Category: Books

  • Eric Miles’ Selections for 10×10 American Photobooks

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    Eric Miles’ Selections for 10×10 American Photobooks 10×10 American Photobooks is an event centered around the celebration of contemporary American photobooks that culmunates in a 100-book … Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/05/eric-miles-selections-for-10×10.html 10×10 American Photobooks is an event centered around the celebration of contemporary American photobooks that culmunates in a 100-book exhibition and reading room, a panel discussion,…

  • Jamel Shabazz: Represent

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    Link: Jamel Shabazz: Represent (6 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day Although it’s too late to see Jamel Shabazz‘s “REPRESENT” at the Brooklyn Central Library, you will be able to bring them home in his new book, “REPRESENT: Photographs from 2005-2012

  • Self Publishing: No longer a vanity affair

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    Self Publishing: No longer a vanity affair By Heather GraulichThere was a time – not so very long ago – when the words “photo book” conjured images of a weighty coffee table tome, with a name like Henri Cartier-Bresson or Annie Leibovitz on the cover. Say those words now and most people probably t via NPPA:…

  • Prairie Stories

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    Book Review: Prairie Stories Prairie Stories . Photographs by Terry Evans. Published by Radius Books , 2012.   Prairie Stories Reviewed by Tom Leininger Prai… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/04/book-review-prairie-stories.html Rural small towns are part of America’s heritage. Seeing them now makes one wonder, how has this town survived? Who are these people? What are their lives like?…

  • A New Book Pulls Back Mexico’s Masks

    A New Book Pulls Back Mexico’s Masks

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    Mexico Points the Camera at Itself “Mexican Portraits,” a huge new book, takes a sweeping look at how several generations of photographers in Mexico see themselves and their country. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/mexico-points-the-camera-at-itself/ A new book, “Mexican Portraits,” co-published by Aperture and Fundación Televisa and edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and Vesta Mónica Herrerías, tackles…

  • Front Row Seat: Eric Draper on George W. Bush

    Front Row Seat: Eric Draper on George W. Bush

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/25/front-row-seat-eric-draper-on-george-w-bush/#1 “A lot of those moments he knows I’m there and he trusts my presence,” Draper says, “That’s really him.” Which is the point: whether his subject is self-aware or spontaneous, Draper’s portrait of Bush is authentic. Bush was impatient with pretense…

  • Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’

    Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’

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    Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’ We can’t say enough about beloved British photographer Martin Parr’s new book, Life’s a Beach, published by Aperture this year. Parr’s coastal infatuation started in the 1970s—you may recall his 1986 release of The Last Resort, a capture of the seaside re via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/04/martin-parrs-lifes-a-beach/ We can’t say enough…

  • By the Glow of the Jukebox

    By the Glow of the Jukebox

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    By the Glow of the Jukebox My backordered copy of Jason Eskenazi’s The Americans List finally arrived a few days ago, and I’ve been slowly pouring through it. It is … Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/by-glow-of-jukebox.html My backordered copy of Jason Eskenazi’s The Americans List finally arrived a few days ago, and I’ve been slowly pouring through it.…

  • René Burri’s Impossible Remeniscences (4 Photos)

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    Link: René Burri’s Impossible Remeniscences (4 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day Impossible Reminiscences features more than 170 of Burri’s lesser-known color images, drawn and edited by Burri from his archive over the course of eight years, and accompanied by his personal reminiscences.

  • Book Review: Up and Down Peachtree

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    Book Review: Up and Down Peachtree Up and Down Peachtree . Photographs by Martin Parr. Contrasto, 2012. Up and Down Peachtree Reviewed by Joscelyn Jurich Up and Dow… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/04/book-review-up-and-down-peachtree.html “Don’t be scared of photographing a storm-out, crying fit or strop…” British photographer Martin Parr advised readers in a 2010 Guardian column about vacation photography. “I…

  • Christian Reister & Kay Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien

    Christian Reister & Kay Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien

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    Christian Reister & Kay Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien All of a sudden, street photography seems so appealing. The split second timing, the crazy juxtapositions, and the unintentional resulting humor make capturing the world feel fresh and interesting. The wonderful European street photographers, Kay von Aspe via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/03/christian-reister-kay-von-aspern-berlin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 The wonderful European street photographers, Kay…

  • Book Review: 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides

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    Link: photo-eye | BLOG: Book Review: 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides To Norteamericanos encountering the work of Metinides for the first time, “The Mexican Weegee” seems a natural epithet.

  • Baby Henry Flies Again

    Baby Henry Flies Again

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/28/baby-henry-flies-again/#1 She kept making pictures of Henry, now 2. Inspired by an interview she heard with lauded children’s book author Maurice Sendak , Hulin started to form a narrative.

  • Enrique Metinides: 101 Tragedies

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    Link: Enrique Metinides: 101 Tragedies | Le Journal de la Photographie The book opens with a photograph of a crashed glider sticking vertically out of a field, with about fifty people looking agape behind the two long wings that hold the plane in this dramatic position. It continues with an incessant parade of twisted metal,…

  • Best Books — A Closer Look: Found Photos in Detroit

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    Best Books — A Closer Look: Found Photos in Detroit Found Photos in Detroit . By Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese. Cesura Publishing Found Photos in Detroit is a book of photographs… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/02/best-books-closer-look-found-photos-in.html Found Photos in Detroit is a book of photographs and a few letters discovered by two Italian photographers while wandering the streets…

  • Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead

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    Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead In 1958, Charlie Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate murdered Caril’s family and hit the road on a two-month killing spree. This month, Christian Patterson releases the third pressing of his acclaimed photography book… via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/christian-patterson-and-the-trail-of-dead It was via Badlands that photographer Christian Patterson discovered the…

  • ‘Americans’: The Book That Changed Photography

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    ‘Americans’: The Book That Changed Photography In 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans dramatically altered how photographers looked through viewfinders and how Americans saw themselves. via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100688154 During his trip, Frank shot 767 rolls of film yielding about 27,000 images. He edited that down to about 1,000 work prints, spread them across the floor of…

  • Tim Hetherington’s story: on screen and in print

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    Link: Tim Hetherington’s story: on screen and in print | dvafoto There are two new Tim Hetherington biographies coming out soon.

  • Mono: Volume One

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    Link: Mono: Volume One | Le Journal de la Photographie MONO Volume One is the first hardback of a trilogy, showcasing an inspiring collection of contemporary black & white photography. Its 270 pages feature a broad scope of internationally renowned artists such as Antoine D’Agata, Trent Parke, Anders Petersen and Roger Ballen

  • Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

    Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/08/kim-jong-il-looking-at-things/#1 A selection of these compelling photos have now been published in a book by Jean Boîte Éditions: Kim Jong Il Looking at Things. The pictures, originally distributed by the official Korean Central News Agency, depict the late North Korean leader, always accompanied…