Reporting on the Art of the Photobook
They say that the Shah of Persia preferred Ostend to Monte Carlo during the Belle Epoque. But I would personnally never want to be teleported to those days when a bunch of creepy bourgeois dressed like dolls before entering the beaches. I prefer the Belgian coast as it is today …
Valencia based photographer Pablo Casino went in 2013 to Brussels to document the local community of retired migrants from Spain. In 2016 he self-published this work in the form of a small but solid photobook and judging by its title, he does not let us doubt about where the community’s …
When it was published back in 1987, India became an immediate and gigantic succes. It has sold not less than 8.000 copies and many still regard it as Carl De Keyzer’s best book because of the aestheticizing flash techniques and of the relaxed mood in the pictures. In this post, …
“In Pamplona, a white-walled, sun-baked town high up in the hills of Navarre, is held in the first two weeks of July each year the World’s Series of bull fighting. Bull fight fans from all Spain jam into the little town. Hotels double their prices and fill every room…..” With …
Monday 13 th of February 1967 must have been the day the poetry died in Iran. It was the day when poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad, commonly known as Forough, could not avoid a car crash in Tehran. She passed away in the ambulance while she was rushed to a …
Following its first publication in 1959, Lisboa “cidade triste e alegre” immediately became a photobook with an aura. At least in Portuguese intellectual life, it was treasured as a talisman. The book represented the birth of truly modernist Portuguese photography. Yet, it had mostly been unavailable (or unaffordable). By the …
Segregation Story: Terrible pictures of a sad story. Sad pictures of a terrible story. Gordon Park’s colorful account of somewhere a society not so long ago. Gordon Parks/Steidl Modoru Okinawa: “Mother, Mother, There is too many of you crying”……Life as it was in Okinawa. US Army soldiers freaking out in …
In the aftermath of the last World War, several UN Agencies were established to provide relief response to devastated countries worldwide. UNICEF commissioned in those days an assignment for a photographer who should make a feature about the living conditions of children in Europe. The assignment was proposed in March …
