From 1994 to 2002, Robert Capa Gold Medal recipient Bruce Haley traversed the former Soviet Bloc, photographing war-torn settlements, disfigured industrial sites, and rural landscapes and isolated villages seemingly frozen in time. He combined this disparate subject matter, shot in both 35mm and panoramic formats, in his new monograph, Sunder
Photographer Matt Johnson and designer Wayne Ford, who operate the Web site Photo Book Club, have been hitting the social media channels asking for recommendations for great photo book stores around the world. They’re plugging the recommendations into a G
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/photogs-crowd-sourcing-a-global-map-of-photo-book-stores.html
Check out the map to make suggestions or to find out where to look for books on your next trip:
War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3 , Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bruce, Davide Monteleone, Saiful Huq O…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/04/photo-eye-book-reviews-war-is-only-half.html
Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bruce, Davide Monteleone, Saiful Huq Omi, Ami Vitale and Donald Weber.
The Aftermath Project, 2011. Softcover. 132 pp., black & white and color illustrations throughout, 11×11
The debate years ago on whether film was “better” than digital ruffled a lot of feathers. The old guard held tight to their precious rolls…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2011/03/films-by-paul-graham.html
Paul Graham’s newest book from Mack books Films is an homage to that basic component of grain which is not so easily mimicked by pixels.
In 2009, Magnum Photographer Christopher Anderson released his beautiful photobook, Capitolio, capturing the tumultuous upheavals of Caracas, Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Less than two years later,…
via THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS | A PRO PHOTO & VIDEO BLOG: http://arcrental.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/interview-magnum-photographer-publishes-photobook-for-ipad/
In 2009, Magnum Photographer Christopher Anderson released his beautiful photobook, Capitolio, capturing the tumultuous upheavals of Caracas, Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Almost two years later, as first print run copies dwindle, the publishing world is a very different place. The digital age that has long since transformed music, video and media distribution and consumption is now dramatically sweeping into long form books, with media and tablet readers. The last bastion of physical media is still and was always destined to be high-quality image reproduction, embodied in the photobook. But as the march of digital overthrow prepares its final coup de grâce, Anderson asked himself what form this will take. How will audiences be consuming photobooks in the digital age? This week, he’s launching his answer to that question, with the first photobook reproduced as an iPad app. We recently interviewed Anderson on his thought process behind the book’s launch, and how he sees the future of high-end photography reproduction.
Jonathan Blaustein speaks with Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson about their new book. In my experience, every photographer would like a book of his or her work. It’s a given, like the misery of next month’s tax deadline. Whether we’re talking about
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/30/publishing-your-photography-book/
In my experience, every photographer would like a book of his or her work. It’s a given, like the misery of next month’s tax deadline. Whether we’re talking about an artist monograph proffered by an established publisher, or a 21st Century-style photo album of the family trip to Puerto Rico, everyone wants a book. Yet the process is complicated, and often opaque for the average photographer.
Mary Virginia Swanson, who’s had a long and illustrious career in the photography industry, and Darius Himes, a writer and co-founder of Radius Books, have just published Publish Your Photography Book, (Princeton Architectural Press) which I mentioned in my article about the PDN Photo Plus Expo this past fall. They allowed me to preview a pdf of the entire book earlier this winter, and agreed to answer some questions.
Duckrabbit called it the “hottest photobook to be published in the UK in 2010,” while Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins argued it was “a significant document of life in modern Britain that should continue to have significance long after the moments of its making.”
Link: Simon Wheatley’s Time of Grime – British Journal of Photography
March Madness is upon us again, which means it’s time for another photography tournament. This year’s tourney will work along the same mode…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/03/photobook-tourney.html
I’ve chosen 64 books from Andrew Roth’s Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. Most but not all titles have been translated into English. Modeling after the NCAAs, I’ve seeded the photobooks into four regionals, New York, Europe, Middle America, and Misfits, the last one being a catch-all category for books that don’t easily fit somewhere else.
If one wants to think of photobook making as a spectrum, at one end, there are commercial publishers. At the other end, there are artists literally making their own books: Printing the pages, binding them etc. Raymond Meeks has produced a variety of such artist books, and I approached him to talk about those.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Conversations about Photobooks: Raymond Meeks
Guy Lane reviews East of a New Eden, a book by Alban Kakulya and Yann Mingard looking at the new eastern borders of the EU.
Link: East of a New Eden
Sometimes a photographer will come to me with a box of prints, and I just keep looking at the pictures until I start understanding what the core is. It’s like the pictures ask me to pull them together in a certain way. A form begins.
I love working with the photographer, I certainly think the photographer is the final editor. And I listen to the photographer, but I don’t think they always see what they have. As an outsider, I can sometimes see more clearly.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Conversations about Photobooks: Alice Rose George
From Here to There , Photographs by Alec Soth. Published by Walker Art Center, 2010. From Here to There Reviewed by Antone Dolezal _…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/01/photo-eye-book-reviews-from-here-to.html
Few photographers can say the first retrospective monograph of their work was published at the ripe old age of 41. And even fewer can say this all happened less than a decade after emerging on the international photography scene. But then again, in the last decade only a handful of photographers have been as influential to the medium as Alec Soth has been
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Morten Andersen Timothy Prus & Ed Jones Alan Rapp Elizabeth Avedon Rinko Kawauchi Ramón Reverté Alexa Becker Hester Keijser Michael Schmelling Bruno Ceschel Anne Kelly George Slade Jörg M. Colberg Loring Knoblauch Alec Soth Marco Delogu Larissa Leclair Peter Sutherland Antone Dolezal Melanie McWhorter Willem van Zoetendaal John Gossage Colin Pantall Laurence Vecten Todd Hido Martin Parr Fabrice Wagner
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Altered States: The Way We Live Today is LUCEO’s second group exhibition of recent and best works, images that reflect LUCEO’s commitment to collaboration, artistic support, and exchange. In his forward to this limited edition exhibition catalog, show curator Brian Clamp distinguishes LUCEO from the traditional artistic model, noting that the “classic vision of the artist is a solitary figure locked away in a studio with private inspirations and visions.” Contrary to this model, Clamp’s curation reflects a modern view of the photographer, images that show a deep and personal collaboration with the communities that host the photographers as well as mutual respect and support shared amongst the artists themselves.
Printed on heavy stock, perfect bound, with a limited press run of 300, each issue is a collector’s item. Each hand-numbered piece contains 31 original photographs, edited, sequenced and displayed to best reflect the delicate balance of images curated for the exhibition. Altered States: The Way We Live Today follows on the heels of LUCEO’s and MJR’s 2010 collaborative catalog, recently reviewed by Time magazine’s Paul Moakley for PDN as “the number one promo I’ve received since I’ve been here.”
Link: Limited Edition Exhibition Catalog Pre-Sale Through Jan. 6th | Luceo Images
Slow Burn , Photographs by Renee Jacobs. Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. Slow Burn Reviewed by Tom Leininger…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/12/photo-eye-book-reviews-slow-burn.html
A coal fire started underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1962. It was still burning when Renée Jacobs arrived to document life in the town in 1983. A handful of residents remain today, but the town is essentially gone.
Photolucida ‘s Critical Mass has established itself as one of the foremost photo competitions, drawing applicants world wide for …
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/12/interviews-laura-moya-of-photolucida.html
photo-eye was fortunate enough to catch Photolucida’s executive director Laura Moya at a lull between Critical Mass jurying cycles and ask a few questions about the competition, jurying process and how the Critical Mass books come to be.
The Mushroom Collector by Jason Fulford When this book arrived, I saw the cover and was afraid to look inside. I flipped through the first few pages and then put it down. I didn’t look at it again …
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/top-10-photobooks-of-2010-by-alec-soth/
“Crosses — Portraits of Clergy Abuse,” a book by Carmine Galasso, who traveled throughout the United States to document the devastated lives of men and women who were betrayed by the very Roman Catholic priests and nuns they had once admired and trusted.
From 50 years of rock photography to the war images of Don McCullin and Albert Watson’s fashion photographs, Sean O’Hagan picks the year’s best photography books
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/photography-books-of-the-year-sean-ohagan
Sean O’Hagan picks the year’s best, including 50 years of rock photography, the war images of Don McCullin and Larry Sultan’s strange take on his adopted home state
Sean O’Hagan: For this Sunday’s Observer, I’ve gathered some of 2010’s top popular releases. But here’s an extra selection from my own personal cellar, featuring those that are slightly more difficult find
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/10/sean-o-hagan-photography-books-christmas
I’ve gathered some of 2010’s top popular releases. But here’s an extra selection from my own personal cellar, featuring those that are slightly more difficult find
Killed is a book of photographs that were never meant to be published, photographs that Roy E. Stryker of the Farm Security Administratio…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/12/ppp-editions-killed-roy-strykers.html
Killed is a book of photographs that were never meant to be published, photographs that Roy E. Stryker of the Farm Security Administration disapproved of. The images, aptly called “killed,” bear the marks of a hole punch, like cartoon bullet holes, marking the images as unacceptable.
