Category: Books

  • 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…

  • Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’ – The New York Times

    Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’ – The New York Times

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    Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’ While in Paris, photography became Brassai’s main language as he wandered through bars, ballrooms and occasionally brothels, sometimes giving direction to his subjects. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/lens/brassai-the-eye-of-paris.html That sentiment and others cited in “Brassai,” a book recently released by Spain’s Fundación Mapfre, were most likely colored by Brassaï’s retrospective regret for not…

  • Interview with Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself | LENSCRATCH

    Interview with Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself | LENSCRATCH

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    Interview with Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself “Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself, published by Laurence King in March 2018 is the first major single book retrospective of one of the world’s most influential photographers, Joel Meyerowitz. This timely new book, published to coincide with the photog via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/04/joel-meyerowitz/ “Joel Meyerowitz: Where I…

  • Documenting the Dynamic Black Community of 1940s Seattle – The New York Times

    Documenting the Dynamic Black Community of 1940s Seattle – The New York Times

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    Documenting the Dynamic Black Community of 1940s Seattle In the 1940s, Al Smith documented a heroic period for Seattle jazz in the integrated establishments of Jackson Street, where African-American performers and customers were embraced. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/lens/documenting-the-dynamic-black-community-of-1940s-seattle.html The image appears in “Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith,” an exhibition at the Museum of…

  • Sketching Cruelty and Finding Humanity Beside Syria’s ‘Waterfall of Blood’ – The New York Times

    Sketching Cruelty and Finding Humanity Beside Syria’s ‘Waterfall of Blood’ – The New York Times

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    Sketching Cruelty and Finding Humanity Beside Syria’s ‘Waterfall of Blood’ Rania Abouzeid’s new book, “No Turning Back,” traces the escalation of the Syrian war by following a diverse set of characters within it. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/magazine/rania-abouzeid-syrian-war.html A conversation with Rania Abouzeid, author of “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria” (W.W. Norton &…

  • ‘Undocumented’: On the Front Lines of the Immigration War | Getty Images FOTO

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    [contentcards url=”https://foto.gettyimages.com/news/politics/john-moore-undocumented-immigration-book-photos/”] ‘Undocumented’: On the Front Lines of the Immigration War | Getty Images FOTO Photographer John Moore discusses his new book chronicling the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Fashion Climbing, photographer Bill Cunningham’s secret memoir

    Fashion Climbing, photographer Bill Cunningham’s secret memoir

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    Fashion Climbing, photographer Bill Cunningham’s secret memoir This is kind of amazing. Legendary street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died two years ago, leaving behind a massive body via kottke.org: https://kottke.org/18/03/fashion-climbing-photographer-bill-cunninghams-secret-memoir This is kind of amazing. Legendary street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died two years ago, leaving behind a massive body of work documenting the last…

  • Matt Eich: I Love You, I’m Leaving | LENSCRATCH

    Matt Eich: I Love You, I’m Leaving | LENSCRATCH

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    Matt Eich: I Love You, I’m Leaving At this particular time I have no one Particular person to grieve for, though there must Be many, many unknown ones going to dust I often recall this verse by Elizabeth Jennings from her poem In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me when I view images that cause via…