Category: Books
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A Decade Among the Mennonites
A Decade Among the Mennonites Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/744838/larry-towell-a-decade-among-the-mennonites/ The Mennonites (GOST Books, 2022) records Towell’s decade among the Mennonites as they struggle to hold on amid changing times and hard luck. Out of print for the…
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The Best and Worst of Times: Talking Photobooks With Aperture’s Lesley Martin – Interview with Lesley Martin, Aperture’s Creative Director | LensCulture
The Best and Worst of Times: Talking Photobooks With Aperture’s Lesley Martin – Interview with Lesley Martin, Aperture’s Creative Director | LensCulture A leading expert in the field shares her thoughts on the “golden age” of photobooks and offers advice to aspiring authors via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aperture-foundation-the-best-and-worst-of-times-talking-photobooks-with-aperture-s-lesley-martin If you can’t answer those questions honestly, you’re not…
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photo-eye Favorite Books 2022
Link: As a result, photo-eye, now in our 44th year, is in a unique position to select books that we feel rise to the top and merit your attention and consideration.
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Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alessandra-sanguinetti-some-say-ice In her new…
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Waves: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb – LENSCRATCH
Waves: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb – LENSCRATCH Waves (Radius Books 2022) by creative partners Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb includes photographs and text that navigate the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were captured by Alex and Rebecca in Cape Cod, Massachusetts from March 2020 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/09/waves-alex-webb-and-rebecca-norris-webb/ Many people were…
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8 Photobooks Aperture’s Editors Are Reading This Summer
8 Photobooks Aperture’s Editors Are Reading This Summer From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they’re diving into this summer. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/8-summer-reads-from-apertures-editors/ From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Another Life: Jim Goldberg & Iryna Tsilyk’s Publication for Ukraine
Juxtapoz Magazine – Another Life: Jim Goldberg & Iryna Tsilyk’s Publication for Ukraine In 2005 Jim Goldberg traveled to Ukraine as part of a project which explored migration, at the start of the new millennium. For Another Life a new fun… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/another-life-jim-goldberg-iryna-tsilyk-s-publication-for-ukraine/ In 2005 Jim Goldberg traveled to Ukraine as part of a project…
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Publisher’s Spotlight: Café Royal Books – LENSCRATCH
Publisher’s Spotlight: Café Royal Books – LENSCRATCH These past months have been all about books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photo book landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pag via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/publishers-spotlight-cafe-royal-books/ Documentary photography — post-war, with links to…
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Think Like a Street Photographer – Photographs and text by Matt Stuart | LensCulture
Think Like a Street Photographer – Photographs and text by Matt Stuart | LensCulture This new book by award-winning street photographer Matt Stuart is filled with insights and advice garnered over decades of making stunning street photographs on a daily basis via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/matt-stuart-think-like-a-street-photographer This new book by award-winning street photographer Matt Stuart is filled…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites
Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites “In 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, land-hungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of L… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/larry-towell-s-friendship-with-the-old-colony-mennonites/ Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990…
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Stop Tanks with Books – Photographs by Mark Neville | Book review by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Stop Tanks with Books – Photographs by Mark Neville | Book review by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture Created with a mission in mind, Mark Neville’s new photobook threads his portraits made in Ukraine with research and short stories as a desperate rallying call to action via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mark-neville-stop-tanks-with-books Created with a mission in mind,…
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From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov — Blind Magazine
From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov — Blind Magazine In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/from-one-war-to-the-next-photos-by-oleksandr-glyadyelov/ In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.
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Ten Years with the FARC — Blind Magazine
Ten Years with the FARC — Blind Magazine The Colombian photographer Federico Rios Escobar spent a decade in the Colombian jungle with the FARC. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/ten-years-with-the-farc/ In his book Verde, published by Raya Editorial, Federico Rios Escobar chronologically lays out his images from his life in the jungle: “I have lost track of…
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The Craft of Photography | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The Craft of Photography via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-craft-of-photography/ In my own teaching, I often describe photographs as gifts: they are given to you if you’re able to spot and then take them. This book is a gift. If this (or any other) article spotted it, all that’s left for you is to take it.
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A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis
A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis Philip Montgomery shares the stories behind nine images in his new photobook “American Mirror.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/philip-montgomery-unflinching-portrait-of-america-in-crisis/ As Patrick Radden Keefe writes in American Mirror, “Montgomery’s photographs capture the reality of Americans in crisis, in all our flawed, tragic, ridiculous glory.” Here, we look at the stories…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – The Golden City: Mimi Plumb’s Portrait of a Changing San Francisco
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Golden City: Mimi Plumb’s Portrait of a Changing San Francisco Mimi Plumb used to live on the edges of the city where the rents were cheap. Nearby, on the summit of the hill, were folded layers of radiolarian cher… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-golden-city-mimi-plumb-s-portrait-of-a-changing-san-francisco/ Plumb’s life was marked by nights out dancing at the…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Tamara Reynolds: The Drake
Juxtapoz Magazine – Tamara Reynolds: The Drake Every city has a shadow. Every town has a Drake. For four years Tamara Reynolds immersed herself in the lives of the people existing just above surviv… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/tamara-reynolds-the-drake/ Every city has a shadow. Every town has a Drake. For four years Tamara Reynolds immersed herself in the…
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Rian Dundon and the Lost and Found Story of his Book Changsha — Blind Magazine
Rian Dundon and the Lost and Found Story of his Book Changsha — Blind Magazine Over six years, photographer Rian Dundon photographed life in the city of Changsha in central China. But upon the publishing of the resulting book in 2012, the publisher folded, leaving the fate of the undistributed books unknown for most of…
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Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH
Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land (co-edited with Margaret Sartor), looks to reframe the question “How do you tell the story of the American South?” Based in Durham, North Carolina, Harris knows it’s a region with a complicated history; a legacy via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/alex-harris-our-strange-new-land/ Alex…
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Top 10 (+1) Photobooks of 2021 | 1000 Words
1000 Words | Top 10 Photobooks of 2021 As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2021 – selected by Editor in Chief, Tim Clark, with words from Assistant Editor, Alex Merola. via 1000 Words: http://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-10-2021 As the year draws to a close, an annual…