Category: Books

  • How to make a photobook

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    Link: My headline is slight disingenuous: There actually is no simple recipe for photobook making. If you asked ten people about how to make a photobook, you’d probably end up with ten different answers. That said, from what I can tell, most photobook makers seem to agree on quite a few things. So I thought…

  • A Conversation with Anouk Kruithof

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    Link: Anouk Kruithof is one of the recipients of this year’s ICP Infinity Awards. Over the past few years, she has produced a string of cutting-edge books, many of them self-published. So there were many reasons why I wanted to talk to her about her work.

  • Better by Design: The role of design in the making of five modern photobooks

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    Link: Jörg Colberg focuses on an overlooked aspect of the photobook, discussing the role of design in the making of five modern classics.

  • You Are Here Handmade Catalogue

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    Link: The handmade catalogues for the LUCEO exhibition, YOU ARE HERE are in a small edition of 100. Each book includes: the Curator’s Essay, 10 hand-printed images on Moab Entrada Rag Bright 190, and one 13″ x 19″ poster, disassembled and cased in a translucent orange wrap. The poster reflects the spirit of how the…

  • Shahidul Alam by John G. Morris

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    Link: I regard My Journey as a Witness by Shahidul Alam as the most remarkable book by a single photographer since a messenger brought me a first copy of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1952. It is not that the two books should be compared, although they are approximately the same weight.

  • Review (of sorts): Interrogations by Donald Weber (in actuality an investigation of the shoot-the-messenger syndrome)

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    Link: Photography essentially is a feel-good exercise for ourselves: We look at photographs to feel good. We want to feel good. It is important to realize that this is usually true even when photographs make us feel bad: it is precisely the fact that we know we should feel bad that can result in our…

  • photo-eye’s best photo books of 2012

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    Link: The result is a list of Best Books that contains between 150-200 titles — not exactly a tidy top 10. But we don’t see this as a problem; we aren’t seeking consensus or a ranking. For us, Best Books is about discoveries

  • We Shall Overcome (10 Photos)

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    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

  • Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud

    Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud

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    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

  • Philippe Monges: Following the Slave Trade

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    Link: Trans Photographic Press has just published « MéMWA », a photography book by Philippe Monges, which explores slavery and the slave trade

  • The Big Picture: America in Panorama (6 Photos)

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    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.

  • Iconic and Unseen War Photos From Vietnam and Iraq

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    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…

  • western front by stanley greene

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    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…

  • Gilles Peress’ book The Rockaways distributed for free

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    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

  • Mother Jones’ Photographers Pick the Best Photobooks of 2013

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    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.…

  • B: Photobooks Retitled to Become Bestsellers

    B: Photobooks Retitled to Become Bestsellers

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    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…

  • National Geographic Photographer Pays a Stunning Tribute to Ansel Adams’ Work

    National Geographic Photographer Pays a Stunning Tribute to Ansel Adams’ Work

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    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…

  • photo-eye | BLOG: Interview: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino

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    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

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules

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    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…

  • Still Rich and Poor | PDN Photo of the Day

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    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