I love music. I love metal. I love punk. I’ve always gravitated toward the heavier side of music and the heavy/extreme music scene in general. “Those were the days…” is a book through the perspective of a person who has toured with bands. If you’re expecting crystal clear photos of bands that give you pangs
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“Perhaps it was the dramatically macabre title – the Gateway to Death Valley – that sparked my curiosity. I found myself wanting to explore these small towns and observe the kind of people who would live in the middle of nowhere where temperatures hold at 120 degrees for several months of the year, where the
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Danny Lyon is a rebel with a cause. He has spent his career documenting American counter-culture. Every body of work a political statement, the goals of which were to create conversations about social change. His photographs individually are as strong as they are as a whole, THE SEVENTH DOG breaks down a number of his
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It was the press release that aroused my attention for this tome. It is the second title in Schilt’s new Magical Thinking series: “The Salton Sea in Calfornia is a lonely surreal place, especially when one is a foreigner.  Nicholas Albrecht, an Italian artist, spent 10 months living in a motorhome by the Salton Sea documenting
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“I like keeping things simple,” writes For Love and Money – photographer Carl Corey. “Simple pictures, simple story, simple life.  Simplicity provides clarity of vision.”  I very much warm to this view.  It also brings to mind a quote from the former British diplomat Carne Ross that I’m holding dear: “Simplicity is the only thing that
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Adam Geary’s We Burn is introduced with these words: “The seemingly and insignificant details of ordinary life are brought into sharp focus … a set of images that helps us to redirect our thoughts and refocus on the way we live our lives.” This is quite something, I thought to myself, especially when you consider
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This is a book I immediately decided to like and that’s to do with the quote by Leonard Cohen that introduces it: “There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This of course does not mean that I didn’t look at the photographs, or that I didn’t spend time
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I very much warm to this work although I do think the title misleading for the photographs in this tome capture of course moments in time. In other words, while some of these photographs might undoubtlessly be of timeless quality what they record is how some of us would like to remember the 1960s and
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In the book “Intermarried”, photographer Yael Ben-Zion explores the meanings and implications of intermarriage on individual lives through images and text. Ben-Zion, herself a part of an intermarriage, began the project in response to an Israeli media campaign encouraging Jews to only marry within their faith.  With the intent to get people to rethink their
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    Anna Fox Resort I  Anna Fox’s documentary of contemporary British holiday culture, Resort I, gives us insight into a cultural phenomenon that has 75 years worth of history.  Fox’s documentation of Butlin’s resort, in the seaside community of Bognor Regis, West Sussex, assures us that the thriving seaside resorts whose heyday was in
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