The Photography.Book.Now International Salon and Symposium just announced the distinguished panel of jurors for its photography book competition.
Head Judge Darius Himes, co-founder of Radius Books, will lead the following panel of editors, publishers, curators, and photographers in judging the competition:
• Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman Gallery
• Elisabeth Biondi, The New [...]
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Introducing the judges of the Photography.Book.Now competition
May 2, 2008 – 2:49 pm
Need a certain photo for your book? It’s your lucky day
May 1, 2008 – 9:58 am
We’ve written about stock photography before, and how it’s a great option for your books when you need a specific image that you can’t quite capture with your own camera. If you need a reason to give stock photography a shot, here’s one:
iStockphoto is offering Blurbarians 20% off a first purchase, plus 20 free images [...]
Book of the Week falls to pieces
April 30, 2008 – 2:28 pm
I’ve seen a lot of books about body parts this week, so when I saw the title pieces(of me) by Mark Warren, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to uncover.
What I found was a very well-designed book by a poet photographer. It’s a wonderful example of how to artistically fuse your words [...]
The bad and the beautiful: Trends in book cover art
April 29, 2008 – 3:31 pm
I swoon over new and radically interesting book covers. I’ve confessed this before. It happens to me in Blurb’s bookstore just as much as it happens when I’m browsing shelves at San Francisco’s Booksmith. I literally get antsy when I see a killer cover. I immediately start plotting my next Blurb book just so I [...]
Good lit and photo essays: Discovering Granta’s new site
April 28, 2008 – 5:00 pm
I get the GalleyCat newsletter from Mediabistro.com. I like reading about writers. The snarkiness is entertaining. And I really appreciate news about interesting literary websites. Today, I was introduced to Granta. I may be late to the game on this one — Granta magazine has been around since 1889 — but its website was [...]
Photography exhibits around the world
April 25, 2008 – 5:15 pm
The Blurberati are a helpful group. Whenever I need some extra blog fodder, one of them always has something interesting to share.
Today it was Kathy. She discovered BLDG BLOG’s post on hotels in the afterlife. It features some creepy/cool images from Vienna’s Architekturzentrum photography exhibit of “the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes” abandoned on [...]
What a Blurb meet-up looks like
April 24, 2008 – 3:06 pm
We Blurbified Kate O’Briens pub this past Monday night. It was our first San Francisco meet-up, co-hosted with Moo and Flickr, and about 200 people showed up. Photos can be seen here and here. (Thanks, magerleagues.)And our very own Jeremy captured some of the evening on video:
