Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2013

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.


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Friday, January 7, 2011

Publish Your Photography Book

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

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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.

Monday, May 17, 2010

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.