David Bryan (aka @filminthefreezer) spent a year traveling around the American West, and Twelve Thousand Miles: One Year in the American West is the result.
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Kevin O’Meara – ‘Breaking the Elephant’
‘Breaking the Elephant’ took me awhile to figure out. It’s really very conceptual and a little bit difficult, and I wonder if it really, I mean, really works.
Daniel Tim – ‘Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much’
It took a few viewings, but Daniel Tim’s Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much has grown on me. I’ve grown a little bit tired of straight-ahead street photography, and the book is just full of it, shot in Hong Kong, on film, and I’m ashamed to say that the first time(s) I flipped through it, I …
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Enter the Kodak Brownie Starflex
This cute little Brownie came to me courtesy of Elizabeth, and it’s cute. Just look at it. Doesn’t it sorta look like a Minion?
Jamie Livingston – ‘Twin Towers Polaroids’
Jamie Livingston Twin Towers Polaroids is a sort of companion book/zine to Some Photos of That Day, featuring 22 Polaroids that Hugh Crawford culled from Livingston’s mammoth, 18 year Polaroid-a-Day project, each with some view of, on, or from the Twin Towers.
1970s Ricoh Compacts, part 4: the Sears 35|RF
The Sears 35|RF (not to be confused with the Sears 35rf) is a black only, Sears-branded clone of the Ricoh 500 G. This is the camera that started it all, it being the superlative 40mm f/2.8 Rikenon.
Helmut Newton – ‘Pages from the Glossies’
I have a modest photobook collection, something in the neighborhood of 150 volumes, give or take, and not counting theory books or zines. I’ve tried to be rather democratic in my collecting, picking up books from professionals and amateurs, masters and novices, documentarians and artists, but upon reading Anil Mistry’s review of Pages from the …
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