Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Taryn Simon, Contraband Contraband includes photographs taken 24 hours a day of over 1000 items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the U.S. from abroad. Over five days, in both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility, Simon documented items including counterfeit [...]
KZSU received a copy of An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Pt I and the music director thought it was up my alley. It’s a little collection of photographs from Bay Area photographers like Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Michael Jang, John Chiara, and on and on. The volume isn’t large enough to serve [...]
I ordered a copy of Peter Beard’s The End of the Game and the seller accidentally sent me a German language copy. The mistake has been rectified, except I still own the German edition. Does anyone want it? I’d be happy to snail mail it to anyone in the US. The book was originally published [...]
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On this day of new beginnings, I ask: what is this? (via Isa Leshko)
Eugene Richards’ The Blue Room
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Andrew Moore I randomly came upon a beat up copy of a book by Andrew Moore called Inside Havana in the bookstore blow-out bin and I waffled quite a bit before buying it, because of so many shots verged on the typical commercial architecture shot. The website is a similar experience. There are many strange [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Frederick Sommer Speaking of photobooks, Joel showed the work of Frederick Sommer, who does everything from painting on cellophane negatives to cut paper objects, and pulled out The Box, which is a little clear plastic box of unbound cards with titles printed on one side and reproductions of photos, collages and cut paper on the [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Interesting… I found this in my Amazon recommendations, one of the only times I’ve seen anything I’m actually interested in and hadn’t heard of already. What Parisian shopping arcades were to the nineteenth century and capitalism, Dubai’s luxurious mega-malls are to the new millennium and late capitalism. The Baudelairean flaneur, who patrolled the avenues as [...]
Sunday, December 13, 2009
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #19 I have one photobook wish, and that is that they be more like McSweeney’s publications. I’m a variety hog and would love to see more goodies in a photobook – pullout posters, photo postcards, perforated or loose pages to go on the wall, CDs containing audio of the subjects, maps of [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I can’t speak to the best of the year, but I just received Ashley Gilbertson’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Paul D’Amato’s Barrio from the UChicago Press, which is having a whopping up to 85% sale on some items with the promo code on that page. (Got word from Doug Stockdale’s The Photo Book.) Best $22 [...]
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Yao Lu I bought a poster of his from 798 Photo. I’d see his work before on the web, but online it is not impressive to me at all. The prints he has up in the gallery are so much more striking. The key is that you get a lot of detail when you lean [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Li Lin Li Lin’s Disappearing Landscape is one of the 798 Photo books I picked up. The book is divided into two parts – Wetland, frames of disappearing natural wetlands, and Artificial Landscape, frames of what will conceivably replace them. The more conventional landscapes of Wetland are interesting, but I really like the strangeness of [...]
Graeme Nicol Trade Winds, by newly minted photojournalist Graeme Nicol, is a great little self-published online-only (as far as I can tell) book about the Nigerian community in Guang Zhou, otherwise known as Canton. It’s a glance rather than an in-depth analysis, with some portraits as well as his characteristic street photos. Maybe it’s the [...]
Leonard Freed For all the talk by tech gurus of how the internet will be so awesome in the future that we may as well graft our brain directly into it, I haven’t heard a convincing answer to one simple question: how in the world are we going to deal with the health effects of [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
Li Wei Do you work in phases? The reading research phase. The shooting phase. The editing phase. The promotion phase. I’ve been multitasking for multiple projects and it’s beginning to overwhelm. I want to dig into shooting and reading, but I don’t want to let this little blog go fallow! I feel so much more [...]
