Category: Books
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accidental rothko | the book | Redlights and Redeyes
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 Link: accidental rothko | the book | Redlights and Redeyes
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Storm. Paolo Pellegrin
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…
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A Visit From the Goon Squad – By Jennifer Egan – NYTimes.com
To Their Own Beat 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…
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Bedknobs & Broomsticks « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG
Bedknobs & Broomsticks Bedknobs & Broomsticks by Trent Parke Published by Little Brown Mushroom 40 pgs, 6.625 x 7.875 in. custom side-stapled Numbered edition of 1000 Designed by Hans Seeger ISBN#: 978-0-615-37550-2 … via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2324-2/ Instead of relying solely on the decisions of editors and publishers to tell the stories they…
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Photographer Stephen Gill: the devil in the detail – Telegraph
Photographer Stephen Gill: the devil in the detail The photographer Stephen Gill ensures his pictures are shown in the best possible light – in his own handmade books via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7813330/Photographer-Stephen-Gill-the-devil-in-the-detail.html One of Gill’s most complicated books was 44 Photographs – Trinidad, published last year. The entire book was manufactured and assembled by hand over…
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The Shallows – What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – By Nicholas Carr
Our Cluttered Minds A technology writer maintains we’re trading away the seriousness of sustained attention for the Web’s frantic superficiality. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/books/review/Lehrer-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Carr’s most serious charge against the Internet has nothing to do with Google and its endless sprawl of hyperlinks. Instead, he’s horrified by the way computers are destroying our powers of concentration
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Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone | Sean O'Hagan
Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone | Sean O’Hagan Creating your own photobook offers creative freedoms major publishers can only dream of, finds Sean O’Hagan – if you’re prepared to put in the donkey work via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/04/self-publish-photographers-photobooks Ed Ruscha famously did it. Alec Soth recently did it twice. Stephen…
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Masahisa Fukase's Ravens: the best photobook of the past 25 years? | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Masahisa Fukase’s Ravens: the best photobook of the past 25 years? Brooding and shatteringly lonely, the Japanese photographer’s series on ravens has been hailed as masterpiece of mourning via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/24/masahisa-fukase-ravens-photobook Fukase’s images are grainy, dark and impressionistic. Often, he magnifies his negatives or overexposes them, aiming all the time for mood over technical…
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Rob Hornstra Finds Success Publishing Photo Books – The Photoletariat
The Dutch photographers shared a similar analog ethos as well as an enthusiasm for doing work that is extremely personal to them, and important for the public to appreciate. But most important about the Dutch photographers was their DIY sensibility that told photographers not to wait for editors and publishers to find their work but…
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Book Review – War – By Sebastian Junger – NYTimes.com
‘Nothing to Do but Kill and Wait’ The author of “The Perfect Storm” spent months with American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan and details their intense lives in this original account. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/books/review/Filkins-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The best way to describe Junger’s book is to say what it is not. “War” does not attempt to explain…
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Eric Lusito – After The Wall Traces of the Soviet Empire
Eric Lusito has travelled throughout the former Soviet world from East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to Kazakhstan, in search of these former Soviet military bases and his photographs are an extraordinary record. As the USSR crumbled many bases were simply abandoned. A few still remain – traces of a once powerful Empire – yet…
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The Lotus Eaters – By Tatjana Soli – Review – NYTimes.com
The Vietnam Wars: ‘The Lotus Eaters’ The ambivalent heroine of Tatjana Soli’s Vietnam War novel, a photojournalist, ponders whether those who represent war merely replicate the violence. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Trussoni-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Like Chapelle, Helen is acutely ambivalent about her moral position as a war journalist. She is intent on pondering whether those who represent war — through…
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Shawn Records: The Road to Publishing pt. 1
In the week’s interview feature, photographer Shawn Records takes the opportunity to dig into what led three photographers who he has admired for years- Jason Fulford, Alec Soth, and Richard Renaldi- to become publishers. We also find out what each of them has learned along the way. Link: Shawn Records: The Road to Publishing pt.…
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5B4: Robert Frank: 81 Contact Sheets
Robert Frank: 81 Contact Sheets A couple years ago I had heard rumored that the eccentric Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura was working on a special “book” on Robert F… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-frank-81-contact-sheets.html A couple years ago I had heard rumored that the eccentric Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura was working on a special “book” on Robert Frank’s…
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sharpen: Print-On-Demand Book Test Results
Print-On-Demand Book Test Results–by Stella Kramer So you’re thinking about making a Print-On-Demand book but you don’t know which company to use, or whether it’s going to be worth the money…. Link: http://sharpernewyork.blogspot.com/2009/07/print-on-demand-book-test-results.html you’re thinking about making a Print-On-Demand book but you don’t know which company to use, or whether it’s going to be worth…
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The Rape of a Nation
“The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human tragedy…” remarks John Le Carré in the foreword to this book. His words contain the indignation of a man who despairs at the state of humanity that allows the history of Congo to unfold unchallenged as the West looks on.…
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Lewis Koch – Touchless Automatic Wonder « The PhotoBook
Lewis Koch – Touchless Automatic Wonder Copyright Lewis Koch 2009 courtesy Lewis Koch & Borderland Books The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from the real world”. There is no doubt that … via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/lewis-koch-touchless-automatic-wonder/ The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from…
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David Carol – All My Lies Are True « The PhotoBook
David Carol – All My Lies Are True Review by Douglas Stockdale • Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. … via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/david-carol-all-my-lies-are-true/ Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but…
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5B4: Distance and Slow Boat by Onaka Koji
Distance and Slow Boat by Onaka Koji Yutaka Takanashi in an interview once described his approach while working on Toshi-e as, “…two conflicting creatures settled into my b… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/02/distance-and-slow-boat-by-onaka-koji.html Yutaka Takanashi in an interview once described his approach while working on Toshi-e as, “…two conflicting creatures settled into my body. One is a ‘hunter…
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photo-eye | Magazine — Short Track
Passion, drive and mud fill the pages of Jake Mendel’s book Short Track, published by powerHouse Books. In the 77 black and white photographs determination and the ghost of Dale Earnhardt show their faces. This is not a surprise, but gives credence to the authenticity of the fans, drivers and wrench turners pictured. Racing is…