Copyright Linda Gordon & estate of Dorothea Lange, 2009, courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company I had been aware of Dorothea Lange’s immense photographic body of work during the FSA (Farm Security Agency) in the 1930’s, primarily her iconic images of Migrant Mother, White Angel Breadline, which I thought was a FSA photograph (it is... Continue Reading →

Copyright Deanna Templeton 2008, self-published, courtesy photo-eye There is something amiss with Deanna Templeton’s self published book, 17 Days, the photo documentary she created while accompanying a product promotional tour through Europe in 2008. I am bedeviled by all that bothers me, and I think that it is best described as an overall unevenness in... Continue Reading →

Copyright Bill Jacobson 2009 courtesy DECODE Books The title of Bill Jacobson’s recent book, A Series of Human Decisions, has an interesting double meaning. Jacobson is photographing those things that can represent the artifacts of decisions we as human’s make, and the process of photographing reflects the decisions that Jacobson is making, thus hinting at... Continue Reading →

Photographs copyright Gunnar Smoliansky 2008 courtesy Steidl The 55 year photographic oeuvre of Gunnar Smoliansky captured in One Picture at a Time, illustrates how this famous Swedish native continues to mine his local cultural landscape, constantly revealing the subtle nuances that have taken him a lifetime to discover. He has not veered far from his... Continue Reading →

Copyright Sandra Lousada 2009 courtesy Frances Lincoln Limited While reading Sandra Lousada’s retrospecitive monograph, Public Faces Private Places, I am impressed with the intimate and sensitive portraits that she has been capturing for the last fifty years. Her subjects are predominately the public figures of the United Kingdom, both in their roles as actors and... Continue Reading →

Copyright Bill Westheimer 2009 An emotional trigger is when one experiences an event or in the presence of an object, there is an immediate recall of memories of past events and related emotions. Triggers can be diverse, such as a whiff of a particular perfume may recall visits with a favorite Aunt or perhaps the first dance with a future spouse. The trigger may also recall a traumatic event or a... Continue Reading →

Copyright Chris Jordan 2009 courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery and Prestel Verlag In the Old Testament of the Bible, there are the numerous stories of the Prophets who have an unpopular message for their leaders and the masses, messages that most would prefer to ignore in order to not disrupt their current enjoyable life style. Likewise... Continue Reading →

Copyright Sebastiao Salgado 2006 courtesy Thames & Hudson Sebastiao Salgado has been frequently labeled a humanist photographer with the documentary story telling capability of W. Eugene Smith. This Thames and Hudson book Sebastiao Salgado helps to support these attributes. It is a nice compact book that covers a sampling of Salgado’s photographs made during his... Continue Reading →

Imogen Cunningham, Self portrait 1913, copyright of the Imogen Cunningham Trust,  courtesy of Cavallo Point Lodge In 2008 Cavallo Point Lodge published their photobook on Imogen Cunningham (b. 1883 – d. 1976), titled Capturing Spirit in conjunction with their exhibition of her photographs, titled Celebrating Imogen. I was not aware of any Cunningham books that... Continue Reading →