Bookmooch

I’ve been a member on Bookmooch for a while now, but it seems as though it’s just starting to get really good. There’s a much wider range of books available, and good books too – not just Nick Hornby style fiction. For example, yesterday morning I was pretty excited to get a brand new copy of this in the post:   

 For anyone who isn’t familiar with Bookmooch I highly recommend you take a look around. 

Mervyn Arthur

As usual it’s taken me bloody ages to get around to reading any of the photo magazines I’m subscribed to. Today I’ve been looking at the most recent issue of Source. I really like how they can show a series of photographs without feeling the need to accompany it with a long bit of text that I’m never going to get all the way through (although a bit of information about the artist might be nice). My favourite bit of this issue is Mervyn Arthur’s series of camera interiors. I want to post some small jpgs of the camera interiors here but I can’t find any short of scanning these images straight from the magazine (which I can’t do anyway since my scanner got stolen). So instead here is a picture of the magazine cover with one of the images on. If I ever find more I will post them here.  

Phillip Toledano

I’ve just stumbled across Phillip Toledano’s work via Photo Rank. I’m still looking through the (fantastically designed) website but his series of video gamers really stuck out to me.        

David Maisel

David Maisel’s series Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by their families.      

Denis Darzacq

I never get tired of looking at these photos. They’re from Denis Darzacq’s series La Chute (The Fall):  “In 2006, Darzacq dreamt up The Fall. It was partly the horror-struck idea of people falling from the twin towers on September 11, but it was mostly a depiction of an entire generation in France in free fall, ignored by society, their energy untapped and unused. He felt today’s France was the sort of place where someone could tumble from the sky without a net and no one walking down the street would bat an eyelid.” (from http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2040037,00.html)

New

I think it will be useful for me to keep a journal of mostly photography related things I am looking at/reading/working on etc for reference, so that’s what this is. I’m not saying it will be interesting or useful for anyone else, but feel free to have a look round…