In his very first monograph, Israeli-born artist Elad Lassry juxtaposes a selection of photographs, photocollages and film stills as survey of his artistic practice. I can recall an interview in which Lassry described an interest in making photographs that have “no home,” a concept he explores by attempting to create works that are somehow void [...]
As co-founder of the publishing house J&L Books and author of a handful of titles of his own including Sunbird (J&L, 2000), Crushed (J&L, 2003) and Raising Frogs for $$$ (J&L, 2006), Jason Fulford is certainly no stranger to the photobook. This holds true in viewing his latest publication, The Mushroom Collector (Soon Institute, 2010). [...]
“I was hit by the fictitious smell of the sea,” writes Jonas Wettre about the moment he discovered a box of glass slides from the ’40s and ’50s that were passed down within his family. Jonas became fascinated by the colors and the quality of the images, in particular a set from a journey that [...]
In the spirit of his oeuvre, Roe Ethridge‘s Farewell Horse is at first encounter both seductive and elusive. The book itself, bound in natural cloth with a tipped-in photograph on the cover, is structured in three distinct and seemingly unrelated parts – the central one being black and white photographs of wild horses. These horses, [...]
Viviane Sassen‘s Flamboya brings together photographs from her recent visits to Africa. Though predominantly raised in the Netherlands, from the ages of two to five Sassen lived in a Kenyan village with her father, a doctor who worked at a neighboring polio clinic. The memories from the photographer’s early childhood are, as Edo Dijksterhuis describes [...]
Guardians of Solitude, 2009 © Laura McPhee / Iris Editions Ltd. Iris Editions Ltd., the collaborative effort of NYC-based Kristopher Graves and London-based Sergio Fernández, has released the first of what is likely to be a remarkable series of luxury edition large-format books. At a scale of about 16×20 in (41×51 cm) and beautifully bound [...]
Published on the occasion of her Spring 2008 exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, Roni Horn‘s catalog Bird highlights a selection of close-up studio portraits of taxidermied Icelandic birds, a typology that Horn worked on for more than ten years. The usually wild animals are each seen here set in front of white backdrops, lit [...]
With an open-ended book commission from Charlotte Cotton of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, artist Shannon Ebner worked with the innovative design team Dexter Sinister (a.k.a. David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey) to produce what is perhaps one of the most intriguing photographic books to surface this year. Though elegantly printed and designed, Ebner [...]
I met Richard Renaldi while living in New York two summers ago. I already knew Richard was a great photographer but I discovered then that he was also a really great guy; among the “art world” folk that I met that summer, Richard was undoubtedly one of the most friendly and generous. Since that summer, [...]
Recently, I posted about the Sweedish publisher Farewell Books and their latest publication entitled Making a Map, a selection of photographs by Japanese photographer Wakaba Noda. Mårten Lange, Farewell’s founder and editor, was kind enough send me a copy to take a closer look at. When I first opened Making a Map, I immediately thought [...]
