In the introduction of his book, “Whistling Dixie”, Anderson Scott has this amusing remark: “I approached the battleground in my Toyota Prius. I felt like a minnow in a sea of whale-sized dually pick-up trucks.” It was 2007 and Scott, a fine art photographer o...

22.05.2013[ read full story ]

Contemporary Swedish Photography is an outstanding book. Generous in format and richly illustrated, it provides an overview of Swedens photography scene, from the legendary Christer Strömholm to todays wide range of eminent photographers. The book covers the work of over 50 ...

22.05.2013[ read full story ]

Trans Photographic Press has just published « MéMWA », a photography book by Philippe Monges, which explores slavery and the slave trade. The title means “memory” in Creole. Making full use of his 135 film, Monges photographs the traces of slavery, ...

21.05.2013[ read full story ]

Photography records what we forget, offering a map back into the past into lives we would never otherwise know, if not for the camera to record their existence. We are all anonymous, until we are not. We keep records to prevent the inevitable erasure as time slips through our grasp. We ar...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

“The Beatles are arguably the best composers of the last century,” Harry Benson states, during a conversation about his time spent photographing the band, photographs which have been collected into in a compendium. The Beatles: In the Road 1964–1966 (Taschen), was original...

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

Never have photobooks been as popular as they are today. Hundreds, if not thousands of them are published every year. The web is full of blogs and websites dedicated to them. But because Web 2.0 is sometimes more network than social, the desire to discuss—in person—the things we love led to...

20.05.2013[ read full story ]

POV Female Johannesburg is the next series of Oodee monographs of young female photographers. Launching on May 25th at Edition in Johannesburg in the presence of the photographers. Oodee is offering a reduced price for any pre-order from the 1st to the 17th May.

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

I had just turned twenty. I was working freelance at Gamma. The agency developed my film, made the prints, and gave me fifty percent of the sales. It was up to me to come up with idea and pay the expenses. Vietnam was too far away, too expensive. Closer, and therefore less ex...

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

“Oscar Niemeyer and Lucien Clergue are visionaries setting down meaning so that it might last through the ages.” So ends the poem that opens Brasilia, published by Editions Hazan. As Clergue points out, this book should have been published fifty years ago, when the photogra...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

“In a world of con men there is nothing lower than a publicist,” The New Yorker wrote in 1944, harkening back to the days when the Fourth Estate was populated by flacks and hacks. But the more things change, the more they remain the same, particularly now, when the artist...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]