Category: Books
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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
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Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager – The New York Times
Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager This account of Arbus’s life, while not skimping on sordid details, demonstrates the defects and virtues of consummate professionalism. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/books/review-arthur-lubows-diane-arbus-biography-recalls-an-underworld-voyager.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Arthur Lubow’s new “Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer” is the second major biography of this complicated and controversial artist, after Patricia Bosworth’s “Diane…
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Publisher’s Insight – An Interview with Hannah Watson of Trolley Books | Fotografia Magazine
Publisher’s Insight – An Interview with Hannah Watson of Trolley Books It’s Hannah Watson‘s turn to share her thoughts on photobooks and the photobook market for our Publisher’s Insight series. Hannah is the director of Trolley Books, a London based publisher approaching its 15th birthday
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Publisher’s Insight – An Interview with Dewi Lewis | Fotografia Magazine
Publisher’s Insight – An Interview with Dewi Lewis The key thing about the photobook is that it is not simply a collection of images. It is a coherent sequenced set of photos expressing the thoughts and opinions of the photographer. For me if a photographer is simply reliant on the aesthetics of their work – on…
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#OutNow Vol. 9 – Six Best New Photobooks You Should Know | Fotografia Magazine
#OutNow Vol. 9 – Six Best New Photobooks You Should Know Every few weeks, we ask Martin Amis of Photobookstore to compile #OutNow, a selection of six recommended, recently published photobooks.
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L’ouvrage du World Press Photo 2016 – The Eye of Photography
L’ouvrage du World Press Photo 2016 Chaque année, l’un des plus attendus et plus importants Prix de Photographie de Presse publie son livre, le “World Press Photo Yearbook”. Cette année, l’ouvrage fait peau neuve, il est plus petit et comporte plus de pages tout en laissant une place importante à l’image ! Le livre est publié dans 6…
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New! The Photographer’s Guide to Publishing Photo Books | PhotoShelter Blog
New! The Photographer’s Guide to Publishing Photo Books – PhotoShelter Blog To dig into the world of book publishing, we’ve partnered with the creative book publishing platform Blurb for our latest guide, The Photographer’s Guide to Publishing Photo Books. Inside, check out exclusive interviews with photographers who have compl via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/05/new-the-photographers-guide-to-publishing-photo-books/ Inside,…