Category: Books
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Best Photobooks of the Year: 2015 | American Photo
Best Photobooks of the Year: 2015 Photography’s rich history and creative doers continually make it clear: The best place to see great images (aside from a museum or gallery wall) is a bound book. In the holiday spirit, we’ve drawn this list from recent releases as well as our roundups in spring, summer and fall.…
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How Mark Hogancamp Used Photography To Help Cope With PTSD | American Photo
How Mark Hogancamp Used Photography To Help Cope With PTSD Mark Hogancamp leads a double life. In Marwencol, Hogancamp is a WWII fighter pilot, an owner of a successful bar and married to a beautiful woman named Anna. He also happens to be only 12 inches high and made of plastic. In Kingston, New York—the…
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Magnum Photos Blog
New Book: Jet Lag Jet Lag, deals with the ultimate in disconnection—from spouse, family, nation, time, and earth itself. In these succinct black-and-white images of globalized disconnect, reality is less touchstone than distraction: The important space is “between.” Planes and hotel beds and flickering screens provide the only continuity; jet lag is a way of…
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Book : The Russian Desert by Ljubiša Danilovic – The Eye of Photography
Book : The Russian Desert by Ljubiša Danilovic Editions lamaindonne presents the work of Ljubiša Danilovic in this book entitled Le Desert Russe (The Russian Desert). As the author explains, “By 2050, Russia will have lost a third of its current population. The largest country in the world will then have just a hundred million…
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The 10 Best New Photobooks: Fall 2015 | American Photo
The 10 Best New Photobooks: Fall 2015 From personal monographs to historic surveys, these are the brightest new gems for your collection
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A Manifesto to Self-Publishing Your Own Photobooks | TIME
The How-To Guide to Self-Publish Your Own Photobooks Bruno Ceschel of “Self Publish, Be Happy” shares his best tips via Time: http://time.com/4040880/guide-self-publish-photobook/ Bruno Ceschel of Self Publish, Be Happy shares his best tips
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Witness the Historical Transformation of Japanese Photography | TIME
Witness the Historical Transformation of Japanese Photography A new book and exhibit explore the evolution of Japanese photography via Time: http://time.com/4035308/japanese-photography/ “Many photographers started questioning what was the duty, what was the mission for them to reflect the society which changed radically in the ‘60s,” says Yasufumi Nakamori, associate curator of photography at the Houston…
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Publishing Photo Books: Success Tips from Brad Mangin | PhotoShelter Blog
Publishing Photo Books: Success Tips from Brad Mangin – PhotoShelter Blog As the 2015 baseball season starts winding to a close, we caught up with Brad Mangin, accomplished sports photographer and longtime friend of PhotoShelter. Brad has now published four wonderful photography books — one titled Instant Baseball featuring his via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/09/publishing-photo-books-success-tips-from-brad-mangin/ We…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – New zines from Hamburger Eyes
Juxtapoz Magazine – New zines from Hamburger Eyes The ever-busy folks over at Hamburger Eyes have just released a series of new zines, six in total, and they are only $5 each! What that means is that… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/hamburger-eyes-92323482348234 With titles like Celly Brain, Koinstars, Face Time and California Nights, Hamburger Eyes continues to be…
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Harry Gruyaert: A Belgian photographer embraces the color movement of the 1970s (PHOTOS).
The Photographer Who Brought Color to Magnum It’s hard to read anything about Harry Gruyaert without at least one mention of the word color. The Belgian’s somewhat radical embrace of the medium in… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/18/harry_gruyaert_a_belgian_photographer_embraces_the_color_movement_of_the.html It’s hard to read anything about Harry Gruyaert without at least one mention of the word color. The…
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Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin photograph the Republic of the Congo in their book, Congo.
These Untitled Photos of the Republic of Congo Leave Viewers to Find Their Own Interpretations Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo has not been widely documented. Alex Majoli… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/16/alex_majoli_and_paolo_pellegrin_photograph_the_republic_of_the_congo_in.html Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the…
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In China, the Photobook as Art and History – The New York Times
In China, the Photobook as Art and History On a fateful 2006 trip to a Beijing flea market, the photographers Martin Parr and Ruben Lundgren were fascinated by the Chinese photobooks they discovered. Soon, they became obsessed. Mr. Lundgren, who relocated there and became fluent in Mandarin, helped Mr. Parr make sense of the many…
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Bruce Gilden’s Face: An up close and personal look at people often ignored (PHOTOS).
You Can’t, and Shouldn’t, Ignore These Faces There are 50 portraits in Bruce Gilden’s new book, Face, published by Dewi Lewis, and it’s a safe bet you’ll probably remember all of them. via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/07/15/bruce_gilden_s_face_an_up_close_and_personal_look_at_people_often_ignored.html There are 50 portraits in Bruce Gilden’s new book, Face, published by Dewi Lewis, and it’s a safe bet…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Odysseia by Antoine D’Agata When I was on the ground, I constantly questioned the usefulness of my presence. I photographed people dying, to show them to those who let them die.
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Pathways from Darkroom to Digital – The New Yorker
Pathways from Darkroom to Digital Eight renowned photographers discuss how they’ve navigated technological changes in the medium. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/adapting-to-the-digital-revolution In a new book, “From Darkroom to Daylight,” Harvey Wang interviews fellow-photographers and other renowned photo-world professionals about their experiences navigating technological changes in the medium. Some, such as Sally Mann, have continued to rely…
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This Week In Photography Books: Sol Neelman | A Photo Editor
This Week In Photography Books: Sol Neelman – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein It’s a Thursday. You know what that means. Yup, this is a column I’m going to pull straight out of my _________. Sorry. It can’t be helped. It’s not that I’m lazy. Just the opposite. The last few weeks have been…
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A look at Eli Reed’s career in the book, A Long Walk Home (PHOTOS).
The World as Seen by Magnum’s First Black Photographer Whether he’s photographing Hollywood actors or armed militia men, Eli Reed’s work can be characterized by a distinct sense of humanity and empathy. His… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/06/04/a_look_at_eli_reed_s_career_in_the_book_a_long_walk_home_photos.html Whether he’s photographing Hollywood actors or armed militia men, Eli Reed’s work can be characterized by a distinct…
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5 Female Photographers Capture the Clash of Life and Conflict in Beirut | American Photo
5 Female Photographers Capture the Clash of Life and Conflict in Beirut What becomes immediately apparent from viewing the photographs in the five POV Female Beirut books is the divide in Beirut between war and everyday life
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Watch Juergen Teller Talk About Himself and His New Book On German Soccer Shenanigans | American Photo
Watch Juergen Teller Talk About Himself and His New Book On German Soccer Shenanigans Gerhard Steidl, founder of the German art publisher, has never seen a soccer game. So when Juergen Teller approached him with hundreds if not thousands of images chronicling outbursts of spectator shenanigans from last summer’s World Cup, he thought, “how strange…
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On Daido: 31 Photographers Pay Tribute to Japan’s Most Inspiring Image-maker | American Photo
On Daido: 31 Photographers Pay Tribute to Japan’s Most Inspiring Image-maker Daido Moriyama is one of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium—but why take our word for it? The forthcoming book On Daido, from FBF, the publishing branch of the not-for-profit Fotobookfestival Kassel, features homages from 31 photographers and 21 writers…