For Second Best, Kevin O’Meara attended the Minnesota State Fair—the second best state fair in the country, after Texas—every day of its 2015 run: August 26-September 7. I admire the committment and drive, but I don’t envy the task.
Category Archives: Photobook
Unboxing Jon Wilkening’s ‘Tiny Plastic Box vol #2’
Tiny Plastic Box, vol #2 is, as you might guess, the 2nd volume of Jon’s zine, documenting his film, pinhole, 365 project. I knew more or less what to expect, so it’s less surprising than vol #1, but it’s no less exciting or inspiring.
Unboxing Dev Samaddar’s ‘Twice Around the Sun’
It’s definitely 27Zine… I’m swimming in zines right now, to my absolute glee. One of the newest arrivals is Dev Samaddar’s Twice Around the Sun: a two-year photo journal. It’s a collection his favorite mobile phone photographs from, well, the two trips around the sun he enjoyed during the period between December 28, 2014 and December 26, 2016.
Unboxing Nate Matos’s ‘Blandscapes’ and Littlefields #15
The Blandscapes are a series of 4 (at time of writing) small, economical, easily reproducible and open editioned, quarter-fold zines from Nate Matos. They’re quite different from his Serif & Silver series and Compendium, but no less inspiring. Littlefields is, for me, a beautifully strange sort of photo magazine from Jim Clinefelter. Each ‘issue’ consists of a random selection of 10 …
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Unboxing Jon Wilkening’s ‘Tiny Plastic Box #1’
‘Tiny Plastic Box #1‘ is the first in a series of books documenting Jon’s film-based, pinhole, 365 project. Yes, you read that correctly: film, pinhole, 365. GoGo!
Carrie Mae Weems-‘Kitchen Table Series’
I don’t know where they got my email address—probably some mailing list-type service—but Light Work sent me an email with an advertisement for their 2017 Book Collectors Offer: a signed copy of Carrie Mae Weems’ new book of her 1990 Kitchen Table Series and a 2017 subscription to Contact Sheet for a fairly reasonable price. I hemmed …
Unboxing Jörg Colberg’s ‘Understanding Photobooks’
Jörg Colberg’s Understanding Photobooks: The Form and Content of the Photographic Book deserves more study and attention than I’ve given it before tapping out this titular review. In short, if you’re expecting a photobook, go somewhere else. But if you’re into photobooks or thinking of making a photobook, pick up a copy: Colberg teaches photobooks in Hartford Art …
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