Library and books section of Photoicon http://www.photoicon.com Tue, 22 May 2012 11:05:46 -0600 PHOTOICON Feed Generator http://www.photoicon.com/templates/images/logo.png http://www.photoicon.com Feed provided by photoicon.com All rights reserved. Copyright©2012 Photoicon. news http://www.photoicon.com/library/60/ Not a few photographers will envy this luxury presentation of Vee Speer’s photographic essay Bordello in book form. Not only is the publication a large format, full colour hard back in three languages, with an eye catching introduction by Karl Lagerfeld, but it comes complete with a four CD insert inside the cover that contains authentic music from the period referenced by Speers’ images.
]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:03:57 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/60/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/58/ In Great Britain there is a traditional saying that: ‘there’s nowt [nothing] so funny as folks’.
]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:02:19 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/58/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/59/ Technical guides for digital photographers in the e-book format makes perfect sense. The latest from Eureka Imaging Publications is Gry Garness’ hands on tutorial for those involved in the fashion and beauty business where hi-gloss magazines and advertisers demand perfection.
]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:01:40 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/59/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/57/ In 1934, the young photographer who later rose to celebrity as Lisette Model, took her camera out onto the Promenade de Anglais in Nice to record the human traffic in the bars and open air restaurants. It was a series destined to become as famous as that of Brassai's nocturnal Paris underworld.
]]> Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:01:20 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/57/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/55/ For non-Americans, that great country is brought to mind either by the mighty cities with skyscrapers and canyons for streets; or the deeply rural, inward looking communities, with faded clapboard shacks and young folks long emigrated to the conurbations.
]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:12:56 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/55/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/56/ A totally charming book comprising of André Kertész’ lifelong studies of people reading, taken in locations across the world and across the decades between 1915 and 1970.
]]> Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:12:34 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/56/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/54/ Norway has always embraced modernism whilst maintaining a strong allegiance to traditional and national sensibilities.
]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:12:54 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/54/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/53/ There is a good reason why ballet dancers are frequently likened to swans. Indifferent looking girls, hurrying through the streets towards the dance studio, emerge beautiful and graceful, exotic - and erotic - as they work through their strictly disciplined choreography in the familiar, traditional costume.
]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:12:46 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/53/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/52/ In an extraordinary career that spanned nearly a century - Georgia O’Keeffe died at 99 - the artist was photographed continuously, from a rather sultry young woman to a forbiddingly serious grand dame with a place in art history
]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:11:51 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/52/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/51/ There will be two kinds of reader for this book. One will be of those who came of age in the 1960s, with the world stretched out at their feet, when the possibilities of life were an endless horizon, and the power of youth was going to last forever. The other reader will be the enquirer who will scan these images, read this text, and see a world of innocence and naivety that is barely comprehensible viewed through the cynical goggles of a new millennium.
]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:10:07 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/51/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/50/ Forty years later it is almost impossible to understand the massive impact an all girl trio from the Detroit housing projects had on the world stage. The three school friends, hired as an after thought by Berry Gordy, CEO of the legendary Motown record label, smashed through racial barriers to become the first sustained black-white crossover group in history. Their phenomenal success paved the way for black musicians of all styles to access the lucrative white audience and dominant white media.
]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:10:01 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/50/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/49/ On one hand John Hopkins was a most unlikely candidate for a hero of the counter culture. On the other, he was exactly the sort of guy to cast off a planned career for a life dedicated to free expression and conscious-raising activities.
]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:04 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/49/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/48/ This huge undertaking was originally destined for specialist Rock publishers, Genesis, but it was diverted by the tragic death of Brian Roylance to perhaps the only other publisher who could do it justice – Benedikt Taschen.
]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:09:46 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/48/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/47/ A literary movement for today that is half a century old.
]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:07:48 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/47/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/46/ We are all the heroes of our own fantasies. In real life too, we all imagine that we would step up voluntarily when the need arises. And maybe in a group situation each of us would.
]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:07:08 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/46/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/45/ Daniel Laine's extraordinary pictorial journey through the twilight world of the traditional African religions and myth systems
]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:07:21 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/45/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/44/ It is always a pleasure to see publishers still taking risks with non-commercial, high quality books of photographs for their own sake.
]]> Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:06:41 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/44/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/42/ The title of this excellent book belies the treasure trove of information about all things optical - from simple flip books, thaumatropes, magic lanterns and kaleidoscopes, to all aspects of animation
]]> Fri, 09 May 2008 01:05:54 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/42/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/41/ Many photographers openly admit to being influenced by the movies, especially cinema noir and the great French auteurs. And many are leaving still photography for the moving image with a serious intent.
]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 12:05:39 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/41/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/43/ One from the excellent exposures series focussing on a themed aspect of the medium by an acknowledged authority.
]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:04:50 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/43/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/40/ The Great Plains of America are reverting to Frontier status as disillusioned youth escape to the city in search of a future.
]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:04:46 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/40/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/39/ New York based Australian photographer, Tracey Moffatt, has been in the vanguard of the new image makers, fusing theatre, art and photography, since the early 90s.
]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:03:58 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/39/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/35/ Jessica Dimmock was then in her twenties, which made her a ‘young photographer’ in a business that has plenty of septuagenarians. Upon the publication of The Ninth Floor, she leapt into celebrity with a number of glittering prizes, including the prestigious Inge Morath Award, established to encourage young female photojournalists. Each and every tribute is more than well deserved, for The Ninth Floor - a photo-essay about the twilight world of heroin addiction - is a remarkable project which works on many different levels.
]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:02:52 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/35/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/37/ The oldest desire of mankind is to emulate the birds and fly. Even now there is something about air travel that sets it apart from the commonplace of - say - railways or boats.
]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:01:51 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/37/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/36/ When Dr. Johnson was told about a woman preaching he famously quipped: ‘... [it] is like a dog walking on its hinds legs - it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all’. The same might be said for landscape photography today, a genre that has surely had the most extensive and thorough examination of any since the invention of the medium?
]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:01:01 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/36/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/34/ The American wunderkind of late 20th century photography, Robert Mapplethorpe, started creative life as designer with a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he majored in graphic arts. Although his own art had always been infiltrated by the photographic image, he admired Andy Warhol’s work enormously, Mapplethorpe’s first foray into photography was by way of a Polaroid camera. Given as a gift by an infatuated John McKendry, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum, for Christmas 1971, McKendry also introduced Mapplethorpe to the Polaroid Foundation who ran a sponsorship scheme known as the Artists’ Support Programme.
]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:01:42 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/34/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/33/ Whatever they say about French women, on the evidence of this book it is true. A visual celebration through the medium of photography - from the Belle Epoque to today - the subject is, simply, the girls of Paris. From the street captures of Robert Doisneau, where the girls are inevitably beautiful in their naturalness and simplicity, to the more provocative women of the clubs and smoke-filled cafes seen through the lens of Brassai, that indefinable allure is the common denominator.
]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:01:19 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/33/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/29/ An absolute triumph from publishers Laurence King, who have expanded and taken Mary Warner Marien's brilliant tome into a second edition. A perfect marriage of clearly written, informative text, skilled design, and punctuated with some of the greatest images created throughout the world over the last 150 years.
]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:11:20 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/29/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/28/ The photographic depiction and reporting of the Hells Angels motorcycle club (HAMC) in the USA has an illustrious history.
]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:11:01 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/28/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/32/ The year 1878 does not spring to mind as being one of particular significance.
]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:10:17 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/32/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/30/ With the new millennium, Edwin Smith slipped effortlessly into the last century. Indeed, his work epitomises the very 'Englishness' of an England that simply disappeared post-1960s and had almost vanished entirely before Smith’s untimely death in 1971.
]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:10:39 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/30/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/27/ In our increasingly dysfunctional society, evidence of the past offers a relevant guide to the future.
]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:10:04 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/27/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/26/ The Photographer David Bailey is so much a part of the contemporary scene it is easy to forget he is a child of National Service, the 1950s and smokin’ jazz clubs. Although the undisputed leader of the pack of photographers who found fame and fortune in the ‘Swinging Sixties’, Bailey (it is never David) started his career in a more modest role.
]]> Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:09:14 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/26/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/25/ There are ten thousand vintage prints in the New York City archives. These are sampled from some twenty thousand 8 x 10 glass-plate negatives created between 1906 and 1934 by one Eugene de Salignac, employed as the sole photographer for the city's Department of Bridges/Plant and Structures.
]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:08:28 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/25/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/24/ The great city of Istanbul can conjure up visions and illusions just by reciting the names this great metropolis has enjoyed down the centuries - Byzantium; Constantinople - and its historical roles as, variously, the capital city of the Roman, Byzantium, Latin and Ottoman Empires.
]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:07:25 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/24/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/23/ Without doubt Richard Kalvar is no household name, despite being a member of the famous Magnum Photos since 1977 and co-founder of the Viva agency in 1972.
]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:07:15 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/23/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/22/ This extraordinary selection is from four tonnes of material salvaged by the Historic Houses Trust when they took responsibility for the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney, Australia.
]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:07:17 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/22/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/21/ There is no stopping Taschen. Wave after wave of simply brilliantly conceived books just keep rolling off the presses and once their attention turned to the best in world photography - combined with Taschen’s uniquely irrelevant themes and cutting edge design - it was clear they had their finger on the pulse of the new society born to visual excitements.
]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:07:03 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/21/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/20/ The images that Mona Kuhn presents in her latest book, Evidence, document the friendships developed by her numerous visits to a private community in France that promotes spiritual rejuvenation and encourages nudity as an expression of personal freedom.
]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:07:23 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/20/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/19/ Shanghai has always been an important and strategic place. Located on the banks of the Yangtze river delta in East China, it is now the largest city in China and the 11th on the planet. Also, reputedly, the city is the largest cargo and third largest container port in the world. It has been a meteoric rise
]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:07:42 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/19/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/1/ There have been many books and guides on the collecting of images, but Laura Noble's large format hardback from Swiss publishers, AVA, is in a class by itself
]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:03:46 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/1/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/2/ Think of an image of Africa and nine times out of ten it will either be a gaunt and emaciated child staring hopelessly into the lens – or crazed, armed militia (black or white) engaged in some violent assault.
]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:03:28 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/2/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/9/ Arnold Newman is long considered the master of photographic portraiture. Many historians point in his direction as the founder of “environmental portraiture” – referring to the practice of integrating his subject’s surroundings to create a greater understanding of who they are.
]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:03:18 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/9/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/9/ Arnold Newman is long considered the master of photographic portraiture. Many historians point in his direction as the founder of “environmental portraiture” – referring to the practice of integrating his subject’s surroundings to create a greater understanding of who they are.
]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:03:18 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/9/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/6/ ILEX have two books in the pipeline that all camera pros will need to check out. Due for March release is Photoshop Pro Photography Handbook and Adobe Lightroom Essentials.
]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:03:07 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/6/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/3/ Using Richard Avedon and Irving Penn for inspiration, Trevor Appleson set up his mobile ‘studio’, little more than a portable backdrop with lights, in and around Cape Town over a period of four years.
]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:03:40 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/3/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/4/ Standing in the centre of the gallery and glancing around the walls at Rankin's playful nudes, the daily angst of grey London disappeared and a smile broke across my lips.
]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:03:11 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/library/4/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/7/ ILEX have two books in the pipeline that all camera pros will need to check out. Due for March release is Photoshop Pro Photography Handbook and Adobe Lightroom Essentials.
]]> Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:03:01 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/7/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/5/ The digital revolution only made life simple for the happy amateurs ¬– who never saw the inside of a darkroom and who merely looked forward to getting their snaps back safely from the chemist.
]]> Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:03:23 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/5/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/8/ They may have appeared uptight and respectable, but beneath the starched collars and long rustling crinolines, the Victorians were obsessed with sex. In fact, if Ian Gibson's The Erotomaniac, the biography of Henry Spencer Ashbee, is anything to go by, what typified the era was an explosion of exploratory erotic writing in all its manifestations.
]]> Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:03:04 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/8/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/16/ Since 1983, Thomas Karsten has published over ten photography books gaining him critical praise all over the world. Considered Germany’s most published living photographer his work has appeared in such magazines as Stern, Art, Nerve, and Capital. Collecting his best work over the past several decades and breaking the images down by year, it is easy to see why Thomas Karsten has made such a name for himself.
]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:02:15 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/16/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/15/ When it comes to the world of nude photography, there are very few publications that set the standards of what is cutting edge, and what is simply an old cup of tea. A publisher of all things dealing with the visual arts, Graphis is attempting to change all that with its influential annual simply titled Graphis Nudes.
]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:02:50 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/15/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/13/ 'In its infancy photography was used to replicate art. Painters commonly used photographs of nudes as inexpensive substitutes for live models. But soon photographers came to see their work in the human figure as a legitimate art form in its own right, and the public eventually -- if somewhat begrudgingly --acquiesced.'


]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:02:19 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/13/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/12/ The marketing tag line for Work boldly states, 'Amazons and Stars Immortalized by the master of photographic provocation.' A more than fair assessment I would say from a volume that spans several decades and over three hundred photographs.


]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:02:16 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/12/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/14/ It’s very rare now days for a publication to really attempt to do something different.
]]> Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:02:19 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/14/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/11/ Few photographers these days have a more recognizable style then David LaChapelle. His work is at once astonishing, funny, sexy, and shocking. His celebrity photographs are the stuff of legend, often elevating their subjects beyond iconic status into something all together more compelling.
]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:01:12 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/11/ http://www.photoicon.com/library/10/ Often regarded as one of the most talented black-and-white photographers in the world, Andreas Bitesnich proves that he has an acute eye for color in On Form. The resulting work is still a venerable celebration of the human form with the added pleasure of a new and nearly euphoric color pallet.
]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:01:47 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/library/10/