Category: Books

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Ideas From “The Photographer’s Playbook”

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Ideas From “The Photographer’s Playbook” Navel gazing can get a little old, so, in the coming weeks (months?), as we find ourselves counting the hours till lunchtime on the sofa, we look for… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sheltering-in-place-ideas-from-the-photographer-s-playbook/ Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern and published by Aperture, The Photographer’s Playbook…

  • One Photographer’s Decade-Long Study of New Orleans | AnOther

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    One Photographer’s Decade-Long Study of New Orleans via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12371/death-magick-abundance-new-orleans-akasha-rabut-caramel-curves-second-line Akasha Rabut’s new book Death Magick Abundance documents the people that brought New Orleans back to life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and is a pertinent celebration of the power of community

  • Eight Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy | AnOther

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    Eight Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12335/photo-books-luis-alberto-rodriguez-peter-beard-hal-fischer-stephen-shore March’s selection of must-have photo books includes Stephen Shore, Peter Beard, Lina Scheynius and Luis Alberto Rodriguez

  • Introducing the shortlist for MACK’s First Book Award – British Journal of Photography

    Introducing the shortlist for MACK’s First Book Award – British Journal of Photography

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    Introducing the shortlist for MACK’s First Book Award Ten photographers have made it into the shortlist for the annual MACK First Book Award; the winning project will be announced in May at Photo London 2020 via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/shortlist-mack-first-book-award-photobook/ Ten photographers have made it into the shortlist for the annual MACK First Book…

  • Day Sleeper | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    Day Sleeper | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    Day Sleeper via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/day-sleeper/ A new book entitled Day Sleeper now lifts Lange’s work out of the stasis it has found itself in for too long. For the book, Sam Contis used the archive housed at the Oakland Museum of California (plus images from the Library of Congress and the National Archives).…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Poulomi Basu’s “Centralia” Exposes the Hidden Crimes of War

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Poulomi Basu’s “Centralia” Exposes the Hidden Crimes of War Centralia exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. In war, truth is the first casualty and Poulomi Basu’s new bo… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/poulomi-basu-s-centralia-exposes-the-hidden-crimes-of-war/ Centralia exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. In…

  • “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images | The New Yorker

    “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images | The New Yorker

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    “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images Ben Brody’s book has no narrative, because, from the perspective of an American infantryman in Baghdad, the war had none. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/relentless-absurdity-an-army-photographers-censored-images In his new book, “Attention Servicemember,” Ben Brody recounts being sent to a Rotary Club luncheon near Fort Stewart, Georgia, to present a…

  • The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

    The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

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    The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined It feels as if our relationship with the idea of home is changing.  Across the world, nationalism finds itself dancing freely with far-right politics, while political divisions have chopped families right down the middle, transforming previously tight-kni via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-documentary-photography-issue-vii-home-reimagined/ ‘Home’ is both a physical and imagined…

  • Review: Ostzeit – Stories From A Vanished Country – Conscientious

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    Link: Ostzeit: Stories from a Vanished Country might thus come at the right, or at least a good time. Ostzeit contains photography by five East German photographers, who later went on to form Ostkreuz, a photography agency

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Why Not

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    Link: My first reaction to Dutch photographer Otto Snoek’s new book, Why Not, was that Rotterdam was off my travel list. Even so, it’s immediately evident that Mr. Snoek is a master of urban street photography, and after further consideration, Rotterdam represents many contemporary urban centers that draw residents from all over the world. Snoek’s…

  • photo-eye | Magazine — Shoot

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    Link: Shoot, Photography of the Moment is a compelling look at a wave of photographers who deliberately present seemingly offhand images in a fine art or editorial context, and thus strive to create “perfectly imperfect” images.

  • Review: Georgian Spring – A Magnum Journal – Conscientious

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    Link: Georgian Spring – A Magnum Journal is a wonderful book for many reasons, one of them being the fact that it can serve as a good starting point for discussions of the nature of the beast, photojournalism’s imagery. Of course, it is a little bit unfair to use the book in such a way…

  • PDN's Notable Books of 2009: Part 2

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    Link: In our November issue, we showcased 13 books that caught the attention of PDN’s editors this year (read it on PDNOnline here). Below is part two of our list, which includes several books we wrote about in the pages of PDN in 2009.

  • photo-eye Bookstore | Richard Barnes: Animal Logic

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    Link: Animal Logic, Barnes’s first monograph, collects four related species of his photographic work that touch on themes relevant to science, history, archaeology, and architecture. Through his lens, sights and objects normally hidden from public view—half-installed dioramas, partially wrapped specimens, anatomical models, exploded skulls, and taxidermied animals in shipping crates—take on a strange beauty

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: ED TEMPLETON: "Deformer and the Will to Not Be F-cked…"

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    Link: Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California is a much-anticipated book. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed…

  • 5B4: Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi

    5B4: Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi

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    Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi Originally Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith was published by De.MO but only half the print run was realized so it sold out q… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/wonderland-fairy-tale-of-soviet.html The style of Eskenazi’s photography follows the lead of the likes of Gilles Peress —…

  • Dossier Journal » Ryan McGinley Interview

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    Link: This Thursday, Ryan McGinley will have his third solo show at Team Gallery. An exhibition of new work, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, will run from March 18 through April 17 and will be accompanied by a monograph published by Dashwood Book. David Strettell, the book’s publisher (also, of course, the owner of the…

  • Carry Me Ohio: The Book | Luceo Images

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    Link: In February of 2006 I unknowingly began making images that would later become an all-consuming project  lasting for more than four years. I am excited to announce the first real printing of this body of work. Edited by Mike Davis and designed by his wife Deb Pang Davis of Cococello Design, it contains an…

  • APhotoADay Blog » ‘Carry Me Ohio’ hits Blurb

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    Link: I mention the following probably just because I have Leicas on the brain after the past couple of days, but it strikes me that the S90 and S95 might be the up to the minute analog of the original Leica—the so-called “Barnack camera.” It’s capable but stealthy, as tiny as it can reasonably be,…

  • Conscientious | Review: From Here to There by Alec Soth

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    Link: I suppose I shouldn’t be writing this review on the internet, the place where anything you write can and will be reduced to the one snippet that seems to say something and that then will be taken against you.