Just when you thought I was done with the Denver pictures, here I am, back with some more random garbage. Apologies. This really will be the last, until shortly after I get back there anyway.
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Matt Stuart – ‘Think Like a Street Photographer’
Given that I just published a review of Stuart’s Into the Fire, I figured I should probably just go ahead and make this Matt Stuart week and slap up a quick review of his 2021 how-to guide, Think Like a Street Photographer.
Matt Stuart – ‘Into the Fire’
Someone on YouTube alerted me to Matt Stuart‘s Into the Fire about two months before it came out. I can’t find the comment now, and if it’s you, thanks! I missed All that Life Can Afford by about 6 months, that is, it came out just around the time I started buying photobooks, I didn’t …
The Last Ward
Well, all good things must, one day, come to an end… As for less-than-good things… well, some things just can’t end soon enough. The Wardflex, a mid-1950s twin lens reflex camera that I acquired in a grab bag from my dad back in 2020 is one such thing.
Morgan Ashcom – ‘Open’
‘Open’ is a set of 34 prints, made from 4×5 negatives exposed, in camera, in Palestine by Morgan Ashcom in 2009, then re-exposed to fluorescent light by Israeli border guards prior to development, housed in a recycled 4×5 negative box. Ashcom offered these as a sort of “Thank You” gift for donating to Human Supporters, …
Rebecca Norris Webb – ‘Night Calls’
Rebecca Norris Webb‘s Night Calls hit my Best List in a prime spot, sort of, clocking in as the “Best New Book that I Haven’t Reviewed (Yet)…” Well, now’s as good a time as any, and Night Calls is a great one with which to sort of kick of the 2022 review season.
A Walk in the Park
Don’t read too much into the title… It really is just a walk in the park.
