I’m a bit of a sucker for the photo book of the year lists… When some photographer or critic that I admire picks a book of the year, I’m likely to be entering my Paypal password before I even realize it, and I end up with something that may or may not be my cup …
Category Archives: Photobook
Unboxing Christian Reister’s ‘Alle Katzen Grau’
Initial thoughts: a seeming random assortment of street-type photographs in black & white. If there’s a narrative structure to the book, I missed it in the four or so minutes I flipped through the book during the unboxing. The contrast and grit are fairly high, but muted a bit by the paper and stock and …
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War is Beautiful unboxing
Jörg Colberg does a better job of reviewing it than I will, so go read that (scroll down, it’s the last of 3) and save me making a fool of myself here.
Unboxing Paul Graham’s “The Whiteness of the Whale”
Worst unboxing yet… Apologies.
Heavy, vol. 1 Unboxing
Missy Prince – Selektor III (unboxing)
A week or so ago, I mentioned that I might start shooting and sharing video of the unboxings that I do of different photobooks and whatnot. Well, here’s my first attempt (really, it’s the second, but that one was a bigger fail even than this one, if you can imagine…):
Tell it like it is
David Alan Harvey’s new reprint of Tell it like it is arrived on my doorstep this afternoon. Do people do unboxing videos of books? Probably somewhere… But if they don’t, they still don’t, since this isn’t a video… just a boring slideshow of an unboxing of a book filled with exceptional photographs of a Virginia family …
