Tag: Portraits

Tim Richmond – Last Best Hiding Place

Copyright 2015 Tim Richmond Photographer: Tim Richmond (born England, resides Somerset, UK) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) Essay: Jorg Colberg Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Mark Tappin (London) Notes: Richmond’s opening one-line statement summarizes his body of work; “Places, like people, can seem alone, filled with melancholy”. As an English photographer, he investigates... Continue Reading →

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Mariela Sancari – Moises

Copyright 2015 Mariela Sancari   http://marielasancari.com/ Photographer: Mariela Sancari (born Buenos Aires, Argentina, resides Mexico City) Publisher: La Fabrica (Spain) Without essays, captions or pagination Text: English & Spanish Hardcover book, sewn binding, two print blocks, four-color lithography, printed in Spain Sancari's photobook revolves around identity and memory and the way both are mingled and affected by each other over... Continue Reading →

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Max Pam – Atlas Monographs

Copyright 2009 Max Pam Photographer: Max Pam (born Melbourne, resides in Australia) Publisher: T&G Publishing, Sydney, Australia Essays: Max Pam, Stephen Muecke Text: English (primarily) Hardcover book with dust jacket with one fold-out, sewn binding, four-color lithography, Index of Plates, printed & bound in Taiwan Photobook designer: Gianni Frinzi Notes: This photobook is a compilation of eight... Continue Reading →

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Minor White – Manifestations of the Spirit

by Douglas Stockdale A beautifully printed retrospective monograph, which also functions as an exhibition catalog of a modern photographer who was a creative photographic innovator, poet, teacher and one of the co-founders as well as the first editor of Aperture magazine. Known for his spirituality and equivalence inspired photographs. This extensive and well-illustrated monograph contains... Continue Reading →

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Mary Ellen Mark – Man and Beast

Copyright 2014 the estate of Mary Ellen Mark Photographer: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 - 2015) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin (TX) Essays: Melissa Harris Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: Mary Ellen Mark & Ellen McKie Notes: A photo project that the... Continue Reading →

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Kenny Braun – Surf Texas

Copyright 2014 Kenny Braun Photographer: Kenny Braun (born & resides TX, USA) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX Essays: Stephen Harrigan Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, lithographic printing, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: DJ Stout & Barret Fry Notes: Braun’s lyrical black and white photographs investigate the excitement... Continue Reading →

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Michelle Frankfurter – Destino

Copyright Michelle Frankfurter 2014 published by FotoEvidence This is my first review of the photobook series published by Svetlana Bachevonaova and FotoEvidence, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on the global issues of Social Justice. Michelle Frankfurter (b. April 1961, Jerusalem, Israel – living in the US since 1967 and currently resides near Washington DC)... Continue Reading →

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Irving Penn – Small Trades

Copyright 2009 the estate of Irving Penn, published by the Getty Museum Small Trades is but one of many projects that was completed by Irving Penn (b. 1917 Plainfield, NJ – d. 2009), and one that actually spanned his photographic career. The photographs were created in the early 1950’s in Paris, London and New York.... Continue Reading →

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Jock Sturges – The Last Day of Summer

Copyright Jock Sturges 1991 published by Aperture This review of Jock Sturges’s first photobook, The Last Day of Summer, published by Aperture in 1991, is an introduction to his many photobooks. This photobook is his first and now nearing twenty years in print. As part of the background story one social element that Sturges shares with... Continue Reading →

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Susan Anderson – High Glitz

Copyright Suan Anderson 2009, courtesy powerHouse books Susan Anderson’s photobook High Glitz, The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants is a series of formal portraits of young girls who participate in beauty pageants that have been exclusively tailored for them. These pageants are unique to the United States. Anderson chooses to focus her lens on the resulting... Continue Reading →

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