Category: Books

  • Our Top Ten Photo Books of 2011

    Our Top Ten Photo Books of 2011

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    Our Top Ten Photo Books of 2011 It was not unlike a political caucus. The candidates — in this case, nearly 100 photography books published this year — took over every inch of available counter space in the photo department, where they were carefully scrutinized by a group of opinionate via The 6th Floor Blog:…

  • The Boombox Project, A Photobook of Vintage Boomboxes

    The Boombox Project, A Photobook of Vintage Boomboxes

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    The Boombox Project, A Photobook of Vintage Boomboxes http://vimeo.com/20664159 The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-boombox-project-a-photobook-of-vintage-boomboxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29 The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring fine art…

  • Is This Place Great or What?

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    Foto8 Brian Ulrich began his Copia project in response to George W. Bush’s appeal to Americans in the weeks after 9/11 to shop and spend as a patriotic activity, but it developed into something much more far-reaching. The result of a decade’s work, Copia is a project that has grown organically out of its earliest…

  • Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth

    Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth

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    Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year, I noticed that numerous selections could be classified as crime stories. So in creating this year’s list, I thought it would be an entertaining e… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/top-20/ While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year,…

  • PDN surveys 2011 photo books

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    Rob Galbraith DPI: PDN Online has published three articles surveying the photo book landscape for 2011

  • 100 Notable Books of 2011

    100 Notable Books of 2011

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    100 Notable Books of 2011 The Book Review’s annual list. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2011.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp

  • Vivian Maier Book Is Published

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    Vivian Maier Book Is Published I’ll have more to say about it in due course, but I just thought you’d want to know that I received Vivian Maier: Street Photographer yesterday. (It’s available for pre-order in the U.K. and it’s not in stock at The… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/11/vivien-maier-book-is-published.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 I’ll have more to say…

  • Q & A with Gordon Stettinius

    Q & A with Gordon Stettinius

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    Q & A with Gordon Stettinius Gordon Stettinius is the founder of Candela Books in Richmond, Virginia. I caught up with him recently to chat about Candela’s latest relea… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/11/q-with-gordon-stettinius.html Gordon Stettinius is the founder of Candela Books in Richmond, Virginia. I caught up with him recently to chat about Candela’s latest release, Salt…

  • Paolo Pellegrin’s Dies Irae

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    photo-eye Book Reviews: Dies Irae Dies Irea , Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin . Published by Contrasto, 2011. Dies Irae Reviewed by Joscelyn Jurich ______________… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/11/photo-eye-book-reviews-dies-irae.html “I happen to think of photography as a foreign language,” says Paolo Pellegrin. “The question isn’t how to take good photos, it’s how to take photographs that succeed to…

  • This Week In Photography Books

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    This Week In Photography Books – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Just curious, but am I predictable in my unpredictability? If so, some of you must have seen this week’s column coming. Last Friday, we showcased some low-pro, under-the-radar type books you probably haven’t heard of. So of course, t via A Photo Editor:…

  • photo-eye Book Reviews: Suburban Dreams

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    photo-eye Book Reviews: Suburban Dreams Suburban Dreams , Photographs by Beth Yarnelle Edwards . Published by Kehrer Verlag, 2011. Suburban Dreams Reviewed by George Sla… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/11/photo-eye-book-reviews-suburban-dreams.html Indeed, Edwards’ suburban dreamers, named alone or in couples, are largely in a kind of trance

  • The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, A Book of Fraternal Lodge Prank Devices

    The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, A Book of Fraternal Lodge Prank Devices

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    The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, A Book of Fraternal Lodge Prank Devices The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist and freelance illustrator Julia Suits. Twenty via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-extraordinary-catalog-of-peculiar-inventions-a-book-of-fraternal-lodge-prank-devices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29 The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist…

  • This Week In Photography Books

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    This Week In Photography Books – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein A few weeks ago, I outed myself for having created a male-centric photo-book review column. Rather than embracing the gender bias, I sought to rectify the problem, good feminist that I am. (My wife went to Vassar and Smith, so my cre via…

  • Vancouver Vanguard: Fred Herzog’s Early Color Street Photographs

    Vancouver Vanguard: Fred Herzog’s Early Color Street Photographs

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/01/vancouver-vanguard-fred-herzogs-early-color-street-photographs/#1 In 1953, decades before William Eggleston and Stephen Shore established color photography as a serious medium for art photography, Fred Herzog shot his first roll of color film. His wonderful and remarkable street pictures are the subject of a new monograph…

  • My First Solo Book: VISUAL STORIES

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    Vincent Laforet: The book is available now for pre-order and comes in both eBook and in hard copy of course,  and will hit the shelves on November 14th.  

  • Blurb launches eBook publishing service

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    British Journal of Photography: Six years after launching its print-on-demand photobook publishing service, Blurb now allows photographers to automatically convert their books into eBooks

  • Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours

    Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/18/elliott-erwitt-sequentially-yours/#1 Elliott Erwitt generally likes to let his pictures do the talking. “I’m very bad about talking about things,” he tells me with a smile, during a recent sit-down to look through his latest book, Sequentially Yours, published this month by teNeues.…

  • At Gleason’s Gym, Images of a Bruised Beauty

    At Gleason’s Gym, Images of a Bruised Beauty

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    The Sweet Science of Body and Soul Jules Allen went to Gleason’s Gym to train. He stayed to make pictures of a smoke-filled world where boxing champs duked it out daily amid dreamers and hustlers, the up and coming and the down and out. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/the-sweet-science-of-body-and-soul/ Jules Allen — no stranger to the…

  • Exclusive interview with Henry Rollins about his new photo book, ‘Occupants’

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    Feature Shoot Henry Rollins, frontman for both Black Flag and Rollins Band, has been traveling the world for more than a quarter century. In recent years, he has decided to document his travels, which have taken him to countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, and North Korea to name a few. His first photo book,…

  • Donovan Wylie Outposts in Afghanistan

    Donovan Wylie Outposts in Afghanistan

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/13/capturing-the-buildings-of-war-before-theyre-gone/#1 Donovan Wylie’s new book, Outposts: Kandahar Province and an accompanying exhibition at the U.K.’s National Media Museum show us some of the tiniest such bases in the remote areas of southern Afghanistan. Built by Canadian and American troops over a five year…