Cutting up works by male photographers, impressionistic visions and tributes to lives spent chasing art through a lens, this year’s photobooks were unmissable
’s wilfully provocative SCUM manifesto. Kurland’s creative rage took the form of cutting up and reassembling some of the most iconic photobooks by male artists such as Brassaï, Robert Frank, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. The results are wonderfully intricate collages that possess a presence of their own, so much so that it is often difficult to identify the source material. Angry and provocative, for sure, but elaborately beautiful, too.
also includes previously unseen colour photographs, contact sheets, correspondence and ephemera from the time. A wonderfully illuminating insight into the making of a classic photobook.De la série « Red », 1968-75, by Boris Mikhaïlov. , was published to mark the veteran Ukrainian photographer’s retrospective at MEP Paris. It is a big, densely packed book filled with Mikhailov’s often absurdist images of his homeland as well as extensive quotes from the artist. Too singular and subversive to fit easily into any photographic tradition, Mikhailov’s oeuvre is not for the faint-hearted, so be warned this is not so much a primer, as a deep dive into his instinctively transgressive way of seeing.
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