PhotobookWeekly: Jem Southam, Gordon Parks & Ella Watson, Melissa Shook, Dorothea Lange, Toshio Shibata, Rinko Kawauchi

plus this week Meggan Gould reviews Pictures from the Outside, produced in collaboration between Chantal Zakari and 13 incarcerated men! [View this email in your browser]( [photo-eye] PHOTOBOOK WEEKLY February 24, 2024 BESTSELLER --------------------------------------------------------------- Here and Now Rinko Kawauchi Here and Now combines poems by Shuntaro Tanikawa and photographs by Rinko Kawauchi. The photobook was composed by Kawauchi in such a way so the words and images closely correspond with one another, while the words themselves are woven into the rhythm of the pages designed by art director Hideyuki Saito. The title poem, Here and Now, is accompanied by fresh photographs of nature’s breath, gently coaxing the reader on an imaginative journey into the universe and beyond. [Pre-Order Here and Now or read more]( [View the full list of best sellers]( PRE-ORDER --------------------------------------------------------------- The Pond at Upton Pyne Jem Southam The pond at Upton Pyne formed at the site of an eighteenth-century manganese mine. Located on land owned by a local family who were involved in the mining venture, the first excavations began in March 1788. After a bright start the output of the mine steadily diminished and by 1823 it had ceased production, leaving a large pit, shallow on the east side near the road and becoming deeper towards the west, where it is overhung by a cliff. [Pre-Order The Pond at Upton Pyne or read more]( American Gothic Gordon Parks and Ella Watson Gordon Parks’ 1942 portrait of government worker Ella Watson, American Gothic, is among the most celebrated photographs of the 20th century. Created as part of an extensive collaboration between the photographer and his subject, it is at once a record of one woman’s position within the racial, professional and economic hierarchies that stratified the nation’s capital and Parks’ visual reckoning with the realities of living in racially segregated Washington, D.C. [Pre-Order American Gothic or read more]( Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 Melissa Shook In December 1972, Melissa Shook (1939–2020) began a series of daily self-portraits in her Lower East Side apartment that she would continue until August 1973. Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 is the artist’s complete series of 192 photographs published together for the first time. With her medium format, black and white photographs, Shook captures herself in a variety of poses creating a more complete portrait than could be achieved with any one image. [Pre-Order Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 or read more]( BOOK REVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------- Pictures from the Outside Chantal Zakari and 13 incarcerated men Reviewed by Meggan Gould "I have a folder, somewhere on my hard drive, of screenshots that I collected in a short-lived mad frenzy to wander Google Earth and find every house or apartment in which I had lived. I moved a lot in my twenties — multiple cities on two continents — in short, a horrifying number of lease agreements. In Providence alone I count five apartments within a 2-mile radius..." — Meggan Gould [Read the full review]( [Order Pictures from the Outside]( NEW ARRIVALS --------------------------------------------------------------- Seeing People Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, “important and useful.” Her decades-long investigation of how photography could articulate people’s core values and sense of self helped to expand our current understanding of portraiture and the meaning of documentary practice. Drawing on new research, the authors look at Lange’s roots in studio portraiture and demonstrate how her influential and widely seen photographs addressed issues of identity as well as social, economic, and racial inequalities — topics that remain as relevant for our times as they were for hers. [Order Seeing People or read more]( Japan Toshio Shibata Toshio Shibata’s large-format contemporary landscapes are distinguished by their haunting beauty, graceful composition, and meticulous detail. Using long exposures, and eliminating any references to people, horizons, or identifying geographic reference points, Shibata captures structures such as dams, bridges, reservoirs, and roads as they interact with their natural settings — mountainsides, rivers, forests and fields. The results are highlighted by painterly composition; filled with patterns, lines, and fluid action; and unmistakably Japanese in their aesthetic. [Order Japan or read more]( PHOTOBOOKDAILY HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------------------------------- Each week we feature special offers on several books for our daily newsletter subscribers. These titles often sell out, so if you don't want to miss out update your subscription below to PHOTOBOOKDAILY. 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