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Book Review: Embrace by Rohina Hoffman

In Rohina Hoffman’s captivating book ‘Embrace’, we witness the beauty of human interactions through intimate photographs that stir emotions and touch our hearts. As we delve into her work and juxtapose it with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves yearning for connection even when physical presence seems impossible. One aspect that particularly
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Book Review: COUNTDOWN by Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds

Capturing History’s Silent Witnesses: An Exploration of Mutually Assured Destruction In the remarkable book Countdown, Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds take us on a visual journey through the quiet and evocative landscapes of the Cold War era as seen through sites and structures associated with nuclear offensive and defensive infrastructure in the United States. Their
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Book Review: Rodney Smith: Leap of Faith by Paul Martineau

  In Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith, the inventive and whimsical photographs from the forty-five-year career of well-known fashion photographer Rodney Smith (1947-2016) are carefully collected. This book serves as the authoritative documentation of the life’s work of this incredibly innovative artist and teacher.  Before finding his expertise in portraiture and fashion photography, Smith
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Book Review: Empire Roller Disco by Patrick D. Pagnano

  The 1970s were a time of great cultural change and innovation. The civil rights movement had won major victories, and the American Black community was experiencing a new sense of freedom and empowerment. This was reflected in the music, fashion, art and pop culture trends of the era. Empire Roller Disco captures all this
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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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