Highlighting three recently published photobooks that are worth seeking out.
Tag Archives: color photography
Photographers as Filmmakers #11: Office Killer (Cindy Sherman, 1997)
Re-evaluating Cindy Sherman’s underappreciated debut feature film
New and Notable Photobooks: King, Queen, Knave by Gregory Halpern
Halpern’s follow-up to ZZYZX, comprised of photos taken over 20 years in upstate New York, is a deeply personal, enigmatic, and totemic experience of the place he calls home.
Advice for Young Artists is Alec Soth’s Homage to Art School Students
In his latest book, Magnum photographer Alec Soth reckons with the ways that the aging process and the creative process are intertwined.
In Loft Law, Joshua Charow Locates New York’s Creative Pulse
Charow’s debut monograph explores artists’ relationships to the spaces where they live and work.
New and Notable Photobooks: Recreation by Mitch Epstein
In this newly revised and expanded edition of Recreation, Mitch Epstein brings focus to life’s in-between moments while chronicling Americans’ pursuit of leisure across several decades.
Book Review: Ruth Orkin – A Photo Spirit
Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit reproduces over 200 of Orkin’s photographs in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. It’s the most definitive collection of her work to date.
Photographers as Filmmakers #5½: I Need A Ride To California (Morris Engel, 1968)
On the heels of The Little Fugitive, we take a look at Morris Engel’s long-lost, recently restored 1968 feature film, which chronicles the experiences of a free-spirited young woman immersed in the East Village counterculture scene.
The Parallax Review 