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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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.
Worst unboxing yet… Apologies.
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…):
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 …
