Category: Books

  • 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…

  • Why Does Everyone Think They Need A Photo Book?

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    Why Does Everyone Think They Need A Photo Book? – A Photo Editor A few weeks back I participated in Santa Fe Center’s Portfolio Bootcamp, a workshop they created to help photographers with their portfolio and portfolio presentation. The beauty of this event for me, was the diversity of the instructors: from editorial, via A…

  • This Week In Photography Books

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    This Week In Photography Books – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Three raccoons turned up dead here on the farm in the last few months. Most likely the dogs got them, though I suppose it could have been the coyotes. Coons are surprisingly big, and unfortunately the first was in the early stage of…

  • Fred Herzog: Photographs

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    la lettre: Fred Herzog purchased his first camera in 1950 and began working in color to do what he describes as “intimate journalism in a city environment. They call that street photography now…. I would find certain street corners where people gathered, or other public spaces, places I felt would have an atmosphere that suited…

  • Bill Hunt’s Unseen Eye – LightBox

    Bill Hunt’s Unseen Eye – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/05/bill-hunts-unseen-eye/#1 W.M.—called Bill by friends—Hunt’s life has revolved around photographs. As a collector, curator and consultant, Hunt uses his photographic eye daily, so it might seem surprising that obscured vision is the theme of his new book, out this month from Aperture.…

  • Inside the Mind of a Master Photo Editor

    Inside the Mind of a Master Photo Editor

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/04/inside-the-mind-of-a-master-photo-editor/#1 Kathy Ryan, the Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine, is famous for cross-assigning—hiring a war photographer to shoot celebrities, or commissioning a large-format landscape photographer to capture news close up. In 2008, Ryan asked photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin to…

  • This Week In Photography Books

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    This Week In Photography Books – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein If you’ve read any of my travelogue/art criticism articles on APE, you’re aware of my willingness to speak frankly and critically about photography on the wall. This feature, though, is a little different. Our goal is to highlight so via A Photo Editor:…

  • Rediscovering the Urban Palette

    Rediscovering the Urban Palette

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    Rediscovering the Urban Palette From the earliest hand-tinted postcards to kinetic, digital images, the sidewalks of New York have been muse and model to countless color photographers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/rediscovering-the-urban-palette/ “New York in Color” is just that – a hefty tome spanning a century of Gotham in photographs, from hand-tinted postcards to tack-sharp and…

  • photo-eye Book Reviews: Aftermath

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    Aftermath, Photographs by Jörn Vanhöfen. Published by Hatje Cantz, 2011.AftermathReviewed by David O

  • Yael Ben-Zion

    Yael Ben-Zion

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    Yael Ben-Zion Life leads us down many paths, some unexpected, and where we end up isn’t always where we set out to go. Yael Ben-Zion was born in Minneapolis, MN and raised in Israel. She returned to the states to attend Yale Law School and pursue LL.M. and J.S.D. degre via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/09/yael-ben-zion.html Yael’s first…

  • This Week In Photography Books

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    This Week In Photography Books – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein I live an hour plus North of Santa Fe, so I visit often. As such, I spend quite a bit of time at photo-eye, which has one of the world’s best inventories of photo books and ‘zines. We’re kicking off a new feature…

  • In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer’s Journey After 9/11

    In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer’s Journey After 9/11

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/19/in-the-light-of-darkness-a-photographers-journey-after-911/#1 Following the attacks on 9/11, Kate Brooks, at the age of 23, moved to Pakistan and began documenting the region—photographing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, daily life in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, and the historic revolutions in Egypt and Libya.…

  • Review: Joachim Schmid – Photoworks 1982-2007

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    Conscientious: If we get back to the complaint about all those photographs, the first thing we might want to realize is that Joachim Schmid talked about too many photographs in the world before Facebook was born. In 1989, he said “No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!” (quoted from the book…

  • Kramer O’Neill

    Kramer O’Neill

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    Kramer O’Neill Kramer O’Neill is a Brooklyn-based photographer, animator and editor. But he is also a wonderful street photographer creating work that feels nostalgic, yet modern, truthful, yet mysterious. His first book, Pictures of People and Things 1, was published t via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/09/kramer-oneill.html Kramer O’Neill is a Brooklyn-based photographer, animator and editor. But he…