Category: Books

  • 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.…

  • 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…