Imitation Of Christ By William E. Jones
"My Jesus was a real person who did not perform miracles and was not resurrected after death. He was a political revolutionary who, in the face of circumstances that appeared hopeless, succeeded revolutionising the spirit.” William E. Jones Inspired by a powerful and disturbing photograph of a wounded guerrilla fighter in Nicaragua in the early …
The Americans By Robert Frank
Armed with a camera and supported by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. Frank’s The Americans (Steidl, ISBN 978-3865215840, $39.50) was first published on May 15, 1958 by …
The Package Design Book 2
Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition dedicated to packaging design in all its forms, open to anyone associated with its creation and/or marketing. The Package Design Book 2 (Taschen, ISBN 978-3836529686, $59.99) is an international guide to contemporary packaging design and brings together all the Pentawards winners from 2011 and 2012, containing a …
Underwater Dogs (Book) – The Ballet Of Bared Teeth And Bubbles, Paddling Paws, Fur And Ears
We all have seen the underwater dog photos by Seth Castell at the beginning of this year. Now it is available as coffee table edition, the Underwater Dogs (Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 978-0316227704, $19.99), the exuberant, exhilarating photographs of dogs underwater that have become a sensation. In more than eighty portraits by award-winning pet …
Pride & Glory: The Rockers’ Jacket
Acclaimed and award-winning photographer Horst A. Friedrichs captures today‘s spirit of the rockers‘ jacket with Pride & Glory: The Rockers' Jacket (DAAB, ISBN 978-3942597203, $145). First coming into its own as functional outerwear and later as a symbol of youth rebellion in the 1950s – the leather biker jacket continues to fascinate as much for …
Thank You Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is one of the most accesible artist of the twentieth century. So, why another Warhol book? He died 25 years ago and created and exhibited his thirtytwo Campbell’s soup cans fifty years ago. And we are still talking about his life, his work, and his wig. The eighty interviews in this book with …
Then And Now By Steve Schapiro
"I photographed everything, from presidents to poodles." – Steve Schapiro. Schapiro's Then And Now (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3426-4, $70) are more than fifty years’ worth of pictures. Schapiro is unlocking his archive, allowing a look behind the/his scenes. Matthias Harder asked Schapiro how he did come to photography and to people as his preferred subject …
Punch The Camera Photography Zine
Punch The Camera originally began in 2009 by four friends inspired by snowboarding, photography, and stories of adventure. Keeping the original concepts in mind, Justin Parkhurst decided to recreate Punch The Camera as a bi-annual photography zine. PTC is about bringing together photographers, established and unknown, who have a story to tell with their images. …
Drifting Decade Of Snowboarding
After ten years of documenting the snowboarding scene, photographer Daniel Blom now sums it up in Drifting Decade (ISBN 978-91-637-0614-1, $TBA), a hardcover 240 page book portraying some of the most influential riders of the 21th scenery, on and off the mountain. Mixing documentary style images with crisp action and snapshots, this book presents the …
The Burning House Book Project
Last year Foster Huntington's Tumblr project went viral like a wildfire. Your house is burning. You have to get out fast. Suddenly you are forced to prioritize, editing down a lifetime of possessions to a mere handful. Now you must decide: Of all the things you own, what is most important to you? The practical? …
At The Airport – On The Plane 2
Following the success of On The Plane, published by The Velvet Cell in Oct 2010, which is already sold out, both photographer Phillip Kalantzis-Cope and The Velvet Cell were keen to explore in more detail issues that had been highlighted. Thus the 'On The Plane' series was born. Designed and produced by The Velvet Cell, …
The Bastards Book Of Photography
The Bastards Book of Photography by Dan Nguyen is an open-source guide to working with light; a visual guide for learning your camera’s manual controls in order to make beautiful photographs. This online book just consists of the advice he’d give to help someone starting out. The route you’ll take is to learn how to move past …
A Non Profit Book Of Beards
"I worked on this book for over a year. It's my baby, and I love it. The Book Of Beards ($45) is self published and is not for profit (you will find out "why" later in this article). This book started, well, not as a book. When I completed the first ten beard portraits in …
Type Matters!
What does all the confusing terminology about ink traps, letter spacing and visual centring mean, and what are the rules for good typography? Type Matters! (Merrell Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-8589-4567-5, $29.95) by graphic designer and a senior lecturer (Staffordshire University) is a must-have for every serious typographer and anyone who wants to dig deeper into the …
“Blow Up” Your Mind
Blow Up ($120) showcasing the first collaborative publication by Pool - an Australian photo collective. A showcase of the dissimilar perspectives and common ideals of an artistic collective, the first issue of Blow Up has been created in collaboration with Maud. The design concept is based upon incorporating the idea of a collective of artists …
Surf Riot By Nick Waplington
“We’ve got a riot and we’re making arrests,” Huntington Beach Lt. Jack Reinholtz said shortly after the melee began. He said it was the worst disturbance to occur in Huntington Beach since a 1969 Easter weekend riot. He said in the Los Angeles Times in 1986 that his "group of about 10 officers was surrounded …
Metalheads – The Global Brotherhood
Over the last three years, Jörg Brüggemann, member of the respected agency Ostkreuz, travelled to Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the United States to photograph these fans known as metalheads. In some of the resulting portraits, it looks as if Brüggemann not only travelled to different countries but back in time …
Sequentially Yours by Elliott Erwitt
In this unique book entitled Sequentially Yours (Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8327-9578-8, $85), photographic legend and gifted storyteller Elliott Erwitt presents a series of vignettes—juxtapositions of two or more images made within short intervals—he gives you a sense of what happens next, the end point being sometimes comic, sometimes poignant, and often with a wink. "The characters …
The Dark Lens – Star Wars Iconography Set To A Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
The Dark Lens (Éditions Xavier Barral, ISBN 978-2-915173-70-3, €39, ) by French photographer Cédric Delsaux is one part fantasy and one part reality. In Dark Lens, Delsaux transports Darth Vader and the whole gamut of Star Wars iconography to a post-apocalyptic, urban-suburban landscape of endless parking lots, highrises and wasteland interzones, vacant of ordinary human …
A Nicer Way To Learn About HTML & CSS
The design of programming books has traditionally been quite intimidating and uninspiring. And most of those books read like a 1980s VCR manual. That's why Jon Duckett completely rethought the tech book to make it accessible, relevant, and attractive to a whole new group of readers. What I love about the book HTML & CSS …
Landscape Reduced To Elemental Shapes
Over the last decade, Michael Levin has gained international attention for his sharply-observed black and white photographs. His book Zebrato (Dewi Lewis Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-904587-70-5, $45) is currently in its second run. Barry Dumka writes about Levin, "The lure in a Michael Levin photograph is simplicity but its logic comes from a more complex awareness …
Fish-Work – The Bearing Sea by Corey Arnold
The photographs in FISH WORK - The Bering Sea (Nazraeli Press in conjunction with Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, ISBN 978-1-59005-306-5, $65) by photographer and Alaskan commercial fisherman Corey Arnold capture moments from Arnold’s grueling retreats as a crew member aboard a fishing boat to the Bering Sea. The book, his life long project, has …
Multifaceted Book About Architect Carlo Mollino
Okolo created in collaboration with Studio Činčera, Signpek print and 3DH furniture showroom the wonderful desgined and self published book Mollino. Carlo Mollino (1905–1973), a multifaceted Italian architect, represents one of the most authentic creative figures of the last century. The collective writes about their intention to create this book: "Mollino became a modern Renaissance …
