After Now Here Then, with its obliterated pictures of eye-widening color, I had to see some more, and sought out a copy of Huger Foote’s 2000 monograph My Friend From Memphis, and I’m so glad I did.
Category Archives: Photobook
unboxing American Chordata #2
From its colophon, “American Chordata seeks to publish and promote short works of exceptional fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as art and photography.” And from my brief experience with it, that’s pretty much what I found…
Huger Foote – ‘Now Here Then’
After averaging something like two photobooks per month in 2015, I’ve sworn a bit of a moratorium on photobook purchases, not as any sort of resolution, per se, but just as a sort of test of will and patience. The end of the year, what with its Listmas and other nudges (gentle and otherwise) to BUY THIS …
Photobooks of the year? – Dave Heath – ‘Multitude, Solitude’ / Ivars Gravlejs – ‘Early Works’
I’m a bit of a sucker for the photo book of the year lists… When some photographer or critic that I admire picks a book of the year, I’m likely to be entering my Paypal password before I even realize it, and I end up with something that may or may not be my cup …
Unboxing Christian Reister’s ‘Alle Katzen Grau’
Initial thoughts: a seeming random assortment of street-type photographs in black & white. If there’s a narrative structure to the book, I missed it in the four or so minutes I flipped through the book during the unboxing. The contrast and grit are fairly high, but muted a bit by the paper and stock and …
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War is Beautiful unboxing
https://youtu.be/PZ942ahyHVk Jörg Colberg does a better job of reviewing it than I will, so go read that (scroll down, it’s the last of 3) and save me making a fool of myself here.
Unboxing Paul Graham’s “The Whiteness of the Whale”
Worst unboxing yet… Apologies. https://youtu.be/Ggdev5_2uFA
