Category: Books
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Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s | eyecurious
The book contains essays by Kaneko and Vartanian. Kaneko’s essay recounts his personal journey with the photobook, a unique one since few people were buying photobooks when he did (to the point where he once ordered a book only to have the publisher turn up at his door to deliver it himself because he thought…
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PDNPulse: 2009 Critical Mass Book Award Winners Announced
Link: PDNPulse: 2009 Critical Mass Book Award Winners Announced
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Life Geos On – Per Englund « The PhotoBook
Life Geos On – Per Englund Copyright of Per Englund, 2009 courtesy of Per Englund and Dokument Press Per Englund spent a couple of summers photographing Cape Town, South Africa and his photobook Life Geos On provides an inve… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/life-geos-on-per-englund/ Per Englund spent a couple of summers photographing Cape Town, South Africa…
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photo-eye | Magazine — Luxury
Luxury is a compilation of works created by Martin Parr between 2003 and 2009 whilst visiting a range of high profile and wealthy social occasions such as horse racing at Ascot, Art Basel Miami Beach or Sotheby’s auctions in Dubai. Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Luxury
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Photobook: young soldiers and traumatic stress after war – lens culture photography weblog
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2010/02/hines.html Photographer Jessica Hines won an honorable mention in our global photography competition — and thus an opportunity to publish a photobook at Blurb.com. She took this as inspiration and teamed up with Elizabeth Avedon (the designer of many of Richard…
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Don McCullin: War photographer
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon McCullins autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour‘ in Dublin and couldn’t put it down. It’s an unflinching account of his life. I really had no idea about the man at all (indeed might be due a re-read). Truly gripping a life like his defies fiction you really couldn’t make up the…
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The Visual Student » 30 Years Photographing An American Family: Pam Spaulding
Pam Spaulding started at the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times in 1972, a year after her internship at those newspapers. For over 30 years she has photographed one upper-middle class family as they raised three children and then as those children left home for lives of their own. All three of the children are now older…
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Ain't That America – PDN
Photographer Gary Cialdella grew up on the Eastern edge of the Calumet in Blue Island, Illinois. When he left for college, he had no thoughts of returning, but as an adult he moved to nearby Michigan. More than 20 years ago, he reacquainted himself with the area and began photographing it. He recently released his…
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Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture
Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo. via: Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture photography weblog
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Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto
Have a look at the “trailer” for Stanley Greene’s new book Black Passport, a deeply personal journal of life and a career in conflict. Or perhaps it is, as compiled by Teun van der Heijden, a biography. Link: Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto
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photo-eye | THE BEST BOOKS OF 2009
Welcome to the Best Photobooks of 2009. Continuing were we left off last year, we’ve expanded this long photo-eye tradition to include top 10 photobook lists from a group of prominent photographers, bookmakers, editors, publishers and critics. Above you’ll find a complete list of the contributors, each linking to that individual’s list. The range of…
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Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture's Worth
This summer I’ve had the opportunity to get out of the city on two occasions: a weekend in the Hamptons with a bunch of fellow Hawaiians, and a wedding in upstate Connecticut. As a photographer, I wanted to capture moments from those weekends with no other intention but to share them through my website, but…
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Larissa Leclair – Interview: Elizabeth Fleming
An interview with Elizabeth Fleming about using MagCloud and Blurb to publish her own magazine and book. Link: Larissa Leclair – Interview: Elizabeth Fleming via: Tethered
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The Independent Photo Book
The Independent Photo Book a self publishing free zone Link: http://theindependentphotobook.blogspot.com/ THE INDEPENDENT PHOTO BOOK ANNOUNCES INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED AND/OR PRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OR ZINES, WHICH ARE NOT AVAILABLE VIA AMAZON OR OTHER STANDARD OUTLETS.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "William Eggleston – Introduction to The Democratic Forest (1989)"
The Democratic Forest, a most remarkable and beautiful book, is what is even rarer, and original one. Consisting entirely of the eloquent photographs of the American photographer William Eggleston, it begins as an autobiography might, with a setting for a life. Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “William Eggleston – Introduction to The Democratic Forest (1989)”
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Announcing the DMU Book: Save 10, The Lightbox Collection | Thomas Hawk
Last night the Deleteme Uncensored group on Flickr published our first group book together, Save 10, The Lightbox Collection. The 80 page 8×10 landscape format photography book features 75 photographic plates by 40 different DMU photographers. Link: Announcing the DMU Book: Save 10, The Lightbox Collection | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
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How should photobook CONSUMPTION evolve in the next decade? | RESOLVE
Here are a few of their predictions for what it might be like to look through a photobook in ten years Link: How should photobook CONSUMPTION evolve in the next decade? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
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5B4: Allowing Flowers by Alec Soth
Allowing Flowers by Alec Soth With the economic crisis and the toll on the housing market we saw and heard hundreds of stories about families facing foreclosure, evicti… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/allowing-flowers-by-alec-soth.html Alec has teamed up with a Minnesota-based non-profit housing developer called CommonBond Communities with the goal of providing 4000 affordable apartments and townhouses to needy…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Like Lipstick Traces
another offering from Dokument and Hello Press… Like Lipstick Traces is a coffee-table collection of 600 polaroids taken specifically for this project over the course of two years by 13 mostly European graffiti artists. Link: Juxtapoz Magazine –
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5B4: Sanatorium by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen
Sanatorium by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen Due to my general laziness after the holidays I see that Andrew Phelps, the fine photographer and blogger of the booksite Buffet , has be… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/12/sanatorium-by-rob-hornstra-arnold-van.html Due to my general laziness after the holidays I see that Andrew Phelps, the fine photographer and blogger of the…