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"Home is where the heart is" "Home is where the hatred is" The notion of Home is complicated. Today we are featuring some of our favorite books that examine our relationship to "home." Longing to be back, the home we all share, finding a new home, returning home, dysfunctional homes, and love. AMC² Issue 5:… Continue reading Resource Guide: Home
For all you graduating students, here is a useful bibliography complied by our summer intern, Sadie Hope-Gund. Vocational Guidance for Artists Art-work: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue your Art Career, by Heather Darcy Bhandari. (Free Press, 2009) [N6505.B53 2009] How To Grow as a Photographer, by Tony Luna. (Allworth Press,… Continue reading A Bibliography for Working Artists
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
Artists’ Photography Books: A Different Kind of Order A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, is a global survey of contemporary photography and video and will be on view at the ICP Museum from May 17 to September 22, 2013. The exhibition includes an installation of recent photobooks from 2009 to the present which… Continue reading A Different Kind of Order (Books at the ICP Triennial)
Bernard Yenelouis' Favorite 10 photobooks 2012 1. Dispatches (Ohio, Upstate, Michigan) – Alec Soth & Brad Zellar, Little Brown Mushroom 2. House of Coates – Brad Zellar and Lester B. Morrison, Little Brown Mushroom 3. Gayhouse – William E. Jones, Septembre Editions 4. Jeans, Karlheinz Weinberger, Idea Books 5. This Folder May Contain Clippings and Other… Continue reading Bernard Yenelouis Favorite Photobooks of 2012
Matthew has asked me and a few other folks to post lists of our own favorite books of 2012. So, here is a list of my favorite photobooks (or, in some cases, books about photography) from 2012. They are held together by no underlying theme and listed in no particular order, and the list contains… Continue reading Liz Sales Favorite Photobooks of 2012
Consilience Photographers Operating at the Intersection of Art and Science In many ways, art and science are likely bedfellows. Both support a culture of experimentation that is inspired by curiosity, while attracting individuals interested in generating fresh ideas and forging new paths. Consequently, there is a discoverable history of unifying practices, practitioners, and organizations dedicated… Continue reading Consilience: Photographers Operating at the Intersection of Art and Science
International Center of Photography Weegee at his typewriter in the trunk of his 1938 'Chevy’. Unidentified Photographer. ca. 1943. The International Center of Photography. Dimensions: Image: 11 15/16 x 9 3/16 in. (30.3 x 23.3 cm), Paper: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm), Mount: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm); Purchase, with funds provided by… Continue reading Selected Digital Image Libraries, Collections and Museums: An Illustrated, Annotated Webliography
More Cooning with Cooners (edited by Kalev Erickson) Archive Press, London (February 28, 2011) ISBN: 0954709195 This is a 60-page book from the Archive of Modern Conflict (London) from earlier this year which I have only recently had a chance to examine more closely. It is a small square book (21 x 21 cm), well… Continue reading More Cooning with Cooners – Archive of Modern Conflict
The Center for Land Use Interpretation or CLUI is “Dedicated to the increase and diffusion of knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived”. CLUI employs different methodologies to achieve their mission which include: engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, conducting tours and educational field trips, exhibition and publication. CLUI is situated in… Continue reading The Center for Land Use Interpretation – Interview with Matt Coolidge
Monsters & Madonnas 