Category: Books

  • A book for the ages: William Albert Allard's retrospective

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    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.

  • Conversations about Photobooks: Lesley Martin

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    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 the envelope in unexpected directions. A few weeks ago, I sat down with Lesley to talk about Aperture and about the history and future of photobooks

  • Zine 5. 40 Days

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    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

  • 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 people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.

  • photo-eye Book Reviews: 1h

    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 people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.

  • The Point by Kirk Crippens and Michael Jang

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    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.

  • HERE COMES THE PHOTO ISSUE!

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    Our 10th annual Photo Issue has a couple of things going for it. For one, each of the 39 photographers contributed a photo essay, so everyone’s work has a nice narrative to it and the magazine flows really well and blah blah blah. For TWO, the cover is f*cking scratch-n-sniff.
    That’s right, if you scratch those naked colored people (#notracist) they will release a funny smell.

  • Ronan Guillou Angel

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    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.

  • Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny

    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 Tirania,” a chronicle of the worst of the war years that builds upon her 1988 volume “Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny.” This time, she has raised $20,000 through Kickstarter to help produce 4,000 copies on glossy stock and with sewn bindings that will be sold for about $10 each. More important, she has set aside some 1,000 copies to be given away to schools and teachers in Guatemala.

  • How to make a photobook

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    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 I’d throw my own thoughts into the mix. I hope that some people might find them useful

  • A Conversation with Anouk Kruithof

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    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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    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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    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 exhibition requires audience participation in its assemblage.

  • Shahidul Alam by John G. Morris

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    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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    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 enjoyment.

  • photo-eye’s best photo books of 2012

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    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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    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

    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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    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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    “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.