Category: Books
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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…
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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.
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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.…
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From Anna Atkins to Hiromix: The Photo Books by Women You Need to Know | AnOther
From Anna Atkins to Hiromix: The Photo Books by Women You Need to Know via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13669/from-anna-atkins-to-hiromix-the-photobooks-by-women-you-need-to-know Alex Merola shares a list of the most influential, boundary-breaking photo books created by women, spanning from 1843 to 1999
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War, Sex, and Violence, Or Life According to Yan Morvan | Blind
War, Sex, and Violence, Or Life According to Yan Morvan With the project Yan Morvan Archives, Battcoop publishing takes a comprehensive look at the photojournalist’s work. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3815-war-sex-and-violence-or-life-according-to-yan-morvan-en With the project Yan Morvan Archives, Battcoop publishing takes a comprehensive look at the photojournalist’s work.
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Parallel Crisis – Photographs by Yannis Karpouzis | Book review by Alexander Strecker | LensCulture
Parallel Crisis – Photographs by Yannis Karpouzis | Book review by Alexander Strecker | LensCulture Years in the making, Yannis Karpouzis’ new book powerfully captures a sense of time stood still and the overlapping crises that unfolded following the Greek financial disaster of 2009 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yannis-karpouzis-parallel-crisis Years in the making, Yannis Karpouzis’ new book…
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photo-eye | BLOG: Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews Book Review I’m Looking Through You Photographs by Tim Davis Reviewed by Blake Andrews “’I’m pretty good at photography,’ states Tim … Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2021/08/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html “I’m pretty good at photography,” states Tim Davis toward the end of his new monograph I’m Looking Through You. “I’m, like, good at…
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Blind – The City in All its Facets
The City in All its Facets The latest book published by Louis Vuitton, Villes du monde [Cities of the World], takes readers on a trip around the world through 225 photographs of 30 different cities. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1426/The-City-In-All-Its-Facets The latest book published by Louis Vuitton, Villes du monde [Cities on Earth], takes readers on a trip…
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A Sweeping Look at American Landscape Photography
A Sweeping Look at American Landscape Photography In an eloquent new photobook, Sandra S. Phillips considers how photographers envision the intertwined histories of land use, colonialism, and the built environment. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-sweeping-look-at-american-landscape-photography/ When Sandra S. Phillips was named curator emerita of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2016, after three…
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2020: A Year Like No Other, Captured in Photos
2020: A Year Like No Other, Captured in Photos A book forms a disturbing, diverse account of a very turbulent year. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/663256/2020-year-like-no-other-captured-in-magnum-photos/ Magnum 2020 revisits the uncertainties and upheavals of last year through 60 photographers around the world.
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Thiago Dezan When I Hear That Trumpet Sound – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Thiago Dezan When I Hear That Trumpet Sound I was confronted with three parts of a mental soundtrack while paging through Thiago Dezan’s new book When I Hear The That Trumpet Sound (Selo Turvo, 2021, ed. 200). The first track based on title and the book’s black endpapers and the ominous black cover via AMERICAN…
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Cai Dongdong – History of Life – burn magazine
Cai Dongdong – History of Life Cai Dongdong History of Life Captured through the eyes of ordinary Chinese citizens before, during, and after the cultural revolution and curated by one of China’s most talented visual artist… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2021/06/history-of-life-cai-dong-dong/ Captured through the eyes of ordinary Chinese citizens before, during, and after the cultural revolution and curated…
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Blind – New Bern: The Portrait of a Small American Town
New Bern: The Portrait of a Small American Town Over a period of fifteen years, Michael von Graffenried documented the daily life of New Bern, North Carolina. This long-term project, published this spring with Steidl, is on view May 19–20 at the newly opened Espace MVG in Paris. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1330/New-Bern-The-Portrait-Of-A-Small-American-Town Over a period of fifteen…
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In Pictures: The Pastel Dreamscapes of North Korea | AnOther
In Pictures: The Pastel Dreamscapes of North Korea via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13300/in-pictures-the-pastel-dreamscapes-of-north-korea In his upcoming book, Between Doors, photographer Ted Lau immaculately captures the hermit kingdom
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Rahim Fortune’s Highly Personal Portrait of the American South | AnOther
Rahim Fortune’s Highly Personal Portrait of the American South via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13299/rahim-fortune-photographer-i-cant-stand-to-see-you-cry-book-interview The Austin-born, New York-based photographer’s second book is a culmination of the last five years of “Black love, photography and history”, that he and his community have experienced
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Juxtapoz Magazine – A Visual Record of Daily Life in San Quentin Prison
Juxtapoz Magazine – A Visual Record of Daily Life in San Quentin Prison The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how th… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/a-visual-record-of-daily-life-in-san-quentin-prison/ The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of…
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Primal Sight – Photographs by various artists | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Primal Sight – Photographs by various artists | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, this book surveys the rich and elastic world of black-and-white photography via the works of over 140 artists and essays from Zelony-Mindell, David Campany, and Gregory Eddi-Jones via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/efrem-zelony-mindell-primal-sight Weaving its way from landscape to…
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A Photographer’s View from Inside a Brooklyn Junior High | The New Yorker
A Photographer’s View from Inside a Brooklyn Junior High Puppy love, cafeteria jousting, and other scenes from a public school in Bushwick in the eighties and early nineties. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-view-from-inside-a-brooklyn-junior-high Between 1981 and 1994, the photographer Meryl Meisler worked as an art teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn, at Roland Hayes Intermediate School 291.…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Thana Faroq: I don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows
Juxtapoz Magazine – Thana Faroq: I don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows Thana Faroq’s I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows explores her journey leaving war-torn Yemen and experiencing asylum in the Netherlands. Th… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/thana-faroq-i-don-t-recognize-me-in-the-shadows/ Thana Faroq’s I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows explores her journey leaving war-torn Yemen and experiencing asylum in the Netherlands. Thana decided…
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End of the Caliphate – Photographs by Ivor Prickett | Interview by Eefje Ludwig | LensCulture
End of the Caliphate – Photographs by Ivor Prickett | Interview by Eefje Ludwig | LensCulture What is left in the wake of conflict? Drawing on his time on the ground in Iraq and Syria, Ivor Prickett’s book is an enduring record of the people and places caught up in the battle to defeat ISIS…