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So, let’s do a minor update; this week is all about books!
I recently received a book released by a photographer I met this past October at Chicago’s Filter Photo Festival and portfolio review, Brad Hamilton.
The book is a documentation of the politics of the United States using two days eight years apart, the Inauguration Days of Presidents Obama and Trump:
We all know how things felt with these two administrations, and if you weren’t in Washington, D.C., these photos capture the hopefulness for the country’s future of one day and the tension of what was to come later that year of the other.
Full disclosure, I was actually in DC for Trump’s Inauguration, trying to work on my own separate project that unfortunately stalled out later in the year, sometimes that happens…
Using a head-to-toe binding, you can read the book starting at either end, and each story meets in the middle.
This is something that I’ve always wanted to do with a zine; seeing Brad’s book might push me to experiment and try it out.
A photobook I’ve wanted
I finally checked off a book from my ever-growing wish list of photobooks, Lee Friedlander’s Little Screens:
The first time I saw these surrealistic photos, I had two immediate thoughts:
I hope to do something visually striking like this one day
I have to add this book to my collection
Unfortunately, this book is one of Friedlander’s most pricey books, starting from $200 and going up. After a recent almost all-day Thread a thon (On Friedlander’s 90th) birthday, in which I referenced photos from this book, I finally made my mind (and wallet) up to purchase it,
Group Exhibition
Speaking of Filter Photo again, I was recently accepted into this exhibition. My zine Nightcall will be on display from September 13th to October 19th and then part of Filter’s permanent photobook library, so I’m kind of excited about that!
Link to ‘One-Eighty” Here
Until next time,
Laidric
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