Category: Books
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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
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Looking at White Privilege Under Apartheid – The New York Times
Looking at White Privilege Under Apartheid The South African photographer David Goldblatt revisits white, middle-class life under apartheid in a new edition of his 1982 book, “In Boksburg.” via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/looking-at-white-privilege-under-apartheid/ for the country’s white middle class — the group that thrived under apartheid — that existence was captured in David Goldblatt’s seminal 1982…
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Kevin Amato photographs residents of the Bronx in his book, The Importants.
Photographing the Bold and the Beautiful in the Bronx Kevin Amato makes photos for fashion campaigns, album covers, documentary series, editorial clients, and himself. But as they’re presented in his new… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/kevin-amato-photographs-residents-of-the-bronx-in-his-book-the-importants.html Kevin Amato makes photos for fashion campaigns, album covers, documentary series, editorial clients, and himself. But as they’re presented in…
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Our Favorite Titles from the 2016 NY Art Book Fair | American Photo
Link: Last Sunday marked the final day of the 11th annual NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, The annual event put on by the famous Chelsea book store Printed Matter is a magnet for connoisseurs and enthusiasts of art books and print work published independently by vendors from far…
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Bob Lynn’s Visual Journalism Leadership Book Is Now Available For Free | NPPA
Link: First published in 2013, the book draws from Lynn’s experiences at the Virginia-Pilot and from his earlier post at the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. His photo staffs regularly won in NPPA contests and the International Pictures of the Year competitions. The Virginia-Pilot was also awarded Best Use of Pictures three times under Lynn’s…
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Inge Morath’s photographs featured in the book, Inge Morath: On Style.
The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers Inge Morath may have frequently photographed well-dressed people and many figures of the fashion world, but to call her a fashion photographer would be… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/inge-moraths-photographs-featured-in-the-book-inge-morath-on-style.html Rather than “the seasonal changes of attire,” the motif running through Morath’s best work was,…
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The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016 | American Photo
Link: 2016 was an undeniably tumultuous year for the world, which has translated into a strong year for photo books. In time for the holidays we present the best new offerings, as well as highlights from our 2016 roundups in spring, summer, and fall.
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James Baldwin & Steve Schapiro, The Fire Next Time – The Eye of Photography
Link: First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving…