Category Archives: Photo-books

Little Brown Mushroom Camp

By eyecurious | Published: 21 March 2013
Alec Soth is a divisive figure in the photo world, something that comes with the territory when you get a lot of attention in an attention-deprived microcosm or when you become the figurehead for a whole sub-genre of photography. His quirky, folksy attitude may not go down well with everyone, but I thought his collective, [...]
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Book Machine

By eyecurious | Published: 12 February 2013
Book Machine looks like a great initiative by Onestar Press and Three Star Books from 20 Feb – 10 Mar 2013 at the Centre Pompidou. The event is a FREE workshop open to the public during which you get to make a book. You get a 3.5-hour slot to work with a graphic designer from [...]
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Best photobooks of 2012

By eyecurious | Published: 3 February 2013
For those of you who had been hoping for me to repeat last year’s meta-list compilation of all of the ‘best books of the year’ lists I could find on the Internet, by now you will have realised that regretfully, I was going to disappoint you. Thankfully your disappointment will have been short-lived: QT Luong [...]
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Review: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Nostalgia

By eyecurious | Published: 17 December 2012
I’ve always found it fascinating to see early examples of colour photography, because they inevitably reveal a world that isn’t so monochrome as all those black-and-white photographs might make you think. I’ve written about an archive of colour photographs of Depression-era America here before and now I’ve come across another even earlier archive (which also [...]
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Review: Andres Gonzalez, Somewhere

By eyecurious | Published: 26 November 2012
Andres Gonzalez’s book Somewhere is a deliberately slippery beast. As its title implies it is not about a specific place, but more about the idea of place itself. It begins and ends in an airplane, as if to make the point that it will be taking us on a series of journeys. These photographs were [...]
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10×10: Japanese Photobooks

By eyecurious | Published: 18 September 2012
2012 is turning into the year of the Japanese photobook exhibition. After Contemporary Japanese Photobooks at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, New Yorkers now have the 10×10 Japanese Photobooks Reading Room to look forward to from 28-30 September. 10×10 is a 3-day pop-up reading room sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library with 100 [...]
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Review: Nina Poppe, Ama

By eyecurious | Published: 25 May 2012
If I had to choose a single word to describe Nina Poppe’s book Ama it would be ‘modest.’ It is not a ‘clever’ book, nor a powerful one. It is quiet and does little to promote itself (the book’s open spine design which does not allow for text guarantees that it will be all but [...]
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Review: Roberto Schena, SP 67

By eyecurious | Published: 19 April 2012
The road trip is one of the primal photographic gestures. It has given rise to some of the most celebrated series of photographs as well as to countless clichéd and forgettable pictures. Thanks to—or maybe even because of—Robert Frank’s ten thousand mile drive across America which led to The Americans, it also feels like a [...]
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Review: Will Steacy (ed.), Photographs Not Taken

By eyecurious | Published: 19 March 2012
We live in the age of photo proliferation. Digital technology in all its forms (cameras, phones, computers, the Internet) has made photography the most democratic of media, both in terms of making and disseminating images. And they are everywhere, all the time: on our TVs, our computer screens, our smartphones and in our streets. Of [...]
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Review: Donald Weber, Interrogations

By eyecurious | Published: 16 March 2012
  The title of Donald Weber’s latest book, Interrogations, is very appropriate: both because they are the book’s subject, but also because this book raises a number of difficult questions which it deliberately refuses to answer. Set in Russia and the Ukraine, the book is made up of a series of portraits of people being [...]
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