Category: Books

Prairie Stories

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? Matfield Green, Kansas is one of those towns. Terry Evans has photographed in this small town for 20 years, which has resulted in Prairie Stories.

April 29, 2013
A New Book Pulls Back Mexico’s Masks

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 that question by stepping back and exploring the faces and masks of a country that has often resisted lingering before the mirror

April 26, 2013
Front Row Seat: Eric Draper on George W. Bush

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“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 and known for letting the air out of moments with a joke. He also loved to “surf” the mood in the room, and was a famously talented retail politician, instinctively aware of who was watching him. Draper saw his role as watching the watcher for the telling moment of presidential connection. “My job was watching who he’s looking at and who he’s connecting with,” Draper says.

April 25, 2013
Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’

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 about British photographer Martin Parr’s new book, Life’s a Beach

April 23, 2013
By the Glow of the Jukebox

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. It is a dense book, 83 pages exactly (!) of thick text printed at maybe 4 pt fontsize. I can do maybe 4 or 5 pages at a time before I get brainfreeze. I know what you’re thinking. Ugh! Do we really need another book about The Americans? How many is that now? And how many blog posts? Trust me, none of them are quite like this one. For starters, this one is only a few bucks and fits in a pocket.

April 16, 2013
René Burri’s Impossible Remeniscences (4 Photos)

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.

April 12, 2013
Book Review: Up and Down Peachtree

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 would argue that the more valuable document is the honest one.” Parr’s vivid documentary chronicle of Atlanta’s main’s street, Peachtree Street, is a provocative, pleasurable mix of honesty and hyperbole.

April 4, 2013
Christian Reister & Kay Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien

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

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The wonderful European street photographers, Kay von Aspern and Christian Reister have collaborated on a new book, Berlin + Wein, each photographer bringing their skewed take on the world to the project

March 27, 2013
Book Review: 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides

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To Norteamericanos encountering the work of Metinides for the first time, “The Mexican Weegee” seems a natural epithet.

March 11, 2013
Baby Henry Flies Again

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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.

February 28, 2013
Enrique Metinides: 101 Tragedies

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, upside down vehicles, lifeless bodies and open flames, a collection of extraordinary and everyday accidents across Mexico City from the 1950s to the 2000s.

February 28, 2013
Best Books — A Closer Look: Found Photos in Detroit

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 of Detroit. Like many other photographers, they had come to document the distressed city, but left instead with thousands of vernacular photographs, many of which were once part of a photographic police archive. An exhibition followed, and a selection of the images became this book.

February 22, 2013
Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead

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 case. Struck by the story, Christian subsequently made a photo series, entitled Redheaded Peckerwood, which was hailed by many as a shining example of the potential that photography books held. The series and the book are conceptual, highly ambitious, visually striking, and thematically absorbing

February 19, 2013
‘Americans’: The Book That Changed Photography

‘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 his studio and tacked them to the walls for a final edit. Out of a year and a half of work, Frank chose just 83 images.

February 13, 2013
Tim Hetherington’s story: on screen and in print

Link: Tim Hetherington’s story: on screen and in print | dvafoto

There are two new Tim Hetherington biographies coming out soon.

January 31, 2013
Mono: Volume One

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

January 17, 2013
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

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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 by an entourage of compatriots who appear both fawning and terrified, examining objects ranging from machinery to snack food

January 8, 2013
George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

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 also very, very funny. The characters speak in a strange new language — a kind of heightened bureaucratese, or a passively received vernacular that is built around self-improvement clichés (‘It made me livid and twice that night I had to step into a closet and perform my Hatred Abatement Breathing’) — and this lends them the feeling of allegory, though they are something else too, that’s harder to place.”

January 4, 2013
Under the Radar

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 the radar. I haven’t seen these listed any place else so I want to give each a small shout out here just to make sure they aren’t forgotten. All are recommended.

December 24, 2012
TIME Picks the Photobooks We Loved in 2012

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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.

December 24, 2012