Category: Books

  • 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…

  • Mark Klett – Time Studies « The PhotoBook

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    Mark Klett – Time Studies « The PhotoBook: Klett has tapped into the earlier photographic processes to explore the element of time by extending the duration of his exposures. He effective uses two variations, an extended long exposure to constant capture the light and a series of intermittent exposures over an extended period of time.…

  • Making an Awesome Photo Book

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    Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture’s Worth: Blurb is well-known as a digital book-making company. Their CEO, Eileen Gittins, and I have had a chance to sit down last year when we were comparing notes about putting together a national seminar series, and more recently, we’re both partners to the Magnum Expression Photography…

  • The world's most expensive photography books

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    The world’s most expensive photography books | Art and design |guardian.co.uk: The production of limited-edition photography books has provided a lucrative trade for art book publishers, even in a recession. As glossily packaged collector’s items, coffee-table tomes can fetch up to six-figure sums. But are they artworks in their own right? We take a look…

  • Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible

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    Amazing work by Seamus Murphy. Here’s the gallery: Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Digital Journalist.Here’s a link to the story introduction: Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Story Introduction: Seamus Murphy describes photography as “part history and part magic.” This brief description could be a title for Murphy’s entire archive, as he is the…

  • 5B4: Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007

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    5B4: Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007: The work of Anna Fox may be off your radar but she is an important figure in British color photography that arose from the West Surry College of Art and Design in the mid 1980s. Her highly charged photographs, lit by flash, are a mix of social observation and personal…

  • photo-eye Bookstore | Ralph Gibson: Nude

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    photo-eye Bookstore | Ralph Gibson: Nude | photobooks: A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deus ex machina, master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his recent work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson’s mysterious, dreamlike…

  • Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: America exposed

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    Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: America exposed |guardian.co.uk: In 2001, Henri Cartier-Bresson reflected on the long moment in the early 1940s when he had briefly considered turning from photography to film-making. “If it had not been for the challenge of the work of Walker Evans,” he wrote, “I don’t think I would have remained…

  • The Rencontres d’Arles Contemporary Book Award 2009

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    The Rencontres d’Arles Contemporary Book Award 2009 – photo-eye | Magazine: The Arles Contemporary Book Award for 2009 goes to JH Engström and Anders Petersen’s collaborative book From Back Home

  • we english . . . . a week in the life

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    whats the jackanory ? – we english . . . . a week in the life: If you haven’t been following Simon Roberts (he of Motherland fame) blog for his latest book project ‘We English‘, shame on you. Simon has spent over a year traveling around England in a motorhome, documenting its landscape on a…

  • Hamburger Eyes issue 13 available online

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    Alex Bartsch: Hamburger Eyes issue 13 available online

  • Darius Himes: Tips for creating successful photo books

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    RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Archives » Darius Himes: Tips for creating successful photo books: Darius Himes is a founding member of Radius Books, where he is an acquiring editor; prior to that he was the founding editor of photo-eye Booklist. In 2008, he was named by PDN as one of fifteen of…

  • 365 Portraits, The Book

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    365 Portraits, The Book | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection: In 2007 Photographer Bill Wadman traveled around the United States and Europe with a single mission. Each day he photographed, edited and posted online a different portrait of a different person. It was a mammoth effort meticulously followed that resulted in one of the most authentic…

  • Book Review: Roger Ballen – Boarding House

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    Roger Ballen – Boarding House « The PhotoBook: For most of the photobooks I review, they usually are stand alone books, but I feel that Roger Ballen’s recent book Boarding House needs to be placed into a larger perspective.  Specificly to the content of his two previous books, Shadow Chamber, published in 2005 and Outland, published in 2001, both by Phaidon Press. Otherwise, it…