Category: Books

  • The hard won secrets of street photography

    The hard won secrets of street photography

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    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. 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 harder the composition, the better the image: Katie Burnett on her experimental new book Cabin Fever

    The harder the composition, the better the image: Katie Burnett on her experimental new book Cabin Fever

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    The harder the composition, the better the image: Katie Burnett on her experimental new book Cabin Fever 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. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/katie-burnett-cabin-fever-photography-010421?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Katie Burnett never thought she’d become a photographer. Instead,…

  • Do Blue-Chip Photographers Prop up Global Capitalism?

    Do Blue-Chip Photographers Prop up Global Capitalism?

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    Do Blue-Chip Photographers Prop up Global Capitalism? 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…

  • Blind – Mark Power: “America continues to enthrall and to disappoint in equal measure”

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    Mark Power: “America continues to enthrall and to disappoint in equal measure” In 2012, British photographer Mark Power embarked on an ambition journey: Good Morning America, a visual narrative of the United States, spanning over five books and ten years. One way to undertake such a project would be to follow thematic or geographica Link:…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: A Conversation with Laura June Kirsch on Her Upcoming Book

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: A Conversation with Laura June Kirsch on Her Upcoming Book This week Hat & Beard Press announced their newest book title, Romantic Lowlife Fantasies, a collection of photos of Juxtapoz contributor and… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/books/romantic-lowlife-fantasies-a-conversation-with-laura-june-kirsch-on-her-upcoming-book/ This week Hat & Beard Press announced their newest book title, Romantic Lowlife Fantasies, a collection of…

  • Blind – A 30-Year Odyssey Documenting Lives of Girlfriends Coming of Age

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    A 30-Year Odyssey Documenting Lives of Girlfriends Coming of Age In the new book Between Girls, Karen Marshall explores gender, identity, self-discovery and friendship between women in photographs, film, and audio recordings. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1265/A-30-Year-Odyssey-Documenting-Lives-Of-Girlfriends-Coming-Of-Age In the new book Between Girls, Karen Marshall explores gender, identity, self-discovery and friendship between women in photographs, film, and audio…

  • Donna Ferrato: HOLY – LENSCRATCH

    Donna Ferrato: HOLY – LENSCRATCH

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    Donna Ferrato: HOLY – LENSCRATCH Holy is forged from one woman’s outrage against a woman-hating world. Donna Ferrato’s radical photographs showcase the remarkable ways women survive, endure, and change. Holy depicts women who prevail. Holy is an invitation to understand denigration, abus via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/03/donna-ferrato-holy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Holy is forged from one woman’s outrage against a woman-hating world. Donna Ferrato’s radical photographs showcase…

  • Jason Langer: Twenty Years – LENSCRATCH

    Jason Langer: Twenty Years – LENSCRATCH

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    Jason Langer: Twenty Years – LENSCRATCH “Jason seems to have absorbed the entirety of photo history, particularly the so-called “New York School”, identified by historian Jane Livngstone in her book of that title from the early 1990’s: Arbus; Avedon; Brodovitch; Croner; Davidson; Donaghy; Faure via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/03/jason-langer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Six years ago, I wrote a review of…

  • Blind – Harry Gruyaert: “India is a Life Lesson”

    Blind – Harry Gruyaert: “India is a Life Lesson”

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    Harry Gruyaert: “India is a Life Lesson” — Blind Magazine The photographer Harry Gruyaert, a member of Magnum Photos, publishes a beautiful photo book on India with Atelier EXB: it’s an immersive experience with a touch of mystery. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/harry-gruyaert-india-is-a-life-lesson/ The photographer Harry Gruyaert, a member of Magnum Photos, publishes a beautiful photo…

  • The Twenty Years War | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The Twenty Years War | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The Twenty Years War via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-twenty-years-war/ Peter van Agtmael has been documenting the Twenty Year War since its very beginning. I first spoke with him in 2007 and then again ten years later. He has published a number of books, all of them essential records of a country too embroiled in its…

  • Nick Meyer: The Local – LENSCRATCH

    Nick Meyer: The Local – LENSCRATCH

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    Nick Meyer: The Local – LENSCRATCH Photographer Nick Meyer has created a remarkable body of work with his powerful project and new book published by MACK, The Local. It’s a collection of unrelenting seeing from a perspective of compassion and familiarity with place, but also a keen sensiti via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/03/nick-meyer-the-local/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Photographer Nick Meyer has…

  • LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness – The New York Times

    LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness – The New York Times

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    LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/t-magazine/latoya-ruby-frazier-photography.html This fall, Frazier will publish “Flint Is Family in Three Acts,” a record of her five-year collaboration with people affected by the ongoing contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Mich. “The Last Cruze,”…

  • Peter van Agtmael’s Absurd, Grotesque Chronicle of the Fallout from the Iraq War | The New Yorker

    Peter van Agtmael’s Absurd, Grotesque Chronicle of the Fallout from the Iraq War | The New Yorker

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    Peter van Agtmael’s Absurd, Grotesque Chronicle of the Fallout from the Iraq War Van Agtmael’s images in his new book, “Sorry for the War,” highlight all the little ways in which the war twists and perverts whatever it touches, over there as well as over here. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/peter-van-agtmaels-absurd-grotesque-chronicle-of-the-fallout-from-the-iraq-war For a decade and…

  • 8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

    8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

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    8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/8-photobooks-by-contemporary-women-photographers/ From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.

  • Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids

    Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids

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    Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids The Magnum president’s latest book reinterprets her cult classic Learn to See for young people. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/susan-meiselas-eyes-opens-photography-190221?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Eyes Open is loosely inspired by Meiselas’ previous cult classic, Learn to See, a sourcebook of ideas from and for teachers and students published by…

  • Blind – Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs

    Blind – Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs

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    Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs — Blind Magazine The Magnum photographer’s latest book, Found Not Lost, takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a new body of work for the first time. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1229/Elliott-Erwitts-Rediscovered-Photographs The Magnum photographer’s latest book, “Found Not Lost,” takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a…

  • Blind – The Egyptian Revolution, Ten Tears Later

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    The Egyptian Revolution, Ten Tears Later Ten years after the Revolution, she is coming out with a new version of her book In The Shadow of the Pyramids, which at the time portrayed the emotional chaos the photographer felt when, in 2005, she left the U.S. to return to Egypt, where she experienced the political…

  • A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career

    A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career

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    A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career The late photographer, who left behind more than two million images, spent her life in search of the elusive iconic frame. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/mary-ellen-mark-the-book-of-everything/ “Mary Ellen would never have made this book,” Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator of more than thirty…

  • Deanna Templeton captures the intricacies and emotional turmoil of adolescence in her latest monograph, What She Said. | 1854 Photography

    Deanna Templeton captures the intricacies and emotional turmoil of adolescence in her latest monograph, What She Said. | 1854 Photography

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    Deanna Templeton captures the intricacies and emotional turmoil of adolescence in her latest monograph, What She Said. | 1854 Photography Pairing extracts of pages from her personal diaries with portraits of young women in their teens, the American photographer paints a candid picture around the complexity of growing up. via 1854 Photography: https://www.1854.photography/2021/01/deanna-templeton-captures-the-intricacies-and-emotional-turmoil-of-adolescence-in-her-latest-monograph-what-she-said/ The placement…

  • William Mebane publishes a 64-page tabloid of a Trump rally in 2017, designed by Area of Practice

    William Mebane publishes a 64-page tabloid of a Trump rally in 2017, designed by Area of Practice

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    William Mebane publishes a 64-page tabloid of a Trump rally in 2017, designed by Area of Practice Coinciding with the inauguration of Joe Biden, the photographer thought it timely to address what he saw at one of Trump's rallies three years ago. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/area-of-practice-william-mebane-publication-190121?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Coinciding with the inauguration of Joe Biden, the photographer thought it…