Unboxing ‘Some Photos of That Day’

Jamie Livingston took (at least) one Polaroid per day, starting on March 31, 1979 and continuing until his untimely death on October 25, 1997. Hugh Crawford has held on to this collection ever since, and last year, he Kickstarted a book of the photographs to celebrate what would’ve been Livingston’s 61st birthday. Some Photos of …

Unboxing Larry Sultan’s ‘Pictures from Home’

For Pictures from Home, Larry Sultan spent much of the 1980s photographing his parents and trying to come to grips with his own transition into adulthood, “confronting my confusion about what it is to be a man in this culture” (26) and trying “to take photography literally. To stop time. I want my parents to live …

Unboxing ‘All about Saul Leiter’

All about Saul Leiter is a catalogue, published alongside the “Photographer Saul Leiter: A Retrospective” exhibition that’s currently on view at the Itami City Museum of Art (through May 20, 2018). It’s a reasonably thorough exploration of Leiter’s fashion, street, and nude photography, as well as his painting, and makes an excellent introduction to Leiter’s …