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Category Archives: Photo-books
Review: Tokyo-e @ Le Bal
Le Bal‘s Japanese summer season continues this week with the opening of the exhibition Tokyo-e, which brings together work by Yutaka Takanashi and Keizo Kitajima with a series by an almost complete unknown photographer, Yukichi Watabe, a photojournalist who worked in Tokyo. The three groups of work on show are very different, related only through [...]
Also posted in Asian photography, Events, Exhibition reviews, Japanese photography Tagged Araki, Camp, Keizo Kitajima, Moriyama, Provoke, Tokyo, Yukichi Watabe, Yutaka Takanashi 4 Comments
A Japanese season starts in Paris
Last night was the opening of Japanese Photobooks Now, the first in a summer series of events on Japanese photography and film at Le Bal, which, as regular readers will know, should be right up my street. I’ve written about Le Bal before on eyecurious and since their first show Anonymes last autumn they have [...]
Also posted in Asian photography, Exhibition reviews, Japanese photography Tagged Ivan Vartanian, Japan, Japanese photography 2 Comments
More Robert Adams than you can wave a stick at
For their Robert Adams exhibition, The Place We Live, the Yale University Art Gallery has built a positively brilliant micro-site to accompany the show. The wonderfully simple site lets you explore a selection of images from all of the series included in the show. The best feature of the site is the virtual bookshelf (pictured [...]
Also posted in American photography Tagged Exhibition, Robert Adams, website, Yale University Art Gallery Leave a comment
Review: Valerio Spada, Gomorrah Girl
I caught up with Valerio Spada after missing the book launch of Gomorrah Girl at Le Bal in Paris in early March. The tallest Italian I have ever met, his enthusiasm and heart-on-his-sleeve sincerity are infectious and endearing (check out his Tumblr for a nice example of this). Spada explained how Gomorrah Girl had initially [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, European photography Tagged adolescence, camorra, design, girls, Gomorrah, Italy, mafia, Matteo Garrone, Naples, Roberto Saviano, Sybren Kuiper, Valerio Spada Leave a comment
Okinawa soul
Since the earthquake of 11 March, Japan has slowly faded out of the international news, barring the occasional update on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. However things remain critical in the northeast of the country and disrupted as far south as Tokyo as a result of the lingering problems at Fukushima and [...]
Also posted in Japanese photography Tagged Mao Ishikawa, military, Okinawa, Shomei Tomatsu, US, Yasuo Higa 4 Comments
Review: Inger Lise Rasmussen, Brilliant City
When I met Inger Lise Rasmussen at the Fotofest Paris portfolio review last November, one of the first things she said to me was “I’m not a photographer, I’m a print-maker.” This distinction is worth keeping in mind when looking at her work. Going through her portfolio at the time, it was clear to me [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, European photography Tagged China, city, Denmark, gravure, Inger Lise Rasmussen, print-making, urban Leave a comment
Review: Adriaan van der Ploeg, Mont Purgatoire
After Mariken Wessels‘ two mysterious tomes (one of which was reviewed here) which seemed to make most ‘best of 2010′ photobook lists, our Dutch friends have done it again and produced a book which really should not exist. I couldn’t help but try to imagine this book idea being pitched to any halfway-sane book publisher, [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, European photography, One to watch Tagged Adriaan van der Ploeg, cycling, Holland, Mariken Wessels, Netherlands, portraits Leave a comment
Notes on 2010
As the year draws to an end and more top-10 lists (and non-lists) than you can wave a stick at make their annual appearance, I thought I would take a broader look back at the past year in photography. This time last year I focused on the chronic over-use of the word curating, a trend [...]
Also posted in American photography, Awards, Contemporary art, European photography, Events, Existentialist photo-ramblings, Magazines Tagged Alec Soth, Arles, Doug Rickard, Erik van der Weijde, Errata Editions, Facebook, Foam magazine, Fotofest, Google, Google Street View, Harvey Benge, independent, John Gossage, Jon Rafman, Larry Clark, LE BAL, Leo Rubinfien, Little Brown Mushroom, Mao Ishikawa, Michael Wolf, Only Photography, publishing, retrospective, self-publishing, street photography, Takuma Nakahira, White Press, Yutaka Takanashi 2 Comments
Review: Mariken Wessels, Queen Ann. P.S. Belly Cut Off
From the moment you hear its title, it becomes clear that Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off is not going to be an ‘easy’ photobook. By ‘easy’ I mean a book that gives itself to you on first viewing, immediately hitting all the right buttons. To use one of my favoured musical analogies, in the [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, European photography Tagged artist book, Holland, Mariken Wessels 2 Comments
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