Category: Books

Juxtapoz Magazine – Tamara Reynolds: The Drake

Juxtapoz Magazine – Tamara Reynolds: The Drake

Every city has a shadow. Every town has a Drake. For four years Tamara Reynolds immersed herself in the lives of the people existing just above surviv…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/tamara-reynolds-the-drake/

Every city has a shadow. Every town has a Drake. For four years Tamara Reynolds immersed herself in the lives of the people existing just above survival on one square block in the shadows of the Drake Motel in Nashville, Tennessee. Although the historic motel has a storied past with rumored visits by Elvis Presley and as a popular location for film shoots with stars such as River Phoenix and Dolly Parton, in The Drake Reynolds turns her lens on those less known living with addiction on the margins of society.

April 6, 2022
Rian Dundon and the Lost and Found Story of his Book Changsha — Blind Magazine

Rian Dundon and the Lost and Found Story of his Book Changsha — Blind Magazine

Over six years, photographer Rian Dundon photographed life in the city of Changsha in central China. But upon the publishing of the resulting book in 2012, the publisher folded, leaving the fate of the undistributed books unknown for most of the next deca

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/rian-dundon-and-the-lost-and-found-story-of-his-book-changsha/

Over six years, photographer Rian Dundon photographed life in the city of Changsha in central China. But upon the publishing of the resulting book in 2012, the publisher folded, leaving the fate of the undistributed books unknown for most of the next decade.

March 9, 2022
Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH

Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH

Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land (co-edited with Margaret Sartor), looks to reframe the question “How do you tell the story of the American South?” Based in Durham, North Carolina, Harris knows it’s a region with a complicated history; a legacy

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/alex-harris-our-strange-new-land/

Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land (co-edited with Margaret Sartor), looks to reframe the question “How do you tell the story of the American South?” Based in Durham, North Carolina, Harris knows it’s a region with a complicated history; a legacy marred by hatefulness and prejudice. But it’s also the home of the Blues and folk and Country music. Of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, Po’ Boys and hush puppies. In Harris’ work, there is a modern light cast on the historical shadow of the Southern story, one that shines through the people who live there. Photographing on the sets of forty-two independent films depicting the South, Harris used the “make-believe land” of a film set to reimagine how the American South might be rendered.

January 16, 2022
Top 10 (+1) Photobooks of 2021 | 1000 Words

1000 Words | Top 10 Photobooks of 2021

As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2021 – selected by Editor in Chief, Tim Clark, with words from Assistant Editor, Alex Merola.

via 1000 Words: http://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-10-2021

As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2021 – selected by Editor in Chief, Tim Clark, with words from Assistant Editor, Alex Merola.

December 26, 2021
Top 10 (+1) Photobooks of 2021 | 1000 Words

1000 Words | Top 10 Photobooks of 2021

As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2021 – selected by Editor in Chief, Tim Clark, with words from Assistant Editor, Alex Merola.

via 1000 Words: http://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-10-2021

As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2021 – selected by Editor in Chief, Tim Clark, with words from Assistant Editor, Alex Merola.

December 26, 2021
Publisher’s Spotlight: Kehrer Verlag – LENSCRATCH

Publisher’s Spotlight: Kehrer Verlag – LENSCRATCH

This month is all about books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photo book landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the page through desi

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/12/publishers-spotlight-kehrer-verlag/

Kehrer Verlag is among the world’s leading publishers of photo books. Founded in 1995 by Klaus Kehrer, it is also one of the few independent publishing houses in Germany. In addition to photography, further focal points include contemporary art, art of the 17th through the 20th centuries, and international sound art.  Over the years, numerous Kehrer publications have been nominated for and honored with international book awards. Under the same roof as the publishing house, the Kehrer Design team looks after the entire production chain of the publications. Each book is the unique result of close cooperation with the respective partners: photographers, artists, authors, museums, and cultural institutions. The connecting element is the high creative and technical quality of Made in Germany.

December 26, 2021
Has America Been Pushed Beyond Repair? | Blind

Has America been pushed Beyond Repair?

Photographer Ken Light spent ten years crisscrossing America for his latest book, Course of the Empire. He came of age in the 1960s and believed in America. But after a decade photographing the country, the state of America and the stories of those he met

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3934-has-america-been-pushed-beyond-repair-en

Photographer Ken Light spent ten years crisscrossing America for his latest book, Course of the Empire. He came of age in the 1960s and believed in America. But after a decade photographing the country, the state of the United States and the stories of those he met make him wonder if it is an empire in decline.

December 20, 2021
‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer – The New York Times

‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer

Ann Marks’s biography is a fascinating overview of the “photographer nanny” whose work has kept critics, lawyers and scholars busy since it was discovered after her death in 2009.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/review-vivian-maier-developed-ann-marks.html

If a picture were still worth a thousand words, we’d know more than enough by now about Vivian Maier, the so-called photographer nanny whose vast trove of images was discovered piecemeal and not fully processed, in all senses of the word, after her death at 83 in 2009, just as the iPhone was going wide.

December 19, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Apiary: The Dark Underbelly of a Town in the British Isles

Juxtapoz Magazine – Apiary: The Dark Underbelly of a Town in the British Isles

Robin Friend’s second book Apiary continues to explore the surreal and sinister haunting of the British landscape he first depicted in his series Bast…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/apiary-the-dark-underbelly-of-a-town-in-the-british-isles/

Robin Friend’s second book Apiary continues to explore the surreal and sinister haunting of the British landscape he first depicted in his series Bastard Countryside, with an apocalyptic, nocturnal series flirting with notions of democracy and resistance.

December 15, 2021
David Butow Chronicles the Trump Presidency in “Brink” – PhotoShelter Blog

David Butow Chronicles the Trump Presidency in “Brink” – PhotoShelter Blog

Freelance photojournalist David Butow crossed my radar in 2018 when his photo of then-Senator Jeff Flake went viral. The intensity of emotion combined with the near perfect placement of people in the frame made it an instant classic – so much so that Time

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/12/david-butow-chronicles-the-trump-presidency-in-brink/

Freelance photojournalist David Butow crossed my radar in 2018 when his photo of then-Senator Jeff Flake went viral. The intensity of emotion combined with the near perfect placement of people in the frame made it an instant classic – so much so that Time magazine had him describe how he came to capture it. David subsequently reached out to me over Twitter, and we finally had a chance to sit down for some coffee a few months ago where he shared his recent book project.

December 15, 2021
Favorite Photobooks of 2021 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | LensCulture

Favorite Photobooks of 2021 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | LensCulture

39 curators, artists, editors and other photography experts reveal their personal favorite photobooks from 2021 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-of-2021

This list is testimony to the unwavering creativity of artists, designers and publishers across the world who made this year a great one for new photobooks. To find some gems, we reached out to curators, artists, editors and other photography experts, and asked for their personal favorites of the year. We were delighted to receive 39 heart-felt recommendations that range from meditative and poetic, to academic, novelistic, visionary, conceptual, and those that feel absolutely essential.

December 14, 2021
2021 Holiday Gift Guide: Photo Books – PhotoShelter Blog

2021 Holiday Gift Guide: Photo Books – PhotoShelter Blog

When people think about gifts for photographers, gear is king. But the gear a photographer chooses to use or not use is about as personal as the work they make. And let’s face it, even when you find out the photographer in your life is a Canon person and

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/12/2021-holiday-gift-guide-photo-books/

Take a look at our 2021 list of book recommendations and feel free to leave your own in the comments below!

December 13, 2021
Robert Nickelsberg’s Unpublished Images of the Civil War in El Salvador | Blind

Robert Nickelsberg’s Unpublished Images of the Civil War in El Salvador

In a forthcoming book, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg revisits his archive of El Salvador’s civil war to shed new light on the conflict and its consequences.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3932-robert-nickelsbergs-unpublished-images-of-the-civil-war-in-el-salvador-en

In a forthcoming book, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg revisits his archive of El Salvador’s civil war to shed new light on the conflict and its consequences.

December 9, 2021
A Conversation With 10×10 Photobooks | Conscientious Photography Magazine

A Conversation With 10×10 Photobooks

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/conv-10×10/

Lederman and Yatskevich are two of the driving forces behind 10×10 Photobooks, a non-profit with a focus on the photobook. I spoke with Lederman and Yatskevich after the release of What They Saw (before the announcement of the PhotoBook Awards). The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

November 29, 2021
Chizu history | Blind

Chizu history

If you ask photobook aficionados what the ‘greatest’ photobook of all time is, there will be a whole bunch of answers. In this poll, The Americans by Robert Frank got the most votes, Ravens by Masahisa Fukase and New York by William Klein were up there, a

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3907-chizu-history-en

If you ask photobook aficionados what the ‘greatest’ photobook of all time is, there will be a whole bunch of answers. In this poll, The Americans by Robert Frank got the most votes, Ravens by Masahisa Fukase and New York by William Klein were up there, and somewhere in the top ten, you’ll find Chizu (also known as The Map), by Kikuji Kawada.

November 26, 2021
My Father Was a Black Photojournalist When There Were So Few – The New York Times

My Father Was a Black Photojournalist When There Were So Few

The writer Aisha Sabatini Sloan and her father, a photojournalist, wrote a book together, “Captioning the Archives.”

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/us/aisha-sabatini-sloan-captioning-the-archives.html

The writer Aisha Sabatini Sloan and her father, a photojournalist, wrote a book together, “Captioning the Archives.”

November 21, 2021
An Architectural Survey in Search of America | The New Yorker

An Architectural Survey in Search of America

A new book compiled by Jeffrey Ladd uses material from the Historic American Buildings Survey to capture something of the national character.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-architectural-survey-in-search-of-america

A new book compiled by Jeffrey Ladd uses material from the Historic American Buildings Survey to capture something of the national character.

November 18, 2021
A Gut-Wrenching but Graceful Photo Project on Trump’s America

A Gut-Wrenching but Graceful Photo Project on Trump’s America

Over four tumultuous years, Epstein’s book moves across the country to capture pivotal points of conflict between the American government, the people, and the land.

via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/681422/a-gut-wrenching-but-graceful-photo-project-on-trumps-america/

Mitch Epstein’s book Property Rights (Steidl) is a stark but sensitive examination of American life and land under the Trump administration. Over four tumultuous years, Epstein’s book moves across the country — from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to the US-Mexico border to the streets of New York City — to capture pivotal points of conflict between the American government, the people, and the land. Property Rights pairs Epstein’s detailed, dignified photos of activists and their actions with selections from his interviews with protesters, humanitarians, and environmentalists. Epstein’s gut-wrenching but graceful project urgently exposes the grave stakes we face today, while also reminding us that our current turbulent moment has precedents in earlier American history.

November 15, 2021
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 PhotoBook Awards

Announcing the Winners of the 2021 PhotoBook Awards

Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and Paris Photo present this year’s winning titles.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2021-photobook-awards/

Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and Paris Photo present this year’s winning titles.

November 12, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Haddon Hall: Naomi Harris’s Photographs of a Miami Hotel

Juxtapoz Magazine – Haddon Hall: Naomi Harris’s Photographs of a Miami Hotel

This is a touching story that has a Florida hotel as its center stage. Miami Beach was the winter destination for many seniors throughout the 70s and…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/haddon-hall-naomi-harris-s-photographs-of-a-miami-hotel/

This is a touching story that has a Florida hotel as its center stage. Miami Beach was the winter destination for many seniors throughout the 70s and 80s, when upwards of 20,000 “snowbirds” would migrate to the 2.5 mile stretch of beachfront. A depressed economy and cheap rents in the crumbling Art Deco hotels made it an ideal choice for the mostly Jewish retirees on a fixed income. Photographer Naomi Harris moved into Haddon Hall to embed herself with the hotel’s residents, becoming their surrogate granddaughter. She shows us an insider’s perspective of the changes that affected the lives of her “bubbehs and zaidehs”.

November 4, 2021