And yeah, it’s actually a really impressive book. Terry skillfully reveals  the  intimate, playful and human GaGa.

“Gregory Halpern and I met for the first time about five years ago. He’d brought an 8×10 black clamshell case to my apartment in Brooklyn, filled to the brim with full-bleed, dark and muddy prints. He’d made the photographs while traveling through some rough neighborhoods in Buffalo and Omaha. The lives and situations he recorded were bleak, but his pictures exuded a glow of emotion that somehow left you feeling like things were going to be OK. Nothing came of the meeting at the time, but his pictures stuck with me.”

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Photographs from Israel. Photo-Eye Review

Two nights ago, Graham and I saw Catherine Opie, Alec Soth and the Rodarte sisters talk about their new collaborative book at the Hammer Museum. The lecture was fairly informal, but the result was a conversation that dealt with many facets of art and fashion; the contradictions and the similarities. The book combines photographs that Alec Soth took over a two week road trip that traced the Mulleavy sister’s influences through the California landscape, with the classically influenced studio portraits of Catherine Opie. Opie photographed professional models as well as a few of her friends that have appeared in some of her previous works. There was no conversation between Opie and Soth throughout the project, but the resulting images in the book clearly show us that Rodarte comes from specific place and time, and that, while their clothes may be hung in galleries, their vision stems from similar places as Opie and Soth; the American landscape and the many cultural idiosyncrasies that pocket themselves across the United States.

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Stephen Shore’s, “The Hudson Valley”, is the newest edition from Blind Spot Books.

“Having discovered a cavity under a pier in Malmö, Sweden, Löfstedt and Vestman worked for 5 months to convert this anonymous concrete interior into an inviting room. Bringing building supplies to the pier by bike and working mostly at night by the light of headlamps, Löfstedt and Vestman squeezed between the rocks beside the pier to enter and build the space, cleaning it of debris, rocks and seaweed, painting the walls white, framing out and laying a parquet floor, adding a door and window and ultimately creating a beautiful space in a magically unexpected location.”

Check out the Photo-Eye blog to read more about this book.