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Category Archives: Book reviews
Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s
Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko’s Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s belongs to a new breed of photobook: the book on books. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s two-volume history of the photobook is probably the best known of these, but there are other interesting examples. Jeff Ladd’s Errata Editions is taking this one step [...]
Also posted in Asian photography, Collecting, Japanese photography, Photo-books Tagged Errata Editions, Gerry Badger, Ivan Vartanian, Jeff Ladd, Kikuji Kawada, Martin Parr, Ryuichi Kaneko 1 Comment
Review: Lewis Koch, Touchless Automatic Wonder
“I like seeing things and I like words. There is something revelatory about the two together, an almost pentecostal feeling of seeing in tongues” Lewis Koch
Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder started out as a web-based project quite a few years ago (the site is optimized for Internet Explorer 5, so it shows its age) and [...]
Review: Steven B. Smith, The Weather and a Place to Live
I wrote about Steven B Smith’s series, The Weather and a Place to Live, in passing recently, but I’ve now got my hands on a copy of the book, which won the Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography in 2005, and have had the chance to have a more in-depth look.
Review: Andrew Phelps, Not Niigata
As soon as I heard the name of Andrew Phelps’s latest book I was intrigued. Niigata is not the most obvious prefecture in Japan for a foreign photographer to choose as a photographic subject (Tokyo’s magnetic pull certainly doesn’t seem to be weakening). I was all the more interested as Niigata is an area of some [...]
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Review: From Back Home (book and exhibition)
“The land between Klarälven River and the chestnut tree at Ekallén is full of little hard memories of sad and lonely times, but there is also a streak of warm confidence that runs all the way up to Älgsjövallen, a place of fairy tales and inquisitive moose.”
Anders Petersen
From Back Home is a collaboration between two [...]
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Review: First Doubt
“Postmodern interjection, intervention, and manipulation practiced by the society at large have made the image evident more as an artifice than a true recital of the outside world. That makes me happy.” Allan Chasanoff
This quote gives you an idea of the thread that runs through First Doubt, Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, an exhibition held [...]
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Review: Shigeichi Nagano, Hong Kong Reminiscence 1958
I have just started a series of reviews of recent Japanese photobooks for the great online photography magazine, lensculture. The first review is of Shigeichi Nagano’s latest, Hong Kong Reminiscence 1958 (Tokyo: Sokyu-sha, 2009). You can read the review here.
Update: It seems like the guys at Japan Exposures picked up on my review. If you [...]
Review: Stefan Heyne, The Noise