Maria Kapajeva describes her book, Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, as a piece of fabric. While photobooks are often equated to modes of sequential art such as films, graphic novels, or comic books, Kapajeva pushes this logic one step further by including textile arts in this genre. It is beneficial to understand textile arts in […]
Photography Book
Magali Duzant: The Moon and the Stars Can be Yours
Should I stay in New York City? Will I find happiness? Will I find love that lasts? Is there luck in my future? Should I continue to make art? These are just a few of the central questions posed in Magali Duzant’s book The Moon And Stars Can be Yours : Notes on Subway Psychics. […]
Melissa Catanese: Voyagers
Melissa Catanese’s book Voyagers (published by The Ice Plant) has been a constant on my desk this spring. I often read Voyagers as a warm-up, either before reading long form non-fiction or before I begin sequencing my own photographs. Some days I just leave the book open on my desk to catch an occasional glimpse […]
David Maisel: Proving Ground
David Maisel’s monograph Proving Ground (published by Radius Books and co-published with Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art) investigates Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army facility established in 1943, located in the Utah desert, 85 miles from Salt Lake City. The term “Proving Ground” specifies an area of land designated for the military purposed to […]
The CENTER Awards: The Curator’s Choice Award 2nd Place Winner: Rafael Soldi
Congratulations to Rafael Soldi for his Second Place win in CENTER’S Curator’s Choice Award for his project, Imagined Futures. The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive admission to Review Santa Fe portfolio reviews, participation in a winner’s exhibition […]
Tom Sanders: Vietnam Portraits
The Vietnam War was an endless and divisive conflict that resulted in a population of veterans who suffered long term scars from the horrors of war, returning to little support from a country that was ad odds with the conflict. Photographer Tom Sanders has created a compilation of photographs of American Vietnam war veterans, southern […]