Category: Books
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Gerhard Steidl Is Making Books an Art Form – The New Yorker
The Man Making Books an Art Form Gerhard Steidl is the printer whom the world’s best photographers trust most. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/gerhard-steidl-is-making-books-an-art-form Gerhard Steidl is known for fanatical attention to detail and for embracing the best that technology offers. “He is so much better than anyone,” the photographer William Eggleston said.
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Puk Damsgård’s The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War :: Books :: Reviews :: Puk Damsgård :: Paste
Puk Damsgård’s The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War Puk Damsgård chronicles the capture, confinement and eventual release of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye. via pastemagazine.com: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/puk-damsgards-the-isis-hostage.html The ISIS Hostage: One Man’s True Story of Thirteen Months in Captivity is a case study in what might be called the New War Journalism. Puk…
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1000 iconic Magnum photobooks in one single book – The Eye of Photography
1000 iconic Magnum photobooks in one single book The publishing house Phaidon releases Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné, the first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agency
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Bookstore Browsing: 10 Photo Books from Tokyo – PhotoShelter Blog
Bookstore Browsing: 10 Photo Books from Tokyo – PhotoShelter Blog Travel provides a myriad of opportunities for the photographer to be visually re-inspired. We travel to Tokyo to peruse the bookshelf of local artists. via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/02/bookstore-browsing-tokyo/ Japan is famous for its camera brands and love of photography, but outside of Daido Moriyama, most…
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Peter van Agtmael: Buzzing at the Sill | LENSCRATCH
Peter van Agtmael: Buzzing at the Sill With the widespread uncertainty and fear over the increasingly exposed divisions in the United States, I hope this work can give perspective on the rarely seen corners of this dense, complex, and troubled nation. Moving through the vastness of America the via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/02/peter-van-agtmael-buzzing-at-the-sill/ Peter van Agtmael’s new…
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The latest issue of Dog Food – The Eye of Photography
The latest issue of Dog Food Dog Food 5 has just arrived on the scene and introduces the newly formed KRISIS photo agency on the world stage. Follow their exploits from the Island of Lesbos to the depths of Syria. The editors created Archive articles from Kurdistan to Canada. Including a new photo manifesto, trigger-fingers,…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “The Last Son”
Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “The Last Son” Through the years, all of Jim Goldberg’s publishing endeavors have been worthy of attention, dating back to his seminal and highly collectable 1995 ti… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/a-look-inside-jim-goldberg-s-the-last-son/ Through the years, all of Jim Goldberg’s publishing endeavors have been worthy of attention, dating back to his…
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Michael Dunev: Parallax | LENSCRATCH
Michael Dunev: Parallax Sometimes we get so caught up in the intention of photography or finding subjects to build a project on, that we forget the beauty of simply taking photographs. Michael Dunev has just released a significant monograph, Parallax, recently published by Polig via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/12/michael-dunev-parallax/ Michael Dunev has just released a significant monograph,…
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A Spotlight on the Season’s Top Photography Books – The New York Times
A Spotlight on the Season’s Top Photography Books New books showcase the photos of Daido Moriyama, Sally Mann and others. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/books/review/a-spotlight-on-the-seasons-top-photography-books.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 alleges that VICE violated her copyright when it published one of her photos of parents-to-be online with an article titled “What It’s Like to Be a Millennial in a Sexless Relationship”
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TIME Selects the Best Photobooks of 2016 | TIME
Discover the 35 Best Photobooks of the Year Selected by Martin Parr, Roxana Marcoci and many others, including TIME’s editors via Time: http://time.com/4580692/best-photobooks-2016/ Selected by Martin Parr, Roxana Marcoci and many others photo experts, including TIME’s editors
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Mark Peterson: Political Theater | LENSCRATCH
Mark Peterson: Political Theatre Every presidential campaign has a particular feel and color: the red, white, and blue days of JFK that ended in a sad pink boucle, the brilliant reds of Nancy Reagan, the rainbow spectrum of the Obamas. But this election is perfectly captured in black and via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/11/mark-peterson/ Every presidential campaign…
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Gilles Mora: Antebellum | LENSCRATCH
Gilles Mora: Antebellum Photographer, editor, artistic director and museum director Gilles Mora has just released a new monograph, Antebellum, published by Texas University Press that consists of impressionistic, rarely seen images of a disappearing Deep South. His grainy images via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/10/gilles-mora-antebellum/ Photographer, editor, artistic director and museum director Gilles Mora has just released a…
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Anatomy of a Photobook: 10(X) by Sara Terry | TIME
The Virtue of Publishing Small Photo Poems Sara Terry is the publisher of 10(X), a limited-edition series of photobooks via Time: http://time.com/4520075/anatomy-of-a-photobook-10x-by-sara-terry/ When Sara Terry started printing handmade limited-edition photobooks of her work – each edition displaying only 10 images of her choice – she never expected it to attract an audience beyond her close…
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The fifty years of Gamma – The Eye of Photography
The fifty years of Gamma In December 1966, four photographers, Hubert Henrotte, Raymond Depardon, Hugues Vassal, Léonard de Raemyand an agent, Jean Monteux, ready for a new adventure decided to launch a photographers’ agency where everyone worked on a 50-50 basis . The photographers, shareholders or colleagues shared half of the income from the sales of…
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Paula Bronstein’s Afghanistan Between Hope and Fear is a photojournalist’s 15-year study of Afghanistan.
15 Years of Hope and Fear in Afghanistan Paula Bronstein has seen a lot of Afghanistan since she first visited the country nearly 15 years ago during the first few months of the American… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/08/03/paula_bronstein_s_afghanistan_between_hope_and_fear_is_a_photojournalist.html Bronstein returned many times after that initial assignment, often working on stories of her own volition that…
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The strange beauty of vintage Mexican crime photos – The Washington Post
The strange beauty of vintage Mexican crime photos A new book collects old Mexican crime photos. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/07/27/the-strange-beauty-of-vintage-mexican-crime-photos/ On a trip to Mexico in 2010, photographer Stefan Ruiz stumbled on a sizable amount of vintage Mexican crime photos. He was perusing Mexico City’s sprawling La Lagunilla thrift market when he came across them.…
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Through Her Lens Darkly: Diane Arbus’s Life Was as Raw as Her Work – The New York Times
Through Her Lens Darkly: Diane Arbus’s Life Was as Raw as Her Work A biography of Diane Arbus links her charged imagery to an often fraught personal life. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/diane-arbus-biography-by-arthur-lubow.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&_r=0 Arbus is possibly the closest thing America has to Kafka, a profound ironist who simply did not see the world in conventional terms and was…
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Best Photography Books of Summer 2016 | American Photo
Best Photography Books of Summer 2016 Here are the best photo books we’re thumbing through this season
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Worth a look: Raw View magazine | dvafoto
Worth a look: Raw View magazine If you haven’t seen a copy of Raw View yet, you need to. It’s a beautifully printed magazine dedicated to photography. Each issue presents a wide range of work, diverse in both the type and subject matter of the photography and in terms of who is producing the work