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Estelle Hanania – This Causes Consciousness to Fracture

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Published: December 20, 2024 08:08

It would be hard to hand this photobook to someone in a decontextualized state and expect them to understand the modalities of ecstasy and horror that permeate the frames. In the first seventy or eighty percent of the book, figures cavort and twist and are…

Muriel Verbist – Recovery

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Published: December 19, 2024 11:32

Recovery – Muriel Verbist by Sofie Crabbé A woman is looking at us. She stares at us. We stare back. An act we can carry out rather casually, given that we’re observing photographic portraits. The format is reminiscent of identity card photos. We see a…

Bharat Sikka And Then

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Published: December 19, 2024 07:52

Bharat Sikka has been on a substantial creative streak, publishing photobooks often and with high integrity and significance. I had a conversation with him about his last FW: Books titled The Sapper, a tome that explored his relationship with his father, a…

Larry Clark Return

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Published: December 18, 2024 20:43

This is a fascinating and unexpected title. I suspect that some people might consider it a repeat of images that circulate through Larry Clark’s opus Tulsa, and that is not a wrong way to feel about it, but what is important is how we see the periphery of…

Laura Bielau – Test

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Published: December 18, 2024 18:35

In her first book, Arbeit, Laura Bielau found monumental images of tiny things in her studio workspace. The notion of art and labor were at the fundament of the documents she produced. Everything from an empty Amazon envelope to a rubber band was magnified…

Vince Aletti The Drawer

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Published: December 17, 2024 17:41

I recently picked up a copy of Vince Aletti’s The Drawer from Self Publish Be Happy/MACK, a title released last year that won the 2023 Aperture Photobook award. At the time, I knew about the book. Still, I had not picked it up as I was unsure of what I…

Jean-Michel André Chambre 207

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Published: December 14, 2024 09:26

How does one begin to excavate memories that lie in the distressed trough of the murder of a loved one? When he was seven years old, Jean-Michel André was staying at a hotel with his father and his father’s new girlfriend in Avignon, France, when a robbery…

Nikita Teryoshin O Tannenbaum

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Published: December 10, 2024 19:50

Nikita Teryoshin returns with another great book in 2024. The German artist continues his typological studies following his award-winning long-term project Nothing Personal (GOST) on private arms dealing fairs. Nikita is the master of working on short—and…

Rodrigo Valenzuela New Works For a Post-Workers World

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Published: December 10, 2024 10:05

Rodrigo Valenzuela has been producing incredible work for the past couple of years. I was lucky enough to get a copy of his last book, Journeyman, published by Mousse Publishing. It was my introduction to the Chilean-American’s work, and from that point,…

Lorenzo Castore Fièvre

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Published: December 7, 2024 12:39

Fièvre by Lorenzo Castore is a slight wormhole of a photobook. One starts appreciating it through one side of the vacuum and comes out the other side, thinking through it differently. That is not to suggest that it is not consistent; it is. With Castore, I…

Margot Jourquin Transi

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Published: December 4, 2024 23:06

Within the context of death, I have spoken about, and I am sure that I am not alone in this, the strange feeling when a person, persona, and life slip from the realm of the personable to the world of an object, a thing, a husk, though still loved,…

Sergio Purtell Moral Minority

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Published: December 4, 2024 21:29

With the publication of Sergio Purtell’s first book, Love’s Labor (Stanley/Barker, 2020), I found myself thinking that portraiture has a very uncanny way of reaching people to tap into their emotions and nerves, and all of this is done without knowing the…

Omen León Muñoz Santini and Jorge Panchoaga

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Published: November 28, 2024 19:50

In 2019, at Fotofestiwal Łódź, I curated an exhibition with my vernacular collection of photography called American Revelations, which dealt with the concept of early twentieth-century America through the Second World War. It was a time in which the…