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, old-fashioned mega-projects without beginning and without end.
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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
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 copy. A brochure will cost you around $7
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 been, where he still is, as the creator, the photographer, and, most importantly, as the editor.
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. My favorite question when I first mentioned doing my book was, “How much of an advance did the publisher give you?” I responded with laughter.
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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.
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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 of the Colombian Conflict, Ferry presents a comprehensive look at this incredibly complicated and brutal conflict with the use of his own photographs, historical imagery and text.
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
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 and ready for purchase.
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 “10×10,” which is focussed on Japanese photo books. Free and open to the public, the room features the Japanese magazines IMA, Asphalt, and phat photo, along with one hundred photo books.
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 total, 10 for the PhotoBook of the Year and 20 for the First PhotoBook prize, the list is an embarrassment of riches, and I think it’s safe to say that we can expect a number of these titles on our 2012 Best Books list
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 NY Art Book Fair, which opens tomorrow, and he’s been documenting his progress on The New Yorker’s Instagram feed. It’s been a busy few days, with a lot of heavy-metal music, as Konrath and his colleagues at Pau Wau Publications printed, cut, and bound a collection of photo books and zines to display at their booth this weekend
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 (using Instagram, for example). That’s not going to work.
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 his birth, most of his photographs, except for a few iconic images, were not widely known. That’s changing this week as the publisher Gerhard Steidl’s famed presses print “Gordon Parks: Collected Works,” a comprehensive five-volume collection of Mr. Parks’s photographs.
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
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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.
It comes as a surprise, then, to find Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg’s reworked sketches, videos and maquettes of his groundbreaking books openly shared online
Link: Melbourne: Paul Blackmore | Le Journal de la Photographie
This body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – explores the intimate relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. Blackmore’s photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in it; a billion people without access to clean water, another four billion without an adequate supply. Against this dire backdrop, the work also celebrates our primal and spiritual bond with nature’s essential resource.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/04/the-sweet-life-revisited/#1
In photography, “the road trip,” especially by car around the United States, has been a right of passage for many photographers. Embarking on a fourteen-month world tour however is a bit less common, but that ambitious challenge was taken on in 1959 by the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda. The resulting photographs would turned into one of the most epic Dutch photobooks ever produced, The Sweet Life.
For fans of Lee Friedlander, his recent book Mannequin offers good news and bad. The good news is that the master has returned to the 35 m…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2012/08/lee-jumps-shark.html
For fans of Lee Friedlander, his recent book Mannequin offers good news and bad. The good news is that the master has returned to the 35 mm format with which he established his reputation during the first half of a sterling career. The bad news is that he appears sorely out of practice. I’m not sure what’s going on
