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The Best Photography & Art Books of 2016
Of course we all love our mobile devices and reading books on them is second nature to creating art but sometimes, we also really like to curl up with a really good traditional book with real paper. I have selected some of the very best photography and Art books released this year. I am sure any one of these, you would love to receive. Take a look and if you feel there are some others that I have missed, please add them to the comments below.
Stunning and Professional Portraiture Images Captured with the Apple iPhone
This series highlights the professional capabilities of the Apple iPhone as a professional portraiture device. Each image is beautifully shot and processed, all completely mobile. Testament to the photographer, model and the device. Enjoy these compelling images… (foreword by Joanne Carter). I am a professional portrait and people photographer from Germany. Mobile photography was the initial trigger for my professional career a few years ago. On the other side I never enter a professional shooting without my mobile cam. Whenever it’s possible I ask for some extra shots when on location or in my studio. At the beginning the models often look very astonished, but when they see the…
Reflections…
Visual, lingering, photographic poetry, partially obscured images with reflective streaks, taken through glass. Gillian Brodie discusses how the fleeting moment is one she craves, to capture for eternity. I am fascinated by the reflections I see when walking through urban environments. They are not immediately obvious, indeed you could say they’re not even there until you know how to look for them. Most people see a shop window, but to me there’s a whole new world hidden in plain sight. “These pictures represent the world beyond the every day – other layers of reality, dimensions that exist behind the superficial. They are right there if you are willing to look beneath the surface”…
A walk in the Old Town
This series focuses on streets you go to, not go through. These images make me think back to a quote by DeGrazia when reflecting on modern life, he said: “Lean back under a tree, put your arms behind your head, wonder at the pass we’ve come to, smile and remember that the beginnings and ends of man’s every great enterprise are untidy”. [Foreword by Joanne Carter] Photographs and text by Giulia Baita
City Fragments
“Every image amalgamation within this series conveys the city as a sovereign fragment of the baroque amassed and relentlessly dismantled metropolitan screen”. [Foreword by Joanne Carter]. Photographs and text by Brett Chenoweth
Series in Slow Shutter
This series analyses and explores female identity and personal boundaries. Scrutinised through her mobile lens, Jane Schultz’s images emerge in the consciousness of a critical audience, almost inseparable from the ideological compulsion to contain and contradict with the female psyche [foreword by Joanne Carter]. Photographs and text by Jane Schultz
I, Orfeo
Sobering documentary images allow the focus of this series to shift from Orpheus looking at Eurydice to be imagined as I, Orfeo, separate from her husband. Photographs and text by Diana Nicholette Jeon
