reviewed by George Slade Memphis, Tennessee. A lovely, mid-summer glow graces an alley between utterly banal buildings in a photograph titled 'Bill's Twilight.' Even without this tip of the hat, and a back-matter acknowledgment to 'friend' William Eggleston, Christian Patterson's first major monograph pays significant and worthy homage to the Memphis-based master...

reviewed by Phil Harris Lee Friedlander's windows to the world have been coming at us at a steady clip for about five decades now, a series of news bulletins from the under-mapped monochrome continent, Friedland...

reviewed by Charles Dee Mitchell Michael Farris, the constitutional lawyer who fought hard for the legislation that has allowed the homeschooling movement to flourish across America, founded Patrick Henry College in 2000...

reviewed by George Slade Several of Fazal Sheikh's monographs have appeared in a trim size, about 8 inches tall by 6 inches wide, and a modest thickness that makes them seem almost like pocketbooks — items one could easily tote on a long journey. The unassuming dimensions of these books, however, belie the profundity of the images they contain...

reviewed by Stephen Hahn George Tice is best known as a photographer of urban scenes, chiefly in New Jersey, mainly with a large format view camera, and entirely in black and white. Several of these aspects come together in Ticetown, a book comprised of just over three dozen images, some picturing remnants of historical Tice family effects...

reviewed by Charles Dee Mitchell Geert van Kesteren's Baghdad Calling begins with the kind of roll call of depressing figures we have come to associate with the current Iraq War: Over 120 armed groups are operating in Iraq. At least 4 million Iraqis have left the country. Since the U.S. occupation began, 209 journalists have been killed in the fighting or executed by insurgents....

reviewed by George Slade Fountain, a beguilingly slim collection based on Andrea Modica's extended relationship with a family and their business in Fountain, Colorado, is an expansion and a welcome revisiting of a photographic program first laid out in her 1996 book Treadwell. It's a pleasure to imagine Modica working on these projects...

reviewed by Aaron Rothman I first came to know of Ed Templeton sometime around 1990, when he began appearing in national skateboarding magazines as an up and coming young pro. Like Templeton, I was a teenager who had immersed myself in skateboarding and photography as means of self-expression, discovery, and escape from the trials of suburban American adolescence...

Paul Fusco: RFK reviewed by Will Steacy My mother, an Irish Catholic who grew up outside Boston, used to read Greek myths to me before putting me to bed. My favorite was the tale of Orpheus's quest through the Underworld to find his beloved Eurydice after her death...

reviewed by Charles Dee Mitchell Editor Liu Heung Shing began gathering images for this forty-year survey of Chinese photography in 1997. He searched China for photographers once employed by the Maoist government either as official photographers or with the state-run media, elderly men and women who still had negatives in shoeboxes under their beds and prints they had shown no one for decades...

reviewed by Mary Anne Redding The first three photographers awarded monographs in 2005 by Critical Mass, Photolucida's annual juried competition, were Hiroshi Watanabe, Louis Palu, and Sage Sohier. The three small books were published in 2007...

reviewed by Charles Dee Mitchell Modern physics teaches us that what we perceive as solid mass is composed mostly of empty space. It's a difficult concept to get your mind around, especially when you stump your toe or fill a cup with coffee, but the photographs German photographer Michael Wolf has taken in Chicago depict our urban skyscraper environments as a model of that concept...

reviewed by Ryon James Katy Grannan has always been drawn to "lost souls" as subjects. In her earlier work, she allowed her subjects to find her through indirect means such as classified ads and word-of-mouth (Model Americans, Aperture 2005). With The Westerns, Grannan has taken the initiative and sought out the desired individuals, approaching people in public that spark her interest...

reviewed by John Cohen Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures is a celebratory view of the great musician, filled with testimonials, poems and memories from Huddie Ledbetter's family, friends and admirers, such as Tom Waits, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and many others who saw the greatness of Lead Belly's music...

reviewed by Alex Sweetman For a long time it was said that anyone meeting Robert Frank would be well advised to steer clear of the subject of The Americans. It had a way of making Robert irritable. But not anymore, not since Gerhard Steidl became involved in “The Robert Frank Project,”...

by John Cohen Steidl has just reissued a little book, Pull My Daisy, loaded with photographic power, a document from a phase in Robert Frank’s long career when Robert abandoned still photography to make his first film...