Category Archives: Collecting

Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s

By eyecurious | Published: 24 February 2010
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 [...]
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Some things I bought this year

By eyecurious | Published: 17 December 2009
I’ve seen quite a few end of year lists popping up over the last week. There are the best books of 2009 lists, the more eclectic lists of “stuff I liked this year“, the lists of books acquired in 2009 and many more. I think you need to be a breakfast-lunch-and-dinner kind of consumer of [...]
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Paris Photo: crossing the finish line

By eyecurious | Published: 24 November 2009
Paris Photo 2009 has just drawn to a close and already the reports are flowing in thick and fast. There is much less of a consensus than for NYPH, which was generally perceived to have been a bit disappointing (see my previous round-up post on this). I am just happy to have survived it all [...]
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Stormy weather over the US museum landscape

By eyecurious | Published: 12 November 2009
There is a very interesting debate going on at the moment in the US blogosphere and press over the New Museum’s series of upcoming shows entitled the “Imaginary Museum.” The stir is caused by the fact that this series of exhibitions will be based around private collections, the first of which belongs to Dakis Joannou and will be [...]
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“Virtual Collection #1″

By eyecurious | Published: 24 June 2009
This is a smart idea from Olef Wolberger (Horses Think): start a virtual collection of photographs. Provided you don’t go overboard and start ‘acquiring’ dozens of images each week, this seems like an interesting way of getting into the collecting mind-set. I think it could also help to think about why you want a particular [...]
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