Category: Books
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B: Brief Preview
Brief Preview 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.
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A history of functional toy cameras – Boing Boing
A history of functional toy cameras 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 … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/11/06/a-history-of-functional-toy-ca.html Written by pop-culture authors Buzz Poole and Christopher D. Salyers (who is also a toy…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – NIGHTED Life 6 Zine Release
Juxtapoz Magazine – NIGHTED Life 6 Zine Release It all starts with purpose; some sort of reason to bother producing something out of multiples people’s nothings. Bay Area zine publisher NIGHTE… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/nighted-life-6-zine-release Bay Area zine publisher NIGHTED has connected 44 photographers from all over the United States, in addition to Canada and Europe as…
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David Hume Kennerly, On the iPhone Through my eye for The Eye – The Eye of Photography
David Hume Kennerly, On the iPhone Through my eye for The Eye This book synthesizes 50 years of experience as a globe-trotting shooter into my most basic shooting essentials. It can’t teach you how to see, but I’m pretty sure it will show you where to look
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The Return of The Decisive Moment – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/22/henri-cartier-bresson-decisive-moment-reprint/#1 Its value as an out-of-print collectable has risen over the past few decades resulting in keeping this masterpiece out of the hands of many younger photographers. Finally, after 62 years, it is again seeing the light of day this December with…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Trent Parke’s “Minutes to Midnight”
Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Trent Parke’s “Minutes to Midnight” “Minutes to Midnight is an apocalyptic book, but they are real documents, they’re real events, real moments in time that have happened,&rd… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/trent-parke-s-minutes-to-midnight-published-by-steidl With one particular image, Parke stood on the same street corner three or four times a week at a certain…
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Discordia: The Arab Spring – The New Yorker
Discordia: The Arab Spring Since 2011, photographer Moises Saman has been documenting the upheaval in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/discordia-arab-spring Since 2011, the photographer Moises Saman has been documenting the upheaval in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia. Though the photographs collectively capture the events of the past…
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Home / Deadbeat Club
Deadbeat Club Deadbeat Club is a publisher, and distributer of small books, publications, and other ephemera
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21st Century Book Deal Hustle | A Photo Editor
21st Century Book Deal Hustle – A Photo Editor Every era gets the catch phrase it deserves. Just think about “Where’s the beef?” Remember that cranky old lady on the Wendy’s commercials? Of course you do. That it happened during the 80’s, when actors like Stallone and Schwarzenegger were beef-caking u via A Photo Editor:…
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B: How To Make A Photobook
How To Make A Photobook Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-make-photobook_10.html Days of heavy monsoon rain in northern Pakistan and the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir have brought some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 60 years. More than 450 deaths have been reported and the scale of the disaster is straining rescue efforts. Hundreds…
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TIME Special Preview: A Guide to the Best Fall Photo Books – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/08/fall-photo-book-guide/#1 LightBox presents a special preview of the season’s best photography books, featuring new titles from legendary photographers Stephen Shore and Bruce Davidson, as well as inspired work by contemporary photographers Michael Light, Julie Blackmon and LaToya Ruby Frazier.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “Rich and Poor
Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “Rich and Poor” 36 years ago Jim Goldberg took his first photograph for Rich and Poor on Mission Street in San Francisco. Looking out from his current studio windows… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/a-look-inside-jim-goldberg-s-rich-and-poor In his republished book Rich and Poor (originally published in 1985), Goldberg reflects on how little…
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A Book and a Big Life Leap – Assignment Chicago
A Book and a Big Life Leap My photo e-book has been published! It’s based on photo columns that have appeared on this blog over the past four years and I’m absolutely delighted. The title is “Depth of Field: Tips on Photojournalism and Creativity”. Essentially, anyone with a visual storytelling passion would enjoy this book. It…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – New Book “Soviet Ghosts” by Rebecca Litchfield
Juxtapoz Magazine – New Book “Soviet Ghosts” by Rebecca Litchfield British photographer Rebecca Litchfield is brave. Not that many people would take the risk to capture the tattered ruins of a strange and dangerous pa… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/new-book-soviet-ghosts-by-rebecca-litchfield British photographer Rebecca Litchfield is brave. Not that many people would take the risk to capture the tattered…
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Daniel W. Coburn: The Hereditary Estate | LENSCRATCH
Daniel W. Coburn: The Hereditary Estate Daniel W. Coburn is a bright light in the fine art photography world–he’s a wonderfully talented photographer and writer, and has been hard at work on his newest project, a retrospective monograph titled, The Hereditary Estate printed and distributed by via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/07/daniel-coburn-hereditary-estate/ The Hereditary Estate is not only…
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Peter van Agtmael: Disco Night Sept 11 | LENSCRATCH
Peter van Agtmael: Disco Night Sept 11 Disco Night Sept 11 is a book about more than the brutality of conflict. It is an intimate and personal meditation on modern warfare from the perspective of a young American photographer who came of age in the confusion of a post 9/11 world, and who saw m…
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‘Taking My Time’: Two New Books Full of Joel Meyerowitz’s Masterful Street Photography – Feature Shoot
‘Taking My Time’: Two New Books Full of Joel Meyerowitz’s Masterful Street Photography – Feature Shoot Capturing the quintessential perfect moment in uncontrolled, public settings depends on a magical confluence of elements that suddenly, momentarily, match up so exquisitely they seem choreographed. For the masterful photographer Joel Meyerowitz, these mom via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/06/taking-my-time-two-new-books-full-of-joel-meyerowitzs-masterful-street-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-my-time-two-new-books-full-of-joel-meyerowitzs-masterful-street-photography For…
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Photography Today | Conscientious Photography Magazine
Photography Today via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/photography-today/ The task thus is to present photography in such a way that any reader will be able to move forward after having engaged with the book. S/he might disagree with some of the choices, but s/he will know why, and – crucially – s/he will have a much…
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Kitchen Stories from the Balkans Photographed by Eugenia Maximova – Feature Shoot
Kitchen Stories from the Balkans Photographed by Eugenia Maximova – Feature Shoot Vienna-based photographer Eugenia Maximova set out to tell a story about the Balkans. And she realized that the one thing all people have in common in this region marked by conflicts and ethnic tensions is food. Kitchen Stories from the Balkans is a…