Category: Books
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Review: 'Athlete' by Walter Iooss
by Brad Mangin I was sitting in Finnegan’s Wake, one of my favorite bars in San Francisco with my friend Grover last month when my cell phone began making noise. I was getting a text message from Walter Iooss: “Where can I send you my new book for you to review?” At this point in…
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5B4: Secrets of Real Estate by John Gossage
If you were to invite John Gossage to photograph your neighborhood he could probably create an entire book’s worth of work within a few city blocks (or rural lanes). He is a photographer who could probably work anywhere more so than most in that the small details that he asks us to pay attention to…
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5B4: Stephen Shore: Contemporary Artist Series + Stephen Shore: A Road Trip Journal
If one were to name a few photographers whose work is felt so heavily as an influence on the current generation of photographers going through various MFA programs then Stephen Shore would certainly be on the list. Check it out here.
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Space Invader : ekosystem.org
INVASION IN THE UK / INVASION BOOK #3 160 PAGES 8 X 10,5 Inch – 21 X 27CM 2000 COPIES FRENCH / ENGLISH Check it out here.
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Portraits of Pretty People, Polaroid Photography
By Luciano Noble II The first book by the world’s premier Polaroid portraiture photographer. IT IS FINISHED. Check it out here.
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Private lives of the mob | The Australian
IN the heavy, noiseless air of desert country, an Aboriginal community is out hunting when the sound of a camera shutter cuts the air like a bullet from a gun. Heads turn, questions are asked and the — usually white — photographer is suddenly centre stage in an inquisition. The curtain of suspicion can hang…
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Hoffmann's tales of life with Hitler can finally be told
THE reminiscences of Hitler’s favourite photographer have been published in a new book. Heinrich Hoffmann made a small fortune from photographing the Führer, but his nest-egg was seized by the Allies and he died in poverty in 1957. Before his death, he gave a series of interviews to Joe Heydecker, a survivor of the Warsaw…
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Click Review: Breaking News by Martin Fletcher
Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World, by Martin Fletcher. Martin Fletcher, the NBC News Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv with a penchant for posing on top of destroyed tanks, provides a great look back at his life covering conflict. War reporters face…
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Human Smoke – Nicholson Baker – Book Review – New York Times
The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. By Nicholson Baker. sometimes it is the simple stark fact that makes you sit up straight for a moment, like this one from early in the book: “The Royal Air Force dropped more than 150 tons of bombs on India. It was 1925.” This, coming…
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Photography Books Now! – Shoot The Blog
I read about the Photography Book Now salon and symposium last night, and thought it was too good to be true. I mean, a contest celebrating self-published photo books? With the promise of MONEY? What What!? But look, they say it is true: “Join the modern photography book movement. Photographers can now produce books with…
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5B4: The New West by Robert Adams Aperture reissue
Looking through the new Aperture edition of Robert Adams perfect book The New West, I now realize that Adams, at the same time, was forming his critique of suburban sprawl within the communities and ideals of families like my own. Check it out here.
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Photography Book Now
Join the modern photography book movement. Photographers can now produce books with complete creative control. We’re celebrating the most innovative and finest self-published photography books and the people behind them. Submit yours for a chance at $25,000 to finish – or start – that once in a lifetime project. Check it out here.
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A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers – Boing Boing
My friend, Hillary Carlip, likes to collect other people’s discarded shopping lists. She likes them so much she created an art project based on the lists Check it out here.
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Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War – – PopPhotoMarch 2008
Five years was about how long Lori Grinker thought it would take document the stories of former soldiers; she was only off by a decade. Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO), a 248-page collection of intimate color portraits and searing first-person accounts of postwar existence was published in March, 2005 — 15 years…
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5B4: Poles by Frank Breuer
There have been many books that follow in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School of typologies that I just find boring. In fact, I even have a hard time looking through an entire book of the Bechers themselves when it is entirely made up of one of their subjects. Like many other genres of photography,…
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Wooster Collective: Wooster Special Edition: "Binary Bug" Print and Book From Space Invader
Following sold out projects with Faile, Shepard Fairey, and Bast, we’re thrilled to launch today the latest in our series of “Wooster Special Editions.” Our fourth artist in the series is…. Space Invader. Check it out here.
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Mirror – Photo Essay
A new book by Joachim Ladefoged, featuring 62 colour portraits and 16 black-and-white action shots from bodybuilding competitions in Scandinavia Check it out here.
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A Lineup of Recent Literary Fakers – Books – New York Times
When the news emerged this week that Margaret Seltzer had fabricated her gang memoir, “Love and Consequences,” under the pseudonym Margaret B. Jones, many in the publishing industry and beyond thought: Here we go again. The most immediate examples that came to mind were, of course, James Frey, the author of the best-selling “Million Little…
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A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs
In this charming and captivating volume, National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt discloses the secrets of a peripatetic life, revealing in often hilarious detail how she managed to juggle two children, bulky cases of camera equipment, and everything needed for a nurturing family life as she traveled to far-flung destinations around the world. Belt was…
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Author Admits Acclaimed Memoir Is Fantasy – New York Times
In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew…