August 27, 2008 – 5:54 pm
If I hadn’t stumbled across this book in the Blurb Bookstore, I would have never found my way to chicagobikepolo.com, and that would be a damn shame. But I did and I did, and now I’m neck deep in bike polo links, and Wheeled Horses is this week’s Book of the Week.
Bike Polo – apparently [...]
August 20, 2008 – 1:18 pm
I love discovering cool things that I had no idea existed…but when they’re really cool, I tend to hate that I wasn’t first on the scene. And so it is with this week’s Book of the Week, Recordheads: A Photo Book by Rick Hebenstreit.
When we found this book we thought, “hey, cool idea.” Little [...]
August 13, 2008 – 3:23 pm
Paul Melcher, named by American Photo as one of the 50 most influential individuals in American photography, says, “Olivier Douliery does not capture faces and places, he gets their soul.” After checking out Olivier’s book, Portraits, and selecting it to be this week’s Book of the Week, we’d have to agree.
Olivier is an award-winning [...]
August 7, 2008 – 10:56 am
Usually when I hear the words “plastered on the street,” the connotation is usually a negative one that precedes a citation. However in this case the phrase is the title of this week’s Book of the Week, and the meaning is actually quite literal.
Robert Edmonds is an artist and designer, originally from Melbourne, Australia, [...]
Rio de Janeiro is a tough place to hang-out, at least in the exquisitely photographed, deeply disturbing historias do rio.
Photographed by acclaimed photographer Lorenzo Moscia, with text (in Italian) by Matteo Gennari, this book is chock-full of sex, slum, and implicit violence — shot with a gritty, evocative eye and an amazing resonance with [...]
Crime bosses, politicians, movie stars, artists. JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, Andy Warhol, Vince Lombardi — LIFE, in fact, for the last fifty years … as represented by LIFE magazine photographer Bill Ray.
This astonishing work of photojournalism is a literal jaw-dropper … I’ve been drooling on my desk all day. The photographs, naturally, are amazing, but [...]
We’re big eaters here at Blurb. Today’s pasta? Gone in the blink of an eye. (Along with yesterday’s cookies, and last week’s leftover refried beans. Mmmm.)
Maybe we were all so hungry ’cause we were looking at photographer Laura Berman’s From Farm Field to Kitchen Table. This deliciously photographed book is also Laura’s portfolio, and it [...]
