Category: Books

Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH

Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH

Over 67 years ago on the summer of August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was tragically lynched in Mississippi by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after he was accused by Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant, of allegedly making an advance at he

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/bob-newman-shadows-of-emmett-till/

There remains a variety of vital ongoing conversations revolving around the life and death of Emmett Louis Till. In Bob Newman’s recently released publication, Shadows of Emmett Till, published by Kehrer Verlag, he continues this discourse and actively confronts the complex past of America before Till’s unfathomable fate. The circumstances surrounding his death parallel the society we still exist in today where Black lives, such as Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, George Floyd, and a heartbreakingly long list of more Black Americans, are continuing to be unforgivably taken at the hands of racist white Americans.

December 19, 2022
In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction

In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction

The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-the-midwest-alessandra-sanguinetti-blurs-fact-with-fiction/

The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.

December 14, 2022
Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH

Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH

This past year we have been focusing on books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photobook landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pa

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/publishers-spotlight-brown-owl-press/

Brown Owl Press is an independent publisher of photo books and zines based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2013 by Al Palmer, they focus on narrative photographic stories in printed form. Brown Owl Press was initially inspired by such publishing concerns as Antler Press, A-Jump Books and Little Brown Mushroom. Palmer drew the logo and a two year plan out in a coffee shop in Honolulu while traveling, and started Brown Owl Press when he returned to the UK later that year. 23 releases later and they’re still going strong.

December 11, 2022
Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture

Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture

28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-2022

28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations.

December 11, 2022
A Decade Among the Mennonites

A Decade Among the Mennonites

Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.

via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/744838/larry-towell-a-decade-among-the-mennonites/

The Mennonites (GOST Books, 2022) records Towell’s decade among the Mennonites as they struggle to hold on amid changing times and hard luck. Out of print for the past 20 years, the newly edited, updated, and revised book features more than 100 photos, including 40 that have never before been published.

November 30, 2022
The Best and Worst of Times: Talking Photobooks With Aperture’s Lesley Martin – Interview with Lesley Martin, Aperture’s Creative Director | LensCulture

The Best and Worst of Times: Talking Photobooks With Aperture’s Lesley Martin – Interview with Lesley Martin, Aperture’s Creative Director | LensCulture

A leading expert in the field shares her thoughts on the “golden age” of photobooks and offers advice to aspiring authors

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aperture-foundation-the-best-and-worst-of-times-talking-photobooks-with-aperture-s-lesley-martin

If you can’t answer those questions honestly, you’re not ready to publish a book. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t make your own book. Go ahead and make a dummy; make a small private edition; play around with the form. But publishing a book is a slightly different step from making a book, practically speaking.

November 29, 2022
photo-eye Favorite Books 2022

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As a result, photo-eye, now in our 44th year, is in a unique position to select books that we feel rise to the top and merit your attention and consideration.

November 26, 2022
Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture

Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture

In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alessandra-sanguinetti-some-say-ice

In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death.

October 26, 2022
Waves: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb – LENSCRATCH

Waves: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb – LENSCRATCH

Waves (Radius Books 2022) by creative partners Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb includes photographs and text that navigate the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were captured by Alex and Rebecca in Cape Cod, Massachusetts from March 2020

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/09/waves-alex-webb-and-rebecca-norris-webb/

Many people were able to take advantage of the strange time and embrace nature. Yet there were those who couldn’t leave their homes, required to stay indoors. The photographs and poems in Waves illuminate this time with two voices, traversing the naturally occurring shifts within nature and home.

October 1, 2022
8 Photobooks Aperture’s Editors Are Reading This Summer

8 Photobooks Aperture’s Editors Are Reading This Summer

From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they’re diving into this summer.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/8-summer-reads-from-apertures-editors/

From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they’re diving into this summer.

September 7, 2022
Juxtapoz Magazine – Another Life: Jim Goldberg & Iryna Tsilyk’s Publication for Ukraine

Juxtapoz Magazine – Another Life: Jim Goldberg & Iryna Tsilyk’s Publication for Ukraine

In 2005 Jim Goldberg traveled to Ukraine as part of a project which explored migration, at the start of the new millennium. For Another Life a new fun…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/another-life-jim-goldberg-iryna-tsilyk-s-publication-for-ukraine/

In 2005 Jim Goldberg traveled to Ukraine as part of a project which explored migration, at the start of the new millennium. For Another Life a new fundraising publication available via Stanley/Barker, Goldberg revisits his work from the time, alongside Ukrainian writer, and filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk.

September 7, 2022
Publisher’s Spotlight: Café Royal Books – LENSCRATCH

Publisher’s Spotlight: Café Royal Books – LENSCRATCH

These past months have been all about books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photo book landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pag

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/publishers-spotlight-cafe-royal-books/

Documentary photography — post-war, with links to Britain and Ireland. The work I publish is made by photographers from the celebrity to the unknown. It’s about the work, and it’s about getting the work seen, and ‘locked’ into the timeline of photography, where it should have already been.

July 4, 2022
Think Like a Street Photographer – Photographs and text by Matt Stuart | LensCulture

Think Like a Street Photographer – Photographs and text by Matt Stuart | LensCulture

This new book by award-winning street photographer Matt Stuart is filled with insights and advice garnered over decades of making stunning street photographs on a daily basis

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/matt-stuart-think-like-a-street-photographer

This new book by award-winning street photographer Matt Stuart is filled with insights and advice garnered over decades of making stunning street photographs on a daily basis.

June 23, 2022
Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites

Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites

“In 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, land-hungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of L…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/larry-towell-s-friendship-with-the-old-colony-mennonites/

Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999. The resulting black and white photographs—accompanied by an extensive text drawn from diary notes and ‘the silt of the memory’—formed Towell’s landmark book, The Mennonites, first published in 2000. This revised and updated second edition published by GOST revisits the project and includes 40 previously unpublished photographs.

June 23, 2022
Stop Tanks with Books – Photographs by Mark Neville | Book review by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

Stop Tanks with Books – Photographs by Mark Neville | Book review by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

Created with a mission in mind, Mark Neville’s new photobook threads his portraits made in Ukraine with research and short stories as a desperate rallying call to action

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mark-neville-stop-tanks-with-books

Created with a mission in mind, Mark Neville’s new photobook threads his portraits made in Ukraine with research and short stories as a desperate rallying call to action.

May 23, 2022
From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov — Blind Magazine

From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov — Blind Magazine

In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/from-one-war-to-the-next-photos-by-oleksandr-glyadyelov/

In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.

May 22, 2022
Ten Years with the FARC — Blind Magazine

Ten Years with the FARC — Blind Magazine

The Colombian photographer Federico Rios Escobar spent a decade in the Colombian jungle with the FARC.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/ten-years-with-the-farc/

In his book Verde, published by Raya Editorial, Federico Rios Escobar chronologically lays out his images from his life in the jungle: “I have lost track of the number of times I hung my hammock and took it down. It was my home in the jungle for many years, whether it was cold or hot, rain or shine. I was in it when sick, and it was my refuge in moments of anxiety. Some nights, I looked toward the sky with desperation and fear. Other nights I fell asleep confident in the hope of peace.” Federico followed the guerrillas on their journeys, through moments of tension and joy; he photographed families, budding loves, mothers, and their children. He documented the daily life of these women (40% of FARC fighters were women) and men who, round the clock, lived on high alert. In particular, he took portraits of the four guerrilla fighters who survived from the creation of the movement.

April 12, 2022
The Craft of Photography | Conscientious Photography Magazine

The Craft of Photography

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-craft-of-photography/

In my own teaching, I often describe photographs as gifts: they are given to you if you’re able to spot and then take them. This book is a gift. If this (or any other) article spotted it, all that’s left for you is to take it.

April 10, 2022
A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis

A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis

Philip Montgomery shares the stories behind nine images in his new photobook “American Mirror.”

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/philip-montgomery-unflinching-portrait-of-america-in-crisis/

As Patrick Radden Keefe writes in American Mirror, “Montgomery’s photographs capture the reality of Americans in crisis, in all our flawed, tragic, ridiculous glory.” Here, we look at the stories behind nine of Montgomery’s iconic photographs.

April 10, 2022
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Golden City: Mimi Plumb’s Portrait of a Changing San Francisco

Juxtapoz Magazine – The Golden City: Mimi Plumb’s Portrait of a Changing San Francisco

Mimi Plumb used to live on the edges of the city where the rents were cheap. Nearby, on the summit of the hill, were folded layers of radiolarian cher…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-golden-city-mimi-plumb-s-portrait-of-a-changing-san-francisco/

Plumb’s life was marked by nights out dancing at the Crystal Pistol in the Mission, or listening to a punk polka band at the Oasis. Neil, the clarinet player, wore faux leather naugahosen, with spikes protruding from his head. Sometimes they played pool at Palace Billiards. At the Exotic/Erotic Ball, a bird man and a nurse hid in the corners. A steely-eyed silver man in his tuxedo stared back at Plumb from behind his mask, the camera flash shining a light on him.

April 7, 2022