Showing posts with label Best Photography Books. Show all posts
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5.23.2015

LYDIA PANAS: Longing In Black + Photolucida + The Mark of Abel Monograph


LONGING IN BLACK / Amy
Photograph © 2013 Lydia Panas

LONGING IN BLACK / Elexia
Photograph © 2013 Lydia Panas

LONGING IN BLACK / Mattie
Photograph © 2014 Lydia Panas

"There is almost nothing I would rather do than look at someone through the lens of my camera. It's hard to describe what it feels like, a seduction of sorts or a way of getting close. It's got something to do with desire.  We see one another and we don't have to speak or smile.   The photograph is a record of our connection; intimate, intense and very present." – Lydia Panas

"Lydia Panas is a fine art photographer whose work has been widely exhibited in the US and internationally. Lydia was one of nine artists selected by Houston FotoFest curators for the prestigious International Discoveries Exhibition in 2007 and has since garnered numerous awards and honors, including  an Image Award from CENTER, Santa Fe. She was twice included in both the Critical Mass Top Fifty and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition. She has received six Pennsylvania Partner's in the Arts Grants and a Puffin Foundation Grant among others. She is currently a Visual Arts Fellow with CFEVA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Her work has been featured in periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, Photo District News and Popular Photography. Lydia has degrees from Boston College, School of Visual Arts, and New York University / International Center of Photography. She has received a Whitney Museum Independent Study Fellowship." Her book, The Mark of Abel, is available at photo-eye Bookstore.

 publisher: Kehrer Verlag
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYDIA PANAS

GHOST PORTRAITS / October Gold 2
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYDIA PANAS


Text: Lydia Panas website
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12.31.2014

TOP 10 MOST POPULAR POSTS of 2014

Always extremely popular are the many Best Photography Book lists. It assures me books are still alive and well. Of course my list is just a small portion of the excellent photography books that were published in 2014, so check out some of the other 2014 Best Photo Book Lists I've posted links to.
 
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“Photography has never been as fashionable as now. In fact Photography IS the communication now.” – Jean-Jacques Naudet

Jean-Jacques Naudet has championed the careers of countless photographers throughout decades, first as Editor-in-Chief of French PHOTO Magazine during it’s heyday in the 1970′s and ’80′s and later as editor at large for American PHOTO, working for Hachette Filipacchi Media for forty years. A prominent figure in the overall History of Photography, Naudet moved on to found his own publications, starting with the former “Le Journal de la Photographie," and currently with the new L’Oeil de laPhotographie / The Eye of Photography, promoting legendary icons of the past along side a generation of emerging photographers. I have been fortunate to be guided by Naudet over the years. The Interview
 
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 Each year, the New York Photo Festival presents PhotoWorld, a wide-ranging juried exhibition selecting the best new documentary, fine art, and motion and drone photography being produced today, determined by top photo and image professionals. Finalists chosen exhibit their work in an installation at POWERHOUSE Arena during the DUMBO Arts Festival. PhotoWorld s an unparalleled opportunity to jump start your career in Photography.

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 Photograph © Stephen Mallon

Stephen Mallon first caught my undivided attention and gained enormous acclaim for his series, Brace for Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549. His large-scale photographs documenting the salvage of Flight 1549, the plane piloted by Sully Sullenberger III who successfully emergency-landed in the Hudson River in January 15, 2009 saving all 155 people aboard. http://www.stephenmallon.com

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“In “Crusade For Your Art: Best Practices For Fine Art Photographers," Jennifer Schwartz has written one of the most comprehensive guides to date for both the professional and emerging fine art photographer to navigate the current world of Photography. With contributions from leading photography museum, gallery and photo directors, the expert advice given is instrumental in creating what every photographer needs to know to navigate the current art market. I absolutely love this guide. It covers all bases! I whole-heartedly recommend this masterful guide to the photographic community.” – Elizabeth Avedon. The Book
 
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Photograph © Ruddy Roye Instagram.com/ruddyroye

Relatives of both Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey burst in tears obviously overwhelmed by the moment. Protestors marched around the Barclay Center plaza chanting "I can't breathe," while encouraging Barclay fans to support their cause. Shantel Davis was killed on June 14, 2012 while Kimani Grey was killed March 9, 2013. "It hurts so much, when will the pain stop..."

Ruddy Roye is keeping us real. An "Instagram Humanist/Activist" with over 107,000 followers, Roye describes himself as a "Brooklyn photographer peeling the cornea off his eye ball to share on Instagram." Follow him here: http://instagram.com/ruddyroye. And check out @everydaypolaroid and @everydayblackamerica for more images http://www.ruddyroye.com

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Photograph © Jennifer McClure

"Laws of Silence" is about Jennifer McClure's personal mythology and fear of letting go of the life she was programmed to live. Her family life was difficult and displaced, not something she wished to replicate, and left her distrustful of both people in general and the whole idea of the American Dream. "The water is an important part of this series because I had a bad experience in the water as a child; I love the water but I'm also afraid of it. I often feel the same way about people...." http://www.jennifermcclure.com/

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The Clash Photograph © Amy Arbus

Over the course of ten years Amy Arbus made thousands of photographs for the Village Voice and roughly 500 were published. She describes her "On the Street" series as very raw and rough edged, but deceptively organized. Included among the luminaries are Keith Haring, Sonic Youth, Madonna, The Clash, Phoebe Legere, Susanne Bartsch, The Rosenberg Twins, Messrs. McDermott + McGough and Grace Jones. Read more: An Interview with Amy Arbus. http://www.amyarbus.com

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"In FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, the film unfolds like a detective story, Director's John Maloof and Charlie Siskel reveal Maier’s mysterious life as a nanny and a loner through the recollections of her various employers and their children, and as other details of her past come to light. Through the reconstruction of a large portion of Maier’s collection of over 100,000 photographs and interviews with other well-known American street photographers and collectors, the film challenges our notions of the artist and the creative act, and how art is made and marketed. This is Maloof's and Siskel's remarkable directorial debut. Watch the Film Trailor here.

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I received a beautiful book by photographer Hiroshi Watanabe.  I was very moved by both the images and the text in "The Day The Dam Collapses" and wrote an open letter to him. http://www.hiroshiwatanabe.com/

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Out of the over one hundred or so posts in 2014, those most viewed are listed above.  And as of today, the last day of 2014, there have been 1,167,699 views in the last year and a half I've been counting. Not many compared to some, but so many more than I anticipated when starting this Photo Journal for my own interest. Thank you to all who have visited and to those who continue to visit. 

Today is the last day I can say I was one of TIME Magazine's Top 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014! So I'm soaking it in all day. Thanks so much to Editor Mia Tramz for choosing my twitter-feed. Follow Tramz and her colleagues on TIME Lightbox to keep you informed. 

Elizabeth Avedon: Art and Photography


HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015!
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12.12.2013

NICK BRANDT: Across The Ravaged Land

 Across the Ravaged Land (Abrams, 2013)
Nick Brandt's final book in his trilogy documenting 
the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa. 

• Click Images To View Enlarged Portfolio •

Lion Trophy, Chyulu Hills, 2012
Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt 

 Calcified Fish Eagle, Lake Natron 2012
Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt
 
Lion & Wildebeest, Amboseli 2012
Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt

Elephant Skull, Amboseli 2010
Photograph © 2011 Nick Brandt 


Now in his third book, Across the Ravaged Land, Brandt has taken his stately images to the next level, exposing a darker vision. These extraordinary photographs, shot between 2010 and 2012, are haunting. Through the series of dried and calcified animals out on a weathered and ravaged land, elephants watching protectively over an elephant skull, or lion and buffalo heads mounted on posts as trophies overlooking the Chyulu Hills of Kenya, Brandt brings us full circle back to a solemn close to his trilogy of books documenting the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa." – Elizabeth Avedon (photo-eye)

available at photo-eye

Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli 2008
Leading Matriarch Killed By Poachers, 2009 
 Photograph ©2011 Nick Brandt 

Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephants, Amboseli 2011
Photograph © 2011 Nick Brandt
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9.19.2012

SAUL LEITER: ICP Book Signing 9.21.12

The Book: Saul Leiter (Kehrer Verlag, 2012, 296 pages)

Book Signing: Saul Leiter's Retrospective
ICP Store, 1133 Avenue of the Americas
Friday, Sept 21, 5:45pm–7:15pm

Join Saul Leiter for a signing of his retrospective book Saul Leiter

"This book, published to mark the first major retrospective of Leiter's work anywhere in the world, features for the first time, in addition to his early black and white and color images, his fashion photography, the overpainted nudes, as well as his paintings and sketchbooks.

Saul Leiter (b. 1923 in Pittsburgh) saw himself for a long time mainly as a painter. After coming to New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning in the late 1940s to take photographs. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt, he found his motifs on the streets of New York, but at the same time was visibly interested in abstraction. Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover Leiter's photography, showing it in the 1950s in two important exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Back then color photography was regarded as "low art," fit only for advertising. Leiter accordingly worked primarily as a fashion photographer, for magazines such as Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Nearly forty years would go by before his extraordinary artistic color photography was rediscovered." Publishers description

ICP: Signed books will be available on a first-come, first-served basis only, on the night of the signing. Mr. Leiter will be signing his new book only, and proof of purchase from ICP will be required. And as per the artist's request, no flash photography, please. Limit of two signed copies per customer.

This event takes place during voluntary contribution hours at the museum. Free Friday night programs in the Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn.


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12.26.2011

DARIUS HIMES 2011: Publish Your Photography Book + Radius Books

Publish Your Photography Book
By Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson
Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

DARIUS HIMES
Assistant Director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Co-founder of Radius Books

"I have been lucky enough to work with things I'm passionate about, two of the deepest of which are photography and books. This past year has been extremely challenging, rewarding and life-changing in many ways, and it is primarily because of these passions. All of the books that I want to mention are ones that I worked on intimately during the past year. They truly are my favorites! I've been blessed with being able to work on projects and with artists whose work I admire immensely and about whom I care deeply. First and foremost was Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), the book I coauthored with Mary Virginia Swanson, the hardest working gal in showbiz :) This project consumed my free hours for the better part of 4 years and was the culmination of so many wonderful conversations with photographers, publishers, editors and designers around the world. I'm immensely proud of it as a publication. And it was designed and art directed by two amazing men: David Chickey and Masumi Shibata (from the Radius Books team)."

"Secondly, each of the photography books I worked on at Radius Books this year were truly amazing projects. I can't emphasize how lucky I have been to work with artists whose visions lift the mind and spirit and who are so dedicated to their work. They include Janelle Lynch's Los Jardines de Mexico, Gay Block's About Love, Shai Kremer's Fallen Empires, Michael Light's LA Day/LA Night, Robert Benjamin's Notes From a Quiet Life, Colleen Plumb's Animals Are Outside Today, Alec Soth and John Gossage's The Auckland Project, Mark Klett and William Fox's The Half-Life of History, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard's Dolls and Masks. There is no way to choose a favorite out of these; all of them are unique, arresting projects and objects that would sit well on any shelf, public or private." –Darius Himes





Mark Klett and William Fox's The Half-Life of History:
The Atomic Bomb and Wendover Air Base
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12.24.2011

2011 BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS | Part II

Friends and colleagues each contributed their unique perspectives
The Best Photography Books of 2011

Subway, Photographs by Bruce Davidson. Aperture, 2011
Intro by Fred Brathwaite. Text by Bruce Davidson
Afterword by Henry Geldzahler

ELISABETH BIONDI
Curator and Visuals Editor at The New Yorker Magazine for 15 years

"Two books, both probably because I have been loving their photography for such a long time. One a classic, one just published. Bruce Davidson's, Subway, pictures so strong, they possess me and are burned into my memory, then as now. And Alex Webb's, The Suffering of Light, poetry in pictures, the light & the dark of life captured by a photographer with a unique vision & daring composition."


From Uncertain To Blue, University Of Texas Press, Austin, 2011
Photographs by Keith Carter. Introduction by Horton Foote


"My choice is the University of Texas Press's re-envisioned new publication of Keith Carter's "From Uncertain to Blue." Nearly 25 years after the publication of Carter's first book, the entire project has been re-visited and re-designed with a new essay by Keith Carter and new notations by his wife Pat."

Paradise, TX, 1988. Photograph © Keith Carter

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Photograph (c) Rinko Kawauchi


"I was introduced to Rinko Kawauchi's work by filmmaker/photographer pal John Decker. I love this book, for it's unexpected structure and deceptively simple presentation. I find her images and elegant palette a pure, clean sugar high – just gossamer and considered. This book makes me smile and I can feel the colors long after I have set it down."


Poems by Tom Waits. University of Texas Press, 2011

"I confess being partial to this work having had the privilege of seeing the prints before the book. I have long admired the confident grace in Michael O'Brien's portraits, how they invite conversations in my mind with his subjects. When I pick this up I spend a lot of time looking at each page, never quickly – the work keeps you. I have heard rumblings that Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio & Press will soon produce a wicked, boxed limited-edition from the first printing, I want one."
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FAIRGROUNDS | Cloverleaf Press, Austin

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Tooth For An Eye, Photographs by Deborah Luster
Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 2011

PETE BROOK
Lead-blogger for Wired.com's Raw File.
Author of Prison Photography on the Road.

Pete is currently on a 12-week journalism road-trip across America. He chose Deborah Luster's A Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish. "Luster explores the city in a new way, creating a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites. Following on from her first book, Prisoners of Louisiana, Tooth for an Eye explores the themes of loss and remembrance in a series of tondo photographs that offer an opportunity for the viewer to enter deeper into the idea of the city, a place where life and death coexist, neither free of the other’s influence."

Read Pete's Blogpost: ‘ONE BIG SELF’ by Deborah Luster: “You Are An Invisible Population. What Do You Want To Say To The World?” –Pete Brook, Prison Photography on the Road.

A unique record of Louisiana's prison population

The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009
Photographs by Robert Adams. Yale University Press, 2011

PAUL KOPEIKIN
Owner/Director, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

"Putting my friend Bill Hunt’s opus aside because I love him so...Robert Adams trilogy: The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009."–Paul Kopeikin


Old-growth stump, Coos County, Oregon, 1999–2003
Photograph © Robert Adams


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By LaNola Kathleen Stone, Focal Press, 2011

KATRIN EISMANN
Chair, MPS Digital Photography Dept, School of Visual Arts
Photographer and Author

Photographing Childhood: The Image and the Memory (Focal Press, 2011) by LaNola Kathleen Stone is thoughtful, inspiring, and unexpected. The book features an historical homage; an insightful timeline of childhood; useful information on lighting and image management; and most importantly highlights a wide variety of contemporary photographers and photographic approaches to frame and focus on the fleeting moments of childhood. Smart, beautiful and poignant!


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Photograph (c) Donald Weber

MELANIE McWHORTER
Manager, photo-eye's Book Division for over 14 years
Independent writer + curator for photo-related projects

Donald Weber's Interrogations illustrates Weber's love for this temporary home of the ex-Soviet Union and the bureaucracies and inequalities that still exist and often impede "progress". It is presented in three chapters: Prologue, which shows some images of daily life; Interrogations, portraits of those confused, distressed and scared citizens being questioned by the authorities; and finishes with Epilogue by Larry Frolick and Donald Weber, text which further illustrates Frolick and Weber's love for the Russian citizens and their role in this project: "letting the denied tell their stories through you." The book is wrapped in a textured printed paper which mimics one of the wallpapers of the interrogation rooms and is stitched with one thread in the center. The uncut text block allows a play on design, the "creep" extends way beyond the cover. This element is clever design, but feels as though it may also be commentary on the character of those unseen in the second section. It is finished with a cardboard slipcase. So simple, but so intense.

Last year, Graciela Iturbide was able to actualize a long-awaited project with work she produced in Mexico City between 1974 and 2009 and Rome in 2007. Iturbide's images make Rome feel like Mexico. The book is a small perfect bound object printed on a warm paper and wrapped in gray cover with simple adhesive labels that Iturbide bought in Bolivia adorning the exterior of the back and front covers. Each label displays the title and photographer's name written with the photographer's hand. With her multiple personal touches, each book a unique object. This book is modest, unassuming and sweet.

Editorial RM, 2011


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Anneke van Veen "The First Photographers of Amsterdam 1845-1875"
Bussum: Thoth publishers, 2010

ALAN GRIFFITHS
Luminous-Lint, An Online History of Photography

I enjoy books that take me into areas of photography that I've not seen before and The First Photographers of Amsterdam 1845-1875 is a catalog of the exhibition with the same name held at the Amsterdam City Archives 1 April - 27 June 2010. There are many surprises here with documentary series of lock construction, a pink tea set decorated with photographs and the waxed paper negatives of Benjamin Brecknell Turner. Not an obvious choice but one I'll return to.


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