Photography Books
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Book Review – Portraits and Dreams by Wendy Ewald
Photographer Wendy Ewald is a community based practitioner who has worked on collaborative photographic projects with children for more than fifty years. Within her newly republished and updated book Portraits and Dreams, it is immediately apparent that we are not just viewing images of children, we are actually getting to meet them. Ewald has the inert ability to treat children with profound tenderness, nurturing their fragile self esteem, enabling them to realise a range and depth to their imagery that originally would not have seemed possible. This book is rich in humanity. Each child shares not only their dreams and sometimes their fears, by creating portraiture of themselves in some…
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You Brought Your Own Light, a New Book of Transgender Portraits
A book of transgender portraiture showcasing the work of award-winning photographer Allie Crewe has been published by Axis Projects Publishing this July 2020. You Brought Your Own Light is produced by Alan J Ward and brings together 26 of Allie’s revealing Transgender portraits, including the image of Grace, a doctor, which won the BJP Portrait of Britain 2019. A series of 12 of the portraits were initially exhibited in Manchester at an event sponsored by the National Transgender Charity, Sparkle. You Brought Your Own Light now brings these portraits together in a book, continuing Allie’s journey as a political artist exploring social issues of the day using photography to give a voice to those often…
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New Mobile Photography Book Coming Soon – ‘iPhone Photography for Everybody: App Techniques’ by Paul J Toussaint
I am delighted to announce that highly talented mobile photographer Paul Toussaint‘s brand new book, ‘iPhone Photography for Everybody: App Techniques’ will be released for sale on 15 July 2020. I personally know that Toussaint has been working hard on this book for sometime and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy, as soon as I do, I will publish a review. Here’s a little more about it: “The iPhone contains a powerful camera that is always within reach and allows photographers of all ages and skill levels to capture high-quality images anytime, anywhere, with minimal effort. In this book, renowned mobile photographer Paul J. Toussaint teaches…
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The Best Photography & Art Biographies To Read This Christmas
Last week we published a comprehensive list of The Best Photography and Art books of 2016 and it proved very popular, so much so that some extremely vast social media sites compared it to Time’s – a compliment indeed. Today, we have published The Best Photography & Art Biographies, these we believe you will enjoy too. Sometimes, we like to look at the photographer/artist behind the imagery and this is a great way to switch off and indulge, if you have the opportunity over the Christmas break. I do hope you enjoy this. If there are any others that you have read, that you think should be included, please add…
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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.
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Art with an iPhone by Kat Sloma – Book Review and Competition!
“This books passes muster as a great instructional tool for the novice mobile artist – A Classic”, Joanne Carter, 2016 Recently in a cafe I was hungrily perusing ‘Art with an iPhone – A Photographer’s Guide to Creating Altered Realities’ by American Fine Art Photographer, Writer and Instructor, Kat Sloma, when a woman I knew touched me on the shoulder and asked what I was reading. I considered this question as I glanced up and around at all the other customers in the cafe and noticed that most of them were engrossed with their iPhones, possibly (hopefully) apping images. ‘It’s a book about creating art with an iPhone’, I replied.…
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Kim Kardashian’s Selfish Photography Book
The Guardian editor, Jonathan Jones writes today, “the selfie queen has turned her portraits into a book. It’s a slap in the face for anyone who ever pointed a camera in hope of being the new Henri Cartier-Bresson”. “Selfish is a book of selfies. It’s a book of Kim Kardashian’s selfies. And, as the author has made plain in Instagram teasers of her in her bedroom, there will be plenty of curvacious flesh in this book. She promises a whole sequence of intimate shots in among the pictures of fashion galas and nights out“… to read more, go here.
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Mobile Photography Book ‘A Small Amount of Courage’ by Karen Divine
Karen Divine is an internationally recognised artist with more than a dozen prestigious awards for her iPhone art. She is also an established member of the mobile photography community and last year published a beautiful book entitled ‘A Small Amount of Courage’. Inside this elegantly bound hardback book are 64 images, loosely based on the 64 Hexagrams of the iChing. If you’re unsure of the understanding of iChing, please read the following: "The I Ching is based on Yin and Yang, the two fundamental ordering principles in Taoist philosophy and cosmology. Typically, one formulates a question for the I Ching and then tosses three coins a total of six times.…
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MIRA Mobile Prize 2014 – Book Available Of The Winning Images
After a hugely successful exhibition, of which I was very proud to have been included within the Jury, the organisers have created a book including an editorial about mobile photography authored by Manuela Matos Monterio and inclusive of the fifty shortlisted images as well as some images from the jury. This is a Blurb book and you can preview the first 15 pages here, or place an order, in the UK it retails for £31.57, in the US it’s available for $48.56.
