Category: Books

  • 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…

  • Eric Miles’ Selections for 10×10 American Photobooks

    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.