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After the Kassel festival I suffered from a bit of photobook burnout. The festival is growing to a decent size but 4 twelve hour days lookin...

One of the foundations of Joachim Schmid's work is the thought that there are way too many photographs in the world already so why not p...

Many of you have wondered if 5B4 is dead. The answer is no, I needed a two month break. Not because I am too busy publishing (I always keep ...

Writing in the foreword to his 1996 book Am Boden ( By the Ground ) Boris Mikhailov states; The fourth year of change. Not much has been re...

My love of typography especially that adapted by great designers like Jan Tschichold and others has led to an appreciation of the concrete p...

The debate years ago on whether film was "better" than digital ruffled a lot of feathers. The old guard held tight to their precio...

The idea is to put all these fucking teenage boys in one place and just finish it there. just put the whole obsession with going back in one...

The only show of Andy Warhol's photographs ever exhibited during his lifetime closed three weeks before his death in February of 1987. I...

I cannot read French so I am probably missing some of the nuances of Didier Vivien's Archeologie de la Mine published by Marval in 1994...

The invention of automobiles and the invention of photography both promised a new engagement with the larger world. As gasoline powered engi...

Seen from the clouds, my old suburban neighborhood in Arizona with its dozens of cul-de-sacs must have looked like a gaggle of spermatozoa a...

For years Photoworks has been commissioning photographers to explore areas of the South East of England, the results of those projects often...

Seeing the name Paris scream across the cover of Krass Clement's newest book Paris: Carnet de Recherche I braced myself for disappointm...