International Center of Photography Library
By: Akari Stimler Hokkaido is an island in Japan, and it is also the island where my mother grew up. Hokkaido is located at the north tip of Japan and is close to Russia. I always thought of Hokkaido as different from the rest of Japan because of its open spaces, farming culture and… Continue reading Response to Hokkaido 1971–1976 by Eiji Sakurai
by Zoë Gleitsman and Akari Stimler This book contains a large collection of color film photographs taken in the late 90s-early 2000s of the American South-West. The images portray the stunning colors and unique landscapes that are common in this region of the United States. Terry Falke has had a deep interest in this area… Continue reading Response to Observations in an Occupied Wilderness by Terry Falke
Mary Ellen Mark had a long, beautiful, and illustrious career. From Europe, to India, to Ethiopia, to Seattle, she always brought her honest photographer's eye. She captured what was important to her, and tried to show it through the least critical eye possible. She wanted subjects to be comfortable in front of her, to have… Continue reading In the Window: Mary Ellen Marks Revisited
For as long as I have been interested in photography, I have always been fascinated by photojournalism. The pictures that are seen all over the world on the cover of newspapers are the ones specifically made to elicit deliberate reactions from viewers: emotional reactions, a gut reactions, or prompts to think more. Each time that… Continue reading Mary Ellen Mark
The book I chose to write about is a book that allows you to look into the working process of photojournalists. It starts with the work of photographers in the 1930s and 1940s, showing manly war photography. Later you see many pictures that were taken at special occasions as for example during the arrival of… Continue reading Magnum Contact Sheets: 139 Contact Sheets by 69 Photographers
Neutral is the only gender that suits me best (Claude Cahun) by Mike Fernandez And, No. I will follow the water in the air, the trail in the water, the mirage in the pupil…I wish to hunt myself down, to struggle with myself. Sweet, nevertheless…the moment when our heads lean over a photograph (ah! How… Continue reading Neutral is the only gender that suits me best
| Photography & Photographers | "What is your knock-out favorite image of the 83 of Robert Frank's The Americans ?". Straight and spooky question, right? And engaging enough, to start a funny, sometime intellectual, but most important, passionate journey through the various answers of so many photographers around the globe, all collected in a book.… Continue reading ‘The Americans List’ and some things you cannot buy at the store
William Eggleston was the first photographer’s work I ever saw in a museum. I was young, and at the time, didn’t like going on those types of outings with my parents. Art was always too serious (and sometimes scary) for a little girl like me, but for some reason I liked Eggleston’s work. I liked… Continue reading Lily Frances on William Eggleston
I had the pleasure one afternoon of meeting Kevin Messina who publishes artists books under the Silas Finch imprint. Kevin was generous enough to spend some time showing me the Orchard series of books, each by Raymond Meeks and a different artist. Deborah Luster, Wes Mills and Mark Steinmetz have been collaborators. I came across these books on my visit to Les… Continue reading Orchard – Collaborative Journals by Raymond Meeks
“Good friends make you face the truth about yourself and you do the same for them, as painful, or as pleasurable, as the truth may be.” This paragraph is on the back of Corinne Day’s autobiographical photo book Diary. I first opened Corinne Day’s Diary 12 years ago. Fittingly it was a gift from a… Continue reading Diary by Corinne Day – review by Leanne Benson.
Monsters & Madonnas 