Category: Books
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PDN's Notable Books of 2009: Part 2
Link: In our November issue, we showcased 13 books that caught the attention of PDN’s editors this year (read it on PDNOnline here). Below is part two of our list, which includes several books we wrote about in the pages of PDN in 2009.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: ED TEMPLETON: "Deformer and the Will to Not Be F-cked…"
Link: Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California is a much-anticipated book. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed…
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5B4: Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi
Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi Originally Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith was published by De.MO but only half the print run was realized so it sold out q… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/wonderland-fairy-tale-of-soviet.html The style of Eskenazi’s photography follows the lead of the likes of Gilles Peress —…
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Dossier Journal » Ryan McGinley Interview
Link: This Thursday, Ryan McGinley will have his third solo show at Team Gallery. An exhibition of new work, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, will run from March 18 through April 17 and will be accompanied by a monograph published by Dashwood Book. David Strettell, the book’s publisher (also, of course, the owner of the…
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Carry Me Ohio: The Book | Luceo Images
Link: In February of 2006 I unknowingly began making images that would later become an all-consuming project lasting for more than four years. I am excited to announce the first real printing of this body of work. Edited by Mike Davis and designed by his wife Deb Pang Davis of Cococello Design, it contains an…
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APhotoADay Blog » ‘Carry Me Ohio’ hits Blurb
Link: I mention the following probably just because I have Leicas on the brain after the past couple of days, but it strikes me that the S90 and S95 might be the up to the minute analog of the original Leica—the so-called “Barnack camera.” It’s capable but stealthy, as tiny as it can reasonably be,…
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Conscientious | Review: From Here to There by Alec Soth
Link: I suppose I shouldn’t be writing this review on the internet, the place where anything you write can and will be reduced to the one snippet that seems to say something and that then will be taken against you.
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Newfound Colors for a Portrait of New York: Reuel Golden's "New York: Portrait of a City" – NYTimes.com
Newfound Colors for a Portrait of New York Does New York need another picture-book portrait of itself? Reuel Golden thought he could find a fresh approach for a tried-and-true format. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/newfound-colors-for-a-portrait-of-new-york/ A picture-book history of New York. Gee, there hasn’t been one of those since — let’s see, what day of the…
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Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, by Frédéric Chaubin
Link: Frédéric Chaubin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed published by Taschen. Frédéric Chaubin is the editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. He reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture.
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New York: A photographer’s city | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: In New York: A photographer’s city, the American megalopolis is once again stripped naked. More than 300 images by emerging artists shed light on the current state of urban photography.
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A book for the ages: William Albert Allard's retrospective
Link: Judges Bert Fox, Sue Morrow, and Chris Wilkins will pore over the hundreds of entries during the next four days selecting the best of newspaper and magazine picture editing.
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Conversations about Photobooks: Lesley Martin
Link: Aperture has long been a – maybe the – beacon of American photobook publishing. It’s pretty much impossible to talk about photobooks without at some stage running into a book that was done by Aperture. Lesley Martin, Publisher of the Aperture Book Program, has worked on a huge number of those books, often pushing…
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Zine 5. 40 Days
Link: Here are the facts: 40 color photos all made with my iPhone from January 2010 to May 2010 designed by editor and creative director of Refueled Magazine, Chris Brown signed edition of 250
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Tomasz Kizny The Great Terror
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…
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photo-eye Book Reviews: 1h
1h, Photographs by Hans-Christian Schink. Published by Hatje Cantz, 2010.1hReviewed by David Ondrik_
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The Point by Kirk Crippens and Michael Jang
Link: Somewhere in the virtual world, I came across The Point, a new Blurb book that is the collaborative effort of Kirk Crippens and Michael Jang. I’m a big fan of both photographers, and I love the idea of working apart and together to create a significant project.
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HERE COMES THE PHOTO ISSUE!
Cover photo by Jim Mangan from his project, Color’d Our 10th annual Photo Issue has a couple of thi
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Ronan Guillou Angel
Link: With a majestic preface by Wim Wenders, Ronan Guillou’s first work arrives under the highest auspices. The fruit of a years-long trek across 17 American states (like the photographer in Wenders’ Alice in the City), Angel depicts an America in suspense.
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Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny
A Testament From Guatemala’s War Years As Guatemala brings genocide charges against a former military leader, Jean-Marie Simon prepares to reissue her seminal book of photographs from that country’s bloodiest era. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/a-testament-from-guatemalas-war-years/?pagewanted=all This week, while Mr. Ríos Montt is under house arrest, Ms. Simon is reprinting her book “Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna…