International Center of Photography Library
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
Today’s weather brings to mind a beautiful book in the rare book cupboard donated by one of the library’s greatest angels, Frank Arisman. It is Snow Canvas: Ski, men and mountains with the Leica by Professor Stefan Kruckenhauser [Berlin: Photokino-Verlag Hellmut Elsner, c1937]. That’s right, 1937. It is in English, as it was distributed by… Continue reading Snow Canvas
Monsters & Madonnas 