Category: Books

  • Tod Seelie photographs New York’s underground art and music scene in his book Bright Nights.

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    You’ve Never Seen New York Like This Before Tod Seelie has done everything in New York you’ve wanted to do but were too scared to try. He’s climbed bridges, partied in railroad tunnels, and… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/10/28/tod_seelie_photographs_new_york_s_underground_art_and_music_scene_in_his.html Tod Seelie has done everything in New York you’ve wanted to do but were too scared to…

  • Strobist: An All-Nighter at The Vista: Greg Heisler’s 50 Portraits

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    Link: Strobist: An All-Nighter at The Vista: Greg Heisler’s 50 Portraits I pre-ordered on February 08, 2013, but I have been waiting for this book for 20 years. And it was worth it. Editor Julie Mazur, then of Amphoto/Random House, has coaxed from Heisler exactly the book a photographer would want to read.

  • Book Review: Gasoline

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    Book Review: Gasoline Book Review Gasoline By David Campany Reviewed by Adam Bell Gasoline consumes us as much as we consume it. As we race forward a… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/10/book-review-gasoline.html In Gasoline, David Campany gathers thirty-five archival press photographs from the mid-40s to the mid-90s that depict the humble gas, gas station and the surrounding landscape.…

  • The Beth Moon Interview: Between Earth and Sky

    The Beth Moon Interview: Between Earth and Sky

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    The Beth Moon Interview: Between Earth and Sky Photographer Beth Moon is releasing her first monograph, Between Earth and Sky, published by Charta, that is a compilation of five projects, featuring images that connect to the natural world.  The book celebrates her beautiful platinum prints that are tr via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/10/beth-moon-interview-earth-sky/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Photographer Beth Moon is…

  • New Book: “Houston Rap” by Peter Beste

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – New Book: “Houston Rap” by Peter Beste A great new book from photographer and former Juxtapoz featured artist, Peter Beste. (You know Beste for this series as well as his series covering No… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/new-book-houston-rap-by-peter-beste A great new book from photographer and former Juxtapoz featured artist, Peter Beste. (You know Beste for…

  • CINCI LEI by Joost Vandebrug

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    CINCI LEI The book ‘Cinci Lei’ follows the lives of a group of kids that inhabit tunnels underneath the streets of Bucharest. via Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/956961944/cinci-lei?ref=live The book ‘Cinci Lei’ follows the lives of a group of kids that inhabit tunnels underneath the streets of Bucharest.

  • Book Review: From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood

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    Book Review: From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood Book Review From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood By Mitch Epstein Reviewed by Stacy Kranitz First of all, Stacy Kranitz’s n… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/10/book-review-from-study-on-post.html First of all, Stacy Kranitz’s new book, From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood is not the most elegant of books. It’s a saddle-stitched affair,…

  • Remembering what it was like to be a kid. by Jerry Downs

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    Remembering what it was like to be a kid. It’s a children’s book for adults about what you knew as a kid, why it was important to forget and how great it is to remember! via Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jerrydowns/remembering-what-it-was-like-to-be-a-kid It’s a children’s book for adults about what you knew as a kid, why it was important…

  • Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down: Eugene Richards’ Return to the South

    Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down: Eugene Richards’ Return to the South

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/01/red-ball-of-a-sun-slipping-down-eugene-richards-return-to-the-south/#1 With a recent announcement on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter, award-winning photographer Eugene Richards speaks to LightBox about his latest book, Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, and his motivation to self-publish the project. The following text is adapted from…

  • Photojournalists On War: The Untold Stories From Iraq

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    Link: Photojournalists On War: The Untold Stories From Iraq – British Journal of Photography Photojournalists On War is the result of five years of interviews with some of the world’s leading photojournalists. However, it’s also the fruit of Michael Kamber’s frustration over the harrowing images that were never shown or published before

  • This Week In Photography Books – Aaron Huey

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    This Week In Photography Books – Aaron Huey – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein My mother was sitting in her home, recently, minding her own business. Suddenly, she heard a loud thump, and was shaken and concerned. (Obviously.) Mom looked out the window and saw a majestic, brown and gray raptor. It was lying…

  • Book Review: The Wrong Side

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    Book Review: The Wrong Side Book Review The Wrong Side By Jérôme Sessini Reviewed by Joscelyn Jurich Chilean writer Robert Bolaño’s stirring description of… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/08/book-review-wrong-side.html It is very easy to make photographs of violence, of the dead. That’s relatively easy. But I wanted to create a deeper project about the social consequences of the…

  • Zineland by Antoine Soubrier: The Eyes

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    Link: Zineland by Antoine Soubrier: The Eyes | Le Journal de la Photographie The Eyes, launched by Aman Iman Publishing on paper and electronically (iOS etc), the first paper edition of which has been announced for autumn 2013, presents itself as “the first European magazine dedicated to photography “.

  • Why Mister, Why? by Geert van Kesteren

    Why Mister, Why? by Geert van Kesteren

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    Why Mister, Why? by Geert van Kesteren via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/why-mister-why/ With this book and Baghdad Calling (see my review here), van Kesteren single-handedly not only produced the two most relevant photobooks about the United States’ Iraq war, but he also raised the bar of what the medium photobook could do for photojournalistic work.

  • Book Review: Garry Winogrand

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    Book Review: Garry Winogrand Garry Winogrand . Photographs by Garry Winogrand. Published by Yale University Press , 2013.   Garry Winogrand Reviewed by Blake An… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/05/book-review-garry-winogrand.html All in all, the book has the size and scope we’ve come to expect from similar retrospectives. It feels comparable to Friedlander, the 2005 MoMA survey. That is…

  • Zine: LeTour by Grayson West

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    Link: LeTour by Grayson west: Arts & Photography | Blurb Books Grayson West’s Le Tour as Seen on TV is a unique playful photographic journey of the world greatest bike race. This is a must have for any cyclist or zine enthusiast. 150 copies available.

  • Glen Luchford: Damaged Negatives (6 Photos)

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    Link: Glen Luchford: Damaged Negatives (6 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day Damaged Negatives,  the new book by fashion photographer Glen Luchford, makes something beautiful out of what sounds like a disaster for any photographer: Several of Luchford’s negatives, including images of Kate Moss and other models, were damaged by water.

  • Video: Studio Visit with Yolanda Cuomo

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    Let’s Make a Book of This: Studio Visit with Yolanda Cuomo via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/05/video-studio-visit-with-yolanda-cuomo.html The space was decorted floor to ceiling with mementos, collected in the course of making of eighty-five books and countless projects with artists and photographers from Richard Avedon to Laurie Simmons and Sylvia Plachy and a team of designers,…

  • Redheaded Peckerwood, III and some thoughts on photobook editions

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    Link: Conscientious | Redheaded Peckerwood, III and some thoughts on photobook editions Conceptually, an evolving book is interesting for a variety of reasons, and it is equally problematic I think. If I compare my first and third edition, what does the presence of new images tell me as far as the “story” is concerned? The…

  • Kevin Kunishi Interview: How to make a photo-book

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    Kevin Kunishi Interview: How to make a photo-book – A Photo Editor I met Kevin Kunishi a couple of years ago, and was impressed with his book, “Los Restos de la Revolucion,” published in 2012 by Daylight. The book was included on several year-end best book lists, and the project was also exhibited at Rayko…