I’m something of a sucker for so-called alternative processes, and when I received an announcement email regarding Stanley/Barker’s publication of The Blueprints of Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, 1950, I started to insta-buy, then remembered that Rachel Barker once offered to send me review copies on request, and so here we are.
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Continue reading “‘The Blueprints of Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, 1950’”I’m not sure where I learned of The Gardens at Giverny. Did Mack or someone reprint it? Did @swerdnaekalb give a little thumbnail review on his Insta?* Who knows. I bought it maybe 18 months ago and my memory is dim. I’m a Shore fan, though, and any inexpensive older project of his is (for me) worth adding to the library.
Continue reading “Stephen Shore – ‘The Gardens at Giverny’”David Gibson’s Talk on the Street is a limited-edition sort-of retrospective of the InPublic founding member’s work over a 25 year period or so. I snapped up a copy largely for fomo reasons, and partly because Gibson shares little reminiscences and thoughts about each picture, so it’s another in my sub-collection of photobooks that use text.
Continue reading “David Gibson – ‘Talk on the Street’”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 gathered this fact already: I have a strong interest in photobooks that use text.
Continue reading “Karen Knorr – ‘Country Life’”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 limits of my imagination and point to the importance of doing just the tiniest bit of research before making any bold claims.*
Continue reading “Marjolein Martinot – ‘Riverland’”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.
Continue reading “Richard Billingham – ‘ray’s a laugh’ (2024)”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…
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