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 attacks of September 11, 2001. It is also the story of a woman making her way in a man’s world, whether she’s fending off men grabbing her ass while shooting on the streets of Pakistan, or being told by a male correspondent that her being a woman will interfere with their access to a prominent Afghan leader they’ve been assigned to profile. (Addario quickly finds her way to the warlord’s mansion, and is busy shooting when her colleague shows up.)
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.
Mr. Okahara, who received the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship for his work on the project, originally considered self-publishing the book. Then he had an idea. He wanted people to see the photos and weigh in; to let his subjects know that people all over the world see, and care about, their stories.
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.
“Your rabid romance reader who was buying $100 worth of books a week and funneling $5,200 into Amazon per year is now generating less than $120 a year,” she said. “The revenue is just lost. That doesn’t work well for Amazon or the writers.”
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 and in this environment finding great photographs is like the proverbial needle in a haystack. Instagram is awash with images. Daily the number of photographs uploaded is staggering, millions of them, and there are only so many photographers one can follow before the entire day is sucked into cyberspace. So how do you select only 100 images from this endless flow?
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.
“A journalist should be able to just go off and interview people and see for himself, but that has not been the case in Afghanistan for years,” he said in a phone interview last month. “I didn’t believe in the embedded photographer just taking pictures of things being blown up and calling that journalism, so I tried to piece it together visually.”
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
Photographers Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals have crafted an insightful book, Photographer’s Sketchbooks, that reveals the thought processes and inspirations of significant photographers. The book provides a wonderful opportunity to consider projects and ways of working that allow for a deep consideration of the artist and the art.
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 controlling and presenting their own work via self publishing.
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 Clinch Roc
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.
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
The words “landscape photography” can often, unjustly, elicit yawns and cause eyelids to droop. Landmark: The Fields of Landscape Photography, recently published by Thames & Hudson, proves this to be exactly the wrong reaction.
Scott Strazzante thought he had a quick newspaper assignment photographing a farm in suburban Chicago. Instead, he spent the next 20 years documenting life there and on the suburban subdivision that replaced it.
Photographer Nicoló Degiorgis received the award for his book Hidden Islam, depicting Muslim places of worship in Europe that are makeshift or temporary.
The book is made entirely of gatefold pages. Black and white depictions of unassuming buildings like garages, shops and warehouses open to reveal color images of the interiors of these places of worship.
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
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 last four decades
Twenty years after its original publication in 1994, Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck are working on a new edition of Bystander to be released hopefully in 2015. I asked Joel a few questions about the new edition.
Written by pop-culture authors Buzz Poole and Christopher D. Salyers (who is also a toy camera collector), Camera Crazy is an attractively photographed collection of functioning toy cameras, which …
Written by pop-culture authors Buzz Poole and Christopher D. Salyers (who is also a toy camera collector), Camera Crazy is an attractively photographed collection of functioning toy cameras, which were popularized in the 1960s when the plastic 120 film “Diana” hit the market for only $1 a pop
Bay Area zine publisher NIGHTED has connected 44 photographers from all over the United States, in addition to Canada and Europe as well, to give their archive of suspicious activities and daily instances of oddities, purpose.
