[ BOOK LIVES ] Good Morning, America by Mark Power
A few nights ago, I was watching ‘In Restless Dreams’, the Paul Simon documentary, and the songs ‘America’ and ‘American Tune’ kept playing in my consciousness.(more…)
A few nights ago, I was watching ‘In Restless Dreams’, the Paul Simon documentary, and the songs ‘America’ and ‘American Tune’ kept playing in my consciousness.
Admittedly, apart from The Documentary Impulse, I don’t have any other book by Stuart Franklin. (more…)
In many ways, Josef Koudelka Next, a visual biography by Melissa Harris could have been called “How to be an artist and not a very good person”. (more…)
This pristine copy, very hard to find, was given to me by my good friend, Darren Soh, who found it in Melbourne many years ago.
Published in 1974, Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal by Abigail Heyman can really be considered ‘ahead of its time’. (more…)
Just received Matt Black’s American Geography. WOW. It has been quite a while since I got so excited about a photography book. (more…)
As an intrepid photographer, Harry Gruyaert must have spent a big part of his life jetting around the world and thus, at airports. (more…)