Words Without Pictures has just released a print-on-demand book edited by Alex Klein of the website’s fantastic content. Some description of the project for those of you who are unfamiliar: Words Without Pictures was conceived as a year-long project with monthly themes that were formulated by an editorial team in tandem with contributors to the [...]
from “The Bar Mitzvah and Other Tales of Living in Stereo” © Unknown Photographer Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while know that I’m a fan of Square America, the online archive of vernacular photography. I was happy to see one of their recent installments entitled “The Bar Mitzvah and [...]
New York, circa 1940 © Helen Levitt It was just a few days ago that I sat down with a copy of Helen Levitt’s latest monograph. Turning the pages, it was as if I were seeing all of the photographs all for the first time. Few photographers, I remember thinking to myself, are able bring [...]
Mike Mandel sent me an e-mail recently reminding me to see an exhibition of Boston-based photographer Karl Baden‘s Covering Photography collection, now up at the Boston Public Library in their Rare Books and Manuscripts exhibition space. The show, titled “Imitation, Influence… and Coincidence,” highlights books from Karl’s collection that either appropriate or seem to be [...]
stills from Stranded in Canton, 1973 © William Eggleston In 1973, William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and shot the intimate, black and white footage that would become Stranded in Canton, a 76 minute film documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans. The film was recently remastered in collaboration with filmmaker Robert Gordon [...]
cover of How to Read Music in One Evening, A Clatworthy Catalog, 1974 © Mike Mandel Very few people are aware of How to Read Music in One Evening, A Clatworthy Catalog (1974), a self-published book by photographers Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. Yet, in many ways, the book can be seen as a precursor [...]
William Eggleston in Memphis, 2008 © Juergen Teller If you haven’t already, take a moment to read this article about William Eggleston from the November 2008 issue of W Magazine.
Jeffrey Ladd, author of 5B4, got in touch to inform me of a new publishing company he has started called Errata Editions. Working with publisher Valerie Sonnenthal and editorial director Ed Grazda, Jeffrey is giving creative direction to the project. Errata’s first releases, four books from a series called Books on Books, help get “the [...]
Over the last few years, Edward Burtynsky has been investigating the possibilities of long-term preservation for artifacts in hopes of finding a proper home for the 10,000-year Clock (also known as the “Clock of the Long Now”) and, in turn, has rediscovered a process for producing photographic prints that could resist fading for – no [...]
About two years ago, I mentioned my first real encounter with the work of Mike Mandel. At that time, Mike sat in for a class that Bill Burke was teaching and talked about his career. One of the early projects that he discussed was his set of Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards (1975), a collection of portraits [...]
