I like photobooks because they solve the problem of sadness and loss that I feel when I see a beautiful show in a museum or gallery that I can’t see again. They satisfy my curiosity about whether or not the work stands the test of time and merits repeated viewing.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Conversations about Photobooks: Charles Lane Press
Oculi , Photographs by the Oculi Photography Group. Published by Hardie Grant Books, 2010. Oculi Reviewed by Tom Leininger _________…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/12/photo-eye-book-reviews-oculi.html
In 2000 a group of Australian photographers formed a collective and created a website showcasing their work. It was an outlet for newspaper photographers to get their personal work out to the world. The group was not formed as a commercial venture. While the membership of Oculi has changed over time, the mission of the group has stayed the same: make amazing pictures showing the drama of everyday life.
The older notions of photographers physically exploring their world may have in some ways come to pass. The Egglestons, Shores, Levitts, Wi…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-american-picture-by-doug-rickard.html
Doug Rickard’s work in his book A New American Picture has me excited, perhaps a bit disturbed, and completely captivated.
Rickard’s work on this project has a clever framework. He has been exploring the world through Google street views.
Institute for Artist Management’s blog just published a full view of Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen’s new book “Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land”
Link: Rob Hornstra’s New Book: “Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land” | dvafoto
from the book Infidel Infidel is one of the best photography books to come out that documents the United States involvement in Afghanis…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/11/antones-picks-infidel.html
Infidel is one of the best photography books to come out that documents the United States involvement in Afghanistan. I would go so far to say that it is one of the most powerful photobooks to come out this year. Photographer and film maker Tim Hetherington’s Infidel tracks a detailed account of one US platoon serving in the Korengal Valley
Photographer Lyle Owerko’s new book The Boombox Project, published this fall by Abrams Image, began as a series of still-life photographs of old portable music players he shot on white seamless. The images of the visibly used boomboxes, which allow close examination of their design—knobs, dials, equalizers, speakers and other components—are compelling, nostalgia-inducing cultural documents.
In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret things] I am a bit careful with books). If I want to see an image, I go and open the book, and then… there it is. It’s almost a bit like as if it was newly revealed, and I can look at it again.
Link: Conscientious Extended | The Photobook – An Appreciation
Nick Turpin started the In-Public website in 2000 to foster a community of practicing street photographers. The recently published 10: 10 Years of In-Public features the work of the 20 photographers who now make up In-Public. In-Public is very much a 21st century endeavour, a virtual convergence of street photographers on four continents with a shared interest who have influenced one another’s individual practices. As Turpin writes in the introduction, “We grew with the internet and benefited enormously from the way it circumvented the gatekeepers of the art and publishing worlds that had traditionally decided who would or would not reach an audience”.
10 was published to commemorate 10 years of In-Public, the international street photographers’ collective, featuring 10 images from each of the 20 photographers.
Link: 10 Years of In-Public
Introduction: In the next few days I’m going to be covering a motley of recently encountered or recently released books, some of which I’ve seen, some of which I haven’t. This post began as a simple listing of a few…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/10/recent-books-of-interest-1.html
William Albert Allard: Five Decades (Focal Point, an imprint of the National Geographic Society). (Here’s the U.K. link.) Just published last week.
The work of the great Bill Allard stands in a complex relationship to National Geographic magazine
Workshops include topics like: “Compelling Cover Design,” “Handmade Gifts for Booklovers,” “How to be a New York Fashion Photographer,” “The Perfect Portfolio,” “Getting Your Work Out There,” “Photo Book Tips and Tricks” and more.
Customer service pros and Blurb employees will be on hand all 11 days to help answer any questions you may have about making a great photo book.
Link: Blurb to Host Free 11-day-long Photo Book Workshop in NYC
Having met with success online, David Alan Harvey was ready to gamble on a really risky medium: books.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/titled-burn-but-printed-on-paper/
When David Alan Harvey started his online Web journal Burn in 2008, there were few opportunities for emerging photographers to display their work to a broad audience. Today, thanks partly to Burn, they have numerous showcases on the Web.
Now, building upon his online success, Mr. Harvey has embarked on a truly innovative enterprise: publishing on paper.
Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” is more of a family album for a platoon in Afghanistan than a traditional photojournalism book.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/infidel/
Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” (Chris Boot Ltd., 2010) is more of a family album than a traditional photojournalism book. There are of course powerful images of life for a platoon in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan that Hetherington and Sebastian Junger documented in the film “Restrepo.” But there are also thorough catalogs of the soldiers’ tattoos, their official Army ID photos and the magazine centerfolds in their barracks, and remarkably revealing interviews with seven of the soldiers. The book stands on its own, separate from the movie.
Combining the zine ethic and media-savvy dynamism of FIGJAM street culture with the networking energy of its Perth-based creator Mark McPherson, Hijacked 1 is a compelling trawl through contemporary US and Australian photographic practice.
the pitch: to the point..BURN.01 is available for online purchase as of now…yes, i am selling this new book and proud of it…the best work of the audience here on Burn is featured…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2010/09/buy-burn-01-online-now/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29
the pitch: to the point..BURN.01 is available for online purchase as of now…yes, i am selling this new book and proud of it…the best work of the audience here on Burn is featured along with a smattering of iconic legends….holding copies of the 300 page, printed in Italy, collector edition (1000 copies) are my students from the loft workshop which i do every year right here…frankly, a typical class (well, no these are the best!) for me and my Burn demographic….the best of times for all…the photographers above will present their work on Friday evening right after the Bruce Davidson show right here in my apartment…see announcement below..
via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/08/trespass_a_history_of_uncommissioned_urb.html
We’re thrilled to announce that in just a few weeks time, after three years of development, TRESPASS: A HISTORY OF UNCOMMISSIONED URBAN ART will finally hit stores around the world. We couldn’t be happier as TRESPASS is definitely the book that we all wanted to make. And while the book does include some wonderful examples of street art and graffiti, it’s much, much more than that. Using the act of trespassing as a narrative thread to bring together a very disparate group of artists, we set out to find visual documentation of ephemeral acts of public art that in many cases had no known photos.
Chip Litherland:
It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness
With Storm, Paolo Pellegrin takes a fresh and personal look into fashion. Through an exploration of the Present, he portrays his dreamlike vision of the future, involving in the course of pages a unique collection of landscapes from all over the planet – passing from the most condensed asian metropoles to Iceland, from an unseen Dubai to an oniric New York City, to Siberia – unconventional fashion series, ghost imaginary and a gallery of some of the key visionaries of our days – including the director Alejandro Jodorowsky, the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, the architect Sir Norman Foster, the fashion designer Ms Stella McCartney, the Chairman John Elkington, the designer Mr Bruce Mau, among others. An inner journey, between fiction and reality, through mankind’s present position toward the planet.
Link: Storm
In her unclassifiably elaborate novel, Jennifer Egan creates a set of characters linked to the music business and lets relentless time have its way with them.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/books/review/Blythe-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The book starts with Sasha, a kleptomaniac, who works for Bennie, a record executive, who is a protégé of Lou who seduced Jocelyn who was loved by Scotty who played guitar for the Flaming Dildos, a San Francisco punk band for which Bennie once played bass guitar (none too well), before marrying Stephanie who is charged with trying to resurrect the career of the bloated rock legend Bosco who grants the sole rights for covering his farewell “suicide tour” to Stephanie’s brother, Jules Jones, a celebrity journalist who attempted to rape the starlet Kitty Jackson, who one day will be forced to take a job from Stephanie’s publicity mentor, La Doll, who is trying to soften the image of a genocidal tyrant because her career collapsed in spectacular fashion