Category: Book Review

In Conversation: Vann Powell + Cousins

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to catch up with Vann Powell and talk to him about what is going on in his world these days. Prior to this…

Book Review: Vertical Village

Upon flipping the first page, cultural anthropologist Miriam Chaiken takes us back to the 1970s, introducing us to her father’s siblings, Shami and Joe, who moved into adjacent studio apartments…

Adam Geary “Slow Gaze” – Book Review

The Slow Gaze photobook takes a look beneath the cracks of our increasingly fractured lives. Lives in which the ‘home’; itself a shelter to our consciousness, has become a fragile…

Pascal Haas “TEL-AVIVIS” – Book Review

The photography book TEL—AVIVIS shows Jewish and Arab Israelis on the beach of Tel Aviv. The portraits capture the urban hedonism of young men of different backgrounds, with a focus…

What We’ve Read! – September Edition

Here we are again with more books that will enrich your lives and make them better! As our lives become digitized, it seems that photography is running at a faster…

Up For Review: Ed Panar’s ‘In The Vicinity’

In The Vicinity is a departure from Ed Panar’s usual subject matter depicting deceivingly simple landscapes, animals, and found objects in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and towns just on the outlier…

Up For Review : Ed Templeton’s ‘Hairdos of Defiance’

When I started flipping through Ed Templeton’s latest book “Hairdos of Defiance”, the notion of “collecting” became readily apparent. From the nineties into the 21st century, Templeton has been fascinated…

Ordinary Magazine

Max Siedentopf is a multidisciplinary creative and co-founder of Ordinary, a magazine he founded together with the designer Yuki Kappes. Ordinary’ is a quarterly fine art photography magazine which takes a…

Steven B. Smith

TIS books has published Steven B. Smith’s latest photobook entitled, Waiting out the Latter Days. Utah in the time of the Cold War is the backdrop for the monograph, in which time…

Base – Valerio Platania

[portfolio_slideshow id=13539 pagerpos=disabled] Usually when photographers decide to tackle the milieu of shopping centers and suburban culture, we’re presented with shelves stocked into oblivion, crying babies on leashes, and the…

Tate Shaw – The Ground

[portfolio_slideshow id=12766] The Ground by Tate Shaw is both a stunning photo book and personal essay, spanning a tumultuous two years spent in the unlikely paired landscapes of Iceland and…

Irina Rozovsky – One to Nothing

[portfolio_slideshow id=7272] Irina Rozovsky was born in Moscow and grew up in Boston. She received a BA in French and Spanish Literature from Tufts University and an MFA in Photography…

DANIEL GEBHART DE KOEKKOEK – THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

[portfolio_slideshow id=9014] Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek started his career in 2006 and worked as an intern with Magnum Photos, NYC, in 2008. He is currently based in Vienna, Austria and…

Nguan – How Loneliness Goes

[portfolio_slideshow id=3373] Nguan grew up in Singapore and graduated with a degree in Film and Video Production from Northwestern University in Illinois. His first monograph, Shibuya, was named in PDN…

JONATHAN LIPKIN – LIVINGSTON COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHS 2006-2011

[portfolio_slideshow id=9024] Jonathan Lipkin is a photographer, writer, and professor of digital media at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He has lectured internationally on issues of digital media and is…

Marco Lachi – How Does It Feel…

[portfolio_slideshow id=12560] Marco Lachi was born in Florence, Italy, working as a planner in an architectural firm before graduating from the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in 2007. His work has been…

BRETT KALLUSKY – JOURNEY WITH VIEWS

[portfolio_slideshow id=9034] Brett Kallusky was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1975 and is currently a visiting Assistant Professor of photography at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. He received his…

BJARNE BARE – HOSE VARIATIONS

[portfolio_slideshow id=9043] Bjarne Bare is a Norwegian photographer who graduated from the Oslo Academy of Fine Art. His work has been featured in Boooooom, Its Nice That, and Self Publish,…

JUSTIN KIMBALL – WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES

[portfolio_slideshow id=9053] Justin Kimball was born in New Jersey and received his M.F.A. in photography from the Yale University School of Art and Architecture. He is currently a Professor of…

SARA MACEL – MAY THE ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU

[portfolio_slideshow id=9063] Sara Macel was recently named one of the Top 50 Photographers in Photolucida’s Critical Mass Award, received the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, and…