By Elinor Carucci
Chronicle Books, $40.00, 120 pages
Closer is exactly what you get with Closer by Elinor Carucci. This release of the monograph, with a very astute and analytical foreword by Susan Kismaric, completely embodies the idea of coming closer to Carucci, to her family, her thoughts and perceptions.
The depth of emotion that comes through with [...]
By Michael Frye
Focal Press, $24.95, 160 pages
Near perfection for experienced photographers, but still pleasant enough for newbies and lookie-loos! Digital Landscape Photography uses the works of Ansel Adams along with the author’s pieces to teach the specifics of landscape photography with a digital camera. The book deeply demonstrates techniques such as light, composition, and darkroom [...]
By Harry Pearce
$It Books, $14.99, 176 pages
As if the world we live in isn’t puzzling enough, here comes a strange little book that will leave you even more puzzled than ever—Harry Pearce’s Typographic Conundrums. What is this book about? It’s a set of 171 typographic puzzles in which common words and turns of phrases have [...]
Text by Seijinsha and Kano Hiroyuki Designed by Tsumura Shoji and Yamamoto Masako
PIE Books, $35.00, 400 pages
In war, it is the victor who writes history. Sadly, the same is true with the arts. For centuries, the world has been dominated by the “victors” of art from Europe and America, while the art of Asia, the [...]
By Stefan G. Bucher
Chronicle Books, $35.00, 236 pages
This book could hardly be called high art, but rather a collection of everyday scenes and observations from a group of graphic designers who simply love taking photos. Covering the everyday mundane to the intangible fleeting moment, the images contained within are as varied and diverse as the [...]
By Dwight Garner
Harper Collins, $26.99, 288 pages
Do you love to read? Do you love books? And do you know why? You may not realize it, or you may not even want to admit it, but part of the reason why you love to read and why you love books is because of the ads that [...]
By Ed Giles Neret; Xavier Giles Neret
Taschen, $200.00, 486 pages
Wheelchair-bound for the significant portion of his days, Henri Matisse, the “wild beast” of color and leader of Les Fauves, in his seventies and eighties, had largely stopped painting. Though this is not to say that he was not creating art; in fact, it was one [...]
By Mario Testino
Taschen, $39.99, 200 pages
Brazil has always been in the news for a number its qualities, one of which is its unabashed sexuality. Just listen to a friend who has been to Rio, or thumb through Mario Testino’s Mario De Janeiro Testino, and all of this is instantly confirmed. In fact, because of the [...]
It’s no secret that Steve Jobs loves Bob Dylan. He said so himself, publicly, a number of times. Also, this fact has been mentioned in some of his unauthorized biographies. And in some of his company’s events (that’s Apple, in case you don’t know), Bob Dylan songs are often piped in [...]
What with financial vicissitudes generally labeled as “The Great Recession” that has plagued Americans and the rest of the world in recent times, everyone who has money to invest have become understandably more careful where to throw their money. This is a natural reaction to intense, unexpected or unusual financial uncertainty and risk. People tend [...]
2.15.10: The Value of Fine Art Photography
More or less, you know how much a bottle of Coke, a tin of Altoids, or a can of Pringles can cost. More or less, you also know that depending on where you buy it, whether from Walgreens or Rite-Aid, from a movie theater’s concessionaire stand or from a [...]
By Harold Davis
Wiley, $29.99, 240 pages
“Point-and-shoot” is called that for a reason—you just point and shoot, almost with no regard as to how it will come out. But if you want to develop a keen eye toward producing dynamically, creatively, artistically composed photographs, let Harold Davis show you how to do it with his book, [...]
By Isabella Rossellini
HarperStudio, $24.99, 176 pages
You will most likely not find any other book and video that contains words such as penis, vagina, anus, and all other body parts of the animal’s sexual and asexual reproduction that will be suitable for kids of all ages as Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno. Nor will you probably find [...]
By Clare McAndrew
Bloomberg, $39.95, 336 pages
While many will readily agree that art is a thing of beauty, not too many people will readily consider it as an investment. However, art is more than just beauty. It is money—big money. In 2008 alone, the international art market is estimated to have turned over more than $65 [...]
By Harry Benson
powerHouse Books, $50.00, 227 pages
After sixty years, the famous photojournalist puts out a book covering his entire career, from the first photograph that was ever published to the most recent photographs taken of President Obama. Harry Benson has covered the major events of the latter half of the 20th Century. From the building [...]
2.5.10: Put a Little Art in Your Life
I have yet to come across statistics that will conclusively prove that engagement with art will make you a better person or will make your life better. Who knows, there might just be some such attempts at quantifying people’s experience with art, but I doubt if such numbers [...]
