Category: Books

  • Oliver Weber — Social Life at Beach

    Oliver Weber — Social Life at Beach

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    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,…

  • The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick

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    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…

  • Jason Landry: Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography

    Jason Landry: Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography

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    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…

  • 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

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    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…

  • Exclusive: Joe Sacco’s The Great War, documentary on the creation of an extraordinary graphic history

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    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…

  • ‘Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument’

    ‘Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument’

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    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.

  • 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

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    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…

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

    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 “.