The world is a ghetto. We of the first world forget this but it is everywhere, more common than not, people living below the poverty line in conditions too raw for us to fully comprehend. When we do consider it, we vilify or romanticize; we imagine it not as it is, for rarely do we ventur...

28.03.2013[ read full story ]

The 24-page book Conventional Photography has all the makings of a collector’s item. The title is a nod to Unconventional Photography, distributed in 1976 by Richard Kalvar and his cronies at Magnum, during the 1976 Democratic National Convention. The latest version has kept t...

01.04.2013[ read full story ]

Two years ago, in March, Japan drew the world’s attention with millions of viewers glued to their television sets in disbelief as images of the tsunami that engulfed a 400 kilometer swathe of the country’s coastline were beamed into homes around the globe. The sheer scale and ...

25.03.2013[ read full story ]

Renée Jacobs' pictures have a combination of intensity and honesty that I don't often encounter ... She's making the pictures because she wants to keep them fixed in her head and heart for all time. Her models trust her to tell the truth about them. And she do...

03.04.2013[ read full story ]

The Last Waltz, The Last Show, The Last Roll: all are tributes to the end of an era. For Jeff Jacobson, The Last Roll represented the end of airiness. His life was never in question, but from that day onward, he lived in defiance of death. Life was not linear a...

28.03.2013[ read full story ]

The decision for Editions Noir sur Blanc to publish this book was made the moment I laid eyes on the face of Aleksei Zheltikov, a locksmith in the Moscow subway, arrested on July 18, 1937, and photographed in prison the night he was executed. This man with an unforgettable expres...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

A grey light filters through a quiet clearing in a softwood forest. The ground has been carefully kept clean. A few fragile shrubs with tender green leaves grow between the hoary trunks whose reddish brown wood peeks through steely gray bark. Three trees are wreathed in embro...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

An exhibition at the Gagosian and a book published by MIT Press shows Ed Ruscha’s influence on contemporary artists, photographers and even writers who engaged his work in a stimulating aesthetic dialogue. The exhibition is presented chronologically, with Ruscha’s various publications...

25.03.2013[ read full story ]

“Art is never finished, only abandoned,” Leonardo Da Vinci said and there is no greater proof of this than the creation of the book itself. By virtue of being print and bound, of being run off thousands of copies at a clip, the book appears to be an object that reaches complet...

21.03.2013[ read full story ]

The book Redheaded Peckerwood, published by MACK, is inspired by the tragic story of two young Americans, Charles Starkweather, 19, and Caril Ann Fugate, 14, who in 1958 killed ten people during a three-day massacre in Nebraska. The places, objects and central characters depicted i...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]