Category: Books
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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…
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RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » BazanCuba: New ideas on self-publishing and collective editing
In 2006, after 14 years photographing and teaching in Cuba, Ernesto Bazan was forced to leave the country. Since then the award-winning Italian photographer has been collecting his huge cache of images from Cuba into a book, BazanCuba, which he published himself in 2008, through the publishing company he founded, BazanPhotos Publishing. He funded the…
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New Cambodian Barnes & Noble
The paint is barely dry on the new Siem Reap Barnes & Noble, a gleaming, $6 million, 60,000-square-foot book store/coffeehouse that the American bookselling giant boasts is the finest in this rural village of 2,100. But already a serious question is being raised: Can the new bookstore—with its enormous selection, discount prices and chic espresso…
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Review: Create and Be Recognized by John Turner and Deborah Klochko (Conscientious)
In photography, it’s hard to define what an “outsider artist” would be. After all, we’re all photographers! Cameras are ubiquitous. Of course, not everybody is an artist. But still, what would a true “outsider photography artist” look like? Check it out here.
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Los Angeles Art+Books – The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler, 50 Years Dead
“Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumor, except that the cop would rather cure it with a blackjack.” “A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock.” “The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to…
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5B4: Fall River Boys by Richard Renaldi
The photographer Richard Renaldi in his new book Fall River Boys explores through portraiture and landscape the young men in a small Massachusetts town who are on the cusp of either cutting or reinforcing those ties to place and family. Check it out here.
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Editorial Photographers UK | BPPA's 'Unseen' showcases the great unpublished photojournalism
Sponsored by Canon, the book is the most recent published project by the BPPA since 2004’s “Five Thousand Days” book and exhibition. The book highlights one of the key frustrations in photojournalism: that a great numbers of brilliant pictures never see the light of day through too tight deadlines, design limitations or editorial indifference. Check…
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RESOLVE — Robert Glenn Ketchum: Books that make a difference shouldn’t have to make money
Renowned conservation and fine-art photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has pioneered a publishing model that treats his numerous books as instruments of change rather than instruments of profit. In this and upcoming posts he explains in detail how he has worked with NGOs and publishers to produce books that create tangible change — instead of sitting…
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Review: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans by Sarah Greenough et al. (Conscientious)
In a sense, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans is another expression of the status of the work. If you want to find out about its photographer and history (and a lot of other things) this is where you want to look. Check it out here.
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How to read a photograph | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
But just how does photography work? The typical life story of a distinguished photographer begins in a small town in the Balkans or in backwoods Japan. He or she was probably a dreamer and widely read in escapist literature Check it out here.
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PASSIONATE PHOTOGRAPHER: Blurb is what it is. A cheap alternative. But at what cost to your patience?
I have ordered quite a few books from Blurb.com in the past months I think I can now say a few things with an education so you don’t have to learn yourself. Check it out here.
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Wooster Collective: Books We Love: Talk Back: The Bubble Project by Ji Lee
We’re pleased to let you know that the second book in our “Books We Love” series is Ji Lee’s Talk Back: The Bubble Project which came out from Mark Batty publisher in 2006. Check it out here.