February 2012
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photo credit [Richard Perry/The New York Times | “Untitled #470” (2008) in a gallery of Ms. Sherman’s society and clown portraits in the Museum of Modern Art’s career survey.]
Check out Roberta Smith’s review of the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MoMA:
Photography’s Angel Provocateur ‘Cindy Sherman’ at Museum of Modern Art
“There are several conclusions to be drawn...
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From The New York Times Lens Blog…
Lens: A Lonely Gaze on The Times and Its City
A year before The Americans, a young Robert Frank was hired by The New York Times to shoot promotional pictures for prospective advertisers.
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New (or coming soon) photography books from Mack Books !
Ron Jude
Lick Creek Line
“The scene seems to last forever – a caravaggesque rendering of some minor myth, in which the horror and splendor supersede the particulars of the obscure narrative”
—Nicholas Muellner, No Such Place
Ron Jude’s new book, Lick Creek Line, extends and amplifies his ongoing fascination with the vagaries...
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Kodak Girl: From the Martha Cooper Collection
by John P. Jacob
Steidl
This book tells the remarkable story of the Kodak Girl, one of the most durable and successful marketing campaigns in advertising history. Created by George Eastman, inventor of the inexpensive hand-held camera, the Kodak Girl traces the intersection of American culture with photography as it evolved from a studio-bound...