Category: Books

  • Jim Goldberg – Open See « The PhotoBook

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    Jim Goldberg – Open See   Copyright Jim Goldberg 2009 courtesy Steidl Reviewing Jim Goldberg’s photobook Open See, published this year by Steidl, it may be initially a stretch to think of this body of work coming fro… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/jim-goldberg-open-see/ Reviewing Jim Goldberg’s photobook Open See, published this year by Steidl, it may…

  • SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Just the Facts:Zine 4 for Sale

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    Superficial Snapshots Zine 4: Can You Hear Me Now? [ full color, 55 pages, all photographs shot with iPhone] Link: SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Just the Facts:Zine 4 for Sale

  • Harry Cock – Omstreken « The PhotoBook

    Harry Cock – Omstreken « The PhotoBook

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    Harry Cock – Omstreken Copyright Harry Cock 2006, courtesy Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht Omstreken (Environs) is the title for the twenty-five year retrospective of Dutch photojournalist Harry Cock. The Dutch word is… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/harry-cock-omstreken/ Omstreken (Environs) is the title for the twenty-five year retrospective of Dutch photojournalist Harry Cock. The Dutch word is used to indicate the area…

  • Simon Roberts video excerpt: the beauty of photobooks – lens culture

    Simon Roberts video excerpt: the beauty of photobooks – lens culture

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    LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/12/beauty-of-photobooks.html For the second installment of Lens Culture’s new video interview series, “Conversations with Photographers”, I spoke at length with British photographer Simon Roberts about his work, and in particular about his two remarkable photobooks, Motherland and We English.

  • Book of the Year: ‘Riley & His Story’ by Monica Haller « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG

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    From the Library: Riley and His Story from Little Brown Mushroom on Vimeo. via: Book of the Year: ‘Riley & His Story’ by Monica Haller « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG

  • Something old, something new: 2009's best photography books | guardian.co.uk

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    Something old, something new: 2009’s best photography books | Sean O’Hagan Sean O’Hagan picks his favourite photography books– from reissues of classic editions to a stunning collection of mobile-phone snaps via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/28/photography-books-2009 From reissues of classic editions to an eye-opening collection of mobile-phone snaps, photography books in 2009 captured a medium in flux.…

  • 'Footnotes in Gaza,' Written and Illustrated by Joe Sacco – NYTimes.com

    'Footnotes in Gaza,' Written and Illustrated by Joe Sacco – NYTimes.com

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    ‘They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts’ Joe Sacco’s account of mass killings of Palestinians in 1956 impressively combines graphic artistry and investigative reporting. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Cockburn-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Joe Sacco will find readers for “Footnotes in Gaza” far into the future because of the unique format and style of his comic-book narrative. He stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist…

  • 12 Hot Thoughts on the Future of Photobooks | RESOLVE

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    Since FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams and I put out our call for posts on the Future of Photobooks a few weeks ago, more than 40 bloggers have shared their insights. You can find them all in our original post, plus lots of additional comments, and two new posts, about DIY book printers and the Future of…

  • Alec Soth’s Top 10 Photobooks of 2009 « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG

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    Alec Soth’s Top 10 Photobooks of 2009 You and Me and the Art of Give and Take by Allen Ruppersberg (Santa Monica Museum of Art) Holy information overload. One of the coolest exhibition catalogues I’ve ever seen. Greater Atlanta by Mark… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/alec-soth’s-top-10-photobooks-of-2009/

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Portraits of Silence

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    On the surface, the subjects of Hisashi Shimizu’s book Portraits of Silence are soldiers who perished during the Iraq conflict, indirect portraits developed from the perspective of the soldier’s parents. But Portraits of Silence is also about the desire to maintain the memory of a beloved, and the fight to keep a tangible presence of…

  • Christmas roundup: photography books | The Guardian

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    Christmas roundup: photography books | Books review Prudence Hone’s roundup of photography books via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/12/photography-books-christmas-roundup-review Massimo Vitali comments in Photo-wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art edited by Lewis Blackwell (Chronicle, £35): “The fact that everybody is taking pictures today is interesting and not a problem for me. People can take their pictures, but…

  • Asian Crossroads in Africa – Lens

    Asian Crossroads in Africa – Lens

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    Showcase: Asian Crossroads in Africa The book, “China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing’s Expansion in Africa,” documents the more than 500,000 people from China who have immigrated to Africa. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/showcase-91/ As many as 500,000 Chinese have immigrated to Africa, lured by its oil, copper, uranium, wood and other natural resources. Many…

  • More thoughts on photo books – Conscientious

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    I do think, however, that over the past few years the quality aspect of photo books has also been taken an extreme, which sometimes makes it seem as if photo books are some sort of fetish. If I had the choice between Alec Soth’s newpaper and a Karl Lagerfeld book printed by Steidl, it’s obvious…

  • Future of Photobooks? « The PhotoBook

    Future of Photobooks? « The PhotoBook

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    Future of Photobooks? Andy Adams of Flak Photo contacted me a couple of days ago to participate in a discussion about the future of photobooks. Seems that this discussion is a spin off of a brief article posted by Joerg… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/future-of-photobooks/ First, what is the purpose of a photobook and how might that change in 10…

  • The Best Photo Books 2009 – Conscientious

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    It’s that time of the year again, so without further ado, these are the photo books that impressed me the most this past year. I’m listing them in no particular order, with the exception of the very first one: jpegs by Thomas Ruff. Cutting-edge work, challenging the way we think about photographs, presented beautifully in…

  • Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon – The Observer

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    Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon | Book review Sean O’Hagan applauds a meticulous biography of the photographer Dorothea Lange who will forever be defined by her images of the Great Depression via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/06/dorothea-lange-biography-review Sean O’Hagan applauds a meticulous biography of Dorothea Lange who will forever be defined by her…

  • Heart of brightness: the Gentlemen of Bacongo

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    Heart of brightness: the Gentlemen of Bacongo A group of dandies gussied up in tailored tweeds and bowler hats have transformed their Brazzaville suburb into Congo’s most unlikely style capital via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/nov/30/daniele-tamagni-gentlemen-of-bacongo?picture=356236609 A small suburb of Brazzaville in Congo has become an unlikely style capital, thanks to its dedicated followers of foppish fashion.…

  • Arnoud Bakker – Atropa bella donna « The PhotoBook

    Arnoud Bakker – Atropa bella donna « The PhotoBook

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    Arnoud Bakker – Atropa bella donna Copyright Arnoud Bakker, 2009, courtesy Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht To be in love, or perhaps in lust, is to experience a kind of narcosis and paralysis, with an inability to focus, while the… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/arnoud-bakker-atropa-bella-donna/ The subject of Bakker’s book recently published by Noorderlicht, both directly and indirectly,…

  • photo-eye | Magazine — 50

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    Spending time with Duane Michals recent book, 50, was essentially re-experiencing much of my own photographic life, having come of photographic age with his Somnambulistic period. His fascination with dreams, dreamlike states and dream-walking precedes our current interest with making connections to memories. He is whimsical, elusive, sensitive, cerebral, witty, caustic, introspective, challenging and seemly…

  • 'My Prison, My Home – One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran,' by Haleh Esfandiari – Review – NYTimes.com

    'My Prison, My Home – One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran,' by Haleh Esfandiari – Review – NYTimes.com

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    Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of Tehran A love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Secor-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss In 2007, Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program, told Iranian intelligence everything she knew. She was interrogated for almost eight months, nearly four of them…