Zineland has always been about one thing: space. Whether we’re looking at a photo fanzine or an artist’s monograph, our focus is always how the publisher or author has used a limited visual space and given it meaning. This week’s subject is a retrospective looking back at twenty yea...

14.12.2012[ read full story ]

Here are half a dozen books that make us dream, all while exercising our eyes and brains (not to mention, in some cases, our French, English, Russian, German or Japanese). In other words, these are genuine treasures available at affordable prices. Animaux à mimer/S...

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We enter through a large door, then discover with relish the innner working of the fashion house . Haute couture is the stuff dreams are made of, and Gérard Uféras’ photographs plunge the viewer into the dreamworld of Dior. What happens behind the boutique windows? What goes ...

12.12.2012[ read full story ]

In a thick, illustrated book, Matthieu and Mareile Paley tell the story of their discovery of the Pamir, an isolated region of northeastern Afghanistan, made virtually inaccessible due by rugged geography and diplomatic tensions among China, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Thes...

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In the 1980s, at the dusk of the “Golden Age of Porn,” New York City photographer Barbara Nitke began a journey that would be as unpredictable as it would be revealing decades later. Nitke’s new photo memoir American Ecstasy (Pierrot, 2012) is a challenging, ...

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Chaka Khan most famously sang, “I am every woman” and no artist embodies this quite as brilliantly as Cindy Sherman. She has been remaking herself in the image of others throughout her career, giving a spellbinding performance of gender roles assigned to (mostly) ...

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Because some photographers believe that photography is made to be seen in books, and because most photography prints are priced too high for mere mortals, an increasing number of photography fans are turning to books. These limited-edition books, beautifully laid out on high-qual...

07.12.2012[ read full story ]

Photography lovers have fond memories of Yvette Troispoux, a small and bubbly woman with a sparkle in her eye and a Leica around her neck, snapping pictures of her photographer friends at gallery openings. She drew immediate sympathy with the way she dresse...

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Traditionally, blues music is photographed in black-and-white. But the photographs of Magdalena Solé aren’t directly interested in the artists and fans of the musical genre. They let themselves be carried away by the rhythms and melodies. And they’re in color, no les...

06.12.2012[ read full story ]

Since its inception in the late 60s, graffiti has been the most public of public arts, the ultimate statement of self, a mark of existence that enlivens the streets. Since it began with tags, it has since expanded in all manners including beyond its original letterform. As it shifted into...

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