Category: Books
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The Top 10 Everything of 2008 – TIME
Top 10 Election Photos
Top 10 Editorial Cartoons
Top 10 Photos
Top 10 Gadgets
Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities
Top 10 Magazine Covers
Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans
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lens culture: Leonard Folgarait book review
Professor Folgarait explores the work of four photographers — and their critical and different roles — as they each helped to define a national identity for Mexico during 25 tumultuous years of revolution and post-revolution, from 1910 to 1935.
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lens culture: Michael Wolf book review
Big cities can sometimes seem like immense visual abstractions.The jam-packed juxtapositions of diverse styles of architecture — all compressed into dense overlapping vertical spaces — can be seen as things of rare man-made beauty.
These soaring glass-walled environments also invite a sometimes perverse delight in voyeurism. Michael Wolf’s new photobook, The Transparent City, captures both of these aspects nearly perfectly in his recent photographic study of downtown Chicago.
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5B4: The Last Days of W. by Alec Soth
Alec Soth’s latest venture on the printed page is a self-published newspaper with the gothic-script title of The Last Days of W. 36 photographs within which even the inanimate objects look simply worn out and exhausted. With many of us down on our luck, this is supposed to only cost you a fiver.
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Photography Books of 2008
With the fall publishing season in full swing and 2009 fast approaching, PDN gathered together some of our favorite books for a look at the publishing year that was.
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SKINS & PUNKS – AVAILABLE TO BUY
Three years ago Vice Editor Andy Capper brought Gavin Watson out of self-imposed exile and uncovered hundreds of unpublished photos. The pair collaborated to produce a new book called Skins & Punks – Lost Archives 1978–1985, which we’re proud to say has now been released.
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(BBtv) John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer. – Boing Boing
John Hodgman’s new book MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE hits the streets on October 21, but by no means is today’s episode of Boing Boing tv any sort of, oh, how do the marketing people say it — it’s not a book trailer, and it is by no means a promotional vehicle for said book.
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5B4: Ward 81 by Mary Ellen Mark
Recently the publisher Damiani released a new edition of Mary Ellen Mark’s 1979 book Ward 81
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5B4: Naini and the Sea of Wolves by Trinidad Carrillo
I am a little late to this party but Farewell Books has a new release called Naini and the Sea of Wolves by Trinidad Carrillo that is well worth some additional attention as it has now won the Swedish Photobook Award for 2008.
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Mostly True: Alexandra Avakian's New Book is Now Available
WINDOWS OF THE SOUL : My Journeys in the Muslim World by Alexandra Avakian is now available.
The book is a memoir of the two decades (or so) Alexandra spent documenting the world of Islam from Central Asia, throughout the Middle East, Persia, Africa and the United States.
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Advance Review: "Deformer" by Ed Templeton- Juxtapoz
Eleven years in the making and spanning 30 years of material, Deformer chronicles Templeton’s err… unique life and upbringing through photographs, journal excerpts, letters from his strict grandfather, religious notes from his mother, personal sketches, and artwork.
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Radio Silence
Radio Silence is a selected visual history of American Hardcore Music. Compiled by authors Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo. The book is published by MTV Press and distributed by PowerHouse Books.
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5B4: Errata Editions On-Press: Day One
I just landed after a 15.5 hour flight into Hong Kong so I thought my first post report from China should be the background as to how this project came into being. Since many of you desire to publish your own books, you might find some useful info in the posts over the next few days.
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Book Review – 'The Angel of Grozny – Orphans of a Forgotten War,' by Asne Seierstad
They steal, they hit, they kill dogs. And for New Year, they decorate the holiday tree in the backyard with the skeleton of a Russian soldier.
After some 14 years of war, terror and lawlessness, the children of Chechnya have been damaged in ways outsiders can barely fathom. Even now, with the war part of the war essentially over, Chechnya remains a place of hidden horrors, where life is fragile and exceedingly cheap.
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'Dry Storeroom No. 1 – The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum,' by Richard Fortey
We meet, for example, Leslie Bairstow, an expert on belemnites (the fossil remains of ancient squid-like beings) who joined the museum in 1932. During his tenure at the museum, Bairstow published nothing but collected everything, including the string from parcels that had been sent to him. When he retired, the string turned out to have been filed in boxes according to length; one box contained “pieces of string too small to be of use.”
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What it takes to self-publish a book (Conscientious)
Needless to say, this type of self publishing seems to require a fair amount of work – but then, the photographer is in full control of the final product (and I’ll take a book produced this way over any on-demand book at any given time – if you’ve ever seen examples of both types you know why); and who says that producing a book should take no time? But how much work exactly? How much does it cost? What does one have to do to create a book like this?
Several photographers/artists were kind enough to send me information about the process etc.
Check it out here.
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Shooting War: graphic novel about blogger embedded in Baghdad – Boing Boing
Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman’s Shooting War is one of the strongest graphic novels I’ve read in years, a tough anti-war comic that provides trenchant, spot-on commentary about the relationship of the news-media to all sides of modern war.
Check it out here.
