Bildersturm

Chris Suspect: Old Customs (Self-Published, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 22/10/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookBook, Color, Identity, landscape photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Romania, Street Photography, youth1 Comment

Chris Suspect is a street and documentary photographer hailing from the Washington, DC area. His street work specializes in capturing absurd and profound moments in the quotidian and his documentary work is the result of deep dives for years at a time into various subcultures.

Caroline and Cyril Desroche: Los Angeles Standards (Poursuite Editions, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 21/10/202021/10/2020

Contemporary, Photobookarchitecture, Book, Color, documentary photography, housing, landscape photography, Los Angeles, Photography, Street Photography, Urban1 Comment

Los Angeles Standards is a photographic portrait of Los Angeles which offers a way to view the city through 15 typologies which identify this unique city environment. The 1300 photographs were taken between 2008 and 2012 by French architects Caroline and Cyril Desroche during the years they live in Los Angeles. They are organized in order to compare and contrast the design archetypes that they have identified.

Ecce Homo: Gian Marco Sanna and Santolo Felaco (L.I.S.A., 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 20/10/202020/10/2020

Contemporary, PhotozineArt, Black and White, Color, landscape photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

Ecce Homo is a fanzine that collects some photos of the works Spleen by Santolo Felaco and Red Area by Gian Marco Sanna.
Like the aforementioned works, this fanzine investigates about the human condition of our time by trying to represent the mood of the authors through images.

Ann M. Wolfe (Ed.): Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography (Rizzoli Electa, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 17/10/202017/10/2020

Classic, PhotobookAnne Brigman, Art, Black and White, Book, female artist, landscape photography, nudes, Photography, Portrait Photography, self portrait, vintage photographyLeave a Comment

This main volume of a previously published slipcased edition is the catalogue of the major retrospective exhibition that took place in 2018 at the Nevada Museum of Art, and remains the first comprehensive book to chronicle the photography of Anne W. Brigman (1869-1950), one of the most important of all American women photographers.

Melanie Friend: The Plain (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 16/10/202021/10/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookArt, Book, Color, documentary photography, Great Britain, landscape photography, militarisation, Photography, Salisbury Plain1 Comment

In the 1980s and early 1990s Melanie Friend worked extensively as a photojournalist, before focusing on the wider aspects of war through long-term photographic projects. The Plain continues Friend’s investigation of everyday militarisation, revealing how war is embedded in this most English of landscapes.

Short Cuts 16

By: Thomas Schulz 11/10/202021/10/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookArt, Book, Color, documentary photography, featured, Japanese, landscape photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, youthLeave a Comment

Short Cuts 16 presents 4 new photobooks: (1) Rinko Kawauchi: As It Is (Chose Commune / Torch Press, 2020) (2) Felipe Romero Beltrán: Magdalena (Ediciones Anómalas, 2020) (3) Kacey Jeffers: Uniform (Self-Published, 2020) (4) Osamu Yokonami: Kumo (Libraryman, 2020).

Vasantha Yogananthan: Afterlife (Chose Commune, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 10/10/202010/10/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookArt, Book, collage, Color, featured, India, Nepal, Photography, Portrait Photography, spirituality, Sri Lanka, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with The Ramayana and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, the 7-book project A Myth of Two Souls mixes daily life with staged pictures combining a wide range of techniques, including colour photography, hand-painted photography and collages.

Mimi Plumb: The White Sky (Stanley/Barker, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 26/09/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookArt, Black and White, Book, California, landscape photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, suburb, youthLeave a Comment

In her early twenties, the American Photographer Mimi Plumb looked back to her Californian childhood to make a series of photographs about suburban youth.

Walter Moser (Ed.): Helen Levitt (Kehrer, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 25/09/202025/09/2020

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, Book, Color, documentary photography, featured, Helen Levitt, New York, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

Helen Levitt (1913 – 2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem.

Kanade Hamamoto: Midday Ghost (Hito Press, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 24/09/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookBlack and White, Book, Color, daydream, everyday life, female artist, Japanese, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

Midday Ghost is the first publication by Japanese newcomer photographer Kanade Hamamoto. Her quiet, contemplative photographs were all taken within everyday life yet show us a dream-like world beyond reality.

Juan Diego Valera: Diente de Chucho (Ca L’Isidret Edicions, 2014)

By: Thomas Schulz 16/09/202016/09/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookBlack and White, Book, Color, everyday life, featured, Guatemala, landscape photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, UrbanLeave a Comment

Diente de chucho shows the state of confusion and permanent alert of a disoriented photographer in an unknown place. Photographs desperately taken during a 28 day inquiry in Ciudad de Guatemala.

Witold Krassowski: Sackcloth and Ashes (Gost Books, 2020)

By: Thomas Schulz 05/09/2020

Classic, PhotobookArt, Black and White, Book, documentary photography, Eastern Europe, everyday life, photojournalism, Poland, Portrait Photography, Street Photography1 Comment

Sackcloth and Ashes is the result of a lifetime of work by Polish photographer Witold Krassowski. Although he has photographed major historic and political events which have helped shape societies across the world – his best-known images are the ones he took during the transformation of his native Poland following the end of communism in 1989.

Bildersturm

Short Cuts 16

Vasantha Yogananthan: Afterlife (Chose Commune, 2020)

Walter Moser (Ed.): Helen Levitt (Kehrer, 2018)

Juan Diego Valera: Diente de Chucho (Ca L’Isidret Edicions, 2014)

Maude Arsenault: Entangled (Deadbeat Club, 2020)

Alberto di Lenardo; Carlotta di Lenardo (Eds.): An Attic Full of Trains (Mack Books, 2020)

Short Cuts 15 – The Japan Edition

Brenton Hamilton: A Blue Idyll – Cyanotypes and Dreams (Schilt Publishing, 2020)

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Chris Suspect: Old Customs (Self-Published, 2020)

Caroline and Cyril Desroche: Los Angeles Standards (Poursuite Editions, 2020)

Ecce Homo: Gian Marco Sanna and Santolo Felaco (L.I.S.A., 2020)

Ann M. Wolfe (Ed.): Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography (Rizzoli Electa, 2020)

Melanie Friend: The Plain (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2020)

Short Cuts 16

Vasantha Yogananthan: Afterlife (Chose Commune, 2020)

Mimi Plumb: The White Sky (Stanley/Barker, 2020)

Walter Moser (Ed.): Helen Levitt (Kehrer, 2018)

Kanade Hamamoto: Midday Ghost (Hito Press, 2020)

Juan Diego Valera: Diente de Chucho (Ca L’Isidret Edicions, 2014)

Witold Krassowski: Sackcloth and Ashes (Gost Books, 2020)