Edition Reuss, 2008. ISBN 978-3934020665. 27 x 27 x 1.8 cm. 128 pages.

Naked Dance and Gymnastics is a largish well-printed square-format volume full of warmish-tinted monochrome female nudes (though not as warm-toned as the photos here, which are taken directly from the publisher’s website). The photographer, Ralf Mohr, has several [...]

Jim Linderman sent me a copy of this little volume he has recently written and published, and it’s an awful lot of fun. For those of you too young to remember the 50’s and early 60’s (before the American Cultural/Sexual [...]

Lens Modern, 2007. 148 pages. £16

Reviewed by Eric Kellerman

Andreas Heumann was born in Munich, raised in Switzerland and lives in England. Now in his early sixties, he epitomizes the versatility of top international photographers of the second half of the 20th century, with a long string of prestigious awards and [...]

Andrew Cahner is an art model and has done something very,very useful. He’s written a book about the actual art of being a model.  And it is an art.

The Art Model’s Handbook is a really valuable resource of knowledge and insight into the actual ‘nuts & bolts’ of posing for [...]

This volume is the only current book I’m aware of dedicated to the techniques of designing gallery shows for photography. ‘ A Practical Guide to Choosing a Space, Displaying Your Work, and Everything in Between‘ . That it is. And very well done, too.

Author Shirley Read has created an extremely [...]

I know that you probably have a hefty pile of photography books and magazines squirreled away somewhere; if you don’t yet, you will have sooner or later if you own a camera and have a pulse. Our personal collections of visual references are vital tools – even if our significant [...]

I’d like to introduce you to a delightful little book called Picture This – How Pictures Work, by Molly Bang. There’s not one photograph in it, and it’s not written for photographers, per se, but for anyone who makes two-dimensional images of one kind or another. It’s a primer about [...]

Here’s a reference that you really can’t miss. Alessandro Bertolotti credits himself as being one of the largest collectors of erotic books and nude photographs in Europe. And his publisher, Harry M. Abrams, Inc., continues to design and produce the most beautiful art books around. So what we have here [...]

J. Jason Horejs, owner of The Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, has just published a book which might be of interest to many photographers. I bought a copy and finished it a few days ago. Jason wrote it to give artists an inside look at the gallery business and how [...]

Presented for your consideration: a book which is, truly, required reading for anyone who tries to integrate artmaking into their lives. I received my copy the way most people do – another artist gave their dog-eared copy to me. I read it in one sitting. I’ve since purchased several copies [...]