A Look Back at ‘Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography’ by Janet Malcolm
If the number of obituaries written about someone is any measure of their impact on society, Janet Malcolm was a heavy hitter. Google lists more than 40,000.
Photo Book Showcases the 8 Remaining Bear Species on Earth
Remembering Wildlife has started work on a new book that will feature photos of the eight remaining species of bears found in the wild. All profits from its sale will go towards protecting them.
The Best Photo Book Services in 2022
Over the last fifteen years, physical photography has become a rarity, even a luxury, for the everyday citizen. Modern cell phones have provided average folks with all the camera power they could ever need. Social media has rendered the storage and sharing of visual memories a strictly online affair. As with most recent innovations, the price for increased accessibility has been paid for in tangibility. What was once common has become quaint, what was universal is now bespoke.
Photos of the African Wild Dog, An Animal on the Brink of Extinction
The fundraising photography organization Remembering Wildlife has released the latest in its book series focused on what it calls the most misunderstood subject to date: African wild dogs.
Photographer Captures Beautiful Split Photos Above and Below the Sea
David Doubilet, known as a pioneering underwater photographer, has released a photo book that spans decades of his work and shows the symbiosis of the mysterious underwater world and the more familiar surface captured together in a single image.
Composing Photographs Across a Double Page Spread
If I can afford to, I always try to spend time in shops where I know there is a good selection of photo books. The books offer me inspiration for my photographs as well as the way I present my own work in printed publications.
Book Review: The Meaning in the Making by Sean Tucker
A Google search for “Creativity” will return over 2,600,000,000 results. Many of these results are books about creativity, which offer specific advice and actions to take in order to be creative now.
Photos Detail the Complex Relationship of Land, People, and Government
Photographer Mitch Epstein explores the divisive topic of land ownership in the United States and how diverse communities come together to fight against the destruction and confiscation of the land.
Photobook Collective is An Online Marketplace for Photo Book Enthusiasts
Photobook Collective is a new website for photo book enthusiasts, where they can browse, buy, and sell in a community that is specifically designed to tailor to the niche needs of collectors.
A Photographic Homage to Melbourne’s Vanishing Small Businesses is a Form of Time Travel
David Wadelton understands that photography is a form of time travel. Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class, post-war immigrants from Europe.
This $22,000 Photobook of the Sistine Chapel Was Made with 270,000 Photos
If you're always on the hunt for limited edition photobooks and have ultra-deep pockets and bookshelves, here's one for your collection: the The Sistine Chapel. It's a giant $22,000 trilogy that contains views of the Sistine Chapel's art captured in gigapixel glory through 270,000 individual photos.
Tutorial: Make Your Own Hard-Cover Photography Portfolio
When I started freelancing as a professional photographer, I knew I had to put together a printed portfolio. Unfortunately, I found it very hard to find useful resources on the Internet on how to actually do this. As I had some experience in bookbinding I managed to bind my first book by myself, but after three books I realized that in this stage of my career, I needed to have something a little more flexible.
Photographing VP Joe Biden in His ‘Battle for the Soul of America’
With the 2020 election looming large on the horizon, former Vice President Joe Biden's official White House photographer David Lienemann is stepping forward to show Americans the real "regular Joe," as he fondly calls the VP.
A Look at ‘The Decisive Moment’ by Henri Cartier-Bresson
A bible for photographers. That is how Robert Capa described The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson. After almost 70 years it was first published, this book has still a lot to say to photographers and especially to street and documentary photographers.
The Pencil of Nature: Read One of the World’s First Photo Books
Back in 1844, English photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot began publishing the seminal book The Pencil of Nature, the first photo book ever to be published commercially. As it's in the public domain, you can read the book in its entirety for free online over at Project Gutenberg.
An Interview with Photographer B.A. Van Sise
B.A. Van Sise is one of the world's busiest travel photographers and a Nikon travel photography ambassador. A frequent contributor to the Village Voice and Buzzfeed, his work has also been featured on the cover of the New York Times, on PBS NewsHour, the Daily Mail, and on NPR. A number of his photos are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian.
Trey Ratcliff Wrote a Book Exposing How People Cheat at Instagram
Brands spent an estimated $2 billion on marketing through Instagram "influencers" in 2017, and that number is expected to balloon to $10 billion by 2020. The game has become so lucrative that many people are finding all kinds of ways to fake influence in order to reap the rewards. Popular photographer Trey Ratcliff has written a new book that exposes these "cunning tricks."
The Color Photography of Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier is the nanny and American street photographer who posthumously became internationally famous after a 26-year-old real estate agent bought a box of 30,000 of her negatives at an estate sale for $400 in 2007. In addition to her captivating black-and-white photos, Maier also captured color images, some of which are being published in a book for the first time ever.
This Photographer Made a Career of Sneaking Cameras into Rock Concerts
Julian David Stone refers to himself as an "outlaw rock and roll photographer." His impressive archive contains over 10,000 concert photos of some of the biggest names in the history of rock-and-roll, but he shot all of them by sneaking his camera into shows.
This Best-Selling Digital Photography Book is Free Right Now
Heads up: you can currently download one of the most popular digital photography books out there. Tony Northrup is giving away How to Create Stunning Digital Photography as a free eBook download.