About The Photobook Club
The Photobook Club aims to promote and enable discussion surrounding the photo book format. In particular looking at old, rare and influential photography books from the 20th century onwards.
The Photobook Club is run by Matt Johnston.-
Follow the Photobook Club's 'Box of Books as it travels over 30,000 miles, stopping off at each of the Photobook Club branches around the world...
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Previous Books:
- Robert Frank, The Americans
- Richard Avedon, Observations
- Eugene Richards, Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
- Larry Sultan, The Valley
- Anders Peterson, Cafe Lehmitz
- Ken Schles, Invisible City
- Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
- Nobuyoshi Araki, Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey
- Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places
- Sally Mann, Immediate Family
- Paul Graham, A1: The Great North Road
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Tag Archives: stephen shore
Summary: Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’
An awesome month on the Photo Book Club looking at Stephen Shore’s masterpiece, a big thanks to all who contributed to the discussion with a special shout to Kurt Easterwood for sharing a fantastic piece of extended writing on one … Continue reading
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Tagged books, photobook, photography book, sally mann, stephen shore, uncommon places
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Kurt Easterwood on Stephen Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth’, The Photographers Presence
Here is the third teaser from an extended piece of writing by Kurt Easterwood of Japan Exposures. Kurt has produced a fantastic deconstruction and analysis of Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth St. and Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1974′ featured in … Continue reading
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Tagged book, cincinnati, japan exposures, kurt easterwood, photo book club, photography, stephen shore, uncommon places
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Kurt Easterwood on Stephen Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth’, The History
The second teaser from an extended piece of writing by Kurt Easterwood of the awesome Japan Exposures. Kurt has produced a fantastic deconstruction and analysis of Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth St. and Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1974′ featured in … Continue reading
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Tagged book, cincinnati, japan exposures, kurt easterwood, photo book club, photography, stephen shore, uncommon places
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Stephen Shore at SFMOMA…
I hope some ‘Club readers were able to get tickets to Shore’s talk at SFMOMA last week, for those that did not, luckily Stan Banos was in attendance and has written about the talk and Shore’s style over here. Also … Continue reading
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Tagged book, kurt easterwood, mark wilson, moma, photo, photobook, photobook club, photography, sfmoma, stan banos, stephen shore, uncommon places
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Kurt Easterwood on Stephen Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth’, An Extended Introduction
Kurt Easterwood of the awesome Japan Exposures has produced an extended piece of writing on one of Shore’s images featured in ‘Uncommon Places, The Complete Works’. The image in question can be seen on the right hand side of the … Continue reading
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Tagged book, cincinnati, japan exposures, kurt easterwood, photo book club, photography, stephen shore, uncommon places
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West Fifteenth St. and Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1974
Super excited for this ‘mini-series’ which will be posted over the last week of our Stephen Shore month. Kurt Easterwood of the awesome Japan Exposures has produced an extended piece of writing on one of Shore’s images featured in ‘Uncommon … Continue reading
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Tagged book, cincinnati, japan exposures, kurt easterwood, photo book club, photography, stephen shore, uncommon places
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Kunstler, Venturi and Stephen Shore
The subjects of Shore’s images in ‘Uncommon Places’ could well illustrate architect Robert Venturi’s seminal ‘Learning From Las Vegas‘ as they represent Venturi’s comments on the highway-dictated landscape to a tee. Below I have pulled a few quotes from ‘Learning … Continue reading
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Tagged america, american, kunstler, photobook, photography, robert venturi, stephen shore, uncommon places
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Kurt Easterwood on Stephen Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth’, A Conclusion
Here is the fourth and final extraction from an extended piece of writing by Kurt Easterwood of Japan Exposures. Kurt produced a fantasticaly rich deconstruction and analysis of Shore’s ‘West Fifteenth St. and Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1974′ … Continue reading →