Category: Books

  • At Water’s Edge: Paul Blackmore

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    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…

  • The Sweet Life: Revisited

    The Sweet Life: Revisited

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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…

  • Lee Jumps The Shark

    Lee Jumps The Shark

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    Lee Jumps The Shark 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…

  • Photographs of People and Landscapes in Israel

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    Link: Photographs of People and Landscapes in Israel – TIME LightBox – LightBox a photo project he has worked on for the past decade, crystallized in a new book, The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey. Israel’s pictures are the product of years of wanderings in Israel, in the Occupied Territories and in…

  • The Afronauts : Christina De Middel

    The Afronauts : Christina De Middel

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    Review Santa Fe: Cristina De Middel Over the next month, I will be sharing some of the photographers who attended Review Santa Fe in June.  Review Santa Fe is the only juried review in the United States and invites 100 photographers to Santa Fe for a long weekend of reviews, insights, and c via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/08/review-santa-fe-christina-de-middel.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…

  • Photographs of the U.S. Space Program

    Photographs of the U.S. Space Program

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/13/last-launch-dan-winters-and-the-shuttle-program/#1 Dan Winters, who grew up during the golden age—the Cronkite Age—of space reporting, is one of the photographers who has mastered the craft best. As the images that follow—taken from his new book, Last Launch—show, he has proven himself a virtuoso…

  • WOW, aka a preview of Chris Ware’s new and very brilliant magnum opus, Building Stories

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    Link: It’s Nice That : WOW, aka a preview of Chris Ware’s new and very brilliant magnum opus, Building Stories Chris Ware, who is widely-known to dismiss in self-deprecating tones any personal merit adjoined to his work (rumour has it he is collecting up and destroying one of his earliest published endeavours), is perhaps not…

  • Hot off the press: The newsprint as a medium for photographers

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    Link: Hot off the press: The newsprint as a medium for photographers – British Journal of Photography Newsprint is increasingly popular among photographers, offering a cheap and effective way to publish a story, while reaching a larger audience. Olivier Laurent speaks with photographers who have embraced the medium

  • André J. Hermann’s Street Photography, Hidden on the Street

    André J. Hermann’s Street Photography, Hidden on the Street

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    Hiding, and Seeking, a Photo Book The street photographer André J. Hermann takes Instagram pictures, prints them and binds them in a book. Then he hides them, leaving photo clues for enterprising followers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/hiding-and-seeking-a-photo-book/?pagewanted=all For the past two months, he’s been taking his Instagram images, printing them, bundling them into books, and…

  • Witnesses to War

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    Link: Witnesses to War – NYTimes.com Michael Kamber decided that someone had to gather all of his fellow photojournalists’ accounts and unpublished images in one place so there would be, in his words, “an accurate history.” So he took on the task himself and started formally recording his colleagues. He has collected 39 of these…

  • The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII

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    Link: The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII | La Lettre de la Photographie The VII agency has a book coming out featuring a selection pictures of historic events of the last twenty years. This is photojournalism in its purest state, a reminder of the role played by talented photographer

  • Camera Boy, photojournalist’s memoir on Wall Street Journal bestseller list

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    Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Camera Boy, photojournalist’s memoir on Wall Street Journal bestseller list

  • Is This Place Great or What

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    photo-eye Book Reviews: Is This Place Great or What Is This Place Great or What . Photographs by Brian Ulrich. Published by Aperture, 2011. Is This Place Great or What Reviewed by Ge… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/05/photo-eye-book-reviews-is-this-place.html Brian Ulrich’s book is great, and a real downer. If you resisted President Bush’s exhortations to shop America back to…

  • (based on a true story) – book demo

    (based on a true story) – book demo

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    (based on a true story) – book demo www.cloudbreak.tv Awards/Mentions: New Yorker – Best books of 2012 POY 2013 – Best Photo Book of the Year 2012 Lucy Awards – best publisher (burn books) Paris… via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/42015234

  • Must Read: The Photographs That Got Away From Famous Shooters

    Must Read: The Photographs That Got Away From Famous Shooters

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    Must Read: The Photographs That Got Away From Famous Shooters Photographs Not Taken is a book about photography in which there is not a single photograph. It’s a collection of essays by 62 photographers about the ones that got away: the images – burned to memory and conscience – that, for one reason or another,…

  • This is Real Art release first book and it’s a gorgeous study of Tokyo commuters by Adam Hinton

    This is Real Art release first book and it’s a gorgeous study of Tokyo commuters by Adam Hinton

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    Shibuya–Adam Hinton This is “Shibuya–Adam Hinton” by This is Real Art on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/40997390 This is Real Art have carved out a reputation for quality creativity across advertising, design and branding, but late last week they moved into new territory with…

  • Photographs Not Taken: A Chapter by Tim Hetherington

    Photographs Not Taken: A Chapter by Tim Hetherington

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/19/photographs-not-taken/#1 A new book, Photographs Not Taken, conceived and edited by photographer Will Steacy compiles personal essays written by more than 60 photographers about a time when they didn’t or just couldn’t use their camera.

  • Irina Rozovsky – One to Nothing

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    Link: LPV Magazine One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. These images go beyond politics: they do not defend a side or critique the conflict. Here, Israel is seen in an unexpected light, a mythological backdrop to the age long struggle between man and the dusty, sun bleached landscape…

  • The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview!

    The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview!

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    The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview! (All images copyright 2012 The Topps Company, Inc., used by permission.) My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/the-most-disgusting-trading-ca.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 My kids and I have become…

  • photo-eye Book Reviews: True Norwegian Black Metal

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    photo-eye Book Reviews: True Norwegian Black Metal True Norwegian Black Metal. By Peter Beste. Published by Vice, 2009. True Norwegian Black Metal Reviewed by Tom Leininger _____… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/03/photo-eye-book-reviews-true-norwegian.html I am not an expert on Norwegian Black Metal. This review will deal strictly with the book True Norwegian Black Metal, as I read and processed…