Honestly, I don’t know quite what to make of Jungjin Lee’s Opening. Dark, gritty, almost Provoke-style are-bure-bokeh, but even beyond anything Moriyama ever put out, landscapes, or bits thereof, presented in this groovy accordion-style book. It’s really fantastic, if somewhat hard to see or read…

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All about Saul Leiter is a catalogue, published alongside the “Photographer Saul Leiter: A Retrospective” exhibition at the Itami City Museum of Art (2018). It’s a reasonably thorough exploration of Leiter’s fashion, street, and nude photography, as well as his painting, and makes an excellent introduction to Leiter’s work, if you don’t have the Early Color and Early Black and White books.

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Stephen Gill’s Night Procession was on a whole bunch of Best Of and Photobook of the Year lists in 2017, and it’s no wonder, really. If you’re unaware, Gill set some motion activated cameras up in the forest near his home in Sweden, added some infrared flashes to them, and photographed the birds, deer, wild hogs, and other things that run the forest at night, free from human interference. Once prints from the photos were made, he treated them with pigments made from the plants near where the camera stood, resulting in a mostly green tint throughout.

It’s not something I would normally pick up, to be honest. I read some about it when it came out, and it was recommended left, right, and center, but I looked and thought, “naw… let me save the money, this time…”

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