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Books for Posing
Prior to the emergence and popularity of image libraries and stock photo agencies, The Fairburn System of Visual References was considered the holy grail of visual reference material for artists of...
View ArticleCounting with Paul Octavious
a sampling from the series the BOOK COLLECTION by Paul Octavious
View ArticleThe Return of Mother Nature: The Miniature World of Lori Nix
Circulation Desk, 2012 Lori Nix things big and works small. Her project "The City", which began in 2005, seeks to recreate in miniature everyday urban spaces in a post apocalyptic world. The people...
View ArticleDIY: Print-On-Demand and the Rise of the Photobook
Much like the changes to the book trade that took place with the advent of online bookselling; the photobook world has exploded with the introduction of POD technology. In both cases technology has...
View ArticleA Book Returns to Nature
Day 68 with snow The idea is simple enough, place a book outside and document its decomposition. Tim Holt chose Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World as his subject and left the book...
View ArticleAll Along the Watch Tower: The First Jehova’s Witnesses
Portraits of Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), founder of the Society They first called themselves the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society and they were the earliest incarnation of what are now known...
View ArticleAll Along the Watch Tower: The First Jehova’s Witnesses
Portraits of Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), founder of the Society They first called themselves the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society and they were the earliest incarnation of what are now known...
View ArticleKirsty Mitchell’s ‘Wonderland’
'Wonderland' began in 2009 as a series of works dedicated to the memory of her mother, an English teacher "who spent over thirty years inspiring generations of children." While grieving the loss of...
View ArticleReading Pictured: Then and Now
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. - Victor Hugo Hundreds, possibly thousands, of images of people reading are uploaded to the web everyday. Us book...
View ArticleCollecting Opium
The drug of choice for most of the world in the 19th century was Opium. The Western powers cultivated it, created demand for it in the East and then went to war to suppress it leaving a trail of...
View ArticleIn the Stacks: The Tokyo Sightseeing Photo Club
The latest installment of In the Stacks takes us through the Flickr archive of the Tokyo Sightseeing Photo Club, a group of photography enthusiasts who snap and click their way through the city. Here...
View ArticleIn the Stacks: The Getty Museum opens up
Unknown , Fragment of Homer’s Odyssey. Greek, 1st century B.C. The venerable J. Paul Getty Museum has opened its digital doors with the launch of their Open Content Program. Today the Getty becomes an...
View ArticleTransformer: Mick Rock & Lou Reed
Deluxe edition of Transformer The latest worthy production from Genesis Publications features legendary rock and roll photographer Mick Rock and Lou Reed teaming up to share the highlights of their 40...
View ArticleHorror writer’s ‘Death Collection’ to be unveiled at Northwestern
Northwestern University is set to unveil a collection of death related goodies courtesy of noted horror novelist and screen writer Michael McEachern McDowell. McDowell wrote dozens of novels and the...
View ArticleStill Life with Book: A series by Juliette Tang
“I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her.” -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations If we had a Book Patrol Hall of Fame photographer Juliette Tang would make it in...
View ArticleIn the Stacks: Leslie Jones at the Boston Public Library
Gertrude Fisher takes unusual position to read the latest novel of her husband M.S. Merritt. November 26, 1932 Though he worked as staff photographer of Boston Herald-Traveler from 1917 to 1956 Leslie...
View ArticleIn The Stacks: William Burroughs Through the Lens of Allen Ginsberg
William Burroughs in front of sphinx at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. 1953. For this installment of In the Stacks we visit the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto and...
View ArticleA man, his camera and the library: Robert Dawson and the American Commons
A public library can mean different things to different people. For me, the library offers our best example of the public commons. For many, the library upholds the nineteenth-century belief that the...
View ArticlePicturing the Record Collector: Dust & Grooves by Eilon Paz
Born out of his successful website of the same name photographer Eilon Paz has now collected a healthy sampling of his portraits of record collectors from around the world in his debut book; Dust and...
View ArticleChris Jordan : “Edge-walking the lines between art and activism”
It’s hard not to appreciate the work of Chris Jordan. His work Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003 – 2005) and his ongoing series, Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009 –...
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