Perspective on Landscape

Photographer’s Library – Perspective on Landscape

Title: Perspective on Landscape Author: edited by Bill Gaskins Published by: Art Council of Great Britain 1978 This release of my short review of the Photographer’s Library series will be about a small soft-cover book called Perspectives on Landscape. It was published by the Art Council of Great Britain in 1978. The book brings together …

Photographer’s Library – The Nature of Photographs

Title: The Nature of Photographs Author: Stephen Shore Published by: Phaidon Press Limited, Second edition paperback 2027 Another short review in my series of the Photographer’s Library. Today, I will be writing about Stephen Shore’s book, The Nature of Photographs. It’s once again one of the books that talk more about how to look at …

Photographer’s Library – Photographs Not Taken

Title: Photographs Not Taken – A collection of Photographers’ Essays Author: edited by Will Steacy Published by: Daylight Community Arts Foundation, 2021 For today’s review in my series of Photographer’s library series, I chose a small book which does not include any pictures, nothing at all. It is a 135-page book edited by Will Steacy, …

Photographer's Library - Eliot Porter

Photographer’s Library – Eliot Porter

I own 3 Eliot Porter’s books . In this short article I will try to do a short review of all three of them. Let’s start with another review. Book Title: Eliot Porter Author: Eliot Porter Published by: New York Graphic Society Books. Little, Brown and Company, Boston . first edition 1987 This book is …

Photographers's library - Memorable Fancies

Photographer’s Library – Memorable fancies

Author: Minor White ( Edited by Todd Cronan and Peter C. Bunnell) Title: Memorable fancies Published by: Princeton University Art Museum , 2024 I picked this book up out of interest. I knew Minor White as a photographer. Moreover, he was a photography critic, editor, and photography theoretic. Additionally, he contributed to the field through …

Photographer’s Library – Magnum Generation(s)

I believe every person who have keen interest in photography knows what Magnum agency is. Right? From the Magnum website: Two years after the apocalypse of the Second World War, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour came together to found Magnum Photos. The conflict marked each of them deeply. It left …