+ Robert Frank: London/Wales + Setting the Stage for "The Americans"
The collaborative effort of Scalo in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), London/Wales is a photography collection 72 early 1950's tritone images taken by the famous and "museum-worthy" photographer Robert Frank. An informed and informative text is minimally present in this ...
Helping us See Again...Beyond Critiques of American Consumer Fetishism
+ Excellent, beautiful book!
I loved this book, partly because I love this photographer's eye. Are the pictures documentary? Sure. Are they wry? Often, though not always. They are beautiful in the most strange, farfetched, formal aesthetic sense (shapes, colors, imaginary visual lines). That about sums it up. Stephan Shore's ...
In fact there is not much to say. Robert Frank is probably the greatest photographer alive, his bool The AMericans being the true bible of the second half of the 20th century. here we have a collection of well-known and less-known pictures displayed in a fascinating scheme bringing about unheard of ...
" Snowbound delivers what one hopes to see (but is harder to find these days) in an emerging photographer-knowledge of her medium, a rich and varied inner life, fearlessness in vision, and an in-depth study of her chosen subject."-Carol McCusker Photographs with the tranquility one might feel after a fresh snowfall. Five winters long, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson took ...
Alone on dirt roads, at city curbs and in vast parking lots, the subjects of Bernhard Fuchs's color portraits wait and rust. He writes of them, "On my bicycle tours, time and again, I saw passenger cars, buses and trucks that just stood around. I think my first reaction was to look for the absent owners. Since I hardly ever saw anyone, I stayed alone with the situation, and a relationship to ...
+ Another wonder from Jeff Brouws + "Readymades: American Roadside Artifacts"
Yet another roadie book but `Readymades' is a cut above the usual photographic selection of what can be seen along the nation's back roads. For a start the book is landscape, just the right shape for images that are basically horizontal. Secondly the photos are divided into sections rather than ...
This collection of beautifully composed black and white photographs captures life in central Texas chiefly from the 1940s through the 1960s. Subjects covered include just about everything from typical scenes of daily life and business to Christmas cards, lake outings and contest winners. Includes a ...
Darin Mickey's new book 'Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget' is a superb visual account a his family living in Kansas City. The photographs are focused on his father a salesman and a hard working class man. While the book remains thematic Mickey's individual photographs stand on their own merit.
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I love this book, a collection of unusual self-portrait work by Lee Friedlander. Often he's only shown as a shadow, or reflection. In many cases, his use of his image is a clever and even humorous comment on the other elements within the photograph. Sometimes, you even must hunt for him.. "where's ...
The New West is one of the most significant works of photography in the 20th century, presenting the reality of the western landscape in harsh contrast to the mythology of the other Adams... The pictures cut straight to the bone, showing the damage done to a landscape by our progress, but always ...
A truly beautiful collection that instills a great appreciation for the wide open spaces of nature in the reader
+ Excerpts from review by Christopher Wiebe, Dec 4, 2005, Vue Weekly, Edmonton
Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views is a stunning, full-color photographic gallery of Saskatchewan's countryside. Only the barest minimum of commentary supplements this collection of stunning images of grasses, open parklands, crop fields, prairie, snowfields, hills and more. A truly beautiful collection ...
+ A significant contribution to contemporary landscape photography + A new masterpiece
They're everywhere and so like the title of this book: nowhere. Wherever the tarmac leads signs of commercial chaos and eventually abandonment will probably appear. In theory nothing wrong with that, businesses come and go but it seems unique to America that a gone business is remarkably ...
Great to deal with. Would have recieved product as scheduled if DHL did'nt lose it for a couple of days during shipping, but this was not the sellers fault.
Long overdue, this give this long over-looked artist a place to shine. The color reproductions are marvelous and have a woderfule bygone era quality about them.
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