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Book Review: The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell
The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell
National Geographic Focal Point (October 21, 2008)
208 pages/hardcover/200 photographs/$40.00
Sam Abell’s purpose permeates all the way through the weighty pages of his latest book, The Life of a Photograph. Abell provides an important insight to his success: He instinctively and deliberately makes photographs, he does not take them. Abell’s definition of the life of a photograph is all about the progression of a scene. He has trained himself so deeply in this practice that at the end of the day, individual images matter less than staying true to his formula for making them.
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Book Review: Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World by Alexandra Avakian
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
by Alexandra Avakian
National Geographic Focal Point (September 30, 2008)
208 pages/hardcover/150 photographs/$40.00
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World is the first title released in National Geographic Books’ new imprint, Focal Point. In accord with Focal Point’s mission to, “draw on the most outstanding photography of today’s journalistic elite,” Alexandra Avakian’s memoir is exceptionally influential. Avakian’s enviable assignments from leading journals spanning twenty years resulted in a massive body of work. Her 150 selections for this book reflect an exclusively personal and brave assemblage of Muslim life.
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PictureNature finds harmony in traditional stock photography businesss
Contrary to the doom and gloom often heard in the stock licensing industry lately, PictureNature is telling a different story about a small niche rights-managed (RM) library from Scotland that is growing the old fashioned way, one customer at a time. The specialty library was started by Fenneke Wolters-Sinke a former Financial Advisor who moved from the Netherlands to Scotland in 2005 and was inspired by the natural beauty of her new home country to launch a local stock photography business featuring images of nature and the environment. “Our goal is to develop relationships with creative professionals in the stock industry who prefer working with an independent and relatively small supplier” adds Fenneke.
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Book Review: The Eternal Light of Egypt by Sarite Sanders
The Eternal Light of Egypt by Sarite Sanders
Thames & Hudson (September 30, 2008)
220 pages/hardcover/126 duotone photographs/$50.00
Sarite Sanders issues the results of a thirty-year reconnaissance mission in her book, The Eternal Light of Egypt: A Photographic Journey. Conquering the sensitivity of infrared, Sanders’ impressions of Nile treasures are most welcoming. As the full gray spectrum is no longer hidden, gods and goddesses, mummies, rulers, colossi, temples and portals reveal a new likeness with prideful charm. Along with her timeless subjects, Sanders can rejoice with this mammoth personal and professional achievement.
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Book Review: Animalia by Henry Horenstein
Animalia by Henry Horenstein
Pond Press (June 30, 2008)
80 pages/hardcover/64 duotone photographs/$40.00
Professor Henry Horenstein remixes his acclaimed photographs of land and sea creatures, adding 35 unpublished images, into his latest book, Animalia. His parade of subjects in sepia marches with pride and precision through the lens and into the mind’s eye. As an artist, Horenstein connects humans to animals though emotional macro studies. As a scientist, he patiently waits to press the shutter on an unsuspecting world.
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants tells what to do with all your travel and landscape imagery
You’ve undoubtedly been wandering around for weeks now, muttering to yourself: I wonder how the heck Mr. Stock Smarty Pants has been weathering this nasty economic downturn that I’ve heard so much about? Your concern is greatly appreciated, and MSSP wants to assure all of his loyal readers that he’s doing just fine, thank you. Oh, sure, the recession has caused him to tighten his belt just a bit: he’s had to temporarily discontinue stocking his cabinet with single-malt Scotches and switch to Dewar’s, and instead of three weeks on the Riviera in August, he’s prudently decided to cut back to just fourteen days on the French coast. But, MSSP remains generally optimistic about the state of the economy, and why shouldn’t he? He was wise enough to unload his Getty Images stock near its high of ninety five bucks a share back in the fall of 2005 instead of the puny $34 each sucker…uh, shareholder received when the company’s sale to Hellman & Friedman closed a few days ago! Hey, they don’t call him Mr. Stock SMARTY Pants for nuthin’!
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Book Review: Time Passes by Robert Adams
Time Passes by Robert Adams
Thames & Hudson (April 2008)
100 pages/hardcover/32 tritone photographs/$40.00
Robert Adams, master of recording transforming topography, releases Time Passes this year in conjunction with his recent Paris exhibition, On the Edge. Most of the book’s 32 plates show extending seascapes conveying Adams’ meditation on what he terms transience. His endless hours watching the Northern Pacific tides, catching dancing light and rolling liquid, have produced straightforward and submersing stills.
