Category: Books
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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…
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Ken Schles: Invisible City and Night Walk take a look at life in the East Village during the 1980s (PHOTOS).
This New York City Neighborhood Was “Invisible” in the ’80s When Ken Schles’ book Invisible City was published in 1988, it quickly sold out. Schles even had trouble finding a copy of his collection of… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/03/01/ken_schles_invisible_city_and_night_walk_take_a_look_at_life_in_the_east.html When Ken Schles’ book Invisible City was published in 1988, it quickly sold out. Schles even…
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3 Ways to Publish Your Photo Book | PhotoShelter Blog
3 Ways to Publish Your Photo Book – PhotoShelter Blog Why Publish a Book? There comes a point in a photographer’s life when publishing a book seems like a logical step. The coffee table book represents a platonic ideal for a photo project that is both long-term and worthy of considerations by others. Yet, ev…
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The book, Photographers’ Sketchbooks, shows the creative process of photographers from around the world.
A Glimpse Into the Sketchbooks of Professional Photographers To many, it might seem that the art of photography is simply a matter of going out and snapping pictures. But there’s a lot more to it, and there’s… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/02/01/the_book_photographers_sketchbooks_shows_the_creative_process_of_photographers.html “You often hear that everyone’s a photographer these days, which is true and wonderful…
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A Personal Exploration of Egypt’s Turbulent Years | TIME
A Personal Exploration of Egypt’s Turbulent Years Laura El-Tantawy’s photobook In the Shadows of the Pyramids is out now via Time: http://time.com/3681000/a-personal-exploration-of-egypts-turbulent-years/ Laura El-Tantawy’s photobook In the Shadows of the Pyramids is out now
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Why it pays to work the fringes : Columbia Journalism Review
Why it pays to work the fringes Photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s intimate account of via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/review/lynsey_addario_syria.php t’s What I Do is a story of guts, professional ambition, and personal growth that will be familiar to a generation of journalists who came of age on the battlefields of America’s war on terror after the…
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A Photo Book for Its Subjects – NYTimes.com
A Photo Book for Its Subjects Kosuke Okahara wanted viewers of his photo project about self-injury to connect with its subjects. So he sent copies of the book around the world, collecting greetings. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/a-photo-book-for-its-subjects/ Mr. Okahara, who received the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship for his work on the project, originally considered self-publishing…
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Amazon Offers All-You-Can-Eat Books. Authors Turn Up Noses. – NYTimes.com
Amazon Offers All-You-Can-Eat Books. Authors Turn Up Noses. Some self-published writers say their income has seen a large and rapid decrease under Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program, and argue that the system is unfair. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/business/media/amazon-offers-all-you-can-eat-books-authors-turn-up-noses.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 “Your rabid romance reader who was buying $100 worth of books a week and funneling $5,200 into Amazon per year…
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Fourteen Photo Books of 2014 – The New Yorker
Fourteen Photo Books of 2014 As part of our 2014 year in review, The New Yorker photo department highlights a selection of books that were featured this year on Photo Booth. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/fourteen-photography-books-2014 As part of our 2014 year in review, The New Yorker photo department highlights a selection of books that…
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Special Books : Out of the Phone – The Mobile Photo Book 2014 Edition – The Eye of Photography
Out of the Phone – The Mobile Photo Book 2014 Edition If there is one thing that frustrates me in the digital image space it is the lack of critical analysis – just because you can doesn’t mean you should and too few exert control over what images they post. Not everything is worth sharing…
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Losing the Media War in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com
Losing the Media War in Afghanistan Larry Towell’s new book is a detailed reflection on the Afghan war, as well as his impassioned response to the challenges of documenting a conflict many Americans have forgotten. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/losing-the-media-war-in-afghanistan/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog “A journalist should be able to just go off and interview people and see for himself,…
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Bryan Formhals and Stephen McLaren: Photographer’s Sketchbooks | LENSCRATCH
Bryan Formhals and Stephen McLaren: Photographers Sketchbooks Photographers Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals have crafted an insightful book, Photographers Sketchbooks, that reveals the thought processes and inspirations of significant photographers. The book provides a wonderful opportunity to consider projects a via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/12/bryan-formhals-and-stephen-mclaren-photographers-sketchbooks/ Photographers Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals have crafted an insightful book, Photographer’s…
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When Photographers Become Self-Publishing Companies | TIME
When Photographers Become Self-Publishing Companies What does it take to create your own imprint via Time: http://time.com/3611036/photographers-become-publishers/ An increasing number of photographers are bypassing traditional photo book publishers, setting up, instead, their own imprints
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Photographing the Moments Between War and Peace – NYTimes.com
Photographing the Moments Between War and Peace You can’t just flip through James Hill’s new book, “Somewhere Between War and Peace,” for a quick survey of his 20-years-and-counting career