“Darker Than Blue” © Mathieu Bitton
“Darker Than Blue” © Mathieu Bitton
“The photographs in my “Darker Than Blue” collection represent moments I was
fortunate enough to witness throughout my recent world travels. When I look at
these pictures now, they feel like they were taken through a time machine, or a
lucid dream, carrying every sensation and nuance—hyper realistic contrasts—
only my Leica cameras can capture. The title “Darker Than Blue” references a
1970 Curtis May eld lyric from the Civil Rights- themed, “We People Who Are
Darker Than Blue.” I’ve always loved its depth and symbolism, and have sought
to reflect that paradox of hope and struggle in these images. My lifelong
passion for the history, music, cinema, posters, and other arts of the black
community comes full circle with this exhibit as my contribution to artifacts
that honor such a rich and beautiful culture.”
—MATHIEU BITTON
Editions NOEVE Paris &
NOEVE GRAFX
Bester
V, Mayotte, 2015 © Zanele Muholi
Dad on Bed © Larry Sultan, series“Pictures from Home,”1984
“Inspired by John Szarkowski’s 1973 Looking at Photographs, and paying homage to the concept of the one hundred
images and a page of text for each, Stephen Frailey now updates this classic
with significant works of photography from mid-70s to the present.”
“Looking at Photography covers all genres of photography, and through
discussing the significance of the individual works Frailey – as photographer,
editor and educator - articulates the themes and sensibilities of contemporary
photography.”
Damiani, 2020
Congo
in Conversation
"Congo in Conversation” is a series of
collaborative eye-witness accounts with Congolese journalists and
photographers, in conjunction with Finbarr O'Reilly, 11th winner of the
Carmignac Award for Photojournalism. For six months, they documented the human,
social and ecological challenges that the Congo faces during the Covid-19
crisis. Bilingual French-English.
Jointly edited by Reliefs Éditions and the Fondation Carmignac.
Studio Practice © Julia SH
The
Dining Room, 2018 © Guanxu Xu
LensCulture has sought to discover the most interesting
photographers working worldwide, and it is still a joy to discover pictures
that feel completely new, fresh, energized, exciting, surprising, and relevant
in today’s ever-changing world.
For this book, we’ve relied on the expertise and personal taste of
more than 40 experts who deal with photography every day of their lives. They
have combed through thousands of photographs from people in more than 150
countries on six continents to select the pictures you can discover in this
book. Every photographer featured in this book is an award winner
Schilt Publishing, 2020
196 photographs shot on the streets of
New York City by Jeremiah Dine (born 1959) between 2010 and 2017. Dine’s
exploration of the daily ebb and flow of humanity follows in the tradition of
20th-century street photography as practiced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert
Frank and Garry Winogrand, among others.
Dine has photographed on the streets of
New York since he was a teenager, first in black and white with 35mm cameras, then
in the 2000s in color with digital cameras. The book’s title is derived from
the Frank O’Hara poem “Music,” which is included here, as well as a playlist of
songs that Dine listened to while walking and shooting. Beautifully designed by
Yolanda Cuomo.
Damiani , 2020
Jeremiah Dine : Natural Selection
One of my favorite books of all time is Jeremiah Dine's : Natural Selection . 104 photographs taken at the American
Museum of Natural History. NY. Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer,
Stuttgart / London, 1983. Out of print, look for collector's copies out there.
Matisse and Picasso by Robert
Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas
Hoepker, Bonnard by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nancy Burson by Paul Shambroom, Sonia
Delaunay by Herbert List, Kiki Smith by Susan Meiselas, and many more. Magnum
Artists brings
together a collection of over 200 photographs that define the unique
relationship between the world’s greatest photography collective and the
world’s greatest artists.
Laurence King Publishing, 2020
This new photography book by Kieran Dodds transects
eleven time zones, from the Americas through Europe, on to the Middle East and
Asia. The people who bear the genes, who carry the hair, have unique histories.
They occupy different political regions. But they are united by a golden –
well, coppery, or rusty, as the Russians would say – thread: the flow of DNA
across cultures and generations, a reminder that all people are made of the
same substance, and sometimes it shows.
Wonderful Books, 2020
"Young monk practicing
Shaolin, one of the oldest styles of Kung Fu,
Shaolin Monastery, Henan
Province, China"
©
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry is known for
creating some of the most iconic images of recent times and in this new
collection, he shares previously unseen photographs from his incredibly rich
archive. In Search of Elsewhere takes us across the globe and offers new
perspectives on many of the locations that the photographer has already made
famous – from India, Myanmar and Cuba, to Kashmir and the white-washed temples
of the Himalayas.
Laurence King Publishing, 2020
"This love letter to midcentury Southern
California offers an armchair road trip through the region’s most fantastical
structures, showcasing “the orbs and starbursts and boomerangs and swoops in
imitation neon,” — The Wall Street Journal
"... Over the last decade or so, I have been intrigued by L. A.’s love affair
with the automobile, tracing back to a time when cars themselves were objects
of beauty. Those cars are no longer on the streets today but the buildings from
that era remain. As an architectural photographer, I wanted to capture L. A.’s
car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic,
starspangled coffee shops, gas stations, and car washes, that once lured the
gaze of passing motorists." — Ashok Sinha
Kehrer Verlag, 2020
Justin Aversano: Twin Flames
“Twindom has a deep root in shared storytelling, its
visuals conjure meta textual manifestations across the astrological, the
mythological, the academic and the popular”
Twin Flames by Justin Aversano
surveys 100 portraits of twins from around the world made in the honor of
Justin's fraternal twin. A collection of both identical and fraternal, that Justin sought out in
order to better understand his own place within the narrative of this unique
genetic occurrence. Divided into chapters
containing interviews with Aversano’s subjects, which provide context for the
series itself, as well as includes the hidden stories that inform the subjects’
own personalities and conceptions of identity, filmed using three formats:
Polaroid, 120mm, and 4x5.
Self Published, 2020
"Gay
Fire Island" includes 90 pictures that were shot by koitz over the past 14
summers of
queer life in the two mostly gay and lesbian communities of Cherry Grove and the Pines on Fire Island.” Fabulously designed by Bonnie Briant.
GayPinkBook.com
"By integrating her contemporary
photography with historical periods and various settings around the world,
Fran Forman creates a world of illusion. Upon closer inspection, what appears
ordinary suggests an underlying tension and an aura of mystery. Expressed in
the diffused colors of twilight and chiaroscuro, her images blur the boundaries
between photography, late Renaissance painting, and film noir..."
Unicorn Publishing Group
Cooper, Bassett Hound, Home Built in
1946, Extensively Modeled 2013-2016 © Nancy Baron
Winston and Peanut (under the table),
Smooth Fox Terrier, Border Terrier, Rescues, Architect: Donald Wexler, 1965 ©
Nancy Baron
In good times and bad, our best friends
are there for support, therapy, and unconditional love. Especially now -- where
would we be without our dogs? Although the so-called modernists of Palm Springs
embrace the serenity of life in post-WWII America, the sometimes-harsh
realities of contemporary life are impossible to ignore. These
mid-twentieth-century reenactors are often transplants, enjoying the Palm
Springs lifestyle with their dogs and friends as their chosen family.
Schiffer, 2020
Over the last seven
years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of
women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O’Shaughnessy
enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a
refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious
and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering
sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the
soulful, and the proud. She has fallen for them all―perfect strangers. Accompanied
by an introduction by Joel Meyerowitz.
Aperture, 2020
In her early twenties, the American
Photographer Mimi Plumb looked back to her Californian childhood to make a
series of photographs about suburban youth. The resulting photographs collected
in her new book “The White Sky’ builds a world in which an unknown trauma
hangs heavy in the air, and children rule the roost.
Stanley Barker, 2020
Honorable Mentions 2020:
Sonder is about the
complexity of the people we pass each day in the street - those that we often
ignore. 84-page book of black and white images, captured since the 1980s,
primarily on the streets of Boston.
Self Published, 2020
In Then
and There, the well-known photographer Harvey Stein documents
a crucial aspect of public behavior at the 1979 New Orleans Mardi Gras. Shooting
with an instant SX-70 Polaroid camera, the process allowed Stein to directly
interact with his subjects, who perform, observe, and even share in the
photographic process. The 47 portraits are made just feet away from each
person, mostly at dusk, sharply revealed by the light of the camera’s flash
bar.
Zatara
Press, 2020
When I lived in Sag Harbor, one of my great pleasures was to
take the ferry to Shelter Island and spend the day exploring Sylvester
Manor. The Manor is a former slaveholding provisioning planation
purchased in 1651 by Nathaniel Sylvester for 1600 pounds of sugar. It
remained in the Sylvester family for 11 generations.
I particularly like to explore what’s left of
the hauntingly bucolic overgrown garden. I find myself compelled to
chronicle it’s evolving decay, and think about the generations of people who
lived and worked there.
I return to Sylvester Manor every so
often. What’s amazing to me is that I always find something new and
totally unexpected. I feel that my best subject matter is found by chance.
Self Published, 2020
"These photographs serve as metaphors for the way we alter, mend, and
piece together memories, in order to make sense of what we have lost."
Self-Published, 2020
Norm Diamond photographed the last months of a
dilapidated, yet beautiful old gym in Dallas, Texas. These stark images could
have come from another era. They evoke themes of memory and loss. No modern gym
looks like this. The owner, Doug Eidd, a grizzled 87-year-old, opened the gym
in 1962. He could have emerged from a time capsule as well. His members did not
care that the gym was run down or that Doug smoked cigars most of the day. They
respected his expertise and loved the casual atmosphere he created. Although
Doug was still fit, he did not resemble the muscle-bound figure of his youth.
He knew that time would one day engulf him and the gym. This came to pass in
the spring of 2018 when he was forced to close the gym on short notice. Diamond
stayed to photograph the removal of the equipment as Doug’s Gym drifted into
memory.
Kehrer Verlag, 2020
Following a career as Professor of Physics at
Wellesley College and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, Judy Brown has
combined her long-time passions for animals and photography. She is
particularly interested in form, texture, and lighting in images and is
attracted to subjects for their simplicity and beauty of form.
Self Published, 2020
"These 66 photographs, I would contend,
together constitute a single picture, a single portrait of a city in a certain
state, a state that is a city: Stockholm in summer. The chronotope Stockholm in
summer holds a world of conflicting emotions: endless freedom and ease,
nostalgia and exhilarated intoxication, an ennui for the shortness of life that
is combined with a flavor of eternity, curiosity about the unknown and a
feeling of being at home. " – AUGUST ERIKSSEN
Livonia Print Ltd
Still Stepping: A Family Portrait is
a twenty-two year, long-form portrait of a family as it cruises along, gets
clobbered by a treacherous childhood illness and then moves forward.
Amidst the quotidian of life, my photographs and the family’s words—from
letters, an essay, a documentary and interviews—provide an intimate window into
a world turned upside down then righted by two shaken but determined parents.
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