Category: Books

  • Jenny Sampson: Skaters | LENSCRATCH

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    Jenny Sampson: Skaters I had the pleasure of meeting Jenny Sampson at Photolucida last April. She brought a stellar portfolio of wet plate collodion tintype portraits of skateboarders–the process a perfect reflection of the gritty street activity that draws an interesting comm via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/10/jenny-sampson/ I had the pleasure of meeting Jenny Sampson at Photolucida…

  • Harry Gruyaert: East / West – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/10/09/article/159967949/harry-gruyaert-east-west/”] Harry Gruyaert: East / West – The Eye of Photography At a time when the world was politically divided into East and West, Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert’s quest for light and sensuality led him to capture the colours of two very different worlds: the vibrant glitziness of Las Vegas and Los Angeles in…

  • Carrie Boretz: Street | LENSCRATCH

    Carrie Boretz: Street | LENSCRATCH

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    Carrie Boretz: Street: New York City – 70s, 80s, 90s  I have always been more interested in the subtle and familiar moments of everyday life, not the big news stories. They are telling in different ways and just as powerful. Nothing was scripted but played out right before me. As Patti Smith once said,” You…

  • The remains of the Maginot Line, by Alexandre Guirkinger and Tristan Garcia – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/22/article/159966263/the-remains-of-the-maginot-line-by-alexandre-guirkinger-and-tristan-garcia/”] The remains of the Maginot Line, by Alexandre Guirkinger and Tristan Garcia – The Eye of Photography Bunkers blackened with time, overgrown hedges, drab vegetation spewing out of crevasses: there is no color other than dark in Alexandre Guirkinger’s photographs. The remains of the Maginot Line, which failed to protect the French against…

  • Alec Soth’s reedition of Sleeping by the Mississippi – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/22/article/159966265/reedition-de-sleeping-by-the-mississipi-dalec-soth/”] Alec Soth’s reedition of Sleeping by the Mississippi – The Eye of Photography Sleeping by The Mississippi by Alec Soth is one of the defining publications in the photobook era. First published by Steidl in 2004, it was American photographer Alec Soth’s first book, sold through three editions, and established him as one…

  • Jean-Pierre Laffont, New York Up and Down – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/08/article/159963560/jean-pierre-laffont-new-york-up-and-down/”] Jean-Pierre Laffont, New York Up and Down – The Eye of Photography After a remarked book on his work in the United States spanning 50 years of history, documentary photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont publishes his photos of New York, where he has been a transplanted resident since 1965.

  • Sory Sanlé: Volta Photo 1965-85 – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/08/article/159964370/sory-sanle-volta-photo-1965-85/”] Sory Sanlé: Volta Photo 1965-85 – The Eye of Photography Sory Sanlé: Volta Photo 1965-85, a book published by Reel Art Press, is a collection of photographic work by Sory Sanlé, an eminent portrait photographer from Burkina Faso, the landlocked country in West Africa formerly colonized by the French, then known as République…

  • Priscilla Briggs: Impossible is Nothing: China’s Theater of Consumerism | LENSCRATCH

    Priscilla Briggs: Impossible is Nothing: China’s Theater of Consumerism | LENSCRATCH

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    Priscilla Briggs: Impossible is Nothing: China’s Theater of Consumerism China’s rapid economic growth has resulted in a complex transformation both constructive and destructive of that country’s cultural and physical landscape. My interest in the impact of economic systems and advertising on identity fueled my work in China … via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/07/priscilla-briggs-impossible-is-nothing-chinas-theater-of-consumerism/ Impossible is Nothing focuses…

  • The Lumen Seed: Records of a search in the Australian desert by Judith Crispin – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/06/23/article/159957206/the-lumen-seed-records-of-a-search-in-the-australian-desert-by-judith-crispin/”] The Lumen Seed: Records of a search in the Australian desert by Judith Crispin – The Eye of Photography Judith Crispin is many things; a poet, photographer and scholar, as well as a mother, friend and daughter. She is also a cancer survivor. Just as these labels don’t define her, neither do the…

  • Larry Fink, The Polarities – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/06/19/article/159956507/larry-fink-the-polarities/”] Larry Fink, The Polarities – The Eye of Photography The portrait of American society that Fink sketches out starting in the 1950s continues. The Polarities narrates modern America, the radical changes between the Obama years and the arrival of Trump, the society of the spectacle – in which “the show must go on”…

  • Color Me Gone – The First Double-Binded Photobook on Vietnam by Kevin German — Kickstarter

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    Color Me Gone – The First Double-Binded Photobook on Vietnam Color Me Gone is a photobook with a circular narrative about a developing Vietnam featuring a unique dual binding system. via Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146246750/color-me-gone-the-first-double-binded-photobook-on Color Me Gone is a photobook with a circular narrative about a developing Vietnam featuring a unique dual binding system.

  • Covering Conflict in the Central African Republic: Photos | Time.com

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    Covering Conflict in the Central African Republic Photographer William Daniels published a book of his work in the African country via Time: http://time.com/4799804/central-african-republic/ Over the course of the last three years, French photographer William Daniels made 10 trips to the Central African Republic to report on the country’s rapid descent into civil war and its…

  • Look up! – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/05/25/article/159952988/look-up/”] Look up! – The Eye of Photography In the introduction to the new book Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography from Dronestagram, excerpted below, editor Ayperi Karabuda Ecer discusses the wide-ranging impact of the technological advances that have made drone photography possible.

  • Gerhard Steidl Is Making Books an Art Form – The New Yorker

    Gerhard Steidl Is Making Books an Art Form – The New Yorker

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    The Man Making Books an Art Form Gerhard Steidl is the printer whom the world’s best photographers trust most. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/gerhard-steidl-is-making-books-an-art-form Gerhard Steidl is known for fanatical attention to detail and for embracing the best that technology offers. “He is so much better than anyone,” the photographer William Eggleston said.

  • Puk Damsgård’s The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War :: Books :: Reviews :: Puk Damsgård :: Paste

    Puk Damsgård’s The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War :: Books :: Reviews :: Puk Damsgård :: Paste

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    Puk Damsgård’s The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War Puk Damsgård chronicles the capture, confinement and eventual release of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye. via pastemagazine.com: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/puk-damsgards-the-isis-hostage.html The ISIS Hostage: One Man’s True Story of Thirteen Months in Captivity is a case study in what might be called the New War Journalism. Puk…

  • 1000 iconic Magnum photobooks in one single book – The Eye of Photography

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    1000 iconic Magnum photobooks in one single book The publishing house Phaidon releases Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné, the first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agency

  • Bookstore Browsing: 10 Photo Books from Tokyo – PhotoShelter Blog

    Bookstore Browsing: 10 Photo Books from Tokyo – PhotoShelter Blog

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    Bookstore Browsing: 10 Photo Books from Tokyo – PhotoShelter Blog Travel provides a myriad of opportunities for the photographer to be visually re-inspired. We travel to Tokyo to peruse the bookshelf of local artists. via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/02/bookstore-browsing-tokyo/ Japan is famous for its camera brands and love of photography, but outside of Daido Moriyama, most…

  • Peter van Agtmael: Buzzing at the Sill | LENSCRATCH

    Peter van Agtmael: Buzzing at the Sill | LENSCRATCH

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    Peter van Agtmael: Buzzing at the Sill With the widespread uncertainty and fear over the increasingly exposed divisions in the United States, I hope this work can give perspective on the rarely seen corners of this dense, complex, and troubled nation. Moving through the vastness of America the via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/02/peter-van-agtmael-buzzing-at-the-sill/ Peter van Agtmael’s new…

  • The latest issue of Dog Food – The Eye of Photography

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    The latest issue of Dog Food Dog Food 5 has just arrived on the scene and introduces the newly formed KRISIS photo agency on the world stage. Follow their exploits from the Island of Lesbos to the depths of Syria. The editors created Archive articles from Kurdistan to Canada. Including a new photo manifesto, trigger-fingers,…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “The Last Son”

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “The Last Son” Through the years, all of Jim Goldberg’s publishing endeavors have been worthy of attention, dating back to his seminal and highly collectable 1995 ti… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/a-look-inside-jim-goldberg-s-the-last-son/ Through the years, all of Jim Goldberg’s publishing endeavors have been worthy of attention, dating back to his…