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Beginning with an iPhone and an “a-ha moment” in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall, photographer Arthur Drooker began a project that would last five years and take him across the United States to photograph the most impressive and interesting city halls in the nation. The project culminated with his wonderful book, City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture, from Schiffer
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome editor, educator, and photographer Joan Liftin, and Michelle Dunn Marsh, founder and publisher of Minor Matters Books. In the first half of the show, we speak with Liftin about her latest book, Water for Tears, and then we focus on Minor Matters and the unique business model this publishing house utilizes.
We also discuss the person
In this B&H Event Space video, photographer David J. Carol takes you on a guided tour of his new book, NO PLAN B. Shot exclusively with analog cameras and black-and-white film, and spanning the 1990s to the present, Carol’s images are the culmination of his many road trips to such far-flung locations as the Arctic Ocean, post-Soviet Russia, the streets of Istanbul, and the Mojave Desert. His often surreal vision mixes mystery and irony with a unique humor, ranging from deadpan to slapstick. During his presentation, Carol shares many
Simply put, I love the photographs in the book, Public Relations, which was created to accompany a 1977 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of the same name. The photos are a selection created from Garry Winogrand’s work in the 1960s and 1970s that show, in his own words, “the effect of media on events.”
Yes, the fact that he was ahead of his time, incorporating ideas of Marshall McLuhan and others regarding “the media” into a scrappy, outsider art form like documentary “street” photography, is part of the intellectual appeal of this series, which