Alec Soth: Niagara4 reviews Alec Soth, Philip Brookman, ... Steidl, 2006 fall in love with photography all over again + Another great book + better than sleeping on the mississippi Saw the exhibition that accompanied this book . Poignant and funny by turns, it was one of the best recent photography exhibitions i have seen .The inclusion of found love letters and the swans made of towels, stopped the collection from just being a collection of expected shots of odd looking ...             The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California1 review Ram Pubns & Dist, 2001 Anonymous in Irvine. The fifty-one black and white photos in this nicely designed book will not be to everybody's taste. The photos could not be more stark and minimalist, mostly eye level, straight on, images of almost plain walls of commercial premises in Irvine, Los Angeles. The only concession is (photo ...             Semear Foil, Tokyo, 2007., 2007             Philip-Lorca diCorcia3 reviews Bennett Simpson Steidl/Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2007 Realism and Artificiality + Brief review + Great book! In Andy Grundberg's book, Crisis of the Real, he predicts that "the character of photography in the new millennium will be something more overtly fabricated, manipulative, artificial, and self conscious then the photography we have come to know." Interested in this prediction, I have been ...             The Last City Pablo Ortiz Monasterio Twin Palms Publishers, 1995             Evidence2 reviews Robert Forth, Sandra Philips Distributed Art Publishers, 2003 Deserves its reputation + High-water mark of conceptual photography This is the document of a found photography project from the 70s. Apparently there is a current retrospective of it that attempts to put the works in a narrative framework. That is against the original intention of the project, but don't worry: there is no way to assemble a linear narrative, open ...             Come Again2 reviews Steidl, 2006 A great collectable work of art + I get a bang out of him Still Robert Frank, a photographer's photographer, and really the Bob Dylan of the medium, has a stark and taciturn way of seeing things that is manifest in this book. It is published at the launch of a 5 year program for Gerhard Steidl, the finest publisher in the world, to release new Frank books, ...             Angels in Fall Karin Apollonia Muller Kruse Publisher, 2008 Copies of the classic "New Objective" photo book Angels in Fall , originally published in 2001 and thought to be out of print, are now available again. In it, vast, rational parking lots loom into focus, the smoggy grid of a Los Angeles neighborhood evaporates into the horizon and a man finds shelter from a rainstorm under an orange plastic sheet in an industrial wasteland The landscapes of the ...             Deconstructing Osama: The Truth About the Case of Manbaa Mokfhi Joan Fontcuberta Actar, Fundacio Pilar I Joan Miro, 2007             Lana: Photographs Made of a Single Locale Terri Weifenbach Nazraeli Pr, 2003             Irgendwo Michael Schmidt Snoeck, 2006             Mika Ninagawa - Liquid Dreams Editions Treville, 2003             Friedlander9 reviews Peter Galassi, Richard Benson The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 Framing the world through the viewfinder + Superb monograph + THIS IS A STUNNING BOOK + a major figure + top printing, comprehensive big bad boy             Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses2 reviews Aperture, 2002 Long Search Rewarded + Another aspect of Mishima It took a long time for me to find this book (courtesy of Amazon.com) but it was definetly worth the frustration! This book of photography is a MUST for serious Mishima / Hosoe collectors and fans - it offers not only a set of beautifully taken photos but a deadly and not insignificant insight to ...             Tim Davis: My Life in Politics Jack Hitt, Tim Davis Aperture, 2006 This first in-depth publication of photographer Tim Davis's work dissects the disenchantment and dissociation that have come to dominate American civil life. It is Davis's treatise on the state of contemporary politics, politics as an aestheticized banality abstracted from real issues of power. He finds freedom of expression exhibited at its most casual and cursory, with political, commercial and ...             Robert Frank: Storylines2 reviews Ian Penman, Philip Brookman Steidl, 2004 Exciting New Robert Frank Book!! + A story with no lines This book is not hardcover (although it is not exactly typical softcover either). Instead, it has a flexible, durable plastic cover that seems pretty unique. The book itself is a catalog from the current Robert Frank exhibit at the Tate in London, but Frank himself helped put it together and you ...             Utatane1 review Rinko Kawauchi Little More, 2001 Rinko Kawauchi Carps, clouds, a curtain, a tire, fried eggs, a grandfather, a butterfly. These are the details of the everyday life that are too easily missed. Seen through the lens of Kawauchi's camera however, the ordinary shines with patterns of light; even an ant transforms into a statement of style. This ...             Alex Webb: Istanbul9 reviews Orhan Pamuk Aperture, 2007 One of the Great Street Photography Books + Great purchase + A Phenomenally Skilled Artist Who Lacks Warmth + A powerful set of full-page, full-color images goes far beyond the usual city focus to capture Istanbul's crossroads cultures.             An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar6 reviews Steidl, 2007 fantastic + beautifully presented + great debut It's really amazing all the work and effort that was put into creating these images. I saw her show at The Whitney like the other reviewer, and i really enjoyed her work so i bought the book on amazon (I'm not trying to plug amazon, but it was a lot cheaper here than other places i looked) The ...             America 2006: Photographs by Obvious & Ordinary Obvious & Ordinary, Gossage John, ... Stephen Daiter Gallery and Rocket Gallery, 2007 STAMPED in black ink with the individual artists' two "signatures" (the artists' choice of aliases) on the title page. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Saddle-bound, with heavy cardstock printed wrappers. Photographs by Obvious & Ordinary (AKA Martin Parr & John Gossage). Unpaginated (72 pp.), with 36 four-color and 36 black-and-white illustrations. 10-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches. This first ...