold’s stolen line, “sing.” If…

  • The Photographer: gripping graphic memoir about doctors in Soviet Afghanistan, accompanied by brilliant photos

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    Boing Boing says: FirstSecond, one of the great literary comics presses of the modern world, has topped itself with The Photographer: Into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, a collaboration between photographer Didier Lefevre, graphic novelist Emmanuel Guibert, and designer Frederic Lemercier.

  • Review: 'Witness in Our Time' by Ken Light

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    Jim McNay says: After several months—or years—on the shelves of serious photographers, it’s time to take this volume down again and give it a look. For all of us who have complained about how tough things are now in these times—and who among us has not complained?—the voices in this book remind us photojournalism and…

  • It Takes a Village Part I: Ingrid Spangler and Adoramapix

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    A Photography Blog. says: So as I was saying, a few ladies and I have put together a landscape show for the The New York Photo Festival. I’ve curated things before, but largely for an online arena, and let me tell you– there are a lot of details involved in a 17-person show. And you…

  • Eyes-On With Joe McNally’s ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’

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    From GadgetLab: Book reviews aren’t something we do a lot of here on Gadget Lab, but we have to call out the quite excellent “Hot Shoe Diaries” by Joe McNally, a bible for anyone thinking about using small strobes in their photography. Check it out here

  • Ed Kashi: Three

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    From photo-eye: In a world inundated by visual imagery, our ability to take in more than one image at a time has become innate. In fact, our attention span demands it. Three, a book of triptychs by acclaimed photographer Ed Kashi, plays on the visual appetite of a hectic world. These triptychs span eras and…

  • Sports Illustrated’s Slide Show Book

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    From A Photo Editor: Sports Illustrated has a new book out on May 5th called Slide Show that examines the actual physical slides from the images that made it into the magazine. Check it out here.

  • 5B4: Waters in Between by Lukas Felzmann

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    From 5B4: In the center of the Sacramento Valley two rivers, the Feather and Sacramento, flank several wetlands and marshes called the Sutter and Colusa Sinks. Much of this land has been drained and become some of the richest agricultural land for fruit orchards and various grains and rice. The photographer Lukas Felzmann has been…