International Center of Photography Library
Last evening we all got to peruse the library within a library created by Nandita Raman, an ICP/Bard MFA graduating this term. Above is the invite that she sent out to her friends, colleagues and mentors a month ago, and the book truck in the library is groaning with the remarkable submissions. Her cozy reading… Continue reading Atheneum
As an adult, I have always loved children’s books. Before I had kids, I used to position myself close to other people’s children in bookstores as I indulged my picture book habit. The idea was to give the appearance that I was somehow connected to someone else’s unsuspecting child and therefore “vetted” as a children’s… Continue reading Children’s Photobooks: Not Just for Children
On February 6, 2012, it was announced primarily through blogs, Facebook and Tumblr that Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto died at the age of 90. The only mainstream US news organization to run a story on Ishimoto was CNN via its photography blog. As an important link in the postwar dialogue between Japan and America, Ishimoto… Continue reading Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012): The “ Visual Bilinguist” in Japanese and American Postwar Photography
Monsters & Madonnas 