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NIGHT FOR DAY

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

One of my favourite fashion photographers, Corinne Day, died this weekend at the age of only 45, after struggling with cancer for several years.
Day was one of the very first to bring daily life into fashion photography, working in a natural and entirely unpretentious manner – sadly still unusual for fashion, but especially so during [...]

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FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Ever since I saw it at the Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art exhibition at the Getty in LA, I have dreamed of owning this book. Cornerstones of the Provoke era in Japanese photography, Takuma Nakahira’s grainy, off-kilter, unfocused, and high-contrast images of Japanese street life really did formulate a new visual vernacular for 70s image-makers. Though he [...]

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The Original Copy

Friday, July 30, 2010

It’s always a treat when the great monoliths of the museum world mount curatorially innovative shows to balance out the crowd-drawing blockbusters. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today is a wonderful example of this. Housed in one of the two immense spaces on the Museum of Modern Art’s sixth floor, next to [...]

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HOL ART BOOKS

Saturday, July 3, 2010

I’m a huge fan of any publishing model that is not the one currently in use by most big presses. McSweeney’s is a great example; small, nimble, and unencumbered by the clamoring of some great PR machine, they publish what they want to publish, when they want to publish it.
Hol Art Books operates using a [...]

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LIVING THE DREAM

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Everyone has that daydream, where you’ve won the lottery or inherited millions or otherwise struck it rich, and you innumerate the purchases you would immediately make. Buying photography is always at the top my list.
And apparently someone else’s: Andy Pilara, an investment banker from San Francisco, decided one day that he wanted to start collecting [...]

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EUROPEAN FIELDS

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Art and sports usually make for uneasy bedfellows, but as we know, there are always exceptions to the rule: in the case of football, it’s worth having a closer look at photographer Hans van der Meer’s beautiful studies of the European obsession with football. Somewhere between landscape photography and documentary reportage, van der Meer has [...]

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BICYCLE PORTRAITS

Monday, June 14, 2010

My memories of traveling around South Africa are mostly of sitting in the ubiquitous kombi taxis: vans that stop for every potential customer until they are packed far beyond any legal limit. Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler’s forthcoming book ‘Bicycle Portraits‘ focuses on South Africans who eschew cramped quarters and blaring sound systems in favor [...]

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SELF PUBLISH, BE HAPPY WEEKEND

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend is a weekend showcase of 50 contemporary DIY photo books, selected by Bruno Ceschel and organised in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery, London. From the more obscure zines assembled in student bedrooms to impeccably printed photobooks, Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend will offer inspiration and happiness for everybody this weekend.
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DENNIS HOPPER, RIP

Monday, May 31, 2010

What stands out most is that incredible scene in Apocalypse Now: a sweat-drenched, darkened Martin Sheen turning the Mekong’s corner to find  his deepest jungle nightmares quietly awaiting him. Boats of war-painted natives part ways to reveal a tumble-down palace ruin, watched over by the empty eyes of AWOL Marines. An eery silence abounds at [...]

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PASSING THROUGH

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Our favorite skating vegan Ed Templeton is going to be in town tomorrow to present his latest book, The Seconds Pass (out via Seems). What’s more, check out Sunday’s free zine download: Solar Luxuriance. Here.

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