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My good friend, Roger Farrington, gifted me a copy of Bill Armstrong’s new book, “All a Blur”. It is a beautifully designed and produced book that showcases several decades of Bill’s work.

My friend, Lou Jones, has just published the second installment of his long-term project documenting Africa, its economy and its culture.

With a healthy sprinkle of plastic and tinsel, Lee Friedlander's visions of a commercial, uniquely American Christmas evoke both irony and nostalgia.

Several years ago, I donated an original wedding day print by James Van Der Zee to the collection of a local college. I felt that it was important that the work of this underappreciated Black photographer would be seen by a new generation of photography students.

In my teenage years, the only place that I could find peace, solitude and personal expression was in my (tiny) bedroom. Adrienne Salinger’s new book, “Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” shows that today’s teenagers still desire for a place of their own making.

"The Butch Manual" was published 40 years ago. It is amazing to see how attitudes and attire have changed for gay men since that time.

Henry O. Head states at the start of his new book, “Twelve Acres”, that this work was inspired by the friendship that defines my teenage years, and the Ozark creeks and hills that we called home.

The skin is the largest organ in the body. Olivia Arthur’s new book, “Murmurings of the Skin”, presents a collection of haunting black and white and color photographs that explore the concept of physicality.

I saw a copy of Pacifico Silano’s Shadow Cast at Paris Photo this year. I was very impressed by both its content and its unique format.

Lyle Ashton Harris’s book, Our first and last love documents the New York artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New England in more than two decades at the Rose Art Museum.

Photographer Yoav Horesh states about his book “Monument”, “As an artist and an educator with a long history of interest in and previous work done around the topics of memory, memorials, monuments and trauma in The Middle East, Europe, Asia, and America, I found myself driving more than 12 hours to Richmond, Virginia to photograph dozens of Confederate monuments and the civil unrest in this southern state capital.
It was a sudden and an urgent matter as these statues were in the process of losing their ground amongst a heated debate about their visual content, purpose, locations, and future…”

In the opening of his new book, “This Was Then” Mike Abrahams states “these photographs, taken between 1973 and 2001, are of ordinary lives that are so often ignored and marginalized.” The book showcases 133 of his black and white images. He goes on to say, “even though I have been privileged to travel widely with my camera, it is the lives that I have been able to document in Britain that hold the greatest significance for me. “Those years were marked by major political and economic upheaval, and Mike’s camera captures ordinary people, old and the young, going through both the mundane and the chaotic moments of their lives.

“The cemetery seizes your mind. After wandering around here for three years, I’d pretty much lost the need to take pictures, but kept returning, the last time to search for the gravestones and statues in the pictures I’d already taken” Eugene Richards writes in the afterward of his new book, “Remembrance Garden – A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery”. Besides presenting a collection of the photographs he took over that period, the book includes several personal remembrances as well as a collection of the epitaphs he encountered.

My friend, Neal Rantoul sent me images and information about his latest project.

The young men that are the subject of Jim Mangan’s new book, “The Crick”, were raised in a rural Colorado town ruled over by a prophet. They were cast out of their church and forced to create a life for themselves. They formed a unique community based on what they knew, the love of nature and the cowboy life. Jim’s photographs, taken over a period of six years, are both hauntingly beautiful and sadly tragic at the same time.

When you Google the name Garry Winogrand and select the images tag, you see dozens of his iconic black and white images. Only if you take the time scroll far down the page do you start to see a few color images. I know that my perception of his work was always based on his classic black and white photographs. Winogrand Color, offers Winogrand fans a collection of rarely, if ever, seen color images.

Susanne Breidenbach states in her forward to Lucinda Devlin’s new book, Frames of Reference, that “for nearly half a century Lucinda Devlin has been photographing interiors and outdoor spaces, architecture and landscapes, applying a highly consistent approach and demonstrating the utmost concentration.” Indeed, she has. This beautifully designed and produced book features her photographs whose subjects range from Orpheus Disco, Syracuse, New York, 1978 to Lethal Injection Chamber, Texas State Prison, Huntsville, Texas, 1992.

At a recent studio visit, I saw this series of work and was knocked out by its boldness. I asked Olivia Parker if she would be willing to have an exhibition featuring the series at Curry College and she was kind enough to agree. Alison Poor-Donahue and I co-curated the exhibition titled "Olivia Parker - Persephone's Graffiti". Exhibition infomation is posted here.

I’ve known Neal Rantoul for several decades. During that time, Neal was the head of the Photo Program at Northeastern University in Boston as well as an extensively exhibited and collected fine arts photographer. Neal continues to create new work and recently he sent me information and images from his latest series, Shirley.

Bruce Davidson: The Way Back will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 22 through September 16, 2023. Selected by the acclaimed photographer from his vast archive, the exhibition will present previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977.

Ian Berry (born 1934) is a British photojournalist with Magnum Photos. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence. Ian Berry was also invited by Henri Cartier-Bresson to join Magnum Photos in 1962 when he was based in Paris; five years later he became a full member.

Andrea Gjestvang spent six years photographing on the Faroe Islands documenting the men who are referred to as “Atlantic Cowboys”, men who live in a primarily male society making a very demanding living off the sea and the land.

Marc Vallée is a London based documentary photographer. His new book is titled “90s Archive: Volume One”.
Marc has photographed youth culture, in Paris, Berlin, and London. He has made work about the tension between public and private space in the context of graffiti, skateboarding and queer cultures. He has self-published zines and shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of London and Somerset House.

The world has lost an unknown number of irreplaceable masterpieces due to war. Tragically, it continues today because of the war in Ukraine. Elena Subach’s new book documents the work of courageous Ukrainians to save as much of their cultural masterpieces as possible.

This is an amazing book on many levels. I recommend Gordon Parks, Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944-1946 to anyone who is interested in seeing brilliant editorial photography by one of its masters.
It expanded my knowledge and appreciation of his work and his contribution to documenting the Black American experience.

Chris Anthony’s new book, "Thanks, We'll take it from here", lives at the intersection of photography and the income equality revolution. It’s a vibrant, ruckus collection of photographs and the multitude of materials that make up the income equality movement in all its forms today.

Look closer. That’s exactly what Ken Graves and Eva Lipman did when they worked together on the photographs in the new book, "Restraint and Desire". At first, the images seem to just capture a moment during a multitude of social events, but if you look closer, the images capture a moment that is crystalized in the title of the book – restraint and desire.

In Brian Finke’s new book “Backyard Fights”, he documents the people and the culture of backyard boxing in rural Virginia.

I’ve Been A Big Fan Of This Series Since I First Saw Pelle’s Prints It At A Portfolio Review Several Years Ago. Pelle Cass’s New Book Gives You A Chance To See A Number Of His Wonderfully Overly-Populated Photographs.

Mike Smith’s new book of black and white portraits, Streets of Boston, is filled with people in the real streets and neighborhoods of Boston. The people that I see every day, the people that live and work here for most for all their lives.

Polly Alderton is a British photographer. Her work is largely portrait based and is centred around The Family Album under the premise of, 'Show Don't Tell.'

„Dios Mio!“ by Brian Sergio is a powerfully designed and produced book. Brian states about the photographs he selected for the book, “As I was going through my pictures, I came across a folder full of randomly selected photographs from various projects or sources that may be discontinued or cannot be categorized.”

Giacomo Brunelli’s new book, “New York”, is a beautifully designed book of New York street photographs shot in a gritty black and white, high-contrast style.

The Nicola Vassell Gallery (a recently opened New York City gallery) is presenting an exhibition of photographs by Ming Smith. As it states in the gallery’s press release “She was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of Black photographers in New York City in the 1960s who documented Black life”.

Bévillard’s images take us on a journey through multiple halting sites, indistinct rural landscapes and some settled social housing estates around the Republic of Ireland, not only giving us insight into daily life, but also providing rare glimpses of family rituals: weddings, christenings and funerals, which make up the bedrock of all Irish communities.

Mahdiyeh Afshar bakeshloo, an Iranian fine arts photographer, contacted me and asked me to take a look at her work. I have to admit that I had no knowledge about the photography community in Iran. I am very impressed by the surreal nature of her photographs.

Serving as an adjunct professor at two local colleges during the Covid-9 pandemic, I saw firsthand how disappointed students were that they would not be able to celebrate the end of their college year. Alys’s portraits helped document their rite of passage during a uniquely difficult time.

In her latest book, Surfboard, Joni Sternabch turns her lens on surfer’s exquisitely crafted surfboards.

For three years, Jackson walked through the lamp-lit and neon-filled streets of Soho, turning to photography initially as a way to escape the frustrations of insomnia.

Kirk Crippens book “Going South - Big Sur” chronicles the effect of a long period of drought on the people and landscape of one of America’s most beautiful areas.

Nobody Could Have Predicted The Level Of Success Star Wars Has Had And That Its Cultural Effect Would Spread Far Beyond The Film World. Richard Renaldi’s New Book, Star Wars T-Shirts Shows That The Film Still Reaches An Incredibly Broad An Audience 43 After Its Release.

Chris Killip’s new book, The Station, documents the English music venue where, in 1985, the clientele mixed very load music, fashion, and more than a bit of violence.

I was fortunate to live and work in London in the late 80s. Paul Trevor expertly captures a unique time and place in London’s cultural history.

Etherton Gallery has published “Danny Lyon: Thirty Photographs 1962-1980”. Produced in an edition of ten, each portfolio contains 30, 11 x 14-inch gelatin silver prints, a colophon, and an essay by Terry Etherton, President of Etherton Gallery, and is housed in an attractive, handcrafted clamshell box.

The Wombat Art Box No. 38 in partnership with the Museum of the City of New York presents a number of Stanley Kubrick’s photographs from Prizefighter as well as an incredible, limited edition black and white photograph of Rocky Graziano showering after a workout.