Category: Books

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 tender attention toward the wide scope of individuals who comprise the Imperial Courts community in Los Angeles. Short-listed for PhotoBook of the Year by the 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, the copious tome is the culmination of years of diligent work.

January 10, 2020
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 besides the occasional trips to visit his grandparents in South Carolina as a boy, he hadn’t seen much of the American South. That changed two years ago when the writer Paul Theroux told him he was writing a book on the region and invited him to come along.

January 10, 2020
From App to Print: Why We Created A Magazine in 2015 — Vantage — Medium

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When EyeEm turned a small hack into a photography magazine, we didn’t expect what would happen next.

January 10, 2020
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 proud of this work and would maybe even like to make a small amount of money from it (or at least recoup some of my costs),” is to commit something to paper. Here’s a shortlist of our favourite photo books to come out of Australia this year.

January 10, 2020
Eugene : Brian Lanker, From the Heart – The Eye of Photography

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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.

January 10, 2020
The 10 Best New Photobooks: Spring 2016 | American Photo

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Our friends from BuzzFeed, The California Sunday Magazine, Mashable, National Geographic and Vantage share visual stories that make an impact.

January 10, 2020
Magnum Photos Blog

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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.

January 10, 2020
Discordia – Magnum Photojournalist Moises Saman Presents His First, Terrific Photobook | Fotografia Magazine

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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

January 10, 2020
‘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

January 10, 2020
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 book, “In Boksburg,” which is being republished this month by Steidl

January 10, 2020
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 his new book out from Phaidon this month, The Importants, without any way of distinguishing one type from another, it’s clear they’re all part of a singular aesthetic pursuit.

January 10, 2020
Our Favorite Titles from the 2016 NY Art Book Fair | American Photo

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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 flung corners of the globe. It is free and open to public, making it one of the most accessible events for those looking to add books and ephemera to their collections.

January 10, 2020
Bob Lynn’s Visual Journalism Leadership Book Is Now Available For Free | NPPA

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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 direction.

January 10, 2020
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, he notes, “the endurance of the human creative spirit in conditions of transformation and duress.”

January 10, 2020
The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016 | American Photo

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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.

January 10, 2020
James Baldwin & Steve Schapiro, The Fire Next Time – The Eye of Photography

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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 thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the “land of the free.” It is now republished by Taschen.

January 10, 2020
Marvin E. Newman’s Spellbinding “City of Lights” – Feature Shoot

Marvin E. Newman’s Spellbinding “City of Lights”

Broadway, 1954. Feast Of San Gennaro, Little Italy, New York, 1952. Coney Island, 1953 Now in his 89th year, American photographer Marvin E. Newman is receiving his due as one…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2017/09/marvin-e-newmans-spellbinding-city-of-lights/

Now in his 89th year, American photographer Marvin E. Newman is receiving his due as one of the finest street photographers of the twentieth century. His self-titled monograph, just released as a XXL Collector’s Edition from Taschen showcases his vibrant collection of cityscapes made in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles—as well as in the Heartland of the nation and the outskirts of Alaska between the years 1950 and 1983.

January 10, 2020
From pictorialism to Provoke: the most extensive history of Japanese photobooks – The Eye of Photography

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The Japanese Photobook, 1912 – 1990, published by Steidl and edited by Manfred Heiting, illustrates the development of photography as seen in photo publications in Japan—from the time of influence of European and American pictorialism, the German Bauhaus and Imperial military propaganda, to the complete collapse and destruction of the country in 1945. Then followed a new beginning: with the unique self-determination of a young generation of photographers and visual artists highlighted by the “Provoke” style as well as protest and war documentation of the late 1950s to the early ’70s, the signature Japanese photobook, as we have come to know it, was born. With detailed information and illustrations of over 400 photo publications, an introduction by Kaneko Ryuichi and essays by Jo Takeba, Yuri Mitsuda, Mari Shirayama, Satomi Fujimura, Kotaro Lizawa, Duncan Forbes, this is the first extensive English-language survey of Japanese photobooks of this period.

January 10, 2020
Pictures — How to Make Them – Vantage – Medium

Pictures — How to Make Them

Chapter One (excerpt)

via Medium: https://kennethjarecke.medium.com/pictures-how-to-make-them-f9bb5a9e87b2

Kenneth Jarecke’s new book, Pictures — How to Make Them will be available on a chapter-by-chapter basis on iTunes. Below is an excerpt from the first chapter.

January 10, 2020
A photographer’s five-year odyssey chasing personal demons resulted in this darkly poetic book – The Washington Post

Perspective | A photographer’s five-year odyssey chasing personal demons resulted in this darkly poetic book

Photographer Sebastian Van Malleghem’s personal journey through Scandinavia

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/09/08/a-photographers-five-year-odyssey-chasing-personal-demons-resulted-in-this-darkly-poetic-book/

Sebastien Van Malleghem’s forthcoming book, ‘Nordic Noir’ is the result of a five-year odyssey traveling through Scandinavia. Van Malleghem’s work has always examined the darker edges of life. He has photographed the war-torn streets of Libya, plummeted into the seedy underbelly of Berlin and examined the world of embalmers and morgues in Mexico, just to name a few of his projects. But in 2012, on the heels of returning from a post-Gaddafi Libya, Van Malleghem found himself on an island in Norway, trying to get away from that darkness and find a simpler form of photography. Thus began his obsessive love affair with Scandinavia which is culminating in the publication of his book.

January 10, 2020