Category: Books

  • 40 years in the making, photographer’s book reveals the ‘boundaries that hover just beyond our sight’ – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | 40 years in the making, photographer’s book reveals the ‘boundaries that hover just beyond our sight’ Harry Gruyaert’s book “Edges” brings together decades of his masterful work. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/10/09/gorgeous-complex-tableaus-meditating-theatricality-life/ Harry Gruyaert’s photographs are gorgeous, complex tableaus meditating on the theatricality of life, whether that be in an immaculately colorful street scene…

  • Photographers Who Bear Witness to War Pay a Steep Price

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    [contentcards url=”https://www.thedailybeast.com/photographers-who-bear-witness-to-war-pay-a-steep-price”] Photographers Who Bear Witness to War Pay a Steep Price In “Shooting War,” neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein examines the impact of war, natural disasters, and other crises on the photographers who document them.

  • Arles 2019 : 50 years, 50 books . Masterpieces from the Martin Parr Library

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    Arles 2019 : 50 years, 50 books . Masterpieces from the Martin Parr Library Collaborative project between Les Rencontres, LUMA and Tate Modern, this project highlights 50 works published between 1969 and 2018. The selection reveals a rich panel of artists who have marked photography in many ways. Whether form or content, this sselection shows…

  • Jason Lee: Oklahoma | LENSCRATCH

    Jason Lee: Oklahoma | LENSCRATCH

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    Jason Lee: Oklahoma Some months ago, I had the pleasure to be in conversation with photographer/actor Jason Lee at Arcana Books about his sold-out monograph, A Plain View. The book is a beautiful tribute to the genre of the Road Trip, his work reflects months on the road in via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/06/jason-lee-oklahoma/ Some months ago,…

  • Workshop Preview: Christian Patterson on the Art of Photo Book Making | PDNPulse

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    Workshop Preview: Christian Patterson on the Art of Photo Book Making | PDNPulse Known for his innovative photo book making, Christian Patterson discusses narrative, sequencing and the difference between artist and trade books. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/05/christian-patterson-photo-book-making.html On May 18-19, Patterson will share his bookmaking expertise in a workshop at Red Hook Labs in Brooklyn, NY.…

  • Karl Ove Knausgaard on Stephen Gill’s Bird Images in “The Pillar” | The New Yorker

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on Stephen Gill’s Bird Images in “The Pillar” | The New Yorker

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    To Be a Bird: Stephen Gill’s “The Pillar” The first time I looked at Stephen Gill’s photographs, I was shaken. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/karl-ove-knausgaard-on-stephen-gills-bird-images-in-the-pillar The photographs in Stephen Gill’s “The Pillar” encounter birds on…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Pimps, Juggalos, and Much More in Nighted Life 13

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Pimps, Juggalos, and Much More in Nighted Life 13 Nighted has been turning out print issues of their trademark film photography publications for over seven years, focusing on things that happen b… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/pimps-juggalos-and-much-more-in-nighted-life-13/ Nighted has been turning out print issues of their trademark film photography publications for over seven years, focusing on things…

  • The Best Photobooks of 2018 | Time

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    TIME’s Best Photobooks of 2018 Including ‘Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph’ via Time: http://time.com/longform/best-photobooks-2018/ As an antidote to your unyielding Instagram feed, consider the photobook. In 2018, the form continued to be the most intimate way for photographers to fulfill and share their work. Here, TIME’s photography staff has selected the 25 we loved most…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – A Look Into “Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive”

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – A Look Into “Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive” It’s often been said that Alex Prager’s photography work is cinematic in approach and content. There is the sense of a movie still from a classic Holl… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/books/a-look-into-alex-prager-silver-lake-drive/ It’s often been said that Alex Prager’s photography work is cinematic in approach and content.…

  • The Best Photo Books of 2018 – The New York Times

    The Best Photo Books of 2018 – The New York Times

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    The Best Photo Books of 2018 In a time of omnipresent digital images, books remain one of the most powerful ways of showing the riches of photography. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/magazine/best-photo-books-2018.html?partner=rss&emc=rss I think about my “year-end” list of photo books all through the year, poring over publishers’ catalogs. I’m sent many books and buy many others. I…

  • Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ – The New York Times

    Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ – The New York Times

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    Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for decades. But a new book sheds fresh light on the portrait’s little-explored details. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/lens/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother.html The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for…

  • Winners of 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Announced | PDNPulse

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    Winners of 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Announced | PDNPulse Laia Abril, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa have won the 2018 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/11/winners-of-2018-paris-photo-aperture-foundation-photobook-awards-announced.html The three winners of the 2018 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards were announced on Friday in Paris. Laia Abril won Photobook of the Year for…

  • Random Moments, Petty Lies and Quiet Pleasures – The New York Times

    Random Moments, Petty Lies and Quiet Pleasures – The New York Times

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    Random Moments, Petty Lies and Quiet Pleasures In “Taradiddle,” Charles Traub’s photographs reveal how life plays tricks on us all. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/lens/charles-traub-taradiddle-photographs.html In “Taradiddle,” Charles Traub’s photographs reveal how life plays tricks on us all.

  • A New Book to Change the Way You Look at Photography – Feature Shoot

    A New Book to Change the Way You Look at Photography – Feature Shoot

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    A New Book to Change the Way You Look at Photography – Feature Shoot Dorothea Lange: The Road West, New Mexico, 1938. Library of Congress. Daido Moryama: Stray Dog, 1971. Courtesy Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Photographers on Photography, the newest book from the author… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/11/a-new-book-to-change-the-way-you-look-at-photography/ Photographers on Photography, the newest book from…

  • The Photo Book as Art Object – The New York Times

    The Photo Book as Art Object – The New York Times

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    The Photo Book as Art Object For Dayanita Singh, photography is inseparable from its presentation, and she has spent years experimenting with unusual photo book formats to display her work. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/lens/dayanita-singh-photo-books.html For Dayanita Singh, photography is inseparable from its presentation, and she has spent years experimenting with unusual photo book formats to display her…

  • fovi8 Zine – Utah Photojournalism

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    [contentcards url=”https://utpj.org/2018/09/fovi8-zine/”] fovi8 Zine – Utah Photojournalism Issue #12 of the fovi8 Zine is out today. You can get a copy over at https://fovi8.com.

  • New photo book gives rare glimpse inside North Korea / Boing Boing

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    New photo book gives rare glimpse inside North Korea Inside North Korea collects Oliver Wainwright’s gorgeous photos of the striking public aesthetic of a brutal dictatorship. via Boing Boing: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/07/new-photo-book-gives-rare-glim.html Inside North Korea collects Oliver Wainwright’s gorgeous photos of the striking public aesthetic of a brutal dictatorship.

  • This Graphic Novel is About the Crime Photographer Weegee

    This Graphic Novel is About the Crime Photographer Weegee

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    This Graphic Novel is About the Crime Photographer Weegee Weegee, the pseudonym of Arthur (Usher) Fellig, was a press photographer in New York City who’s best known for his gritty photos of urban life, death, via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/15/this-graphic-novel-is-about-the-crime-photographer-weegee/ Weegee, the pseudonym of Arthur (Usher) Fellig, was a press photographer in New York City who’s best…

  • A Brief Visual History of ISIS by Magnum Photos | Time

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    These Photos Show the History of ISIS A special photography project traces the group visually, from colonialism to the group’s modern atrocities via Time: http://time.com/longform/isis-visual-history-magnum-photos/ ISIS, that much feared, reviled, celebrated, media-savvy and somewhat phantasmagoric entity, “promotes itself much less through a coherent ideology than via the equivalent of an aggregated, gigantic snuff-selfie,” writes Peter…

  • The Magic of Books Where Photography Meets Essays – The New York Times

    The Magic of Books Where Photography Meets Essays – The New York Times

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    The Magic of Books Where Photography Meets Essays On facing pages, text and image can be brought into intimate conversation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/magazine/the-magic-of-books-where-photography-meets-essays.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Design-wise, the most famous collaboration between a writer and a photographer did not end up looking like much of a collaboration at all. Walker Evans contributed a preface to the 1960 reissue of…