Maja Daniels’ Elf Dalia “weaves together a narrative born out of the Swedish valley of Älvdalen” according to the publisher’s blurb. It was the Charcoal Book Club photobook of the month selection for (if my counting is correct) June 2019.

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Katil Var was a long time coming. I preordered it back in early 2019 and waited patiently through editing woes, issues with printers, and then COVID-related fun stuff, but it’s finally here! And unusually for me, I’m reviewing it in a timely manner, largely to get some press out for the book.

tl;dr: Katil Var is excellent. It’s perhaps the best pure street photography book I’ve seen from a contemporary photographer. Copies remain available: go buy one now and come back to read (and/or thank me) later. This isn’t a paid ad or anything: I bought the book just like (most) everyone else. I just really think this book needs to be in your hands.

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Doggerland was the area of land that connected England to the rest of mainland Europe back in the last Ice Age. In Brian David Stevens’ book, it’s a more a state of mind, a place submerged, beneath, behind.

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“Prototype Man” is a great little zine from 1980. I found Suzanne Winterberger thanks to In/Sights, and ran to pick up “Prototype Man,” which was pretty much the only thing I could find. It’s a great little zine from 1980, featuring some fun photographs of a rather generic-looking white college professor-type from 1980—shaggy hair, beard, glasses, jean jacket, light pants, too-large tie, low-top converse (I think)—paired with some tongue-in-cheek text. Good stuff.

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I’m not sure where I came upon Ben Mills’ ‘4 Stops’ zines. I don’t follow Mills or his @hipshootfilm on Instagram, nor do I follow any of the photographers in vol. 1 or 2 of the zine. I haven’t listened to the Sunny 16 or Negative Positives podcasts, which are thanked in both volumes, in awhile. Maybe Em at Emulsive posted something that I saw on Twitter? No idea.

However I heard about it, I ended up with the first two volumes.

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I wasn’t going to buy this book… I’m not too interested in archives, and despite spending a semester studying archives and their performance (don’t ask) as part of my MA studies at Stony Brook, and American Origami seems, at first (and fifth) glance to be a rather poor exploration of a particular archive.

But then it came time to renew my Light Work subscription, and as usual, I went with the “Book Collector’s” subscription, which is a book, usually a signed first edition, and a year of Light Work for $75 (at time of writing, and for the last several years), and so I ended up with a copy of it. Given its appearance on a whole bunch of 2019 best of lists, I guess I should probably check it out, so here we go.

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