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Photography can still triumph in a visually-saturated world, argues Lewis Blackwell in a new book...
--Creative Review, December 2009
--Creative Review, December 2009
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The images in the book are ok, nothing fantastic, though some are very inspirational.
For each of the photographers in the book, you get a little piece about them, what makes them tick, and why photography!
For what I bought this book for it's what I expected though essentially it's a coffee table book.
For each of the photographers in the book, you get a little piece about them, what makes them tick, and why photography!
For what I bought this book for it's what I expected though essentially it's a coffee table book.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Was not happy when the description said new and it arrived with scratches and a few rips round the edge but it does the job and was over all ok with it. Really great book with amazing images.
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Perfect balance between art and craft, between words and images
5 Jun 2011
Format:Hardcover
I saw this book a while ago and found that several images and several of the essays were haunting me to the extent that I felt compelled to go back to the store to buy it a month later. I recently started making photos again, shooting medium format film, after a long hiatus, and find that this book strikes the perfect note between craft and art to both re-inspire me certainly, but above all to challenge me to think more deeply about making photographs than I may have previously.
Straight Speak
1 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
With all the art speak about it is always good to have the artists speak for themselves...of course sometimes they contradict what you may have heard them say at that opening years ago, but even so I'd rather speak for myself about my own work, the majority of the time, whilst I am still on this earth to do so, then to have a critic or reviewer take a stab at it! I'll never forget an Art History Conference I attended many years ago where a photo art historian, who obviously had spent little time in the dark room, went on and on about how amazing photograms were and how mysterious. Sure, they are visually special but I do them as the second project with my year 1 photo students. They do really unique and creative stuff, after all they are artists in the making...and most have never done a darkroom experience before, especially camera-less picture making, but it really is a very simple idea.
So here is a pretty special book as along with a few choice words from the artists you have some pretty spot on reproductions of a few of their works. In most cases the photographers seem to have been wisely chosen whose with contributors to the media who will be recognized once they have left the planet, unlike some books with images that grace coffee tables but few walls and fewer yet substantial collections.
I purchased this for my students and I think it is going to be a favourite with that spot on the bookshelf frequently empty!
Rita Dibert
HOD Photography
Quay School of the Arts
Whanganui UCOL, Whanganui, New Zealand
So here is a pretty special book as along with a few choice words from the artists you have some pretty spot on reproductions of a few of their works. In most cases the photographers seem to have been wisely chosen whose with contributors to the media who will be recognized once they have left the planet, unlike some books with images that grace coffee tables but few walls and fewer yet substantial collections.
I purchased this for my students and I think it is going to be a favourite with that spot on the bookshelf frequently empty!
Rita Dibert
HOD Photography
Quay School of the Arts
Whanganui UCOL, Whanganui, New Zealand
really enjoyable
13 Aug 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
i've really enjoyed this book. it's a good cross section of some very good contemporary photographers. it's interesting reading concise extractions of interviews. it could be more amazing in terms of picture choices and quotes, but there are still exceptionally good photographs chosen for many of the photographers, and many of the quotes are very informative and thought provoking. it's a solid A-, which i think is hard to come by with this kind of book.
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