Category: Books

  • photo-eye | BLOG: Light Break: Reviewed by Blake Andrews

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    Entering a New World: Reviewed by Blake Andrews Book Review Entering a New World Photographs by Massimo Vitali Reviewed by Blake Andrews Whether relaxing beachside, exploring the r… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2020/06/light-break-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html “That book is enormous!” cried my wife upon spotting Entering a New World, the new monograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali. Her reaction is a…

  • A Portrait of 1990s England, Captured by an ‘Outsider’ | AnOther

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    A Portrait of 1990s England, Captured by an ‘Outsider’ via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12548/england-in-the-1990s-peter-bialobrzeski-dewi-lewis-give-my-regards-to-elizabeth Give My Regards to Elizabeth is a new book by German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski, comprising photographs of his year spent in England in the early 90s

  • A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture

    A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture

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    A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture A new book shows Shirley Baker’s documentary work from a different perspective, shedding light on her playful and tender street photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shirley-baker-a-photography-of-gestures A new book shows Shirley Baker’s documentary work from a different perspective, shedding light…

  • Reimagining a continent: The new generation of African photographers

    Reimagining a continent: The new generation of African photographers

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    Reimagining a continent: The new generation of African photographers A new generation of image-makers are presenting a kaleidoscopic portrait of the continent, exploring African myths, memories and taboos. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/meet-the-new-generation-of-african-photographers/ From gender and sexuality, to myths and memories: a new generation of image-makers are presenting a complex, kaleidoscopic portrait of the continent.

  • Dieter Keller: Das Auge Des Krieges – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    Dieter Keller: Das Auge Des Krieges – AMERICAN SUBURB X

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    Dieter Keller: Das Auge Des Krieges “Othering of the loser of a war is important for collective consciousness and acts as a bulwark against the tide of human sympathy in the matters of inhumane consequence” There are a number of different ways to approach writing about photograph via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2020/05/dieter-keller-das-auge-des-krieges.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dieter-keller-das-auge-des-krieges Dieter Keller was…

  • photo-eye | BLOG: We Have No Place to Be: Reviewed by John Sypal

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    We Have No Place to Be: Reviewed by John Sypal Book Review We Have No Place to Be Photographs by Joji Hashiguchi Reviewed by John Sypal “In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi photog… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2020/04/we-have-no-place-to-be-reviewed-by-john.html In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi photographed young men and women congregating in the places where youth go to find…

  • Nine Photo Books (and One Surprise) to Treat Yourself to This Month | AnOther

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    Nine Photo Books (and One Surprise) to Treat Yourself to This Month via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12434/photo-books-claire-de-rouen-subscriptions-lucie-rox-paul-mpagi-sepuya From Chris Killip’s documentary of a 1980s punk club to Lucie Rox’s journey around Japan, April’s best photo books allow a visual escape from isolation

  • A Different Side to Dorothea Lange | The New Yorker

    A Different Side to Dorothea Lange | The New Yorker

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    A Different Side to Dorothea Lange A lyrical new book by the photographer Sam Contis collects lesser-known images from the great documentarian’s archive. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-different-side-to-dorothea-lange Many of the black-and-white images in the new book “Day Sleeper,” by the photographer Sam Contis, look similar to Contis’s own: arid landscapes etched with fencing, cropped…

  • 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…