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The Romance of Decay in Photosnew

Cheer up and don't let this dust-to-dust business slow you down. That's something to keep in mind when confronting the work of Jerry Berndt and Eugene Richards, two photographers with Boston ties adept at making art from what a lot of people consider ugly, untouchable things.
Boston Phoenix  |  Clif Garboden  |  03-05-2009  |  Nonfiction

Two Photography Books Remember Punk's Growth Spurtsnew

Punk may roll a little in its grave now that it's been mythologized, but if it's going to get the coffee table treatment at least Skins & Punks and Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music offer it respect.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Tony Ware  |  12-30-2008  |  Nonfiction

'The Oxford Project' Uses Photography as a Kind of Time Machinenew

Ultimately, The Oxford Project is an homage to Americana, a photographic record of small-town America and the story of intertwined lives. It is about history, personal and collective, and that ubiquitous force: change. This book, like the facets of human features, is so intriguing, it is nearly impossible to put down.
San Antonio Current  |  Lyle Rosdahl  |  11-13-2008  |  Nonfiction

Kip Fulbeck's New Book Tells Us All About the Writing on the Skinnew

His new book, Permanence, shows photographs of 115 people with tattoos, each photo paired with the person’s handwritten statement.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Barbara Davenport  |  08-13-2008  |  Nonfiction

'Life' Photographer Bill Eppridge Remembers the Bobby Kennedy Campaignnew

"My job was to see, not to hear," writes Eppridge in his recently released coffee-table book A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, a crisp, informative collection of magnificent color and black-and-white photographs of perhaps one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in American history, up to this most recent season.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Blaine Taylor  |  07-29-2008  |  Nonfiction

Looking for 400 Photos of Supersized Stiffies?new

The Big Penis Book, the follow-up to Taschen's 2006 hit The Big Book of Breasts, also edited by Dian Hanson, and boasts more than 400 photos of some startlingly major tent poles, including rare pics of "the 13-and-only" John Holmes.
Orlando Weekly  |  Liz Langley  |  06-12-2008  |  Nonfiction

Photo Tome Sheds Light on a Dark Scenenew

Photographer Peter Beste has compiled seven years of capturing fake blood and real shit, inverted crosses and mixed messages that reveal Norwegian black metal bands to be the Ramones of death metal: simple and conceptual, an expression of acceptance and rejection, cartoonish and dead serious.
Metro Times  |  Tony Ware  |  06-10-2008  |  Nonfiction

'Crossing the Waters' Offers a Peek into the Afro-Cuban Religionnew

The book's charismatic protagonist is Santiago Castaneda Vera, a spiritual practitioner who "works" the spirits of the dead and whose sacred oricha is Yemaya, the mother of the waters.
INDY Week  |  Sylvia Pfeiffenberger  |  04-10-2008  |  Nonfiction

Hail Maria, Full of Greasenew

Orange County Housecleaners tells the stories of Southern California maids.
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  06-16-2006  |  Nonfiction

Paul Strand Unboundnew

A new book couples Paul Strand's sumptuous New Mexico photos with unpublished letters.
Tucson Weekly  |  Margaret Regan  |  12-16-2004  |  Nonfiction

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