Comments on: Riley & His Story by Monica Haller

By: Henk Otte

Henk Otte — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:49:29 +0000

This book is indeed massively interesting!

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:42:16 +0000

sorry “emotional”

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:39:57 +0000

@wade, Thank you, you nailed it. I’m sorry but in this format it was the authors imotional view and in need of an objective edit.

By: Elizabeth.PhotoNotes

Elizabeth.PhotoNotes — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:27:38 +0000

Best Book Review!

By: wade

wade — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:58:34 +0000

I completely respect Soth and his work/opinions, and will probably seek out the book, but I found the text, especially read out loud, insufferable. While it’s interesting for an artist to edit Iraq war veteran’s photos into a book, why does it need such heavy-handed context? “Art can be a series of acts and challenges”?

If she doesn’t feel the photos themselves communicate enough, given the freedom to edit nearly 500 pages of them, maybe photography is the wrong medium for her message.

By: anoon

anoon — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:19:03 +0000

The footage of the reading of the cover and the Q&A looks really creepy, like one of those taliban videos….

By: scott Rex Ely

scott Rex Ely — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:42:48 +0000

Image and art books are like cerebral dining experiences.

By: Ed Hamlin

Ed Hamlin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:23:36 +0000

I will invest some of my time and money into this book. There are droves of people that don’t see the world as it is because they only see it through a small portal. The portal may be the town they live in, their job, the news channel or news paper and magazines they read. They don’t know what it is like to see what reall war is like, what death is like, what life is like for so many people.

I lived in the south for several years and I had a rude awakening to the reality of life. I thought everyone lived in decent homes not matter where you were in the U.S. Not so, I saw homes with burlap sacks or flow sack as window coverings, walls and no insulation. no running water inside, toilet facilities of the 1800′s in the back yard.

The point is, to criticize someone elses work without having seen the whole of it is walking through life blind, not really experiencing the intention of the work. If it needs a small or large explanation so be it, especially of it gets you connected with the work.

If I hadn’t read this post and viewed the video, I would have never known about or had the intent to purchase the book. So self promotion and marketing is the way to go. I doubt anyone is rolling over in their grave.

Happy New Year everyone.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:30:23 +0000

Another photographer who is his own critic. Just to make sure the viewer won’t think it’s “just photos” he’s looking at. Roland Barthes turns in his grave.

By: Boston Photographer

Boston Photographer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:55:54 +0000

Thanks for posting. I think that the book looks very interesting.