Category: Books
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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…
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The 10 Best New Photography Books of Summer 2015 | American Photo
Link: Photobooks on young womanhood, the chaotic landscape of Las Vegas, coffee-farming in South America, and more in American Photo’s roundup of the season’s best
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Three Noteworthy, New Street Photography Books — Vantage — Medium
Link: In an age where everyone is publishing books, the requests for reviews are almost unmanageable. I have dozens of books sent to me every month. I simply cannot review them all, nor am I inclined to do so. However, every once in a while I come across a book worth noticing. Here are three…
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Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists – Feature Shoot
Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists The duty of a photojournalist, according to many, is to remain detached in a moment of crisis, to compartmentalize scenes of violence and war from the goings on of everyday life. As suggested by Italian journalist Mario Calabresi in his extraordinary book Eyes…
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Photographing a Los Angeles Community for 22 Years | TIME
Photographing a Los Angeles Community for 22 Years Imperial Courts is Dana Lixenberg’s modest yet epic 22-year project via Time: https://time.com/4119499/photographing-a-los-angeles-community-for-22-years/ Imperial Courts, 1993–2015, the long awaited photography book by Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg and published by Roma, features some of her finest, and most eloquent photographs, suffused with compassion, austere visual beauty, and a…
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Steve McCurry photographs of the American South featured in Paul Theroux’s book, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads.
What Steve McCurry and Paul Theroux Saw When They Traveled Through the American South Throughout his storied photojournalism career, Steve McCurry has traveled extensively on most of the world’s continents, but besides the occasional… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2015/11/steve-mccurry-photographs-of-the-american-south-featured-in-paul-therouxs-book-deep-south-four-seasons-on-back-roads.html Throughout his storied photojournalism career, Steve McCurry has traveled extensively on most of the world’s continents, but…
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From App to Print: Why We Created A Magazine in 2015 — Vantage — Medium
Link: When EyeEm turned a small hack into a photography magazine, we didn’t expect what would happen next.
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Our Favourite Australian Photo Books of 2015 | The Creators Project
Our Favourite Australian Photo Books of 2015 We’ve got your summer reading list sorted. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/53kz43/our-favourite-australian-photo-books-of-2015 Self-publishing was huge in 2015, even bigger than the years before. This is probably because it’s quite affordable and accessible now. Plus the only way to really cut through the noise on social media and say, “Hey, I’m pretty…
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Eugene : Brian Lanker, From the Heart – The Eye of Photography
Link: In 2011 Brian Lanker suddenly and swiftly died of cancer. At his memorial service, a coterie of photographers focused on the need for a book not only on Brian’s excellent photographs but one that celebrated the remarkable, engaging nature of the man.
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The 10 Best New Photobooks: Spring 2016 | American Photo
Link: Our friends from BuzzFeed, The California Sunday Magazine, Mashable, National Geographic and Vantage share visual stories that make an impact.
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: The second in an acclaimed series of illustrated biographies of Magnum photographers, this volume chronicles the life and work of Bruce Davidson, a truly American artist, iconoclast, and humanist.
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Discordia – Magnum Photojournalist Moises Saman Presents His First, Terrific Photobook | Fotografia Magazine
Link: Spanish American photographer Moises Saman – a member of Magnum Photos and one of the top photojournalists out there – discusses Discordia, his first self-published photobook made in collaboration with artist Daria Birang
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‘War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are’ | TIME
‘War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are’ Anastasia Taylor-Lind reviews Michael Christopher Brown’s book, ‘Libyan Sugar’ via Time: https://time.com/4410520/libyan-war-photobook/ A review of Michael Christopher Brown’s photobook, Libyan Sugar