Category: Books
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Edition One Studios Makes Books For Photographers
A Photo Editor: Ben Zlotkin is the founder of Edition One Studios, a company that makes books for photographers (here). I wanted to ask him a few questions about publishing short-run photography books, because I feel like there’s not a lot of good information available on the subject. Also, I was curious if it really…
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5B4: School by Raimond Wouda
5B4: School by Raimond Wouda: Wouda started to observe the relationships among groups of teenagers while they were on the school playground across the street from his studio. Something about those observations drew him to approaching the institutions in order to gain access to their hallways and common areas with his view camera and strobes.…
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'The Photographer,' by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier
NYTimes.com says: It is impossible to know war if you do not stand with the mass of the powerless caught in its maw. All narratives of war told through the lens of the com batants carry with them the seduction of violence. But once you cross to the other side, to stand in fear with…
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Review: Boarding House by Roger Ballen
Conscientious says: Roger Ballen’s work is often deemed to be disturbing. I don’t think is actually is (my idea of “disturbing” might be different from yours), but we can probably easily agree on calling him one of the most creative photographers currently producing work.
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Home: Tom Arndt's Minnesota
photo-eye says: Having had the pleasure of sitting down with a big box or two or three of Tom’s prints, having seen an exhibition of prints on the walls of the Howard Greenberg Gallery two years ago, as a fellow craftsman, I tip my hat. His prints, to borrow Bill Arnold’s stolen line, “sing.” If…
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The Photographer: gripping graphic memoir about doctors in Soviet Afghanistan, accompanied by brilliant photos
Boing Boing says: FirstSecond, one of the great literary comics presses of the modern world, has topped itself with The Photographer: Into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, a collaboration between photographer Didier Lefevre, graphic novelist Emmanuel Guibert, and designer Frederic Lemercier.
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Review: 'Witness in Our Time' by Ken Light
Jim McNay says: After several months—or years—on the shelves of serious photographers, it’s time to take this volume down again and give it a look. For all of us who have complained about how tough things are now in these times—and who among us has not complained?—the voices in this book remind us photojournalism and…
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It Takes a Village Part I: Ingrid Spangler and Adoramapix
A Photography Blog. says: So as I was saying, a few ladies and I have put together a landscape show for the The New York Photo Festival. I’ve curated things before, but largely for an online arena, and let me tell you– there are a lot of details involved in a 17-person show. And you…
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Eyes-On With Joe McNally’s ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’
From GadgetLab: Book reviews aren’t something we do a lot of here on Gadget Lab, but we have to call out the quite excellent “Hot Shoe Diaries” by Joe McNally, a bible for anyone thinking about using small strobes in their photography. Check it out here
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Ed Kashi: Three
From photo-eye: In a world inundated by visual imagery, our ability to take in more than one image at a time has become innate. In fact, our attention span demands it. Three, a book of triptychs by acclaimed photographer Ed Kashi, plays on the visual appetite of a hectic world. These triptychs span eras and…
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Sports Illustrated’s Slide Show Book
From A Photo Editor: Sports Illustrated has a new book out on May 5th called Slide Show that examines the actual physical slides from the images that made it into the magazine. Check it out here.
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5B4: Waters in Between by Lukas Felzmann
From 5B4: In the center of the Sacramento Valley two rivers, the Feather and Sacramento, flank several wetlands and marshes called the Sutter and Colusa Sinks. Much of this land has been drained and become some of the richest agricultural land for fruit orchards and various grains and rice. The photographer Lukas Felzmann has been…
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LA Weekly's LA People 2009
Some of my faves: Ellei Johndro . From LA Weekly: Her Web site and moniker have become synonymous with the sloshed and sweaty shenanigans of L.A.’s cool kids and the underground ragers they frequent, but Shadowscene’s Ellei Johndro is far from just another “club photographer.” Unlike some novice shutterbugs who hopped the snapwagon when lens-toting…
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BookArmy: a last.fm for books
From Boing Boing: Bookarmy.com is a London-based start-up aiming to be the last.fm of books — and we’re gathering steam on our mission to link every book and every author on earth. Check it out here.
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5B4: …all the days and nights by Doug DuBois
From 5B4: …all the days and nights by Doug DuBois: It is hard enough to photograph your family let alone to be honest about it. Check it out here.
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5B4: 5B4 Photography and Books Year II
From 5B4: Two of the most embarrassing displays of booksigning insanity have happened at Robert Frank events. At the public library a couple years ago, physical altercations broke out. At a recent Steidl event at Walter Reade theater Robert was visibly uncomfortable when a crowd descended upon him with open books. One dealer who had…
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photo-eye Bookstore | Tony Stamolis: Frezno
From photo-eye Bookstore | Tony Stamolis: Frezno | photo books: Photographs by Tony Stamolis. Process Books, 2009. 136 pp., 100 color illustrations, 9×6¾”. Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Liberia's History, Bit by Bloody Bit
Tim Hetherington first went to Liberia in 1999, and he’s been working there on and off since then. He has a new book that tells the history of Liberia in pictures, oral testimony, and memoir, and it’s a powerful tale of chaos and power. The title, appropriately, is “Long Story Bit By Bit.” Check it…