PUBLISHING NEWS: The New Forty-Niners to be published with Kehrer Verlag

At long last, four years of work photographing modern-day gold prospectors in California is due to be published as a monograph, THE NEW FORTY-NINERS, with Kehrer Verlag publishing company in Germany.

All things going well, it should be available this fall in Germany and in the spring in the US.

CATALOG LISTING – PAGE 12:  

http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/data/pdf/en/catalog/Kehrer-Catalog-Fall-2013-2.pdf

BOOK LISTING: 

http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/en/sarina-finkelstein-978-3-86828-417-1.html

The collect.give Book

The charity-based online photography gallery collect.give announces the release of a book celebrating the project's first 50 photographers - all of whom have pledged to donate 100% of their print proceeds to

charities they've selected. Since 2009, collect.give has raised over $28,000 for a wide variety of charitable organizations, by selling affordable, limited edition photographs.

Description
128 pages, softcover, perfect bound, printed by MagCloud.

Design By
Heidi Romano


Photographs By
Jane Fulton Alt, Malu Alvarez, Jonathan Blaustein, Mark Brautigam, Jesse Burke, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Katrina d'Autremont, Amy Eckert, Matt Eich, Jon Feinstein, Sarina Finkelstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Max. S. Gerber, Meggan Gould, Andrew Hetherington, Geoffrey Hiller, Peter Hoffman, Jon Horvath, Ben Huff, Dave Jordano, Stella Kalaw, Melissa Kaseman, Liz Kuball, Shane Lavalette, David Leventi, John Loomis, S. Billie Mandle, Kerry Mansfield, Mark Menjivar, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Annie Marie Musselman, Colleen Plumb, Susana Raab, Shawn Records, Ellen Rennard, Dalton Rooney, Jonathan Saunders, Manjari Sharma, Daniel Shea, Kelly Shimoda, Emily Shur, Allison V. Smith, Aline Smithson, Brea Souders, Sarah Sudhoff, Jake Stangel, Lacey Terrell, Sonja Thomsen, Susan Worsham and David Wright.

Essays By
Crista Dix, Darius Himes, Lisa Hostetler, Rachel Hulin, Miki Johnson, Larissa Leclair, Wally Mason, George Slade, Amy Stein and Alison Zavos.

To Benefit
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). In keeping with the collect.give mission to donate 100% of proceeds to charity, all profits from this book will be donated to the RSPCA, a charity chosen by the designer Heidi Romano.

Price
$22.00

To Preview or Purchase
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/290686

The process of printing Daniel Beltra's "Rainforests" book

A really interesting look at the photo/art book printing process:

http://danielbeltra.wordpress.com/category/editoriale-bortolazzi-stei/

The First iPad Photography Book

CAPITOLIO by Christopher Anderson

Publish Your Photography Book

Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson lecture, "Publish Your Photography Book" at the NYPL

Best Photo Books!

Best Photo Books of 2010

via photo-eye

Publish Your Photography Book

Publish Your Photography Book

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Map and directions)

Second Floor, Room 227

Fully accessible to wheelchairs

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 6:00 PM EST

How to register: First come, first served

FREE - Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

In this event industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs. They survey the current landscape of photography book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. Himes and Swanson provide an overview of the publishing industry; an intimate look at the process of making a book; a close review of how to market a photo book; a section on case studies, built around discussions and interviews with published photographers; and a final section presenting a wealth of resources and information to aid in the understanding of the publishing world.

The forthcoming title Publish Your Photography Book also includes a number of additional interviews and contributions from industry professionals, including artists, publishers, designers, packagers, editors, and other industry experts who openly share their publishing experiences.

Darius D. Himes was a founding editor of photo-eye Booklist and is a cofounder of Radius Books, a nonprofit company publishing books on the visual arts. Himes is also a lecturer, consultant, and writer who has contributed to numerous publications.

Mary Virginia Swanson is a consultant in the area of licensing and marketing fine-art photography. Swanson frequently lectures and conducts workshops and educational programs for photographers and students. Respected judge of competitions and awards as well as portfolio reviewer, she is widely recognized for her blog Marketing Photos, a valued resource for photographers.

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, Artist Career Development Series have addressed the growing needs and concerns of independent creative workforce in New York City since 2006.

The Migration Book

The MIGRATION book is an exploration of America through photography and music.

The book features the images of sixteen photographers,  who have all made it their life’s work to document our vast and varied land.

ALEX HARRIS / BILL SOSIN / DAVE JORDANO / DAVID SCHALLIOL

DAVID ZAITZ / DONALD McCREA / EDWARD BURTYNSKY / JERRY DOWNS

JOE BURULL / KENNETH JARECKE / MARK INDIG / PETER GRANSER

SUSANA RAAB / TRAVIS RUSE / WILLIAM GREINER / WILL STEACY

MIGRATION takes you on the road and discovers hidden pockets of American culture, both old and new. The book also touches on many of the topical issues that face this nation today. Starting in New York City and wending our way down through post-Katrina New Orleans, we then head across the plains and out through the American West, as we contemplate where we’ve been and where we are headed. The journey ends in Los Angeles and stares directly into the future as we struggle to revitalize our economy and deal with our dependence upon oil, all the while attempting to repair the damage done to our environment.

Chris Boot – New Aperture Foundation Executive Director

Aperture Announces Chris Boot as New Executive Director:

APERTURE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

October 18, 2010—New York, NY—The Board of Trustees of the Aperture Foundation announced today that Chris Boot, a veteran in the field of photography, has been appointed Executive Director, Aperture Foundation.
Mr. Boot has had a long and distinguished career in photography and photobook publishing. He worked for Magnum Photos from 1990-98, including as Director of Magnum, London, and, later, Magnum, New York. Subsequently he held the position of Editorial Director at Phaidon Press from 1998 until 2000. In 2001, Mr. Boot started his own company Chris Boot Ltd., based in London to work on projects independently, producing exhibitions and publishing his own list of books. Over the past eight years he has published many acclaimed photobooks, ranging from contemporary titles that push the boundaries of the medium, to books that provide a fresh perspective on the history of photography.
The Chris Boot imprint includes two ICP Infinity Awards winners – Lodz Ghetto Album (2004) and Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 (2005); the latter was copublished with Aperture. Other notable titles include History by Luc Delahaye, The World from My Front Porch by Larry Towell, Mexico and Parrworld by Martin Parr (both copublished with Aperture), Beaufort West by Mikhael Subotzky, We English by Simon Roberts, Georgian Spring: a Magnum Journal, and most recently Infidel by Tim Hetherington, Where Children Sleep by James Mollison and Maske by Phyllis Galembo. He is also the author and editor of Magnum Stories (Phaidon, 2004).
While at Phaidon Press, Mr. Boot initiated photography titles including Boring Postcards from the collection of Martin Parr, Robert Capa, the Definitive Collection by Richard Whelan, Outland by Roger Ballen, Snaps by Elliott Erwitt, Heaven and Earth, The Photo Book: A History by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger and the Phaidon 55 series including volumes on Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Mary Ellen Mark, Shomei Tomatsu, David Goldblatt, Chris Killip, André Kertesz, Dorothea Lange and W. Eugene Smith. From 1984 until joining Magnum Photos in 1990, Mr. Boot was Director of The Photo Co-op (since renamed Photofusion), London’s leading independent photography resource and education centre.
Mr. Boot has a BA in Photography with Distinction from the Polytechnic of Central London, and a BA in English Literature with Honors from the Royal Holloway College, University of London.
“I’m delighted to welcome Chris Boot to Aperture,” says Celso Gonzalez-Falla, Chairman of the Board, Aperture. “His vast experience working in photography in a variety of positions, including as editor and publisher, and his passion for and knowledge of photography, makes him uniquely qualified to set Aperture’s course for the future as Aperture gears up to celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2012.”
Mr. Boot will join Aperture in January of 2011. He succeeds Juan García de Oteyza, who was Aperture’s executive director for two years.
Aperture—located in New York’s Chelsea art district—is a world-renowned non-profit publisher and exhibition space dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms. Aperture was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White; historian Beaumont Newhall; and writer/curator Nancy Newhall, among others. These visionaries created a new quarterly periodical, Aperture magazine, to foster both the development and the appreciation of the photographic medium and its practitioners. In the 1960s, Aperture expanded to include the publication of books (over five hundred to date) that comprise one of the most comprehensive and innovative libraries in the history of photography and art. Aperture’s programs now include artist lectures and panel discussions, limited-edition photographs, and traveling exhibitions that show at major museums and arts institutions in the U.S. and internationally.

Getting your Photo Book Published - Alan Rapp / Chronicle Books

Great interview on The Photoletariat with Alan Rapp, the editor overseeing the art, architecture, design, and photography lists of the San Francisco publisher Chronicle Books:

Interview: Alan Rapp on Getting Your Photography Book Published - The Photoletariat

Illustration

Fell in love with these illustrations over the last few weeks...

Bob Staake

The following are two students in a class taught by Jessica Hische from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia:

Steidl Art Books: The Future of Print

Ahhh...the feel of a good book.  The sound of cracking open the plastic of a newly-purchased monograph.  The feel of linen slipcases, cover debossing, stitched bindings and weighty paper.  The scent as one flips through the pages.  Is this experience now a casualty of the new ebooks/tablet revolution?

Steidl staunchly proclaims, "NO!"  The publisher has gone to the mattresses to defend the future of print through the recent publication of three amazing photography books – Outside Inside (Bruce Davidson), Parcours Muséologique Revisité (Polidori), and On the Road (Ed Ruscha)

Months ago, I posted about Bruce Davidson's Limited Edition Central Park in Platinum book with Verso.  Now, Davidson-lovers can look forward to Outside Inside.

Outside Inside is...a sumptuous three volume box set with fifty-three chapters over 800 pages. Each chapter is introduced by a short text written by Davidson himself. The result is a celebration of the development of a master of the medium and an autobiography, a photographer’s life seen through his work.

This follows on the heels of Robert Polidori's magnificent Parcours Muséologique Revisité, a three volume box set with 744 pages, of Polidori's documentation of Versailles over a period of 25 years.

Lastly, Ed Ruscha's stunning (yet unaffordable at a mere $11,000 USD) limited edition production of On the Road, pairing Kerouac's original text with Ruscha's photographs:

The text is printed in Letterpress on 220g Hahnemühle paper and every one of the 55 photo-plates is blind embossed and tipped in by hand to create an exquisite and original edition of On the Road.

 The attention Steidl has paid to the production of each of these books reinforces the idea that print is NOT dead, it has merely become more self-critical as a medium.  Publishers are striving for new levels of print quality, usage of materials and design.  The feel of a real book is just becoming – in a word – better.