BOOKS I: Photography Books Given and Gotten

Robert Polidori: After The Flood (Steidl)

Flowers Gallery, London

In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark....read more here

Matthew Flowers with Photographer Robert Polidori

Photo (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon

 Ken Rosenthal: Photographs 2001 – 2009

Photographs: 2001-2009 is the long awaited first publication of work from Ken Rosenthal. Published on the occasion of his Fall 2011 exhibition at Wall Space Gallery, titled Retrospective, this catalogue offers a condensed yet potent survey of Rosenthal's evocative split toned silver-gelatin prints....read more here

 Ken Rosenthal: Limited Editions

Designed and published by Jace Graf, Cloverleaf Studio

Bruce Morton: Forgottonia

Bruce Morton: Forgottonia

Yes, such a place exists.  It is actually the nickname for several counties in far west central Illinois.  The reason for the nickname started in the 1950s and 1960s when the interstate highway system was being designed and constructed.  Many times a route from Chicago to Kansas City, which would run thru the heart of this region, was considered but....read more here

Tom Chambers: Entropic Kingdom

 Tom Chambers: Entropic Kingdom

Having grown up on a Pennsylvania farm, I am inspired by Andrew Wyeth's rural landscapes, characterized by subtle, but powerful emotion. I hope to strike a similar emotional connection in the viewer by illustrating a disturbed ecosytem created by man's self-serving interests....read more here

 

Jane Fulton Alt: The Burn (Kehrer Verlag)

 Jane Fulton Alt: The Burn (Kehrer Verlag)

 Book Review by Douglas Stockdale here

 

Kottie Gaydos: Genong

 

Kottie Gaydos: Genong

The images in Genong were taken in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China between 2010-2012. This handmade casebound book is the culmination of the three year photographic project, Genong....view more here

This is the first of several BOOK posts coming up. I was honored to receive most of the above books from their authors, including three from this year's Filter Photo Festival; Kottie Gaydos, Jane Fulton Alt and Bruce Morton. This list includes some famous photography publishers as well as a self-published book or two. – EA

SAMANTHA VanDEMAN: No Vacancy

No Vacancy

Photograph (c) Samantha VanDeman

 No Vacancy

Photograph (c) Samantha VanDeman

No Vacancy

Photograph (c) Samantha VanDeman

I met photographer Samantha VanDeman at this year's Filter Photo Festival in Chicago. Her series, No Vacancy, has won many awards in the last couple of years. She made Review Santa Fe's Top 100 and is both a Critical Mass and Flash Forward finalist. Several pieces are currently on exhibit in collaboration with Vogue Italia at the Photo Lux Festival at Real Collegio in Lucca, Italy  through December 15th. 

Samantha VanDeman

BEN MARCIN: Last House Standing

 Silver Run, MD, 2009

Photograph (c) Ben Marcin
 

 Howard County, MD

Photograph (c) Ben Marcin

 Alamosa County, CO, 2013

 Photograph (c) Ben Marcin

New London, MD, 2013

Photograph (c) Ben Marcin

"One of the architectural quirks of certain cities on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. is the solo row house. Standing alone, in some of the worst neighborhoods, these nineteenth century structures were once attached to similar row houses that made up entire city blocks. Time and major demographic changes have resulted in the decay and demolition of many such blocks of row houses. Occasionally, one house is spared - literally cut off from its neighbors and left to the elements with whatever time it has left."

"My interest in these solitary buildings is not only in their ghostly beauty but in their odd placement in the urban landscape. Often three stories high, they were clearly not designed to stand alone like this. Many details that might not be noticed in a homogenous row of twenty attached row houses become apparent when everything else has been torn down. And then there's the lingering question of why a single row house was allowed to remain upright. Still retaining traces of its former glory, the last house standing is often still occupied." – Ben Marcin

Last House Standing (And Other Stories)

Photographs by Ben Marcin

Dec 18 - Jan 25, 2014

C. GRIMALDIS GALLERY  

523 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland

MAPPING: borders, bodies, memories

Anne Berry

 Persephone

 Roberta Neidigh

Black + White

 Stephan Petranek

We Pass These Things Along

Kerry Mansfield

Curious George Rides a Bike, Envelope Front + Back

Filter Photo Festival's 4th Annual Exhibition

MAPPING: borders, bodies, memories

(Brilliantly) Curated by Paula Tognarelli

Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography

David Weinberg Photography

300 W. Superior, Chicago

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