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.
Category: Books
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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 Avedon’s stunningly beautiful photography books, and his daughter-in-law) to publish this blockbuster of a book. It’s a remarkable photobook that conveys an important political message as well as the compelling story of a personal tragedy that confronts some difficult, universal truths. Brilliant combination of great photography, thoughtful text, and excellent book design. Highly recommended!
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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 reality. A lot of the book does deal with his combat experiences but he also deals with the changing face of journalism and his own demise along with that of the newspapers in Britain during the tumultuous 1980’s.
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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 than she was when she started this project. The family has never let her go. The book is called An American Family: Three Decades with the McGarveys.
Link: The Visual Student » 30 Years Photographing An American Family: Pam Spaulding
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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 book of black-and-white landscapes, The Calumet Region: An American Place
Link: Ain’t That America
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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.
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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 books selected for 2009 is vast — spanning continents and genres, and together they form a powerful survey of contemporary photography. Since our very format denies the idea of an over-arching and objective top 10, below you’ll find a more modest “master list,” made up of the books that appear on at least three individual lists
Link: photo-eye | Magazine
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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 when I reviewed the images, I decided to try to do something a little more permanent.
Link: Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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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 residents of the Upper Midwest. Alec photographed some of the residents of the CommonBond homes and produced a beautiful book called Allowing Flowers that is given away as a gift to people who donate significant sums to the effort.
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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 booksite Buffet, has beaten me to the punch by mentioning Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen’s newest publication Sanatorium.
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Jim Goldberg – Open See « The PhotoBook
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 be initially be a stretch to think of this body of work coming from the Magnum photographic agency as a photojournalist project. In more than one way it is difficult to think of this body of work as a derivative of the other renowned members of this storied cooperative photographic agency, including such photographic luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour, Dennis Stock, Burk Uzzle, Sebastiao Salgado, Marc Riboud, Elliot Erwit, Bruce Davidson and Steve McCurry.
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Just the Facts:Zine 4 for Sale
Superficial Snapshots Zine 4: Can You Hear Me Now?
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Harry Cock – Omstreken « The PhotoBook
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 and localities that are surrounding you, a fitting description of the territory for Cock’s focus. Similar to Gunmar Smoliansky who photographed his local Swedish surroundings for the majority of his photographic career, Cock has been primarily interested in the everyday of his local Northern Netherlands region.