‘The Blueprints of Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, 1950’

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. This is, therefore, …

Stephen Shore – ‘The Gardens at Giverny’

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 …

David Gibson – ‘Talk on the Street’

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 …

Karen Knorr – ‘Country Life’

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 …

Marjolein Martinot – ‘Riverland’

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 …