Category: Books
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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
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TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2014 | TIME
TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2014 The 27 photobooks that defined 2014, as selected by photography experts from around the world via Time: http://time.com/3602554/best-photobooks-2014/ In 2014, photobook collecting continued to thrive with even more photographers than ever breaking traditional formats and leveling the hierarchy of traditional publishing platforms by taking on all aspects of…
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13 Photo Books for Your Stocking Stuffers | PhotoShelter Blog
13 Photo Books for Your Stocking Stuffers – PhotoShelter Blog In the age of the iPad, there still is something glorious about a photo book. Here are a few of our favorites from 2014, so send Santa (or Hanukah Harry) a quick tweet, and get a big dose of inspiration this Holiday season. Danny Clinch – Danny…
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Bruce Davidson: England/Scotland 1960, Steidl – The Eye of Photography
Bruce Davidson: England/Scotland 1960, Steidl Published for the first time in its entirety in 2005, this new edition has a larger ideal format chosen by Davidson initially for his book Black & White (2012), and now the standard size for his future publications with Steidl
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New Photography Book Brings Together Over 230 Incredible Landscapes – Feature Shoot
New Photography Book Brings Together Over 230 Incredible Landscapes – Feature Shoot Bawadi, 2006 © Florian Joye Randonneurs sur la glacier du Rhone, 2010 © Matthieu Gafsou, courtesy Galerie C, Neuchatel, Switzerland Wild River, Florida, 2005 © Reiner Riedler The words “landscape… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/11/new-photography-book-brings-together-over-230-incredible-landscapes/ The words “landscape photography” can often, unjustly, elicit yawns and cause…
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Buying the Farm, Building a Subdivision – NYTimes.com
Buying the Farm, Building a Subdivision A quick assignment on a farm turned into a two-decade look at what happened when developers transformed the farmland into a suburban subdivision. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/buying-the-farm-building-a-subdivision/ Scott Strazzante thought he had a quick newspaper assignment photographing a farm in suburban Chicago. Instead, he spent the next 20 years…
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Nicoló Degiorgis Wins $10k Paris Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Award
Nicoló Degiorgis Wins $10k Paris Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Award | PDNPulse Photographer Nicoló Degiorgis received the award for his book Hidden Islam, depicting Muslim places of worship in Europe that are makeshift or temporary. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/11/nicolo-degiorgis-wins-10k-paris-photo-aperture-first-photobook-award.html The book is made entirely of gatefold pages. Black and white depictions of unassuming buildings like garages, shops…
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Blue Sky: 36 Monographic books by 36 great photographers | LENSCRATCH
Blue Sky: 36 Monographic books by 36 great photographers Looking at recently released books this week…. In a stroke of genius (or madness), Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts has simultaneously published 36 monographic books by 36 great photographers that the gallery has exhibited over the via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/11/blue-sky/ In a stroke…