Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 is the long-awaited catalog from the (in)famous MoMA show, “New Documents” of 1967, which ushered in, or, rather, legitimized the era of straight photography, the casual snapshot of the ordinary subject, and the classic portrait of the outsider.
Category Archives: Photobook
Unboxing ‘Factory: Andy Warhol’
Factory: Andy Warhol was Stephen Shore’s High School and BFA all rolled into one, more or less.
Unboxing ‘Fred Herzog: Modern Color’
Fred Herzog: Modern Color, has been sitting in my “to review” pile for nearly a year (or more?), since I jumped on a pre-order of it (if I recall). I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for… time to look more closely at it, probably, and the work deserves more time than I’ve given it. …
Unboxing ‘Photobook Phenomenon’
I got hip to Photobook Phenomenon many months ago, thanks to Jorg Colberg and Conscientious. It’s less a photobook than a collection of zines, featuring theoretical and historical essays, a survey of great book(cover)s from Martin Parr’s collection, and a poster, all held together in a sealed slipcase with a pull-tab that you need “Remove only …
Unboxing ‘Stephen Shore’
Stephen Shore is a new publication from MoMA, designed to accompany its 2017-18 Shore survey. It’s an interesting sort of exhibition catalog, and while it has examples of Shore’s work from over 6 decades, through all of his different styles formats, the arrangement of the book bothers me a bit.
Unboxing ‘Uncommon Places’
What can one say about Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places that hasn’t already been said by someone more qualified, more intimately familiar, more theoretically grounded, more generally knowledgable? If you haven’t held this book in your hands and flipped slowly through the images, you owe it to yourself to do so, one day.
Unboxing ‘Fabryka’
Barnaby Nutt is on a roll… first there was ‘No Constructive Conclusions’ with Wojtek and Pavel, then ‘Nighttime Adventures in Neopan’ with Smith, and just barely 2 months into 2018, here he is with ‘Fabryka,’ a solo zine of industrial estates in various stages of abandonment, the decaying factory towns that support(ed) them, and the …
