International Center of Photography Library
Vitturi, Lorenzo, and Sam Berkson. Dalston Anatomy. London: Jibijana and SPBH editions, 2013. For Dalston Anatomy, Lorenzo Vitturi embedded in London’s Ridley Road Market making sculptures and collages with materials he found in the marketplace’s debris. The work mimics the makeshift nature of the market itself. Dalston Anatomy, the monograph, depicting this work, is bound in Vlisco fabrics in bright… Continue reading Notable New Acquisitions of 2013
In lieu of the excess of photo books that appear now, I will limit my list for 2013 to items that animate my interests, rather than a hierarchy of quality. My interests for 2013 include: nineteenth century "hidden mothers", war photography, industrial photography, documentation, snapshots. All are items related to constructions of memories and histories;… Continue reading A Prime Number of Photo Books for 2013
How could I possibly cast a wide with the net for this task of selecting great photobooks? The more I see, the less I think I know about what makes it to print each year. While I try to take a look at everything that comes into the library, there is a tremendous amount of… Continue reading Deirdre’s Best of 2012-13
There are other great photobooks. Of course there are many others, and my colleagues have selected some of them and therefore I felt that I didn’t have to. Then again there is also a little duplication. So here we are and these are the ten photobooks I have selected for 2013 and I thought… Continue reading Ten photobooks from 2013
Monsters & Madonnas 