This Week in Photography Books: Marisa Scheinfeld

  I started irrigating on the farm this summer. Our property came with water rights, which means we’re allowed to use the ancient acequia system, designed by Spanish Colonists in the 19th Century. The main pasture used to belong to our neighbors, before they sold it off, and I’m told their father raised corn, or alfalfa, […]

This Week in Photography Books: Priscilla Briggs

  Just this morning, I was trying to explain Communism to a 9 year old. Fortunately, he’s very bright for his age, and seems to be interested in history. But it’s still hard to break down planned economies, and the Bolshevik Revolution, to a person who was born on the cusp of The Great Recession. […]

This Week in Photography Books: Anthony Hernandez

  There are more photo-books out there than ever before. The market has proliferated, with the advent of crowdfunding, and publishers who will make you a book if you’ll pay their fee. So if you’re planning on joining the crowd, I’d recommend you ask yourself a few questions first. Why do I think my work […]

This Week in Photography Books: Jim Jocoy

“…it was like the only thing left that made any sense was to try and bash your head against it and hope to wake up somewhere new…”   Unlike other book reviewers, I detest opening my articles with a quote. In all the years I’ve been writing this column, I think it’s the second time […]

This Week in Photography Books: Sigrid Ehemann

  “If you build it, they will come.” Has such a line ever been uttered in the history of cinema? How is it possible that one tiny part of an 80’s baseball movie, (when no one even cares about baseball anymore,) could have become a mantra for so many varied things in the ensuing decades. […]