This Week In Photography Books: Stephen Shore

by Jonathan Blaustein I just got home from a family vacation. In Colorado. So my brain is not working as well as it normally does. (Must. Activate. Remaining. Braincells.) In fact, I just deleted several paragraphs, and jumped right back to this spot. I never do that. These columns normally flow like the water in […]

This Week In Photography Books: Yusuf Sevinçli

by Jonathan Blaustein “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ”Tis some midnight visitor,’ I muttered, ‘rapping at my chamber door. […]

This Week In Photography Books: Seth Hancock

by Jonathan Blaustein A picture is worth a thousand words. So they say. And “they” are normally right, so we repeat the cliché ad nauseam. But what if they’re wrong? What if words ARE better at some forms of communication? Are we all in the wrong business? It’s an interesting question. These days, images are […]

This Week In Photography Books: Sol Neelman

by Jonathan Blaustein It’s a Thursday. You know what that means. Yup, this is a column I’m going to pull straight out of my _________. Sorry. It can’t be helped. It’s not that I’m lazy. Just the opposite. The last few weeks have been as busy as any I can remember, and I’m about to […]

This Week In Photography Books: Sachiko Kawanabe

by Jonathan Blaustein The sun doesn’t care if you live or die. It’s true. The glowing orb, impossibly far away, hangs in the sky, while we spin around it. Its heat and light enable our existence, yes, but don’t fool yourself. The implacable star has no feelings about any of us. It just is, and […]