Monday, December 31, 2018

UK's PHOTOBOOKSTORE - lists favourite photobooks of 2018



UK's PHOTOBOOKSTORE, my favourite online photobook store again this year invited photography aficionados from a cross-section of photobook disciplines to select their favourite photobooks of the past year. Twenty five photographers, publishers, writers, booksellers and collectors shared their ‘Photobooks of 2018‘, including Todd Hido, John Gossage, Vanessa Winship, Simon Baker and more. 
You can go to PHOTOBOOKSTORE HERE to check out the lists in detail. 




Sunday, December 30, 2018

Best Photobooks 2018 from photo-eye



Photo-eye have been compiling annual lists of best photobooks for 25 years, this year they have done something different, they say this: 
This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 90 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Below is a random group, you can see all 90 selections HERE.








Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist



Written tongue in cheek, but with more than a few grains of truth, New York Magazine Art Critic and columnist Jerry Saltz lists 33 rules for being and artist. This came from Saltz's instagram feed where thus far over 150, 000 have read the piece... you can follow HERE.