Category: Books
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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…
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Paul Schiek TBW Books Interview | A Photo Editor
Paul Schiek TBW Books Interview – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: I just called you on the phone. We’re not Skyping. And I noticed that your phone number was 444-BOOK. Paul Schiek: Yeah. JB: Who did you have to bribe, as a book publisher, to get BOOK as your phone number? How much money did…
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Book : Encerrados 10 years, 74 prisons by Valerio Bispuri – The Eye of Photography
Book : Encerrados 10 years, 74 prisons by Valerio Bispuri Valerio Bispuri photographed prisoners, cells, but his camera was on something else. This was the lack of freedom that often precedes the life of whoever ends up in prison. The lack of freedom, and thus of choice, is what has convicted the thousands of prisoners…
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Eli Reed’s Long Walk Home – NYTimes.com
Eli Reed’s Long Walk Home A major retrospective of Eli Reed’s work shows how the Magnum photographer has sought beauty and understanding of the human condition. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/eli-reeds-long-walk-home/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog “I just kept working at things to try to understand where I was coming from,” he said. “If you don’t try, nothing will happen. This…
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Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” – The New Yorker
Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new book by the photographers Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin, and yet you never know exactly what you’re looking at. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/nothing-but-pictures-alex-majoli-and-paolo-pellegrins-congo There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new…
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How to Self-Publish Your Photography Book — Vantage — Medium
How to Self-Publish Your Photography Book Valuable tips from one of the most successful photo book producers of all time. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/how-to-self-publishing-your-photography-book-3fb51b79e412 Valuable tips from one of the most successful photo book producers of all time.
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Playground Pain and Pleasure – The New Yorker
Playground Pain and Pleasure James Mollison’s photographs are as fun as a “Where’s Wally?” book and as chilling as my own school-playground memories. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/playground-pain-and-pleasure The following is drawn from the Jon Ronson’s foreword to the book “Playground,” by James Mollison, which is out April 30th from Aperture.
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Book: A New Look at Urban Mobility by Gueorgui Pinkhassov – The Eye of Photography
Book: A New Look at Urban Mobility by Gueorgui Pinkhassov The RATP invited the Franco-Russian photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov to shoot a report on five cities: Casablanca, Florence, London, Paris and Seoul. Through these 60 color photographs, gathered in the book Un nouveau regard sur la mobilité urbaine (Éditions La Martinière), Pinkhassov shares his view of urban…