Category: Books

  • 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…

  • Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books

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    Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker: Anderson is very good at paragraphs like this—with its reassuring arc from “bloodbath” to “salvation.” His advice is pithy, his tone uncompromising, and his subject matter perfectly timed for a moment when old-line content providers are desperate for answers. That said, it is not…

  • Book Review – 'The Last War,' by Ana Menéndez

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    Book Review – ‘The Last War,’ by Ana Menéndez – Review – NYTimes.com: The narrator of “The Last War” has received an anonymous letter accusing her war correspondent husband of infidelity. So, unfortunately, did the book’s author. It speaks to Ana Menéndez’s maturity — as a woman and a writer — that her novel doesn’t…

  • 5B4: Playas by Martin Parr

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    5B4: Playas by Martin Parr: If I understand correctly, Martin Parr and the publishers of his new book Playas, Editorial RM and Chris Boot, left all creative control of the book to the printer they employed in Mexico. That is, the design, sequencing, format, everything. This decision was made after asking several different low cost…

  • 'Digital Barbarism – A Writer’s Manifesto,' by Mark Helprin

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    ROSS DOUTHAT – NYTimes.com: Mark Helprin could have ignored the barrage; he could have sifted it for arguments worth replying to. Instead, he decided to write a furious treatise against the comment-happy horde. The resulting book, “Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto,” is a vindication of the aphorism about the perils of wrestling with a pig.…

  • Interview with Lisa Kereszi

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    photo-eye: Lisa Kereszi’s first monograph, Fantasies, interweaves images of the empty interiors of strip clubs with photographs of new burlesque dancers to create a narrative in between the environment of a fantasy and the expression of one. The tawdry nocturnal spaces are an emotional void, paralleling the possible emptiness of those who occupy the stages…

  • Superficial Snapshots Zine 3: Things I Like About Texas

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  • 5B4: Visible World by Fischli & Weiss

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    5B4: Fischli and Weiss’ Visible World (Sichtbare Weld) published in 2001 by Walther Konig is another worthwhile exploration of the book as mass of information. No text and with 8 photographs per page, Visible World is a globetrotting description of landscape and cityscape contained in a few hundred pages.