Category: Books
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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…
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New Life for RFK Photos – 3/3/2008 – Publishers Weekly
It was meant to be merely a slightly expanded edition of an out-of-print classic of photojournalism, Paul Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train, first published in September 2000 by Umbrage Editions. Fusco, a photographer for Look magazine in the 1960s, had been assigned to ride the train carrying the body of Robert F. Kennedy from New York…
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Review: Andreas Gursky (Kunstmuseum Basel) (Conscientious)
Andreas Gursky is one of the most important living photographers, despite the fact that his work is often being judged on nothing but else but its size or its price. While his photos are indeed monumental, size is merely a means to an end – as is obvious to a viewer who is confronted by…
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots: Zines for Sale
Superficial Snapshots, Zine 2, An Issue with Lomos is going FAST. Tell your friends! Order one today before it’s too late Check it out here.
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5B4: Lee Friedlander Photographs Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes
This project in particular is interesting because it came at a time when Lee was experimenting with different camera formats and frame ratios. Within the span of the 89 images in Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes he shifts from his Leica, to a Noblex pivoting lens panoramic camera, to his Hasselblad Superwide, and the results are…
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All About the Moment – – PopPhotoFebruary 2008
: In addition to his versatile body of work for such magazines as National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, photographer Joe McNally is also a sought-after educator, sharing how-to tips and telling anecdotes at workshops and lecture series throughout each calendar year. In McNally’s new book, The Moment It…
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5B4: A Maysles Scrapbook by Albert Maysles
: Albert Maysles as a cinematographer and a photographer has spent his life observing and documenting the paths that his own life has taken for 51 years. A new book from Steidl and the Steven Kasher Gallery called A Maysles Scrapbook takes us through those 51 years of image making in the first comprehensive monograph…
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SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Danny Wilcox Frazier: Driftless
: Driftless: Photographs from Iowa (Duke University Press, 2007) by Danny Wilcox Frazier came out with Frank’s words of praise as the forward to the book. I stumbled across a copy of it a few weeks ago in the Harvard Book Store and was drawn to the images before I read anything about Frank’s role…
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The Master of the "Freeze-Frame" – The Digital Journalist
: I don’t know if Douglas Kirkland has ever thought of becoming a director, but all his images contain the rich, contradictory synthesis of the stills from a successful film. If he had become a director instead of a great photographer, he would have told stories of men and women on the run from reality,…
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Swindle 15 – Obey Giant
: The times they are a-changing. So, we at SWINDLE want to evolve, too. Issue 15 marks the unveiling of our newly redesigned layout. We’ve made the text more engaging, we’ve standardized the fonts, and added two regular columns: James Gaddy’s Classic Graphics delves into the history of iconic logos, and Henry Rollins gives us…
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5B4: The Americans by Robert Frank 50th Anniversary
It is rare for a photographer that came of age in the 1960’s and 70’s to not cite Robert Frank’s The Americans and Walker Evans’ American Photographs as the two books that inspired them to take up a camera and explore the world. It is lore that gets repeated so often it almost seems disingenuous…
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots: release
From Allison V. Smith: Superficial Snapshots Zine 2: An Issue With Lomos 29 pages, 34 photos limited edition. 250 signed copies. (first 20 get signed 5×7 print–sold out) $22.50 (add $3. to ship out of country) Check it out here.
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5B4: The Cows by Larry E. McPherson
: Most of the books that I have written about contain within their photographs an implied metaphor or meaning that provokes the viewer into different frames of mind. One of the pleasures in looking at work for me is to tease out these meanings that derive partly from the work and partly what my own…