Category: Books
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The Notebooks of Albert Camus, 1951-1958, Are Translated Into English – Review – NYTimes.com
In his notebooks Camus excoriates “the newly achieved revolutionary spirit, nouveau riche, and Pharisees of justice.” He names Sartre and his followers, “who seem to make the taste for servitude a sort of ingredient of virtue.” He mocks their conformism: cowardly, besides, he implies, citing the story of a child who announced her plan to…
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Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP – Boing Boing
Cody’s Books, the half-century-old Berkeley bookstore that has long been an East Bay institution — one of the truly great west coast stores — has closed its doors forever. Check it out here.
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Alexandre Orion Book and Hand Cut Art
We’re proud to announce that the Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion is the latest artist to participate in our “Wooster Special Edition” project. Alexandre follows sold out editions from such artists as Faile, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, BAST, and Darius and Downey. Check it out here.
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No Wave, a Brief, Noisy New York Moment That Still Echoes – NYTimes.com
Of all the strange and short-lived periods in the history of experimental music in New York, no wave is perhaps the strangest and shortest-lived. Centered on a handful of late-1970s downtown groups like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, DNA and James Chance’s Contortions, it was a cacophonous, confrontational subgenre of punk rock, Dadaist in style…
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National Geographic Photographer Brings Her Kids to Work
Balancing work with a social life can be a challenge even for single photographers, but adding a husband and two kids to the mix can lead to disaster, or worse, a desk job. Annie Griffiths Belt found the perfect solution, bringing her family along for the ride. After 20 years of marriage and 18 years…
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Wacky Packages Book Design, Foreword by Art Spiegelman
Wacky Packages—a series of collectible stickers featuring parodies of consumer products and well-known brands and packaging—were first produced by the Topps company in 1967, then revived in 1973 for a highly successful run. In fact, for the first two years they were published, Wacky Packages were the only Topps product to achieve higher sales than…
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The Online Photographer: 'The Americans' is Reprinted at 50
Today, May 15th, is the 50th anniversary of the day Robert Frank’s The Americans was first published by Robert Delpire in Paris. That was 1958. Today we realize that The Americans has more in common with beat poetry and club jazz than it has with many other kinds of photography; it’s one of the high…
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NOTIFBUTWHEN #2: Photography.Book.Now Blurb Competition
Photography books seem to be finally having their heyday. With access to the distribution, promotion and production of books through online sources, it seems weekly I’m dazzled by another self published photographer and at the same time overwhelmed that I’m being so finicky about putting out my own. One could trace the enthusiasm to the…
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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.