Just before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, French-American writer Jonathan Littell and French photographer Antoine d’Agata traveled to Kyiv’s Babi Yar ravine, where the Nazis carried out one of the Holocaust’s largest massacres in September 1941. Littell and d’Agata’s goal was to document how the site of such enormous tragedy preserves its history and exists in the present day. However, Moscow’s full-scale war forced them to broaden the scope of their project to reflect a reality where war crimes are not just a horrific chapter in Ukraine’s past but a part of its daily life in the present. The resulting book, titled An Inconvenient Place, was published in French in late 2023
Category: Books
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‘From normality to madness’ French photographer Antoine d’Agata on capturing the invisible pain of war in Ukraine for Jonathan Littell’s new book — Meduza
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How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation | PetaPixel
How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation
I want to give you five quick ideas from the book to get you thinking the next time you travel with your camera.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/30/how-the-strobist-david-hobby-has-spent-his-permanent-vacation/
So at some point, it made sense to both expand and generalize that content into, say, a real book that could benefit far more people. And this week, The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting With People and Place, was published.
https://petapixel.com/2024/05/30/how-the-strobist-david-hobby-has-spent-his-permanent-vacation/
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Book Talk: How Design Elevates the Success of Your First Photobook – LENSCRATCH
Book Talk: How Design Elevates the Success of Your First Photobook – LENSCRATCH
(Stranger Fruit by Jon Henry published by Monolith Editions. Stranger Fruit sold out in six weeks, and went into a second edition, with solo shows at Abakus Projects, UCR Arts and Photographic Center Northwest, and press including, the Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Dazed UK, the Gaudian and selected as one of the best photo books of
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/book-talk-how-design-elevates-the-success-of-your-first-photobook/
The interesting books design an experience that is rooted in the projects concept and narrative. The design language echoes the content and clarifies and strengthens the work. Every detail contributes to the experiential arc.
http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/book-talk-how-design-elevates-the-success-of-your-first-photobook/
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Book Review: ‘Corky Lee’s Asian America’ – The New York Times
One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
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Rahim Fortune | Hardtack
Rahim Fortune: Hardtack
In his new book, Hardtack, Rahim Fortune compiles nearly a decade of work, blending documentary with personal history within the context of post-emancipation America. Through coming-of-age portraits that traverse survivalism and land migration, Fortune illustrates African American and Chickasaw Nation communities. As Taous Dahmani observes, the iconography of the American South is drawn between Fortune’s Hardtack and Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, released only a few days after — both of which raise questions that serve to redefine ‘Americana’.
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In his new book, Hardtack, Rahim Fortune compiles nearly a decade of work, blending documentary with personal history within the context of post-emancipation America. Through coming-of-age portraits that traverse survivalism and land migration, Fortune illustrates African American and Chickasaw Nation communities. As Taous Dahmani observes, the iconography of the American South is drawn between Fortune’s Hardtack and Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, released only a few days after — both of which raise questions that serve to redefine ‘Americana’.
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Café Royal Books
Café Royal Books
Currently exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Craig Atkinson’s Café Royal Books presents an eclectic collection of social relics where regional pasts intermingle, and previously unseen or half-remembered social histories are vividly recalled. With a sense of relative authenticity, the exhibition invites viewers to delve through a collection of three hundred books that capture past lives through the lens of another. David Moore reflects on the display and the project’s position among the ongoing reassessment of documentary photography.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/cafe-royal-books/
Currently exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Craig Atkinson’s Café Royal Books presents an eclectic collection of social relics where regional pasts intermingle, and previously unseen or half-remembered social histories are vividly recalled. With a sense of relative authenticity, the exhibition invites viewers to delve through a collection of three hundred books that capture past lives through the lens of another. David Moore reflects on the display and the project’s position among the ongoing reassessment of documentary photography.
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Water tells a Tale as it Goes – The Leica camera Blog
In his photo book ‘Water’, the soon-to-turn-90, British photojournalist Ian Berry presents the impressive outcome of a long-term project.
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12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers
12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers
From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous image making, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.
https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
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Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues – LENSCRATCH
Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues – LENSCRATCH
“I’m looking for a moment where individuals are dwarfed by what surrounds them, appearing lost but searching for something. They then go on their way, whichever direction that may be.” Oli Kellett‘s Cross Road Blues, has recently been published by Nazraeli press. Cross Road Blues coincides with a solo exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art, London.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/oli-kellett/
Waiting for a Sign focuses on Kellett’s iconic Crossroad Blues series of large-scale portraits of people waiting at crossroads in urban cities across the globe from London to Mexico City and numerous across North America.
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Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle
Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle
Part memoir, part document of a punk-infused scene, “Wires Crossed” explores the lives of skateboarders crisscrossing the world.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/
The minute I found skateboarding, I was immersed in a world of creative people—even as far back as middle school. Having a skateboard was the ticket into a new world. There were these two punk guys I had always steered clear of. I thought these guys wanted to kick my ass. But once I had a skateboard under my arm they were like, “Hey, come hang out with us.” They gave me a cassette tape with Dead Kennedys and other bands. My mind was blown. The Beautiful Losers cluster—I think we are all loathe to call it a “movement”— was the same
https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/
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photo-eye | BLOG: Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Book Review Mirror City Photographs by Harry Culy Reviewed by Blake Andrews “For photographers shooting hometowns, acquaintance is a …
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/01/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html
Harry Culy’s debut photobook puts this hypothesis to the test. Mirror City collects Culy’s b/w photographs shot upon his return to Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), after ten years away. Growing up in the New Zealand capital decades earlier, he had come to know the place quite well. He’d explored the underbelly and skateboarded its sidewalks. He’d formed a sense of what it was to be a resident. He’d even made photographs of the city.
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/01/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html
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Bryan Schutmaat: Country Roads – LENSCRATCH
Bryan Schutmaat: Country Roads – LENSCRATCH
This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. Encompassed within the psychological landscape is an intense look at the land itself and the expressive qualities that our surroundings can offer us. In photography, there has been a long history of image makers going out into the world and intently looking at what most
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/bryan-schutmaat-country-roads/
Encompassed within the psychological landscape is an intense look at the land itself and the expressive qualities that our surroundings can offer us. In photography, there has been a long history of image makers going out into the world and intently looking at what most disregard
http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/bryan-schutmaat-country-roads/
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Søren Solkær: Starling and Black Sun – LENSCRATCH
Søren Solkær: Starling and Black Sun – LENSCRATCH
For the past few years while riding my bicycle along the Mediterranean coast near my home, I was startled occasionally by the sight of a massive black cloud of small birds swooping and diving in a tight formation that swirled above me in an enthralling display of aerial pageantry. I always wondered how and why
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/soren-solkaer-starling/
As Søren Solkær movingly relates in his introduction to Starling, “Through the lens, we venture into a domain where atoms assemble into orderly arrays, molecules form intricate structures, providing a reminder that the same fundamental forces that govern the cosmos also shape the tiniest building blocks of life. In these photographs, we witness the architecture of matter and the choreography of molecules…The parallels between the vast and the miniscule are unmistakable…I hope this body of work will inspire many to strengthen or regain a sensory connection with nature.”
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The Best Photography Books of 2023 | WIRED
Our Favorite Photobooks of 2023
From historical studies to psychedelic darkroom experiments, these are the photo books that best document the WIRED world.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-photo-books-2023/
IT’S NOT ALL words here at WIRED. Every one of our stories is brought to eye-popping life on the web and in print by our newsroom’s photo desk. Each year, this award-winning team of photo editors compiles a list of their favorite photography books. What follows is a selection of their picks from 2023. (Most were released this year; there are one or two you can preorder for delivery in early 2024.)
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Alan Schaller’s Haunting Photos Explore the Isolation of the Big City | PetaPixel
Alan Schaller’s Haunting Photos Explore the Isolation of the Big City
You might recognize his photos from Instagram.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/12/13/alan-schallers-haunting-photos-explore-the-isolation-of-the-big-city/
“I could take pictures that fit that theme anywhere I was in the world, it didn’t really matter where the location was,” says Schaller. “The point is this homogenous thing is happening, whether you’re in Paris, Tokyo, or New York — it’s becoming more similar, I think.”
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Photobooks of 2023 | 1000 Words
1000 Words | Top 10 Photobooks of 2023
As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases of 2023 – selected by Assistant Editor, Alessandro Merola.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2023/
As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases of 2023 – selected by Assistant Editor, Alessandro Merola.
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photo-eye Favorite Books 2023
https://www.photoeye.com/best-books-2023/index.cfm
It is with great pleasure we bring you our annual list of photobooks chosen by professionals who are deeply involved in the photobook world. This year we asked over 30 luminaries to choose, not one, but three of their favorite photobooks from the past year.
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Alex Webb on Reimagining a Photobook, Twenty-Five Years Later
Alex Webb on Reimagining a Photobook, Twenty-Five Years Later
In a new edition of a long out-of-print volume, Webb draws from photographs across many locations. Here, he considers the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/alex-webb-on-reimagining-a-photobook-twenty-five-years-later/
This new version of Dislocations—with some eighty photographs made on five continents—incorporates nearly half of the original photographs from the first edition, with the lion’s share comprised of later images
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A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2023 PhotoBook Awards
A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2023 PhotoBook Awards
These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2023-photobook-awards/
Now in its eleventh year, the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards are an annual celebration of the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. The awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
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How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon?
How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon?
The team behind Stanley/Barker speaks about the bookmaking process—and how a sequence of photographs can create an emotional experience.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-can-photobooks-expand-the-canon/
Gregory and Rachel Barker founded their photobook publishing house, Stanley/Barker, based in Shropshire in the West Midlands of England, in 2014. Their first publication, Tod Papageorge’s Studio 54 (2014), sequenced the photographer’s unpublished portfolio as a one-night journey into the depths of perhaps the most mythical nightclub ever. Stanley and Barker, who studied photography and art in London, and who are now both in their midthirties, have since published monographs by lesser-known but nonetheless formidable photographers, reviving interest in Mimi Plumb, Judith Black, and Jack Lueders-Booth. Superb black-and-white reproductions and narrative structure have become hallmarks of the Stanley/Barker approach, as well as a sensitivity to the look and feel of a publication held in the hand.