Noah Kalina – ‘Tiny Flock’

If you appreciate good photography and dry, sly humor, and you’re not subscribed to Noah Kalina’s superlative newsletter, do yourself a favor. I subscribed awhile ago, probably about a year after it started, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every weekly email. It’s also how I came to hear about Tiny Flock (and Bedmounds before it).

Noah Kalina – ‘Bedmounds’

2014 was the tail end of the Obama years, which was a time in our country where there was relative domestic peace and prosperity.I could bunch up a mound of sheets and it was fun and meaningless. Back then we smiled. Back then joy was possible. Kalina, Noah. Newsletter #47: “Bedmounds.” electronic mail, MailChimp. Retrieved from …

Zach Klein, Steven Leckart, Noah Kalina – ‘Cabin Porn’

I don’t recall where I first heard about the ‘Cabin Porn‘ blog. It was probably through a podcast or blog or something, and probably related to Noah Kalina, who came onto my radar back in 2012 sometime, when his “Everyday” project update hit and got a bunch of press.* Back in mid-2019, I think, I …

Jason Eskenazi – Departure Lounge

Departure Lounge is the third book in Jason Eskenazi’s trilogy on contemporary fairy tales. Unlike the first two books, I bought this one myself rather than receiving it from the Charcoal Book Club, which delivered Black Garden, the second book, in 2019, and a second edition copy of Wonderland in 2020, and I bought it …

Jason Eskenazi – ‘Wonderland’

Charcoal Book Club is a wonderful thing… after delivering Jason Eskenazi‘s Black Garden in May, 2019 (reviewed here in February 2020, where I half-lamented being unable and unwilling to cough up the $800+ for a copy of the first volume of his trilogy), they (Charcoal) went and delivered, and in August, 2020 a signed, second …

George Georgiou – ‘Americans Parade’

Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures was the Charcoal photobook-of-the-month for June 2020. I preordered Girl Pictures well before its release, and so swapped it out for George Georgiou’s Americans Parade. This was probably my fourth swap, and the process couldn’t be easier: Jesse Lenz and Charcoal Books are super easy to work with. But this isn’t …