International Center of Photography Library
As promised, here is the second installment of my 2018 acquisition blurbs. Caleb’s Guide To ICP Library New Acquisitions part 2 ~ EINSTEIN STUDIO - TOKYO/JAPAN JUN 2018 At the New York Art Book Fair we acquired a few issues of Einstein Studio’s ongoing monthly series “Tokyo/Japan”. JUN 2018 is the latest that we have… Continue reading Caleb’s Guide To ICP Library New Acquisitions 2018 part 2
Eugene Atget: The Eternal Inspiration is the record of an exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum that ran from December 2017 till January of the next year. It is part three in a series of exhibits held by TOP about Atget, the previous two showing in 1992 and 1998 respectively. This show specifically highlights… Continue reading Ambiguity and photography
Working at the ICP Library is a gift that keeps on giving. Not only am I surrounded by the canon of photography from past and present, but I'm also exposed to new work every day. I have been blessed to come into contact with the following books this year, the first part of my Favorite… Continue reading Caleb’s Guide To ICP Library New Acquisitions 2018 part 1
Hello dear readers, the Library's Good Boy returns for another vernacular corner 🙂 Today we are looking at "AMC2 Journal Issue 3: Preserves from the AMC Garden" AKA "London 2012 A Visitor's Guide". Archive of Modern Conflict's "Preserves..." is a satirical tourist guide for visiting London during the Olympic Games. To me, this publication is… Continue reading Zine Corner 9
Hello all, Continuing on our Vernacular Photography spree, today in the corner we are taking a brief look at Brad Feuerheim's "TV Casualty: Ride, Johnny, ride". This is definitely one of the more professional, "hi fidelity" zines to be featured in the corner. Information from Josef Chladek states the following: "Softcover, limited edition of 300.… Continue reading Zine corner 8
~♫welcome to the coorner ♬♪ ~ 🙂 In the spirit of ICP Library's "Je est un autre: The Vernacular in Photo Books" show, THE zine corner will do this post about Pierre Le Hors and Tuomas Korpijaakko's mysterious zine BLOTTER, published by the even more elusive New York based NOWORK. This zine is big and black, and… Continue reading Caleb’S Zine Coorner #7 ~ BLOTTER
Caleb's zine corner 6 Tres vol. 3 Today we are opening up "Tres vol.3" from Hui Books in Okayama, Japan. Tres is a series that catalogs the work of three artists in each volume: Masahiro Ikeda, Shinichiro Uchida, and Katsuaki Hata. The title page of volume 3 reads as follows: "Photographers of three living in… Continue reading Zine corner 6: “Tres vol.3”
Caleb's zine corner #5 ~ FUGU -Tetraodontidac- by Yuka Nakashima (2015) This week's subtitle is GET In THE CORNER because I am writing to you from a literal corner of the library to which I have been exiled. Perhaps this physical embodiment of "cornerness" is what has pushed me to write about what is possibly… Continue reading Caleb’s zine corner #5 __________GET In THE CORNER____________
Caleb's zine corner #4 ~ ASHES IN THE OCEAN by Minny Lee (2017) This episode of the zine corner highlights a work by one of our ICP alumni, Minny Lee. We have quite a few of her zines in the collection which are all very much worth checking out, however this post is about ASHES… Continue reading Caleb’s zine corner #4
Caleb's zine corner #3 ~ DON'T SING ANOTHER SONG: Five musicians' favorites by Atsushi Sugie (2014) Good afternoon ~ this installment of the 'corner is a brief look at "DON'T SING ANOTHER SONG" a 2014 photo zine by Atsushi Sugie. The zine was published as a three way collaboration between a shoe making company (NAOT),… Continue reading Caleb’s zine corner #3
Monsters & Madonnas 