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Book Review: This is Bliss by Jon Horvath

A mix of styles and varied tropes of photographic storytelling are paced throughout Jon Horvath’s first mass published/distributed book, This Is Bliss. Horvath crafts a story constructed from one-part archivist, one-part curator, one-part Beat poet, with a dash of independent filmmaker thrown in for good measure. Horvath draws strength from a variety of styles without
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Book Review: Vokseværk By Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen

A notebook is a set of sheets of paper to write on. Everyone has had one. First to scribble, then to write. Lessons, assignments, notes. Then adolescence and moods. The inner pains that grow with growth. The notebook that becomes a diary. Voksevaerk, literally “growing pains”, is the new work by Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen.
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Book Review: Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise

  “This book is a refuge as it shows how photographs have been consumed and shared by family members, churches, libraries, archives, and photographers. In viewing this book, we see interwoven stories about self-fashioning, representation, beauty, politics, and community memorialized through the camera. The photographs presented here create some of the most compelling visual responses to racialized images that
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Book Review: Gli Isolani (The Islanders) by Alys Tomlinson

I was born in the middle of the largest Italian plain but I have always been attracted by the sea. The sea, with its perpetual motion, is able to cancel time. The sea is essential as a horizontal line that divides the sky from the water. The sea can drown you or, if you are
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Book Review: Café Lehmitz by Anders Petersen

Without knowing it, I’d been exposed to Petersen’s work in the late 1980s when one of his images was chosen for the cover of Tom Wait’s album, Rain Dogs. The album has been described as being about “the urban dispossessed” of New York City, so this perfectly sets the stage for the type of scenes
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Book Review: Beautiful, Still. by Colby Deal

Third Ward is one of 4 wards that originally made up the city of Houston, Texas, in the 1800s. Historically, whites lived in the southern part of the Third Ward, while African Americans were economically segregated and lived north of the Third Ward. In the 1930s, the black and white populations of the Third Ward
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Book Review: Dessert First! by Hanna Quevedo

  Dessert First! has been the example I’ve been comparing against other photography books and zines for the past year. This project was a reminder of how fun it can be to make something with photographs, found art, text, ephemera, and a stretchy band or two to keep all that goodness inside. Like a live
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Book Review: Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole

Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole is a visual exploration of the artist’s personal and cultural identity, as well as a reflection on the relationship between photography and memory. Along with his photographs is an essay, which addresses hunger, fasting, mourning, slavery, intimacy, painting, poetry and the history of photography. I admit that
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Book Review: Invited to Life by B.A. Van Sise

“No matter how it might seem, this is not a book about the Holocaust. This is a story of overcoming.”   Invited to Life contains 90 portraits, each with accompanying text by and/or about the person featured on the page, each of whom are Holocaust survivors. Three essays are included from contributors Dr. Mayim Bialik,
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Book Review: Little Cities by Rich-Joseph Facun

In his second monograph, Little Cities, Rich-Joseph Facun guides viewers on a meandering meditation through Southeastern Ohio by depicting the vernacular post-industrial landscape. In their quiet formality, the images call to mind past dreams, and prompt us to look beyond what can be seen on the surface. Facun’s work explores some of the remaining signs
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