What May Come: On the Future of Photobooks
I'm jumping in at literally the 11th hour to add a few thoughts to this discussion generated by Andy Adams and Miki Johnson.
Point-the-first: I'm of the opinion that
1) photobook addict
One Thing Done Two Ways: Elijah Gowin and James Luckett on Making a Book
In 1982, Bill Moyers was conducting a PBS series titled Creativity, and in that year he did a 30-minute episode dealing with the working life of two very different photographers, Gary Winogrand and
Guilty Pleasures and Publishing, Part I: On Nazraeli Press, Asako Narahashi, Ando Hiroshige (and tea)
I've been thinking about art publications lately, and art presses, publishing houses, the things that get made in them and the kinds of aesthetics and philosophies that get bundled between the pages and pushed along with the publication itself. Over the next few posts, I want to perform a kind of in
The Philosopher and the Trickster: Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki
Moriyama's photographs consistently evoke dark, struggling identity-in-the-making. They are grainy, full of contrast, and seem to be about the eternal underside of things. Araki's photos, in contrast, seem to be puerile, joyous reaction against such moribund thoughts...