by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
Jim Goldberg’s new book, Coming and Going, is a mess. It’s a mess of photographs, a mess of handwritten text, of notes, letters, a mess of collages of photographs often hundreds of images to a page, a mess of people…
Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so naturally inclined to the printed…
Doing anything between this Saturday and December 29th? If not, head out to Lancaster, California, and see the Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees exhibit at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH). It’s part of a Getty-funded initiative that…
A local church, off Highway One in Half Moon Bay, is known for its yearly book sale. I try to go whenever I can and I’ve found many cool things over the years, even when I arrived late. During the…
Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel CoenPhotographs by Lee Friedlander, edited by Joel CohenPublished by Fraenkel Gallery, 72 pages, published in 2023Purchase via the Fraenkel Gallery page (preferred) or via Amazon I think it was in the book Friedlander First Fifty…
A little over four years ago I started this blog with no better plan other than I wanted to do a “Covid Project,” and I began by writing a post where I begged for a bigger camera: I want a…
scott b. davis: sonora by scott b. davis132 pages and 93 images, Published by Radius Books in 2021 Book information and purchase page at Radius Books or see the Amazon listing There is a useful exercise, when learning photography, where…
Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs. 77 Views by Francis Frith.Introduction by Julia Van Haaften, Selection and Commentary by Jon E Manic WhitePublished by Dover Publications, 1980 Frith was an English photographer in the 1850s who made images…
From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry LopezPublished in 2023 by the Sheldon Museum of Art (at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment Review written during the rainstorms of early…
The stack grows a little shorter. Travels Across the Roof of the World: A Himalayan Memoir by William and Anne Frej.Additional texts by Edwin Bernbaum, Michael Tobias, and Jane Gray Morrison.Published in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in Association…