Category: Books

  • Joel Meyerowitz’s Magnum Opus “Where I Find Myself” is a Six-Decade Tour de Force – Feature Shoot

    Joel Meyerowitz’s Magnum Opus “Where I Find Myself” is a Six-Decade Tour de Force – Feature Shoot

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    Joel Meyerowitz’s Magnum Opus “Where I Find Myself” is a Six-Decade Tour de Force – Feature Shoot Bay/Sky, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1987. New York City, 1975. Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself (Laurence King) is a pièce de résistance, a masterful feat of publishing that sets the bar… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/03/joel-meyerowitzs-magnum-opus-where-i-find-myself-is-six-decade-tour-de-force/ Joel Meyerowitz: Where I…

  • B: Q & A with Josef Chladek

    B: Q & A with Josef Chladek

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    Q & A with Josef Chladek Photo by Martina Draper Josef Chladek is the founding editor of the virtual bookshelf , an online archive of photo books. • BA… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2018/03/q-with-josef-chladek.html Shelf after shelf, but there’s no more room to put up more shelves in the flat. So my slow down may be just a…

  • Towards a Photobook Taxonomy | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    Towards a Photobook Taxonomy | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    Towards a Photobook Taxonomy via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/photobook-taxonomy/ There are many studies of photobooks that attempt to describe this particular medium. Many of them concern themselves with producing larger histories, whether general or location specific ones. In the seminal books by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, the study divides into historical parts, geographical ones,…

  • Nina Berman: An Autobiography of Miss Wish | LENSCRATCH

    Nina Berman: An Autobiography of Miss Wish | LENSCRATCH

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    Nina Berman: An Autobiography of Miss Wish Every once in awhile, a book lands on my desk unexpectedly, so I approach it with no preconceived notions. When I opened Nina Berman’s An Autobiography of Miss Wish, published by Kehrer, it was like a burst of energy, a fireball of amazing story telling, via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/01/nina-berman/…

  • From photo essay to photo book – Witness

    From photo essay to photo book – Witness

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    From photo essay to photo book The making of The Family Imprint and lessons learned along the way via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/from-photo-essay-to-photo-book-ad813a7c10ee The making of The Family Imprint and lessons learned along the way

  • Tara Wray’s Weirdly Beautiful Photos of Rural Vermont – VICE

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    Tara Wray’s Weirdly Beautiful Photos of Rural Vermont The photographer’s book ‘Too Tired for Sunshine’ explores the bizarre hidden in plain sight. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvz8nd/tara-wrays-weirdly-beautiful-photos-of-rural-vermont The photographer’s book ‘Too Tired for Sunshine’ explores the bizarre hidden in plain sight.

  • Here Are 10 of the Most Captivating Photo Books of the Year. Just Look. – Mother Jones

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    Here are 10 of the most captivating photo books of the year. Just look. Our photo editor picks his favorite books of 2017. via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/12/here-are-10-of-the-most-captivating-photo-books-of-the-year-just-look/ This past year seems like we were treated to more photo books than ever. That is, at least in part, due to crowdfunding efforts that are helping photographers defray the exorbitant…

  • Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie Tells His True Story of Surviving 81 Days in Captivity in Syria

    Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie Tells His True Story of Surviving 81 Days in Captivity in Syria

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    Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie Tells His True Story of Surviving 81 Days in Captivity in Syria For as long as he can remember, Jonathan Alpeyrie was fascinated by history and had a fierce passion for adventure. He loved the worlds he could escape to when his father read adventure classics to him, like Call of the Wild and…

  • The Best Photo Books of 2017 – The New York Times

    The Best Photo Books of 2017 – The New York Times

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    The Best Photo Books of 2017 Work that felt not only moving but also necessary. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/magazine/the-best-photo-books-of-2017.html?partner=rss&emc=rss There are great photo books every year, and 2017 was no exception. But something about the strained times intensified my feelings about the work I saw this year. The role of art felt more urgent, both as a…

  • fovi8 volume #1 issue #4 – Jonesblog

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    [contentcards url=”http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2017/12/fovi8-volume-1-issue-4/”] fovi8 volume #1 issue #4 – Jonesblog fovi8 volume 1, issue 4 is now released and is physical.  Like all of our printed editions, this is something that you can hold in your hand, and it is gorgeous.

  • 69 Magnum Photographers Reveal Their Contact Sheets in New Book – Feature Shoot

    69 Magnum Photographers Reveal Their Contact Sheets in New Book – Feature Shoot

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    69 Magnum Photographers Reveal Their Contact Sheets in New Book – Feature Shoot Havana. Ministry of Industry. Ernesto Guevara (Che), Argentinian politician, Minister of industry (1961-1965) during an exclusive interview in his office. © Rene Burri/Magnum Photos. We would like to believe that… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2017/12/69-magnum-photographers-reveal-their-contact-sheets-in-new-book/ Magnum Contact Sheets (Thames & Hudson) offers a…

  • Nancy Rexroth: Iowa | LENSCRATCH

    Nancy Rexroth: Iowa | LENSCRATCH

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    Nancy Rexroth: Iowa When I first discovered the Diana camera in the 1990’s there were few places to look for inspiration. That was, until I found the seminal book by Nancy Rexroth titled IOWA. It was difficult to lay hands on a copy as it had been originally published in 197 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/11/nancy-rexroth-iowa/ When…

  • The why, where, what and how of photobooks and what is ‘The Truth’?

    The why, where, what and how of photobooks and what is ‘The Truth’?

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    The why, where, what and how of photobooks and what is ‘The Truth’? Any photographer today who finds themselves engaged with photography and photographers online, in print or in person, will find it… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-why-where-what-and-how-of-photobooks-and-what-is-the-truth-f93a860044ae To help me explain where we are today with book publishing I often use the metaphor of football — soccer if…

  • S.B. Walker’s photographic survey of Walden Pond – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/10/25/article/159970424/s-b-walkers-photographic-survey-of-walden-pond/”] S.B. Walker’s photographic survey of Walden Pond – The Eye of Photography What has become of the fabled Walden Pond? In his debut monograph Walden, published by Kehrer Verlag, S.B. Walker an artist from New England (USA) who grew up a few miles from Walden Pond surveys the symbolically charged landscape of literary…

  • Malick Sidibé: The seed of joy – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/10/24/article/159970197/malick-sidibe-le-grain-de-la-joie/”] Malick Sidibé: The seed of joy – The Eye of Photography Throughout his life, the Mali photographer Malick Sidibé (1935–2016) immortalized the smiles of his country. The Fondation Cartier in Paris pays homage to the master with a vast retrospective that features over 250 photographs.

  • A city seen: Todd Webb’s postwar New York – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/10/24/article/159969699/a-city-seen-todd-webbs-postwar-new-york/”] A city seen: Todd Webb’s postwar New York – The Eye of Photography Published by Thames & Hudson, the book entitled I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York focuses on the work of American photographer Todd Webb produced in the megapol in the 1940S and 1950s. It is a rich portrait of…

  • Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith

    Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith

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    Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith From cynicism to a surprising sadness via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/viewing-the-last-testament-as-a-person-of-faith-5b3d3ab65e84 Photographer Jonas Bendiksen describes himself as “a man of little faith.” His latest project The Last Testament, a years-long exploration of the lives of seven self-proclaimed Messiahs around the world who claim to be…

  • fovi8 volume #1 issue #2 – Jonesblog

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    [contentcards url=”http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2017/10/fovi8-volume-1-issue-2/”] fovi8 volume #1 issue #2 – Jonesblog fovi8 volume 1, issue 2 is now released and is physical with cover art by Jeff Carlson @jeffcarlson.  This is something that you can hold in your hand, and it is gorgeous.  There will be only 100 issues printed, ever and is the product of 25 extraordinary…

  • Álvaro Laiz, The Hunt – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/10/12/article/159968478/alvaro-laiz-the-hunt/”] Álvaro Laiz, The Hunt – The Eye of Photography In The Hunt, a new book released by English publisher Dewi Lewis, Spanish photographer Álvaro Laiz tells us the story of Udege people, in eastern Siberia, who have lived in the boreal forest for hundreds of years. Due to their close contact with nature,…

  • American wars in the photobook – Witness

    American wars in the photobook – Witness

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    American wars in the photobook A proof-of-concept study of what they tell us about our understanding of war via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/american-wars-in-the-photobook-75b576dc328f I want to attempt to come to conclusions about both the way photographers described war and how underlying larger professional and societal trends influenced the description. Needless to say, these two aspects are not…