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Author Archives: eyecurious
On introspection, navel-gazing and nitpicking
Colin Pantall has written an interesting post on his blog regarding the many year-end ‘best photobooks of 2011′ lists that have been published of late. In the post he raises questions about this process, the role of “tastemakers” in today’s photobook market and discusses the need for the expansion of the photobook market. I started [...]
Posted in Existentialist photo-ramblings, Photo-books 14 Comments
Photobooks 2011: a view from Japan
As 2011 came to an end, I (somewhat foolishly) decided to compile the many ‘best photobooks of 2011′ lists that were popping up all over the internet to see whether there were any books that were consistently getting all the plaudits. The result is the previous post, a meta-list drawn compiling a total of 52 [...]
Photobooks 2011: And the winner is…
The constant stream of best books of 2011 lists that have appeared in the past couple of weeks got me wondering whether there are any books that are getting all the plaudits. I have pulled together 52 lists in total (the final update to this post was made on 29 December), including my own, (the [...]
Posted in Photo-books 36 Comments
Naoya Hatakeyama: a book and an exhibition
My most recent trip to Japan in October happily coincided with Naoya Hatakeyama’s first retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of his work – and there is quite a lot of it – so I was curious to see how this exhibition, entitled [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Exhibition reviews, Japanese photography, Magazines, Photo-books Tagged city, Landscape, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tokyo Leave a comment
Another best books of 2011 list…
I have given up, caved in, admitted defeat. Although the world does not need it, the temptation was just too great, so I have gone ahead and compiled a selection of my favourite books of the year. Instead of giving you a top 10 I decided to humbly borrow the format of the Oscars and [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Collecting, Photo-books 5 Comments
This is not a review: Paris Photo 2011
Paris is still recovering from the busiest week of the year on the photography calendar with the 2011 edition of Paris Photo which was held at the Grand Palais from 10-13 November and the many other events that pop up around it (Offprint, Nofound, Fotofever). In recent years Paris Photo has established itself as the [...]
Cornell Capa’s Peruvian suitcase
I spend quite a bit of time with photobooks, whether it be for this blog, it’s slightly less wordy Tumblr cousin, or just for my personal pleasure, but it is not often that I get to spend a day with a book like this one. In fact, it is not a book but a maquette [...]
Posted in American photography, Book reviews, Collecting, Latin American photography, Photo-books Tagged Cornell Capa, ICP, Latin America, Magnum, maquette, Peru 2 Comments
The Wonder of it All
As a blogger I get sent several press releases a day for upcoming exhibitions, from the weird to the wonderful and everything in between. Although 95% of it doesn’t hold my interest, once in a while something stands out. The press release for the upcoming exhibition at Gallery 138 in New York of photographs and [...]
Review: Cary Markerink, Memory Traces
I should start by saying that this review is long overdue. This is partly due to the fact that my blogging activity has ground to a halt of late, but also because of Memory Traces itself. The book is an intimidating object consisting of one oversized (30.5 x 41 cm) volume weighing in at a [...]
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Review: Foto/Gráfica @ Le Bal