Category: Books

  • 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…

  • 2012 PhotoBook Awards Shortlists

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    2012 PhotoBook Awards Shortlists The PhotoBook Awards from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation have just released the shortlisted titles for PhotoBook of the Year and First… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/09/2012-photobook-awards-shortlists.html The PhotoBook Awards from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation have just released the shortlisted titles for PhotoBook of the Year and First PhotoBook prizes. With 30 titles…

  • Andreas Laszlo Konrath on How to Prep for the NY Art Book Fair

    Andreas Laszlo Konrath on How to Prep for the NY Art Book Fair

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    How to Prep for the NY Art Book Fair All this week, the photographer and handmade-book publisher Andreas Laszlo Konrath has been preparing for the NY Art Book Fair, which opens tomorrow, and … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/how-to-prep-for-the-ny-art-book-fair.html#slide_ss_0=1 All this week, the photographer and handmade-book publisher Andreas Laszlo Konrath has been preparing for the…

  • Review: The Graves by Eric Stover and Gilles Peress

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    Link: Conscientious | Review: The Graves by Eric Stover and Gilles Peress I think it’s fair to say that the time for the this-is-that game is up in photojournalism now (while the business model is imploding itself), so there are all kinds of attempts to re-play that game, by trying to make it look cool…

  • A Five-Volume Overview of Gordon Parks’s Life Work from Steidl

    A Five-Volume Overview of Gordon Parks’s Life Work from Steidl

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    Gordon Parks: ‘A Lasting Love’ A new five-volume set from Steidl presents an unparalleled survey of Gordon Parks’s career, and just in time for his 100th birthday. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/gordon-parks-a-lasting-love/ Though he was quite famous for being a filmmaker and the first African-American photographer for Life magazine, until this year, the 100th anniversary of…

  • Sputnik Photos : a Bielorussian collective

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    Link: Sputnik Photos : a Bielorussian collective | Le Journal de la Photographie

  • Daido Moriyama Labyrinth

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    Link: Daido Moriyama Labyrinth | Le Journal de la Photographie Daido Moriyama has published what amounts to a lifetime of work, a vast series of contact sheets soberly lined up without empty space on the 300 thick pages of the book

  • High and Low: Jim Goldberg’s Works in Process

    High and Low: Jim Goldberg’s Works in Process

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/24/high-and-low-jim-goldbergs-works-in-process/#1 Although a photographer’s process is integral to his/her work, it is often a carefully guarded secret. Most photographers tend to keep the development of their work to themselves, sometimes choosing to seek counsel only from a small circle of trusted friends.…