This Week In Photography Books: John MacLean

by Jonathan Blaustein It’s Monday morning, and the sky is gray. (It can be confusing, I know, as you’re likely reading on a Friday, when the weekend is at hand.) Everybody loves the weekend, but gray Mondays are about as fun as being the guy who has to wash Donald Trump’s underwear. Think about that […]

This Week In Photography Books: Claire Felicie

by Jonathan Blaustein Hope is a mentality. A state of mind. It’s not a thing you can touch, like a coffee table, or a bird’s feather. It’s in the air around us, like oxygen, but that doesn’t mean it’s always available. Hope is often there when you need it, but not always. Like now. The […]

This Week In Photography Books: Axle Contemporary

by Jonathan Blaustein Have you ever seen Duck Dynasty? I haven’t. But I’m aware it’s a reality TV show featuring some dudes with long beards who wear camo. Though I’ve never seen a minute of the program, it has leaked out into the popular culture, like a silent fart, so I’m aware, tangentially, what it’s […]

This Week In Photography Books: Philip Trager

by Jonathan Blaustein In Wednesday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman, the highly opinionated columnist, imagined a world in which Donald Trump tweeted nice things. Inspiring things. Positive things. Mr. Friedman wrote tweets, seemingly from a parallel universe, in which Mr. Trump, who will be inaugurated today, worked hard to win over skeptics. He fake-tweeted, (in […]

This Week In Photography Books: Richard Sandler

by Jonathan Blaustein I just got back from visiting my parents in Mexico. It’s an annual pilgrimage, as they leave Taos for a tropical climate each winter. Every time, though, like the Brady Bunch’s vacation in Hawaii, things always go horribly wrong. Two years ago, I wrote about how my wife and I were nearly […]