Long term readers of this blog might remember my interest in photobooks that use text. As such, you will likely be unsurprised to find that I preordered Karen Knorr‘s Country Life direct from Stanley/Barker minutes after reading the announcement. In the unlikely event that this is your first visit: welcome! FYI, and if you haven’t …
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Marjolein Martinot – ‘Riverland’
I wholly misunderstood Marjolein Martinot‘s Riverland… If you only read the publisher’s blurb (part of which appears in the back of the book), you might make the same error, and then again, you might immediately see it for what it is. So. Rather than rewriting and pretending nothing happened, in what follows, I reveal the …
Richard Billingham – ‘ray’s a laugh’ (2024)
Richard Billingham’s ‘ray’s a laugh’ is one of those photobooks that I always heard about and never thought I’d see, so when Mack announced a new printing, I jumped on it.
Francesco Saverio Colella – ‘Foto Casti’
I picked up Francesco Saverio Colella’s ‘Foto Casti‘ to sort of fill out the shopping cart on publisher Skinnerboox website when I bought Paolo Zerbini’s Tagada. I was a bit intrigued by the premise, and the price was right…
Paolo Zerbini – ‘Tagada’
Tagada collects Paolo Zerbini’s photographs of various carnivals and fairs in rural Italy, made on film in the 2010s. I picked it up sorta by chance after visiting the publisher’s website to order a different book—Francesco Colleta’s ‘Foto Casti‘—which was, itself, an impulse purchase made after seeing a review somewhere. Given my love of theme …
Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti – ‘Index G’
I don’t know how or from where Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti’s Index G came on my radar. Jörg Colberg was my first guess, and if so, I find no mention of Casotti or Brutti or the title on his blog. It wasn’t @swerdnaekalb either, nor was it Charcoal Book Club…. Maybe it was something …
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Google removed my YouTube Channel
Apologies. Unboxing and Flip-through videos are all gone and any links to them are broken. I know these were helpful and I apologize for any inconvenience.