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…
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…
Redmond O'Hanlon's basic writing strategy is to put himself in some remote and dangerous place and to write about how he overcame obstacle after obstacle to his very survival and found his way back. This is a strategy that will be familiar to many artists. Bill Bryson thinks the world…
Forty-eight years ago John Szarkowski, the director of the Museum of Modern Art's photography department--a department that more or less was leading the world in taking photography seriously as an art--published a book entitled Looking at Photographs. In his book he shared one hundred images from the Museum's collection, some…
After going through William Frej's exciting photobook, Maya Ruins Revisited (see my review here), that excitement carried on and I wanted to dig deeper. Do you want more, too? The first place to start is the most obvious: One essay in Frej's book offers a good summary of what is…
Rephotography—projects that seek out the tripod holes of past photographers to reshoot the same images of the same thing, in the same place, maybe at the same time—have their fascinations but, in the end, impart lessons on the same general theme: Man is bad. Man is bad because man tears…
The Internet loves listicles—articles of the top ten this, the world’s best that. Easy to read and easy to write, they score high in Google’s search rankings because they are easy for the algorithms to parse and the search results are easy for the viewer to scan. Here’s my listicle:…