As we look ahead to the coming year, we revisit five photobooks that stood out to us in 2022.
Tag Archives: theory and practice
Binge-Worthy Interlude: Alec Soth – On Filmmaking and Photography
Magnum photographer Alec Soth’s recent YouTube talks compare and contrast the photographic and filmmaking processes.
New and Notable Photobooks: Nudism in a Cold Climate by Annebella Pollen
Annebella Pollen writes with clarity and insight about a fascinating niche subject: the history of recreational nudism in 20th Century England. In the process, she takes an in-depth look at the idiosyncratic photographs that sprang up around this often misunderstood and rather idyllic subculture.
Book Review: Diana & Nikon by Janet Malcolm
In her collected writings on photography, New Yorker staff writer Janet Malcolm accomplishes what many critics set out to do but few achieve, illuminating much that is true about the medium in a unique, eloquent voice that is piercingly intelligent and bluntly honest.
Book Review: Why People Photograph by Robert Adams
This collection of short essays and reviews by one of the pre-eminent American landscape photographers explores a wide variety of topics covering all genres of photography.
Book Review: Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski
Photography Until Now traces a path through the first 150 years of photography. The book, which blends history and criticism in insightful ways, is a sort of companion piece to Beaumont Newhall’s landmark 1937 MoMA exhibition and accompanying book The History of Photography.
The Parallax Review 