Tag: Visual storytelling

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison – counterpoint

Photographs are copyright of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison courtesy of Twin Palms Publishers In an attempt to better understand Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's new book counterpoint, I found myself referring to The Architect's Brother,an earlier published book by Robert ParkeHarrison from Twin Palms Publishers. Regretfully I did not purchase the earlier book when it was available. The Architect's Brother is the initial story of ParkeHarrison's "Everyman",... Continue Reading →

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Amy Stein – Domesticated

Photographs copyright of Amy Stein A couple purchase a beautiful cactus in the desert at a roadside stand. The cactus is budding and about to bloom. They hurry home and perch it on a decorative counter in their living room. And they watch with anticipation but something wrong seems to be happening. The cactus is starting to... Continue Reading →

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Jeremy Stigter – The Jewish Bride

Photographs copyright of Jeremy Stigter, courtesy of Nazareli Books I have been enjoying Jeremy Stigter's  first book The Jewish Bride, a photo play recently published by Nazareli Press at the end of 2008. Unlike my attendance at most theatrical plays there is no introduction or prologue provided.  Nor is there any text within the book to help establish a contextual framework, just the serial black... Continue Reading →

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Lee Friedlander – New Mexico

Photographer Lee Friedlander copyright 2008 published by Radius Books  Lee Friedlander: New Mexico was published concurrently by Radius Books with the Friedlander exhibition at the Andrew Smith Gallery Santa Fe, NM in the Fall of 2008. Thus in one sense this book can be viewed as one heck of a great catalog. Usually I defer to the end of the review... Continue Reading →

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Henry Horenstein – Animalia

Photographer: Henry Horenstein copyright 2008 courtesy Pond Press Henry Horenstein recently published book Animalia from Pond Press  might also be viewed as a "best of photographs"  from three of his previously published books, "Creatures", "Canine" and "Aquatics". These delicate and interesting photographs are brought together in a wonderfully duo-tone printed book over 90 pages with a cloth hardcover and a... Continue Reading →

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Bertrand Fleuret – Landmassess and Railways

I had the opportunity to acquire an advance copy of Bertrand Fleuret's soon to be published photographic book Landmassess and Railways at photo la earlier this month. This is a limited edition (100 each) of a schaden.com imprint of the J&L 2009 Edition, which has a unique hardcover cover. I find that this book very fascinating on many levels.  It is... Continue Reading →

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Alexey Titarenko – Photographs

Photographer: Alexey Titarenko copyright 2003 courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery One of the benefits of providing book reviews at the beginning of year is that there are very few new publication releases at this time of year and a big leeway to discuss previously published books. One such opportunity is a review of Alexey Titarenko's Photographs published... Continue Reading →

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TheGuardian – A Message For Obama

All photographs copyright of the photographers courtesy of TheGuardian I had essentially stated a couple of days ago here, that with the advent of the Print on Demand (POD) book we can have a book in print almost 10 days after an event has occurred. With the recent election of Barrack Obama as President of the United... Continue Reading →

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Douglas Stockdale – In Passing

In Passing, Second Edition, by Douglas Stockdale, self-published (Blurb) 2008 Yes, yours truely just published the second edition of In Passing the series of road side memorials that I photographed from late 2005 - 2007.  Twenty of the photographs from the series were published in LensWork Magazine (#74 Jan-Feb 2008). Earlier this year that I had self-published the... Continue Reading →

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Ben Roberts – One More Night

Ben Roberts, One More Night, Self-published, Blurb 2008 This book review is one part photograph project published by Ben Roberts, One More Night, and another part an assessment of self-publishing and Blurb's new 100 lb paper. The bottom like I like both parts! But first the London club scene of Ben Roberts. This small, tight hardcover book with the... Continue Reading →

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