Photography Books
Book Review – A Pound of Pictures: Alec Soth’s Eclectic Ode to the Photographic Medium
Book Review – A Pound of Pictures: Alec Soth’s Eclectic Ode to the Photographic Medium Introduction: “A Pound of Pictures” presents a captivating journey through the lens of acclaimed photographer Alec Soth, showcasing an entirely new collection of work produced between 2018 and 2021. This stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium takes readers on a winding road trip of imagery, capturing a diverse array of subjects that range from the enigmatic allure of Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to the carefree spirit of sun-seekers and the stoic presence of busts portraying Abraham Lincoln. Through this book, Soth reflects on the profound desire to capture and immortalize experiences through printed images, exploring…
Book Review – Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape by Stephen Shore
Book Review – Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape by Stephen Shore Stephen Shore’s latest body of work, Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape, takes us on a mesmerizing visual journey through the diverse landscapes of Montana, North Carolina, New York, and beyond. Through a series of aerial photographs captured by drones from 2020 onwards, Shore presents an arresting portrayal of the delicate interplay between nature and human intervention in the American scenery. All images – Courtesy of the artist and MACK. Revisiting the original ambitions of the iconic 1975 exhibition ‘New Topographics,’ Shore employs a fresh aerial viewpoint to reexamine the movement’s core concerns: the objective depiction…
Book Review – Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan
The work was “about family history and the American dream, and how those two intersect,” Larry Sultan told The Times in 1989. “My father bought a one-way ticket from New York in 1949 and ended up in a dream house in Sherman Oaks. It was part of the cultural myth of the ‘50s about going west.” Larry Sultan was born in Brooklyn on 13 July 1946, but he primarily grew up in Los Angeles, California and graduated college with a degree in Political Science at UCLA and UCSB. He began photographing in 1968, for the Chicago Seed and the Good Times. “It was the psychedelic culture and photographing rallies and…
Book Review – Steel Town by Stephen Shore – MACK Books
The first time I met Stephen Shore was in 2019 at Photo London, but I have known and been influenced by his work for far longer. At Photo London (during the Press Event) Shore was interviewed, alongside my friend Mary McCartney (daughter of Paul) by William A Ewing. Shore’s latest release by Mack Books entitled Steel Town combines a series of images that he took in 1977 when he travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio – the latter in the midst of industrial decline and soon to be known as the Rust Belt.
M. Cecilia de São Thiago Announces Her First Photobook ‘Unforgettable’
I am absolutely delighted and hugely proud to announce the launch of one of our Editor’s M. Cecilia de São Thiago, first Photobook entitled ‘Unforgettable‘. de São Thiago has created a book in an incredibly unique way. As Natalie Cole, by making use of technology, released the album “Unforgettable With Love“ de São Thiago has used a new technique that has allowed her to re-record duets from old musical records with her deceased father. She utilises the glass negatives of stereoscopic photographs of her older brothers, taken by her father between the years of 1929 and 1944, and reinterpret’s these images, creating a coming and going between times and spaces…
Art Isn’t Fair – An Allan Sekula Forum
Celebrating the launch of Allan Sekula, Art Isn’t Fair: Further Essays on the Traffic in Photographs and Related Media, enjoy this video for a deep dive into Sekula’s groundbreaking critical work between image, text, and video and its incisive commentary on art, politics, and capital. With Makeda Djata Best, David Campany, and Chantal Pontbriand, Stephanie Schwartz, Billy Woodberry, and Sally Stein, it’s wonderful and by one of my favourite publishers, Mack. Please help… TheAppWhisperer has always had a dual mission: to promote the most talented mobile artists of the day and to support ambitious, inquisitive viewers the world over. As the years pass TheAppWhisperer has gained readers and viewers and found new venues…
Book Review – A1 – The Great North Road by Paul Graham
Photographer Paul Graham is an entirely self-taught contemporary British artist who works in Fine Art Photography. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Hasselblad Award and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been the subject of more than eighty solo exhibitions worldwide. Graham’s first serious project commenced in 1981 through to the end of 1982, when he was aged 25. It consisted of photographing all the people and places he came across while traveling repeatedly to and fro along the A1 in a borrowed Morris Mini Traveller car. It was the wooden back estate version, which just about allowed him enough…
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…
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…
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…
