Category: Books

  • 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…

  • George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

    George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

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    George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year The brutal, beautiful vision of a great American storyteller. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/george-saunders-just-wrote-the-best-book-youll-read-this-year.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=2&pagewanted=all “These initial stories often take place in theme parks gone to seed or soul-withering exurban office strips, but the stories themselves are overflowing with vitality; they are sometimes very dark but they are…

  • Under the Radar

    Under the Radar

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    Under the Radar Most of the annual best-of-2012 Photobook lists have come and gone. Below are some of my favorites from the past year which flew under the … Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2012/12/under-radar.html Most of the annual best-of-2012 Photobook lists have come and gone. Below are some of my favorites from the past year which flew under…

  • TIME Picks the Photobooks We Loved in 2012

    TIME Picks the Photobooks We Loved in 2012

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/24/times-best-of-2012-the-photobooks-we-loved/#1 On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that investigation.

  • Book Reviews: Uncle Charlie

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    Book Reviews: Uncle Charlie Uncle Charlie . Photographs by Marc Asnin. Published by Contrasto , 2012. Uncle Charlie Reviewed by Colin Pantall Uncle Charl… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/12/book-reviews-uncle-charlie.html Tell Eugene Smith to make a family album and you might end up with something like Marc Asnin’s Uncle Charlie; a book that is like one of those good,…

  • The Indie Photo Book in the 21st Century

    The Indie Photo Book in the 21st Century

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/11/13/the-indie-photo-book-in-the-21st-century/#1 Two years ago Larissa Leclair founded the Indie Photobook Library in her Washington D.C  home with the goal of preserving rare self-published books and making them available to a larger audience

  • Martin Parr Up and down Peachtree

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    Link: Martin Parr Up and down Peachtree | Le Journal de la Photographie

  • Digital Self-Publishing Platform Blurb Expands to Offer Magazines and Brochures

    Digital Self-Publishing Platform Blurb Expands to Offer Magazines and Brochures

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    Digital Self-Publishing Platform Blurb Expands to Offer Magazines and Brochures Publishing in the digital age doesn’t mean we’ll abandon print entirely. Digital self-publishing platform Blurb is expanding its book printing business to include print magazines and brochures. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/blurb-magazine-publishing/ single issue of a magazine from 20 to 240 pages, starting at around $11 per…

  • (based on a true story) review

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    Link: (based on a true story) review – The Photo Society When you do, you find that David Alan Harvey has accomplished something that writers have been itching to do for a decade or more but have not accomplished – he has broken down the last wall, taken us to the place where he has…

  • Chris McCaw on Sunburn

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    Interviews: Chris McCaw on Sunburn cover of  Sunburn Two of the photographers in our current group exhibition Solar , Chris McCaw and Sharon Harper, have recently publis… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/10/interviews-chris-mccaw-on-sunburn.html You will make no money from the book itself. Its purpose is to help get the work out there, hopefully gaining exhibitions and selling some work.…

  • Looking For Love in 90′s by Alec Soth

    Looking For Love in 90′s by Alec Soth

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/12/looking-for-love-in-90s-by-alec-soth/#1 Alec Soth’s newest book Looking for Love, 1996 is, in its way, about both—the search for love guided by the heart and the search of love guided by the eye.

  • Stephen Ferry Documents the Colombian Conflict

    Stephen Ferry Documents the Colombian Conflict

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/09/violentology-stephen-ferry-documents-the-colombian-conflict/#end Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent ten years documenting the ongoing internal armed conflict in Colombia — a situation that, he says, is often overlooked or miscast as a ‘drug war’ outside of the country. In his recently-published book, Violentology: A Manual…

  • Damion Berger: In The Deep End

    Damion Berger: In The Deep End

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    Damion Berger: In The Deep End I first met Damion Berger a number of years ago at Review LA, hosted by Center.  He was sharing his wonderful underwater images from his project, The Deep End.  I was happy to learn that he now has a monograph of the work, published by Schilt Publishing a via…

  • 10×10: Japanese Photo Books at the NY Art Book Fair

    10×10: Japanese Photo Books at the NY Art Book Fair

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    10×10: Japanese Photo Books All weekend at the NY Art Book Fair, the International Center of Photography is hosting a pop-up reading room called “10×10,” which is focussed on Japanese… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/10×10-japanese-photobooks.html#slide_ss_0=1 All weekend at the NY Art Book Fair, the International Center of Photography is hosting a pop-up reading room called…