Photobooks of the year? – Dave Heath – ‘Multitude, Solitude’ / Ivars Gravlejs – ‘Early Works’

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 …

Huger Foote – ‘Now Here Then’

After averaging something like two photobooks per month in 2015, I’ve sworn a bit of a moratorium on photobook purchases, not as any sort of resolution, per se, but just as a sort of test of will and patience. The end of the year, what with its Listmas and other nudges (gentle and otherwise) to BUY THIS …

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 …

Return of the Espio Returns (2): fully automated

As mentioned previously (here, here, and here), the Pentax Espio 35-70 AF Zoom is a fully automatic camera. I’ve cursed some of its automation in those earlier articles, but if you make some peace with it, accept (and understand its limitations) and just shoot, you can make some pictures with it. In fact, I think …