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
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.
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 powerfully captures a sense of time stood still and the overlapping crises that unfolded following the Greek financial disaster of 2009.
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 it.” Such a boast would be hyperbole coming from most photographers. But Davis has the goods to back it up. Coming from him the declaration is merely another clear-eyed fact like the pictures it accompanies. Davis shot them in and around Los Angeles over the course of a few years between 2017 and 2019.
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 around the world through 225 photographs of 30 different cities.
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 very busy decades leading the department, she had no intention of slowing down. In fact, she was actively at work on what fairly can be called the most ambitious project of her career to date: American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, an exhibition scheduled to appear at SFMOMA in 2020. Lamentably, the exhibition itself was a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, but the accompanying publication—much more than a catalogue—was published earlier this year by Radius Books in Santa Fe.
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.
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 SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2021/08/thiago-dezan-when-i-hear-that-trumpet-sound.html
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 was Behemoth’s Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel, a rich and textured track of blinding blackened death metal ferocity from the Polish group’s finest album, The Satanist. The second and third tracks to my mental soundtrack came when I opened the book.
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 by one of China’s most talented visual artists, “History of Life” presents a fascinating story on the determination of the human spirit. A collection of 415 restored photographs chronicling the history of modern China from the 1910s to the late 1990s.
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 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.
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
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
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 America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration.
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 portrait, still life to assemblage, Primal Sight takes a near encyclopedic approach to sight itself. From Ally Caple’s quiet but forceful portrait Jasmine in Home Studio to Anastasia Samoylova’s dimensional Black and White Mountain, the viewer is led through multiple iterations of what a photograph can be. A survey, whether an exhibition or a book, is a hard format to get right. What is enough and how much is too much?
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. In a new book, “New York: PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco,” out in June, she collects photos that she took of her students and colleagues during those years—the Menudo fans, the puppy love, the cafeteria jousting, the sneaker style, and a bit of teacher trash-talking. “The students were on the pulse of popular culture, exuded youthful pride, and could challenge one’s wits,” she said recently. Meisler (who’d previously photographed the disco scene and her own family on Long Island) eventually moved to a school in Manhattan, where she continued to teach—and take pictures—until 2010. Her photography from three decades inside the city’s public schools is her largest unseen body of work. “I still get teacher nightmares,” she said.
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 to make this book to figure out how everything happened – to figure out the war, the escape, the transition, and the unfamiliar. It’s not easy to talk about trauma while you’re living in it because you can’t recognize it. Creating this work enabled her to tackle the trauma and to confront it on her own terms. The images and the words serve as a record, a healing method to register and validate her emotions and experiences during the transition into the unknown.
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
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/ivor-prickett-end-of-the-caliphate
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.
Photographer Matt Stuart discusses his purist and uniquely playful approach to image-making as a guide for anyone interested in documenting their world.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-hard-won-secrets-of-street-photography/
Photographer Matt Stuart discusses his purist and uniquely playful approach to image-making as a guide for anyone interested in documenting their world.
The London-based photographer is always up for a challenge, and her new book – made in lockdown and published by Art Paper Editions – proves just that.
Katie Burnett never thought she’d become a photographer. Instead, she found herself naturally gravitating towards art, making things in her spare time from a small town in Missouri. “I am very dyslexic so, for me, painting, drawing and making things were always what I excelled in at school,” she tells It’s Nice That
In his recent manifesto, Jörg Colberg takes aim at three prominent photographers for their “visual propaganda.”
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/do-blue-chip-photographers-prop-up-global-capitalism/
That said, what are the “identical” mechanisms Colberg suggests that link these artists to their socialist-realist predecessors? Leibovitz, Crewdson, and Gursky produce a kind of capitalist propaganda that, like socialist realism, “does not aim to depict an actually existing reality but instead presents a code that can be read by its intended spectators.” Colberg derives his description of socialist realism from art historian Boris Groys, who suggests that this code entails stories about heroes, demons, transcendental events, and real-world consequences that serve the messaging needs of the powerful. In this formulation, Colberg’s neoliberal realists make images that perpetuate, or even celebrate, unjust power structures.