The title of the new book of René Burri, Impossibles Réminiscences, apparently refers to a short story by H.G. Wells, “The Door in the Wall,” to a green door, warmth and light mentioned in the story’s first paragraph. For Hans-Michael Koetzle, author ...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]

Published by the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, the book As origens do fotojornalismo no Brasil: um olhar sobre O Cruzeiro (1940-1960) (The Origins of Photojournalism in Brazil: A Look at O Cruzeiro, 1940-1960) explores the same themes of the eponymous exhibitio...

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Photographer Rafael Trobat has devoted most of his work to showing the social reality of Nicaragua. This book brings together 61 of his photographs, mostly taken from an ongoing project begun in 1990 and shot in Spain, Honduras and El Salvador. Also featured in the book a...

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Frank Herfort travelled all over Russia for a photographic project on architecture that lasted several years, taking pictures of skyscrapers that had been built quickly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The force and magnitude of these buildings are ...

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JUSTICE: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution by Mariana Cook, with an introduction by Anthony Lewis, is a photographic and humanitarian masterpiece. The book features 99 duotone fine art, black-and-white photographic portraits of human rights a...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]

One night in Los Angeles, a sixteen-year-old boy approached photographer Donna De Cesare, saying, “Lady, put me in your book—you can take my picture.” De Cesare recalls the memory of this encounter in Fred Ritchin’s foreword to her new book Unsettled/Desasosiego (University of Texas Press...

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The images raise the question, could a photographer still do this in 2013? Could she photograph her children naked, footloose and carefree, acting up to the camera with fake cigarettes and a bottle of beer? Or is this spontaneity, this innocence, lost thanks to rancid affairs and small-minded...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

Paul Graham, winner of the 2012 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, is a vital figure in contemporary photography, working for over thirty years and continually challenging different genres of photographic practice. His work has been widely shown, with exhibitions at the Tate ...

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A Partial Eclipse brings together photographs from an on-going private library of images which feeds into Boyce’s work. The images adopt a sombre and darkened palette, as if the light has been stolen from each photograph creating the illusion of a mythical perma-dusk allowing us to see th...

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For Luigi Ghirri, photography is anything but a mold of conformity. Through his simple and avant-garde photographs, Ghirri presents the world in all its complexity while simultaneously making it clearer. His book Kodachrome, reissued this year by Mack, is a reflection not only on ...

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