In 2003, looters burned the library at the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad. 70,000 texts were lost. Wafaa Bilal put together ‘168hrs. 01sec’ to memorialize the cultural and historical losses in Iraq, symbolized by the installation of a library of blank, white books at the Art Gallery of Windsor, ON earlier this year. I contributed some money …
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Carrie Mae Weems-‘Kitchen Table Series’
I don’t know where they got my email address—probably some mailing list-type service—but Light Work sent me an email with an advertisement for their 2017 Book Collectors Offer: a signed copy of Carrie Mae Weems’ new book of her 1990 Kitchen Table Series and a 2017 subscription to Contact Sheet for a fairly reasonable price. I hemmed …
New Toy!
I’ve wanted one of these for awhile… Alhamdulillah, now I have one! https://youtu.be/5fMOwcNvcIg
Unboxing Jörg Colberg’s ‘Understanding Photobooks’
Jörg Colberg’s Understanding Photobooks: The Form and Content of the Photographic Book deserves more study and attention than I’ve given it before tapping out this titular review. In short, if you’re expecting a photobook, go somewhere else. But if you’re into photobooks or thinking of making a photobook, pick up a copy: Colberg teaches photobooks in Hartford Art …
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Nate Matos’s “Serif & Silver Compendium”
Serif & Silver was a quarterly journal Nate Matos wrote and published between June 2015 and March 2016. I was completely unaware of it at the time—as I’m largely unaware of many things—and I would’ve remained unaware, if not for The Shoot with Matt Day (iTunes). The interview with Matos inspired me quite a bit and got me wanting …
Thierry Gervais (ed.)-‘The “Public” Life of Photographs’
Back in August, MIT Press ran a 35% off special on all photo books to celebrate Camera Day, and I picked up 5… Four arrived straight away, but the fifth wasn’t even published yet. With essays from Joel Snyder, Geoffrey Batchen, Vincent Lavoie, Mary Panzer, Olivier Lugon, André Gunthert, Nathalie Boulouch, Heather Diack, and Sophie …
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Unboxing Blackwing Volume #344
Blackwing makes some swanky pencils… Four times a year, they put out a special ‘limited’ edition run, and for Q4 2016, they honor Dorothea Lange with Volume 344. https://youtu.be/oBTxLUe0FMU I’m not a huge pencil user, and these are so fancy, I’ll probably end up gifting them or maybe reselling them in a year or two …
