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Book Review: Shooting With Soul

Alessandra Cave’s 2013 book Shooting with Soul offers individuals from all backgrounds a simplified approach to digital photography and the art of visual journalism. Cave guides readers through a...

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Book Review: Another Twenty-Six Gas Stations by Gregory Eddi Jones

Emerging artist Gregory Eddi Jones’ debut publication, Another Twenty-Six Gas Stations, revisits the idyllic work of Ed Ruscha after a transformative fifty-one years. Jones exposes the nature of...

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Book Review: Dust by Nadav Kander

The embers of a raging inferno, ignited by the nuclear arms race, are all that remains in the desolate region between Northwest Russia and Kazakhstan. This race became the focal point of the Cold War;...

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Book review: Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe

While most photography aficionados know of the famous Robert Mapplethorpe who changed the photography world with his shockingly exposed photos, many forget about his biggest fan, lover, and benefactor...

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Book Review: Transition by Lauren Marsolier

Image Above: Lauren Marsolier, Landscape With White Chair, 2011, Courtesy of Robert Koch Gallery and Galerie Richard   A perpetual state of impermanence is apparent in the pages of Transition, and...

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Book Review: Kathy Ryan’s Office Romance

Image Above: 6:36pm, July 3, 2013, from Office Romance, photographs by Kathy Ryan (Aperture, 2014) ©Kathy Ryan   The ability to imagine another’s reality, to abandon oneself to a stranger’s memories...

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Book Review: ABCDuane by Duane Michals

Image above: Duane Michals, Voltaire, 2013; Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, 1980 © Duane Michals   In the early twentieth century, the United States fled from the despotism that had stunted its nation....

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ICP LECTURE & BOOK REVIEW: Jean-Pierre Laffont’s Photographer’s Paradise:...

Image Above: The book cover for “Photographer’s Paradise” by Jean-Pierre Laffont; Jean-Pierre Laffont who was documenting a demonstration near the Washington Monument. Washington, D.C. May 9, 1970, ©...

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Book Review: Gangsters & Grifters by the Chicago Tribune

Image Above: Murphy, pg. 36: “Gertrude ‘Billie’ Murphy, 22, is brought in for questioning in the murder case of Michael Stopec, who was shot and killed in an apartment hotel, circa July 1927. Murphy...

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Book Review: Early Black and White by Saul Leiter

Image Above: Saul Leiter, Self-Portrait with Inez, c. 1947  © Early Black and White by Saul Leiter, published by Steidl www.steidl.de A nude woman is sprawled along the wrinkled sheets, her elongated...

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Book Review: Early Color by Saul Leiter

Image Above: Book Cover © Early Color by Saul Leiter, published by Steidl www.steidl.de   It is quite difficult to capture a moment. Every time it settles on the impenetrable dust of time, the world...

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Book Review: Mona Kuhn’s Private

Image Above: ©Mona Kuhn “Private” The enigmatic Mojave Desert is the setting of Mona Kuhn’s latest photo book Private, published by Steidl. For 2 years Kuhn captured the prehistoric landscape and its...

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