BRANDON SCHULMAN: A Portrait of America Left Behind

La Lettre de la Photographie
Hearst 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial

Sugar Cane Processing Plant, Atchafalaya Delta, LA
Photograph (c) Brandon Schulman /All Rights Reserved

Windmill, Carson City, NV
Photograph (c) Brandon Schulman /All Rights Reserved

Eight winners and ten honorable mentions were selected for the 2011 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial from over 4,600 entries from across the U.S. and 70 other countries. Brandon Shulman was awarded an Honorable Mention for his series A Portrait of America Left Behind.

"A Portrait of America Left Behind is a photographic study that I have been conducting over the past two years. The photographs represent the presence that humanity plays on the land even when they are not in view. The objects and buildings that we create for our needs, and our discarding when they are not. Zig-zagging my way thru 13 states, 15,000 miles over 3 trips, 2 months and 100’s of hours in my darkroom it has yet come to an end."

Brandon Schulman Website

La Lettre de la Photographie
Hearst 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial: Part I
Hearst 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial: Part II

SEAN PERRY: Monolith – Portraits of the New York City Skyline

200 West Street
Photograph (c) Sean Perry /All Rights Reserved

200 West Street
Photograph (c) Sean Perry /All Rights Reserved

200 West Street

Photograph (c) Sean Perry /All Rights Reserved

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"The images are presented metaphorically as cynosures,
the stars that illuminate and define our city."

"Monolith – Portraits of the New York City Skyline" is a sophisticated study of contemporary skyscrapers through the eyes of photographer Sean Perry, recasting the built environment of Manhattan into its most primal forms: concrete, glass, steel, light and air. This work furthers Perry's vision of architecture manifesting the phenomenon of sentience – presence beyond tangible design and mass."

The photographs above of Goldman Sachs new headquarters, known as "200 West Street", are a work-in-progress from Sean Perry's series, Monolith – Portraits of the New York City Skyline, in development with Art Director Greg Wakabayashi. The building, designed by Henry N. Cobb and the architecture firm, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, was profiled in The New Yorker by Paul Goldberger.

Sean Perry Monolith

PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING: Exhibition

Waiting for Train
Photograph © Susan May Tell/ All rights reserved

Man and Arm
Photograph © Susan May Tell/ All rights reserved

Gallorus Oratory, Ireland from PORTALS Series
Photograph © Margaret McCarthy/ All rights reserved

Ross Abbey, Ireland from PORTALS Series
Photograph © Margaret McCarthy/ All rights reserved

Wisdom is a butterfly and not a bird of prey– Yeats

Photograph © Clayton Price/ All rights reserved

PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING
MEMBERS EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, NYC
15 Gramercy Park South
Jan 5-28

DORNITH DOHERTY: Svalbard Seed Vault

Dornith Doherty and her view camera, Svalbard

Door, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 2010

Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Boxes Outside, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 2010
Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Interior, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 2010
Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Nordic Genetic Resource Center Seed Vials

Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Bag of Seeds, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 2009
Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Cryogenic Racks, National Center for Genetic Preservation, 2009
Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Seed Head 1, 2010 from the series Archiving Eden

Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Whip It, 2009 from the series Archiving Eden

Arctic Svalbard

Photograph © Dornith Doherty/ All rights reserved

Photographer Dornith Doherty traveled close to the North Pole to photograph the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (also known as the Doomsday Vault, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the most diverse assembly of the world's food crops). "Seed banks conserve clones or seeds at a certain point of perfection and then “stop time” to try and prevent the botanical materials from changing further," photographer Dornith Doherty explained to me last year when viewing her series Archiving Eden. "Since perfect stasis is not possible, I have used the lenticular process to create powerful images that show the tension between stillness and change. This technology allows for the appearance or disappearance of parts of the image as well as refractive color changes." I spoke with Dornith recently about her expedition to photograph the world's largest seed bank in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.

EA: What is the background for your series Archiving Eden?

DD: In the process of photographing at the National Center for Genetic Resource Preservation (NCGRP), in Fort Collins, Colorado, I noticed they were using a tabletop x-ray machine to test the viability of accessioned seeds. I was fascinated by the images I saw and this led to my using the x-ray equipment to make images of seeds and tissue samples from their seed and clone collections. Later, I was able to work at the Millennium Seed Bank in England in much the same way. The collaboration with the scientists has been fruitful, and the scientist at the NCGRP grows samples for me to photograph. Upon return to my studio in Texas, I make the collages that are part of "Archiving Eden".

EA: The images in Archiving Eden have a sacred quality to them.

DD: The photographs pose questions about life and time on a micro and macro scale for me. I am struck by the visual connections – some look like astronomical bodies or microscopic cells. When I work with x-rays, you are literally gazing into the plantlets and seeds- things you cannot see with an unaided eye. Tiny (many are the size of a grain of sand or smaller) seeds that generate life remain simultaneously delicate and powerful. The scale of time that is ingrained in the process of seed banking, which seeks to make these sparks last for two hundred years or more, makes the life cycle very much on my mind while I work. I also contemplate the elusive goal of stopping time in relation to living materials, which at some moment, we would all like to do.

EA: What inspired you to travel to the remote archipelago near the North Pole to photograph the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?

DD: Archiving Eden and Vault were inspired by an article I read about the Vault in the New Yorker Magazine two years before I went to photograph there. When I encountered John Seabrook’s article (Annals of Agriculture, Sowing for the Apocalypse) I was inspired by the dichotomous hopeful/pessimistic nature of the project; on one hand volunteers and governments from around the world were collaborating to create a global botanical back-up system, and on the other hand the gravity of climate change and political instability created the need for an inaccessible ark.

I immediately wanted to photograph it.

It was not until two years later; after I had initiated Archiving Eden and had traveled and photographed at other large and comprehensive seed banks, that I received an invitation to photograph the Vault from Cary Fowler, the Director of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. You can't imagine the thrill it was to open that e-mail.

EA: How difficult was it to travel there?

DD: The Vault is only open a few days a year when new seeds are placed in the vault. It took two days to fly there, and although the airport has one scheduled flight each day, it’s the type of place where a small metal staircase is rolled across the tarmac to the airplane door. I arrived on the same plane as the Director Cary Fowler and Ola Westengen, the operation manager for the Vault. Time was short, so I changed into warm clothes in the airport washroom, and we drove directly to the Vault to begin work.

When you travel outside populated areas on Svalbard, polar bears can be a problem, and many people carry guns. As I traveled to photograph the landscape, helpful people I meet would explain how to tell if there might be a polar bear nearby, since they are completely camouflaged. One of the best ways to detect a polar bear, I was told, is that if you are near a place that is frequented by seals, and there are no seals, that means there is a polar bear watching you. I never saw any seals; only reindeer, so apparently I was in constant danger of polar bear attack.

EA: How did you feel when you first faced the actual door of the Vault before going in and on entering the tunnel leading to the storage area?

DD: It was a very memorable moment. I was filled with awe. Standing in front of the vault in the bitter cold was the culmination of two years of work and planning, and surprisingly, the experience of traveling to someplace remote with cumbersome equipment to take photographs of a significant place brought to mind the photographic practice of some of my favorite photographers, for example; Timothy O’Sullivan or E.O. Goldbeck.

The Vault itself looks elegantly minimal; you see the rough rock walls of the mountain fitted with concrete floors and metal doors. I was surprised to see that Ola and Cary unloaded the shipment themselves and rolled the boxes down the long tunnel to a space outside of the vault in a simple wagon.

The tunnel was dark and had thin ribbons of ice flowing towards the base. As you can see from the photograph, the Vault door is covered with ice crystals and has a closed-circuit TV monitor mounted outside. I was captivated by looking at a mediated image of the vault as I photographed it. The door is not on axis with the tunnel, and Cary explained there is a small curved wall in line with the tunnel engineered to disperse a blast radius in case of terrorist attack. Originally, no outsider was allowed into the actual vault, so the TV monitor was installed so that a visitor could see inside without entering the vault. When I entered, the roar of the compressors, the extreme cold, and the systematic organization were in striking contrast to the organic nature of the seeds.

The vault is kept at a very specific low temperature and humidity to ensure the longevity and viability of the collection. However, since the vault is below the permafrost line, if electricity fails, the archive should be okay.

A background note-Since much of my work has to do with landscape, my equipment is optimized for the extreme heat you encounter in the American Southwest. I had to research and purchase almost everything, from boots and gloves to batteries. At the suggestion of several fellow-photographers, I brought a digital slr camera as a back up to my view camera. Surprisingly, because of the twelve hour days working at below freezing temperatures, the digital slr would freeze after 8 hours but my point and shoot and view camera never failed. Since we live in the digital post-film era, I liked how the failure of the digital slr camera and the success of the 19th century technology of the view camera mirrored the operations philosophy of the vault- trying to keep things simple and fail-safe.

EA: The Director, Cary Fowler, has said "This is a Library of Life". Is there a sense of The History of the World' while inside the world's food archive?

DD: Yes, you feel the importance of the place, although it seems more cultural than historical. Some countries do not have an infrastructure that can support their efforts very effectively. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports the cost of shipping their collections, and it was very moving to see humble paper boxes of seeds that were sent from poor nations, compared to the relatively high-tech shipments of industrialized, wealthy nations.

2015 UPDATE! 

Dornith Doherty: Exchange

Holly Johnson Gallery

Dallas, Texas

February 21 - May 9, 2015 

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VAULT: Photographs by Dornith Doherty
Exhibition to February 8, 2011
The Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, Denton, Texas

Gallery Talk With Dornith Doherty
Jan 19, 2011 7pm

SNAPSHOTS: Gallery Night Out

DEBORAH LUSTER "TOOTH FOR AN EYE"

JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY Jan 6 – Feb 5

A Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish
Photo Journals

Vince Aletti and Deborah Luster

DEBORAH LUSTER "TOOTH FOR AN EYE"
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY Jan 6 – Feb 5

A Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish

Artist Reception | Who Was There: Charles Ledray, Matt Weiland, Vince Aletti, Eileen and Michael Cohen, Robin Cembalest, Alexandra Anderson Spivy and Jock Spivy, Kevin Messina and Jim Brown, Charles Griffin, Merry Foresta and Andy Grundberg

Nicholas S.G. Stern (Stern Projects LLC) and Richard Mauro

4:02 PM, J Train, from Dark Day series

David S. Allee: Dark Day at Morgan Lehman Gallery

DAVID S. ALLEE "DARK DAY"

Artist Reception | Who Was There: Gretchen Mol, Nicholas Stern, Richard Mauro, Joel Sternfeld, Robert Polidori, Tod Williams & Billy Tsien, Kip Williams, Doug Liman, Richard Maltby, Diane Tuft, Shaun Mader

MATTHEW AVEDON: Fashion of the Times

NUMÉRO HOMME Fashion Magazine

Photograph by Greg Kadel

NUMÉRO HOMME Fashion Magazine

Photograph by Greg Kadel

Fashion Photographer Greg Kadel moved to New York from Pennsylvania to study marine biology and fine art. It was only after graduation he realized his passion for photography and filmmaking. His images have appeared in every top fashion publication and advertising campaign. Kadel is represented by Marek & Associates and Trunk Archive (must-see sites) for image licensing. Matthew Avedon is represented by DNA Models, NY

You can also catch Matthew playing Gypsy Jazz with his his trio at the Immigrant Bar and around Brooklyn. Photograph by Georgia Nerheim

Sooner or later we all end up on Ebay!

NUMÉRO HOMME on Ebay
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PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK: With Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson

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Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs. They provide an overview of the publishing industry; a look at the process of making a book; how to market a photo book; case studiesbuilt around discussions and interviews with published photographers; and present resources towards understanding the publishing world. Their forthcoming title Publish Your Photography Book also includes further interviews from industry professionals (artists, publishers, designers, packagers, editors, and other industry experts) who share their own publishing experiences. A must-see for anyone considering publishing their photography book.

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About mid-way into their video presentation, Swanson and Himes incorporate examples of the various states of my design process for photographer Jessica Hines photography book, My Brother's War. In order to demonstrate the evolution of the book 's design, they present examples - such as the positioning and sizing of the book's title, image choice and positioning of the art for the book cover, chapter headings and various font options - that I sent to Hines for her consideration before we settled on the final "look" for the book. At the time Jessica and I began to work on her project, we had never met and we live in different states. In the beginning, we communicated by phone and then I sent her jpegs and pdf's of the layouts by email. A perfect example that you can design and produce your book from anywhere, as Swanson and Himes mention in their lecture.

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Mary Virginia Swanson, is a consultant in licensing and marketing of fine-art photography. She also lectures, conducts workshops and educational programs for photographers. Follow her blog, Marketing Photos, a valued resource for photographers. Darius D. Himes, cofounder of Radius Books, is also a lecturer, consultant, and writer. Organized by Arezoo Moseni, Artist Career Development Series. And thank you New York Public Library.

KENNETH O'HALLORAN: Fair Trade

Twins: Puck Fair, Co Kerry
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

Ballinasloe Fair
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

Cahirmee Fair
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

Ballinasloe Fair
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

Smithfield Fair
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

Smithfield Fair
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

"Fairs are more than places of trade in Ireland. Women regard them as occasions worth dressing up for...a femininity to counter weigh the spit-in-the-hand dealings of the men folk. Many of these are traveling people, part of an ancient tribe of Gaelic nomads who have never remained in one spot for very long despite numerous integration attempts by settled society. ...there's business to be done. On days like these horses and ponies are their stocks and shares; the towns and squares of Ireland morph into their trading floors...these old meeting grounds are flourishing arenas of openness and transparency."

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My father with his granddaughter Caoimhe, Corofin
from the series Life After Death
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

Aoife and Daniel Communion, Mother Teresa and myself, Corofin
from the series Life After Death
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

My father asleep, Corofin from the series Life After Death
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved

LIFE AFTER DEATH

"My father, who is 80, having spent half his life working, recently retired, closing his drapery store. His undertaker's business continues. For me and others in the family it meant that death was never far away or overtly mysterious. We became accustomed to the dead of our parish being prepared for the final ceremonies before burial."

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Kenneth O Halloran was born in the West of Ireland, and is a graduate of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire. Based in Dublin, he is currently working on a number of long term projects, which include a personal portrayal of his family shot over 5 years.

His project 'Tales from the Promised Land' has been shortlisted for the Terry O'Neill Award 2010 and his portrait, Twins: Puck Fair, is being shown until Feb 20 in The National Portrait Gallery in London, as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2010.

KENNETH O'HALLORAN WEBSITE

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition
at the National Portrait Gallery until 20 February

KLOMPCHING: Splash II

Bundle (2010)
Photograph (c) Cara Barer

International District, Seattle (2003)
Photograph (c) Doug Keyes

Beyond The View No. 5 (2009)
Photograph (c) Helen Sear

Attentional Landscapes No. 11 (2007-2008)
Photograph (c) Odette England

SPLASH II Group Exhibition
Opening Jan 6 - Feb 26

Sarah Lynch, Doug Keyes, Phillip Toledano, Helen Sear, Odette England, Cornelia Hediger, Cara Barer. Also showing Lisa M. Robinson's Snowbound.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

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BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF 2010

LEE FRIEDLANDER | DAP/FRAENKEL

SALLY MANN - The Flesh and the Spirit | APERTURE

TOD PAPAGEORGE - Opera Citta' | PUNCTUM PRESS

EUGENE SMITH - The Jazz Loft Project | KNOPF

CHRIS VERENE - Family | TWIN PALMS

ZWELETHU MTHETHWA | APERTURE

WILLIAM EGGLESTON - For Now | TWIN PALMS

NICK BRANDT | BIG LIFE EDITIONS

KENRO IZU - A Thirty Year Retrospective | NAZRAELI

ALEX WEBB + REBECCA NORRIS WEBB | RADIUS

DANNY LYON | TWIN PALMS

PAUL STRAND | APERTURE

Street Photography Now | THAMES + HUDSON

RENATE ALLER - Oceanscapes | RADIUS

RAGHU RAI | PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA

Bee | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY | APERTURE

I was invited to submit my top 10 choices for photo-eye Magazine's annual "Best Photography Books of 2010", along with other contributors from Todd Hido - whose book A Road Divided (Nazraeli Press) I now wish I had included in my top 10, Alan Rapp, Larissa Leclair, Bruno Ceschel, Melanie McWhorter and many more. I had a hard time keeping my list down to 10 choices, so I'm posting all of the books I would have liked to list - not in any favored order:

LEE FRIEDLANDER - America By Car | DAP/FRAENKEL "Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. Never has America been photographed so penetratingly and ingeniously as in Friedlander’s latest body of work."–Publisher

SALLY MANN - The Flesh and the Spirit | APERTURE "One of the apparent paradoxes in Sally Mann's work is her desire to show what lies beyond vision by using a medium invented to record reality's surface"– John B. Ravenal. This publication accompanied a significant exhibition of Sally Mann's photography in the special exhibition galleries of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's new McGlothlin Wing. The "Untitled (Self Portraits), 2006-7" make this one of my most treasured books.

TOD PAPAGEORGE - Opera Citta' | PUNCTUM PRESS "...Tod Papageorge imagines this book to be something like a photographic stepchild of one of Calvino's invisible cities, conjured up by a camera out of bits and pieces of a place called Rome..." Papageorge, the Walker Evans Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art, (and my first formal photography teacher), was invited to Rome to work for a month on the Rome Commission. In this perfect little book of color photographs, curated by Marco Delogu and designed by Nicola Scavalli, are some of my favorite Papageorge images (a cringe worthy charge, I'm sure)...read more

EUGENE SMITH - The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of Eugene Smith From 821 Sixth Avenue 1957 - 1965 | KNOPF 821 Sixth Avenue was a late night haunt of musicians–Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonius Monk among them. Between 1957-1965, Smith, then a 38 year old former Life Magazine photographer, shot 1,447 rolls of film at his 821 Sixth Avenue loft, roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work of his career. "Smith made several hundred photographs through the broken windowpane. The cracked window was a kind of aperture, and a metaphor." Buy the book-it's incredible!

CHRIS VERENE - Family | TWIN PALMS

Chris Verene follows the lives of his family and friends. The titles to his photographs tell the whole great story of what I love about his work; "My Twin Cousin's Husband's Brother's Cousin's Cousins"; "The Same Day They Signed The Divorce Papers, A Tornado Hit The House"...read more

ZWELETHU MTHETHWA | APERTURE His portraits are stunning! Photographing in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of aspects in present-day South Africa, from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues...read more

WILLIAM EGGLESTON - For Now | TWIN PALMS ‘This monograph is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda’s year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. Eggleston remarked “the book comes close to being a family album.”...read more on La Lettre

NICK BRANDT - On This Earth A Shadow Falls | BIG LIFE EDITIONS On This Earth, A Shadow Falls combines the best photographs from Nick Brandt's previous books. It features 36 images from On This Earth and 54 from A Shadow Falls and is the only publication where images from both books will appear in one volume, on a larger scale than the previous editions...read more

KENRO IZU - A Thirty Year Retrospective | NAZRAELI PRESS A book of treasures - priceless images of past civilizations. "A chance viewing of the mammoth plate photographs by the Victorian photographer Francis Frith led Izu to travel to Egypt in 1979, to photograph the pyramids and other sacred monuments. Thus began the artist’s renowned series “Sacred Places,” which includes work from holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, Easter Island and, more recently, Buddhist and Hindu sites in India, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China...more about Kenro Izu

ALEX WEBB + REBECCA NORRIS WEBB - Violet Isle | RADIUS BOOKS "This multi-layered portrait of “the violet isle”—a little-known name for Cuba inspired by the rich color of the soil there—presents an engaging, at times unsettling document of a vibrant and vulnerable land. It combines two separate photographic visions: Alex Webb’s exploration of street life, with his attuned and complex attention to detail, and Rebecca Norris Webb’s fascination with the unique, quixotic collections of animals she discovered there, from tiny zoos and pigeon societies to hand-painted natural history displays and quirky personal menageries."

DANNY LYON - Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement | TWIN PALMS In Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Danny Lyon tells the compelling story of how a handful of dedicated young people, both black and white, forged one of the most successful grassroots organizations in American history. The book depicts some of the most violent and dramatic moments of Civil Rights Movement...read more

PAUL STRAND - Paul Strand in Mexico | APERTURE Co-published with Fundación Televisa A.C., Mexico, 2010, this book documents the complete photographic works made by Strand during his 1932–34 trip to Mexico as well as a second journey in 1966—a total of 234 photographs, 123 of which have never before been published. Strand in Mexico tells the story of Strand's journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s. In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chávez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor.

Street Photography Now | THAMES + HUDSON Jointly curated by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, Street Photography Now presents 46 photographers noted for their everyday street, subway, and shopping mall scenes. Included are a few of Magnum's masters such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, along with new and emerging photographers work from New York to Dakar...more

RENATE ALLER - Oceanscapes | RADIUS BOOKS "Aller has been photographing the Atlantic Ocean for over a decade, from a single point on Long Island's fabled coastline. Her images capture the shifting colors and textures of the sky and water, and the beauty and grandeur of the ocean, providing a rich document of what has made the Hamptons such an integral aspect of New York life. The sublime beauty of this Atlantic view, which Aller connects to the great nineteenth-century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich."...more

RAGHU RAI - The Indians: Portraits from My Album. 150 Years of Portraiture In India | PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA "Raghu Rai has been in the forefront of photography in India for over 40 years. As a member of Magnum, he established an international reputation as a photographer with his special essay on the Bhopal Gas tragedy. Twenty-five of his photographs are held in the permanent collection of France's Bibliothque Nationale and in 1997 the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi gave him the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of a contemporary Indian photographer." An upcoming piece on Indian Photography Books is coming up soon on La Lettre de la Photography.

ROSE-LYNN FISHER - Bee | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS Bee was a winner in the International Photography Awards 2010: Books/Nature. "Melding art and science, photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher puts this modern tool to creative use in order to reveal the microscopic majesty of these natural wonders. BEE presents sixty astonishing photographs of honeybee anatomy in magnifications ranging from 10x to 5000x. Rendered in stunning detail, Fisher's photographs uncover the strange beauty of the honeybee's pattern, form, and structure. Comprising 6,900 hexagonal lenses, their eyes resemble the structure of a honeycomb."...more

WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY - Kodachromes | APERTURE This book includes work from 1964 to 2007. "As in all of Christenberry's photographs, the subject matter is the rural Deep South: the twisting back roads, open landscapes, rusted signage and ramshackle vernacular architecture found in Hale County, Alabama. Though many of the sites pictured in this rare collection are new, other subjects have grown iconic in Christenberry's oeuvre as he has returned to photograph them over the decades--the red building in the forest, Sprott Church, the Palmist Sign and the Bar-B-Q Inn, among others."

photo-eye Magazine's
The Best Photography Books of 2010