Category: Books & Publications

Preview of Sally Mann’s new series & book, Proud Flesh

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Jörg Colberg says:

On September 15th, 2009, “Proud Flesh”, a series of new photographs by Sally Mann, will open at Gagosian gallery. Coinciding with the show, Aperture is going to release a monograph containing the photography. In the following essay, prepared for this blog, Sally Mann reveals her thoughts behind "Proud Flesh". The essay and images (which are part of “Proud Flesh”, and which were photographed by Rob McKeever) are © Sally Mann; the images are courtesy Gagosian gallery and Aperture. Click on the images to see larger versions.

GO SEE THE PHOTOS AND READ THE ESSAY NOW at Conscientious. They’re amazing.

 

Aperture’s description of the book:

Children, landscape, lovers—these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann’s take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann’s work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. Now, having studied relationships between parent and child, artist and subject, life and death, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh (Aperture/Gagosian, October 2009) investigates the bonds between husband and wife.

Exquisitely detailed, intimate, psychologically and emotionally intense, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh engages territory most often inhabited by male artists portraying their wives and female lovers as Mann turns the camera to her husband of 39 years, Larry. Beautiful, textured, and provocative, these unprecedented nude studies neither objectify nor celebrate; rather, they go far under the skin to suggest a relationship between man and woman that is profoundly trusting: sensual, sexual, sometimes painful, often indescribably tender, and always unblinkingly honest…

Continue reading at Aperture.

The clothbound book of 33 tritone images on 64 12″ × 14″ pages will be released by Aperture in October of 2009 and will cost US $64.

JPG magazine shuts down

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JPG, a crowd-sourced photography magazine, is shutting down on Monday, 5 Jan, 2008 2009. Here’s their good-bye email (thanks to Jonathan Block for the heads up):

Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

The one thing we’ve been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and support shared among members made it a community in the truest sense of the word, and one that we have loved being a part of for these past two years.

We wish we could have found a way to leave the site running for the benefit of the amazing folks who have made JPG what it is, and we have spent sleepless nights trying to figure something out, all to no avail. Some things you may want to do before the site closes:

– Download the PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections. We’ll always have the memories! www.jpgmag.com/downloads/archives.html – Make note of your favorite photographers. You may want to flip through your favorites list and jot down names and URLs of some of the people you’d like to stay in touch with. You may even want to cut and paste your contacts page into a personal record.

– Catch up with your fellow members. Our roots are in this humble flickr forum and we recommend going back to find fellow members, discuss the situation, or participate in another great photo community. www.flickr.com/groups/jpgmag/ – Keep in touch. This has always been much more than just a job to each of us, and we’ll miss you guys! We’ll be checking the account jpgletters@gmail.com in our free time going forward. We can’t promise to reply to every email (since we’ll be busy tuning up our resumes) but we’d love to hear from you.

– Stay posted. Although the magazine is ceasing publication, we’ll be updating you on what’s happening with your subscription early next week.

We’re soggy-eyed messes, but it is what it is. At that, JPGers, we bid you goodbye, and good luck in 2009 and the future.

Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in Chief

How to link to Blurb books

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If you offer books for sale through on-demand printer Blurb, you have to fiddle with the link before you post it.

The normal thing to do is to copy the address in the location bar of your browser and just paste it. Unfortunately, if you do this while looking at your own book on Blurb, you get a link to view your book in your account. Instead of seeing your book, others are prompted to log into Blurb, and then can’t see it because they’re not you.

The link you get while you’re looking at your book will look something like this:

    http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/394207#store-price

(Go ahead and click it, you’ll see the problem.)

To make a publicly accessible link, take the number out of the link from your account and glue it onto the end of this:

    http://www.blurb.com/books/

So for the link above, you’d have:

    http://www.blurb.com/books/394207

Now anyone can see the book (in this case, Erik Chevalier‘s Quartu Sant’Elena social club). Yay!

Therese Brown’s "Polaroid Kitchen" book

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Therese Brown just release a new book, Polaroid Kitchen:

Like a warm, comforting visit, Polaroid Kitchen offers up visual treats and brief anecdotes that celebrate the everyday wonders of food and home. Captured through the unique media of Polaroid cameras and film, these photos provide an intimate glimpse of both the necessity and delights of food.

Having both seen her photos and eaten her food (which is excellent), I expect the book is going to be good! It costs $17.95 – $31.95 USD (depending on binding) and is available immediately through Blurb.

You can see more of Brown’s work at her web site, This Is What I See, and here on Flickr.

Blueeyes Magazine issue 18 is up

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Issue 18 of online documentary photography Blueeyes Magazine is up!

They write:

We’re happy to announce the next issue of Blueeyes, Issue 18, as well as some great additional features we’ve been rolling out this year, including our Document and First Look features.

Issue 18 features two essays by photographers Travis Dove and Chris Crisman, whose work brings us personal documents of two very different cultures from two vastly different eras of American history. From rural Ohio, Dove captures the spirit and chaos of a counter culture skater’s paradise, while just 300 miles down the road in Titusville, Crisman uses highly stylized portraits to dig into the nation’s and his own family’s history in steel country.

Additionally, the latest installment of our Portfolio series features NYC-based photographer Jacob Silberberg and our new First Look, by Brian Finke, previews images from his book Flight Attendants.

Finally, make sure to check out the first in a two part conversation about the UK editorial market between Andrew Hetherington and Chris Floyd in our Document section. The second part will be published in the next month; stay tuned.

Have a look:

Skate Rats – Travis Dove

Chris Crisman – Titusville Steel

Portfolio – Jacob Silberberg

First Look – Brian Finke

Document – London Calling: Remix

They’re also looking for volunteer web developers (multimedia editor, Flash developer, PHP/front-end developer) to build new features, with an expected work load of 5 hours/week. Contact chris at blueeyesmagazine dot com if you’re interested!

mooncruise* May 2008 issue 3.01 is up!

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Cover of mooncruise issue 3.01, May 2008

The May 2008 issue (Vol 3, Issue 1) of mooncruise*, an online magazine featuring photography and music by international artists, is now up and ready for viewing.

In this issue

Konradja Jakubowski – New York City, USA | Born in Szczecin, Poland
Rodrigo Erades – Madrid, Spain
Maximilian Haidacher – Linz, Austria
Carl Corey – USA
Josephin Mueller – Berlin, Germany
Marmar – Sweden & Faroe Islands
Henri Tikkanen – Helsinki, Finland
Alex Zoubouloglou
Trevor Brady – Vancouver, Canada
Bronwen Hyde – Melbourne, Australia
Sandy Carson – Austin, Texas
Enrique Freaza Viera – Valencia, Spain
Todd Curry – Torquay, Devon, England

mooncruise.com (requires Flash 8)

Blueeyes Magazine issue 17 is up

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Issue 17 of online documentary photography Blueeyes Magazine is up!

They write:

Happy new year and welcome to the first Blueeyes launch of 2008! We are proud to announce the publication of Blueeyes Issue 17, featuring Lisa Wiltse’s passionate vision of climate refugees in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Kelly Shimoda’s graphic record of the last days of (roller) disco in New York City, and a timeless portfolio by Romanian photographer Cosmin Bumbut.

Erin Dorbin "Kalamazoo in Photos" book launch/show, MI, US

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Erin Dorbin's Kalamazoo In Photos book launch/exhibit flyer

Don’t miss the book launch/exhbit for Erin Dorbin‘s new book, Kalamazoo in Photos: A Photographic Catalogue of Kalamazoo’s Most Unique Places. The event is 5–9pm, Friday, 7 Sept., 2007 at the Art Cons Gallery in the Park Trades Center, Kalamazoo, MI, US.

There’s a larger, more readable version of the announcement here.

About the book, Dorbin says:

This sixty-eight-page photo book focuses on the Kalamazoo region. It showcases the many local spaces I have visited with my camera over the past few years. I have features on bowling alleys, motels, and other unique landmarks in Kalamazoo County. However, you don’t have to be a resident of the area to appreciate the book. In fact, Americans nationwide can enjoy this collection that details the shift from places rich with character to that are visually uninteresting.

I used a number of cameras in the creation of this photographic collection including the Holga, Mamiya C220, Yashica Mat, Brownie Hawkeye Flash, Canon Rebel G 35mm SLR, Hasselblad and Diana toy camera. The book includes a camera index in the back to show the reader which camera was used to take each image.

It’s 7 × 7 inches, full color, softcover, and costs US $20.

Without Lenses issue #2 is up

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Erin Malone, editor of Without Lenses, "a quarterly journal exploring the art and craft of lensless photography", says:

This quarter brings a host of new interviews, the start of our technical article series and new features courtesy of our new content management system—Public Square.

Our two interviews are with a representative, Yvette Pasqua, of the Pinhole Camp at the Burning Man festival which begins August 27th and with Lou Krueger, professor at Bowling Green State University, who creates the most interesting dioramas and custom cameras for capturing these spaces.

The technical series kicks off with a basic how-to and a more complex look at making filters on the cheap. These articles are brought to us through the generosity of our technical editor, Tom Persinger, and the f295 forum members who have written these articles. Earl Johnson’s ‘how-to’ piece on building a foam coare 4×5″ camera is featured in this issue. Look for one or two of these technical pieces on a monthly basis.

Lastly, the switch over to our content management system—a feat that has taken the bulk of the last 3 months—brings a host of new community tools. You can now rate and review articles. You can submit story ideas directly into the system and rate ideas submitted by other readers. We will use this forum for deciding what ideas to pursue. Additionally, all readers who contribute reviews or articles, earn reputation, can create a brief bio and link to their own work and basically own their words in the context of this venue.

We hope these new features help provide for some lively discussion about the articles, help find new talent to feature, foster authorship and generally spread the ownership of Without Lenses to you, the readers.

We hope you enjoy this issue.
www.withoutlenses.com