Category: Books
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We Shall Overcome (10 Photos)
Link: University Press of Mississippi has just published 156 photographs by nine photographers in This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
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Philippe Monges: Following the Slave Trade
Link: Trans Photographic Press has just published « MéMWA », a photography book by Philippe Monges, which explores slavery and the slave trade
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Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud
Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/riboud-vers-lorient/ Thirty years old, Henri Cartier-Bresson became a mentor during that time. “I often found letters from Henri waiting for me at General Delivery in Kabul, in Jaipur, in Madras, in Ahmedabad, or in some Indonesian city whose name I forget
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Iconic and Unseen War Photos From Vietnam and Iraq
Amazing war photos from Vietnam and Iraq Two recent books offer stunning images and firsthand accounts of photojournalists in conflict zones. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/10/photos-vietnam-real-war-photojournalists/ For every Vietnam War image seared into our memory, there are thousands more, documenting our two-decade slog through an ultimately unwinnable conflict. Vietnam: the Real War, a Photographic History by…
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The Big Picture: America in Panorama (6 Photos)
Link: “At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the ‘strange and compelling medium’ of panoramic group photography,” Princeton Architectural Press said in a statement about its new book, The Big Picture.
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western front by stanley greene
Link: But in San Francisco, it was particular. It was called “Art and Music” The Mutants, The Dills, Flipper, Crime, SVT, The Yanks, Tuxedo Moon, The Tubes, Los Lobos, The Avengers, Dead Kennedys and Romeo Void, U2. Many of them were students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Members of The Mutants and Romeo Void…
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Gilles Peress’ book The Rockaways distributed for free
Link: The imprint will distribute 3000 copies of the book for free with the stipulation that recipients donate money to a charity of their choice and then pass the book on to another person
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Mother Jones’ Photographers Pick the Best Photobooks of 2013
Mother Jones’ photographers choose the best photobooks of 2013 Nearly two dozen notable works. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/12/mother-jones-photographers-best-photobooks-2013/ Rather than offer a narrow list of my own favorite photobooks of the year—lots of documentary and street photography—I turned to some of the awesome photographers who contribute to Mother Jones and asked what caught their eye.…
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B: Photobooks Retitled to Become Bestsellers
Photobooks Retitled to Become Bestsellers Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/05/photobooks-retitled-to-become.html Lurking on the eccentric and strange is a specialty on New York-based photographer, Martin Cartagena. His candid shots of the diverse cast of characters that make up The Big Apple are striking and revealing. It seems as long as there are 8.3 million people occupying New York there…
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National Geographic Photographer Pays a Stunning Tribute to Ansel Adams’ Work
National Geographic Photographer Pays a Stunning Tribute to Ansel Adams’ Work It’s been just over three decades since the passing of Ansel Adams, but his legacy lives on in the hearts and minds (and on many of the walls) of those he via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/06/04/natgeo-photographer-pays-a-beautiful-tribute-to-ansel-adams-work-in-the-ansel-adams-wilderness-photo-book/ Peter Essick, decided to pay tribute to the renowned Group…
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photo-eye | BLOG: Interview: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino
Interview: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino photo-eye Gallery Interview: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino Photographer’s Showcase artist Michelle Frankfurter has recently co… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2014/06/interview-michelle-frankfurters-destino.html Michelle Frankfurter has recently completed her multi-year project titled Destino documenting Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to cross into the United States
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules
Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules” Glen E. Friedman, who was most recently featured in our special Beastie Boys issue, will be releasing a book of his iconic photographs “MY RULES…. Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/watch-glen-e-friedman-ian-mackaye-discuss-photos-in-my-rules/ Raised in North Carolina and educated in California, the Brooklyn-based photographer Bryan Derballa…
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Still Rich and Poor | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: Photographer Jim Goldberg and publisher Gerhard Steidl probably had current socioeconomic realities in mind when they made the decision to revise and reprint Goldberg’s Rich and Poor, which contrasts portraits of San Francisco’s elite with portraits of its poorest citizens
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Photobooks on Kickstarter: 5 Great Projects Worth Funding Right Now | American Photo
Link: The month’s best crowdfunding campaigns, including urban cave dwellers, disappearing relics of the American road and more
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Best Photobooks of the Year 2014 | American Photo
Link: American Photo picks the most original and beautiful books of 2014 that reflect the current trends in photography.
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Special Books : Minutes to Midnight, par Trent Parke – The Eye of Photography
Link: “I’ve been influenced by all sorts of things,” Parke said in a 2007 interview. “Music videos have been great. There is this Icelandic group Sigur Rós – their music is just very sad and melodramatic. Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead and those sorts of bands and their cutting-edge film clips have influenced me. They…
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Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYC with Lee Friedlander | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: In 2006, Lee Friedlander was hired by New York Times Magazine Director of Photography Kathy Ryan to photograph backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta and Proenza Schouler shows
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: This new project by Olivia Arthur takes as its starting point a shipwreck that happened in 1961 and traces the footsteps of a fictional survivor through the modern city.
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Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture – The Eye of Photography
Link: Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to great…