Category: Books

  • Matt Logue's "Empty Los Angeles" photography book – Boing Boing

    Matt Logue's "Empty Los Angeles" photography book – Boing Boing

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    Matt Logue’s “Empty Los Angeles” photography book Matt Logue says: I just completed a self-published book depicting an uninhabited Los Angeles, and it got an honorable mention in the photography.book.now competition at blurb.com!  The photos were … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/matt-logues-empty-lo.html

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Hard Knocks

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    The first image in Shelley Calton’s Hard Knocks, is a wonderful set-up for the brief, wild ride into the kinetic world of women’s roller derby that is to come. Titled “Agent Belligerent,” the opening portrait is of a woman who looks set for combat – and she is. Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Hard Knocks

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Fake Holidays

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    Accompanying this wry volume’s many accomplishments, Reiner Riedler deserves credit for reminding us that the United States does not monopolize the global marketplace for vicarious experiences available at cost. Yes, Orlando and Las Vegas hold places of honor in this collection. But Riedler, identified in the fall 2009 issue of PDNedu as “one to watch,”…

  • What Makes A Photo Book A Bestseller? 2009 Edition

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    For some insight into the commercial photography book market, PDN recently obtained data from Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks retail book sales, to see which new titles are among the bestselling photography books this year. Link: What Makes A Photo Book A Bestseller? 2009 Edition

  • 'My Paper Chase – True Stories of Vanished Times,' by Harold Evans – NYTimes.com

    'My Paper Chase – True Stories of Vanished Times,' by Harold Evans – NYTimes.com

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    When Type Was Poured Hot In his new memoir, Harold Evans recalls an exuberant run in 20th-century journalism. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Carr-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Sir Harold Evans knows his way around a story, having served as the editor of The Sunday Times of London, The Times of London, and all manner of publications up and down the food chain.…

  • Grunge – WTJ

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    In celebration of the release of his latest book ‘GRUNGE‘ Michael Lavine is this weeks WTJ? sponsor. Michael took the pics and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore provides the text. Grunge is not only a collection of portraits of musicians synonymous with the 80’s punk scene and grunge explosion in Seattle but also documents the counter…

  • lens culture: "Transsibériades", Klavdij Sluban

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    Klavdij Sluban won the European Publishers Award for Photography 2009, for his book Transsibériades. Link: lens culture: “Transsibériades”, Klavdij Sluban

  • Review: Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon – Conscientious

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    I have always been under the impression that America has not given its female photographers the credit they deserve(d), and that it is maybe a bit too generous with its male ones. Link: Review: Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon – Conscientious

  • photo-eye | Eddie Adams – Vietnam

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    “Eddie Adams,” writes his widow Alyssa Adams in her Author’s Note to Vietnam, “would never had let this book be published if he were alive.” Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Vietnam

  • A soldier's photographs of Afghanistan – The Guardian

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    A soldier’s photographs of Afghanistan Alexander Allan’s newly published collection of pictures from his tour of duty in Helmund offer an extraordinary new perspective on the conflict via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/27/photographs-afghanistan Alexander Allan’s newly published collection of pictures from his tour of duty in Helmund offer an extraordinary new perspective on the conflict

  • PDNPulse: Ex-Corbis Employee Working on Tell-All Book

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    Corbis, which shuffles its executive team around every couple of years, is frequently the subject of gossip about company politics. Recently, one internal feud spilled out in public on a blog by Jon La Grace, a former editor at Corbis Outline, the stock agency’s celebrity portrait division. Link: PDNPulse: Ex-Corbis Employee Working on Tell-All Book

  • Book Review – 'Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits,' by Linda Gordon

    Book Review – 'Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits,' by Linda Gordon

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    Picturing the Depression A highly political biography of a transformative figure in modern photojournalism, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss perhaps the most iconic image — gracing textbooks, hanging from dormitory walls, affixed to political posters, even adorning a postage stamp — is Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother,” taken at a California farmworkers camp in…

  • alex webb & rebecca norris webb – violet isle | burn magazine

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    alex webb & rebecca norris webb – violet isle [slidepress gallery=’awrnw-cuba’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb Violet Isle play this essay   Q&A with DAH &n… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/10/alex-webb-rebecca-norris-webb-violet-isle/ (1) Both of you have heretofore been solo artists. What sacrifices did you make…

  • photo-eye | Bureaucratics

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    Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Bureaucratics: Sushma Prasad is an assistant clerk to the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar, India. Her desk is relatively neat, but behind her is a chaotic pile of irretrievable facts buried in hundreds of tattered paper files. Prasad is one of fifty civil servants Jan Banning photographed in…

  • Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia

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    Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia: This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national…

  • Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers « The PhotoBook

    Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers « The PhotoBook

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    Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers Copyright Chris Jordan 2009 courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery and Prestel Verlag In the Old Testament of the Bible, there are the numerous stories of the Prophets who have an unpopular message for their… via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/chris-jordan-running-the-numbers/ The ability to visual changes is a central issue for Chris Jordan…

  • 5B4: Proud Flesh by Sally Mann

    5B4: Proud Flesh by Sally Mann

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    Proud Flesh by Sally Mann When Sally Mann released her book At Twelve in the late-1980s the art world was rife with artists concerned with exploring the body polit… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/10/proud-flesh-by-sally-mann.html Proud Flesh is for me an emotionally exhausting work about withering. It has elements of 19th century clinical photography done with absolute loving care…

  • PDNPulse: Cool: Google Books Posts LIFE Magazine Archive

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    Link: PDNPulse: Cool: Google Books Posts LIFE Magazine Archive

  • Snap Art – PDN

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    Link: Snap Art: Rizzoli is publishing a new book Shoot: Photography of the Moment, a survey of informal, snapshot-style photography by Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and other pioneers of the style, presented alongside the best new practitioners.  Shore wrote the foreword to the book, which includes essays by London College of…

  • 5B4: Capitolio by Christopher Anderson

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    5B4: Capitolio by Christopher Anderson: Early into Christopher Anderson’s Capitolio we are faced with a horned demon exorcised by a cross held aloft over its head. It is this one image which metaphorically sums up the presidency of Hugo Chavez and the polarized nation of Venezuela. The poor tend to see Chavez as a saint…