First Pictures By Joel Sternfield
This is the first book of Sternfeld's largely unseen early colour photographs. In 1969 Sternfeld began working with a 35 mm camera and Kodachrome film, and First Pictures (Steidl, ISBN 978-3869303093, $78) contains works from this time until 1980. Here Sternfeld develops traits that appear in his mature work: irony, a politicised view of America, …
Figures & Fictions Showcasing Contemporary South African Photography on iPad
Figures & Fictions ($16.99) is an interesting app for iPad showcasing contemporary South African Photography showing the work of 17 photographers living and working in South Africa today. This app contains all the texts and illustrations, video interviews with the curator Tamar Garb and a selection of the artists, audio interviews with a selection of …
Manufactured Totems In Contemporary China
Raphaële Bertho, photography historian, writes about Alain Delorme's Totems: " These workers carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard, chairs, bottles or tires appear as the new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market economy." With …
