Category: Books
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This Week In Photography Books: Trent Parke
This Week In Photography Books: Trent Parke – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein I used to have an Aussie friend named Pappy. We met when I was still impressionable, and were the best of mates for nearly 15 years. He looked like a pirate and drank like a Marine, so I did too. Having…
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The photographer who gave his life to tell the truth about Gaddafi’s Libya
The photographer who gave his life to tell the truth about Gaddafi’s Libya Award-winning photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the Libyan conflict in 2011. As a book of his images and writing is published, Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images, shares his memories via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/media/photography-blog/2014/mar/19/chris-hondros-photographer-gave-his-life-to-tell-truth-gaddafis-libya Award-winning photojournalist…
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Weird Sports 2: The Photo Book by Sol Neelman
Weird Sports 2: The Photo Book This is a fundraiser to produce “Weird Sports 2,” a photo book by German fine art publisher Kehrer Verlag. via Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/308589421/weird-sports-2-the-photo-book For too long, I feel the narrow definition of sports has been limited to professional leagues and Olympic competitions, folks with monster builds and monster salaries. Sports…
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A Complete Examination of Middlesex
Book Review: A Complete Examination of Middlesex Book Review A Complete Examination of Middlesex By Bruce Gilden Reviewed by Colin Pantall There are worse things that can happe… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/02/book-review-complete-examination-of.html And so you open the pages and the stories start coming. There are worse things that can happen in life than being photographed by Bruce…
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Book Review: Houston Rap
Book Review: Houston Rap Book Review Houston Rap By Peter Beste & Lance Scott Walker Reviewed by Tom Leininger Rap is a window into life. Whether it is … Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/02/book-review-houston-rap.html Rap is a window into life. Whether it is the life of the East Coast, West Coast, Dirty South or Houston, the music is…
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The Best Books of 2013
The Best Books of 2013 Best Books 2013 The Best Books of 2013 Announcing the Best Books of 2013 with out list of 30 contributors and the 26 most select… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/12/the-best-books-of-2013.html We love photobooks and for us, Best Books is a celebration of the amazingly diverse and expressive nature of the form. We are excited…
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Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
Link: Strobist: Dan Winters: Road to Seeing I am at a loss for a quick way to describe Dan Winters’ just-shipped book, Road to Seeing. That’s because it defies nearly any category of photo book I have seen to date.
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2013 Photobooks of the Year
Link: LensCulture Editors – 2013 Photobooks of the Year | LensCulture The selection is quirky, subjective, untraditional, and probably not like many other lists of favorite photobooks out there. They range from super-large-format mainstream books to small hand-assembled artists books, from straightforward to obscure. But all of them are gems, in our opinion.
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Paul Kwiatkowski: And Every Day Was Overcast
Paul Kwiatkowski: And Every Day Was Overcast Memories of childhood humanize us as adults. With age, our version of that time is deformed then reassembled. What fragments bleed through are tailored to a narrative designed to hide vulnerability. – Paul Kwiatkowski Paul Kwiatkowski stitches together an via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/12/paul-kwiatkowski-everyday-overcast-illustrated-novel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Let’s just say you wanted to…
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Photobook Gift Guide: Part II
Photobook Gift Guide: Part II Today we offer recommendations for those with a higher price point — limited edition books with prints. But one doesn’t need to break the… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/11/photobook-gift-guide-part-ii.html Today we offer recommendations for those with a higher price point — limited edition books with prints. But one doesn’t need to break the…
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Carlos Spottorno – The Pigs
The PIGS – Photographs byCarlos Spottorno | LensCulture An award-winning photobook, The Pigs echoes the design and form of “The Economist” to deliver photoessays of real situations in four countries suffering in economic crisis in the EU: Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain — referred to by the financial press with via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/carlos-spottorno-the-pigs-2#slide-1 “The Pigs” echoes…
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TIME Picks the Photobooks We Loved in 2013
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/25/time-picks-the-best-photobooks-of-2013/#1 This year’s offerings range from enormous, luxe tomes like Garry Winogrand to smaller, more intimate works like The Pigs. Overall the selection confirms — in a heartening way, for all of us — that even as unwieldy maelstroms of information emerge from…
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Oliver Weber — Social Life at Beach
The wildlife of the Canary Islands’ summer season can be a scary proposition… the wildlife of the Canary Islands’ summer season can be a scary proposition via We Heart: http://www.weheart.co.uk/2013/11/13/oliver-weber-social-life-at-beach/ German photographer Oliver Weber lives and works on the Canary Island of La Gomera, God help him, and has put together a collection of images,…
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The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick
The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick Vagabond Photographer By Sergio Larrain, published by Thames & Hudson What a total treat! Here we have all the classic iconic images from this wonderful photographer who died only last year. On top of that, Agnes Sire has dug up many unknown Larrains that…
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Jason Landry: Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography
Jason Landry: Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography “Jason Landry deftly describes the photographic journey from the inside out with his perceptive, humorous, and poignant essays on the people, events, and photographs that have shaped his life. His astute observations and reflections are at once meaningful via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/11/jason-landry-instant-connections-essays-interviews-photography/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 “Jason Landry deftly describes the…
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Take It From a Publishing Pro: The Photobook Format Is Up for Grabs
Take It From a Publishing Pro: The Photobook Format Is Up for Grabs Lesley Martin chats with WIRED about the busy fall season of photobook fairs and events, jurying, desert island photobooks, self-publishing, presages, Rob Hornstra, Japanese design, and her favorite paper. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/lesley-martin-aperture/all/ In this Q&A, Lesley Martin explains how self-publishing is pushing…
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Exclusive: Joe Sacco’s The Great War, documentary on the creation of an extraordinary graphic history
Exclusive: Joe Sacco’s The Great War, documentary on the creation of an extraordinary graphic history Joe Sacco is a spectacular political comics creator, and has earned a well-deserved reputation for his work on war and conflict with books on Sarajevo and Bosnia, Gaza and Palestine and other moder… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/07/exclusive-joe-saccos-the-gr.html From “the heir…
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‘Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument’
Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/slide-show-gordon-parks-the-making-of-an-argument.html#slide_ss_0=1 “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument,” a recently released book and concurrent exhibition presented by The Gordon Parks Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art, is a critical examination of this assignment, after which Parks became Life’s first African-American staff photographer.
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Gilles Peress Releases Free Photo Book Documenting the Devastation in Far Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy
Gilles Peress Releases Free Photo Book Documenting the Devastation in Far Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy In a uniting effort of remembrance and service, a group of talented individuals have come together to memorialize the tragic effects of Hurricane Sandy, the devastating storm that hit the U.S. east coast on October 29th, 2012. The Rockaways is…