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 of the Middle East, scenic views of the day that,…
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 2023. I’m writing this review by headlamp, the vignetted illumination…
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 with the Center for Places. You may remember The Center…
Books On My Desk is written so I can get the books off of my desk. Companion to The Robert and Kerstin Adams Photography Collection At the Denver Art MuseumPublished by the Denver Art Museum in 2022 This is an unusual book for an unusual show. It’s a book (and…
I get knocked down, but I get up again. Just up from a multi-day bout of food poisoning (not recommended) followed by a multi-day internet outage due to the wind bringing down all manner of trees in our little seaside town with its Wild West infrastructure. Here, I continue on…
On my extensive Fall trip I purchased a used book or two—well, ok, I purchased so many I was forced to ship boxes of them home to make room in the FJ Cruiser for me and my camera gear. Here I continue to highlight a few of the more interesting…
When the first copies of my photobook, Computational Photography, arrived in January of 2020 I was so utterly pleased with it. I had worked on it with designer Bob Aufuldish for over a year and instead of being what I would have guessed a normal book deign and production process…
Photography books worth noting So Incredibly Idaho!: Seven Landscapes that Define the Gem State By Carlos Arnaldo SchwantesPublished in 1996 by the University of Idaho Press I may have purchased this book in Idaho, a state normally forgotten aside of the techies who buy expensive houses in Sun Valley, survivalists,…
The reviews of Mike Mandel's new book, Zone Eleven, can make you want to write your own review. The photos in the book are made by Ansel Adams but sequenced by Mike Mandel long after Ansel's passing. The sequencing provides the real content of the book, the way one photo…
In the past year and a half, I've occasionally received e-mails that my book, Computational Photography, had been added to this or that library. In all that was going on--not just COVID but three cross-country road trips, and a busy roster of photo projects in progress, I haven't paid much…