January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Andrew Youngson sent me a copy of his book Visions 1-26 (2008). It is a well made book with a good composition. The book starts with a motto by critic Louis Kronenberger who wrote about Virginia Woolf that her writing is not about people, but about: “symbols, the poetic symbols, of life - the changing seasons, day and night, bread and wine, fire and cold, time and space, birth and death and...
Jan 30th
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Prospect / Restrospect →
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam published a PDF they found in their archives providing an overview of the years of the Temporary Stedelijk. For a couple of years the museum was temporarily located in the old mail distribution building (Post CS Building) near Amsterdam Central Station.  At the same time the construction of the extension of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is halted again because...
Jan 28th
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Best Photo Book Packager
If there were a prize for the best photo book packager I would nominate photographer Stephen Gill’s Nobody’s Book Shop. If there were a price for the worst photo book packager I would nominate Amazon.
Jan 28th
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Social Photography: A Benefit Exhibition of Cell... →
Organized to benefit upcoming programming at carriage trade, Social Photography is an exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. 
Jan 27th
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Cleaning the Rietveld Pavilion (1992) by Job Koelewijn remains one of my favorite photobooks. It took me years to get hold of a copy and since it is such a rare publication I will share it here. Spring Cleaning It is just a small book with only seven photographs and some text, but conceptually it is very strong and it contains great pictures. It documents a performance held as part of...
Jan 27th
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Quietus Mix 008: compiled by Chris & Cosey.
Jan 21st
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Alfresco is pleased to announce release of...
Today Alfresco released Alfresco Enterprise 3.4.0. This new release contains some important new features including language packs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Collaboration There are several new features in Alfresco Share, their collaboration interface, including advanced search and full support for advanced workflow. There are also some improved options for site visibility. You can...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Conversations about Photobooks: Hans Gremmen →
Designer Hans Gremmen is actively involved in creating some of the most cutting-edge Dutch photobooks. I wanted to find out what it is they put into the water that makes those books so different, so I approached him to ask him a few questions about photobook making in The Netherlands.
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Rockford’s Group Portrait, in Five Days →
The challenge was formidable: Create a photographic quilt of a small American city, with more than 150,000 potential subjects. Alec Soth shooting a portrait of Bajramsha Jakupi, a cashier at Target. Stacey Baker for The New York Times.
Jan 20th
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Making a Book - Andrew Phelps →
At the end of last year I asked Andrew Phelps if he wanted to write something about his experience in bookmaking, what a book means to him, what makes him move between large print editions and self published projects. Blog Hippolyte Bayard  A great post on the blog Hippolyte Bayard about Andrew Phelps and his experience in bookmaking. He talks about his self published books and the books he...
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate? →
It’s easy to use a smartphone’s camera as a hand-held copier. But some people say it may bear some resemblance to unauthorized file sharing of music.
Jan 16th
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Ebook Formats, DRM and You — A Guide for the... →
How to remove DRM from your ebooks using the Calibre conversion tools. I am a great fan of Calibre. I think it is one of the best tools around for ebook conversions. I mostly use it to convert HTML files to ebooks and to convert from one format to the other.
Jan 16th
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AL LAVORO! BY CHARLOTTE DUMAS →
Fantom Editions published their third photobook Al Lavoro! by Charlotte Dumas. The publication accompanies the exhibition Al Lavoro! at the Rapallo Contemporary Photography Festival. The exhibition and book presents new work by Dumas commissioned by the festival focusing on portraits of working dogs of the area. Some pictures of the series Al Lavoro! will also be on view at the booth of Paul...
Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Photobook shops in Amsterdam
Someone asked me if I could list some photobook shops in Amsterdam and particularly shops that have a webshop or are willing to ship abroad. I will list the shops that I know of, but it might not be complete. I used to visit a lot of bookshops, but the last couple of years I find it hard to find the time. I must admit that Amsterdam does not have that much to offer for photobook lovers, but...
Jan 13th
Jan 13th
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Epublib – a java epub library →
Paul Siegmann created a Java library for reading and writing EPUB files. I haven’t tested it yet, but if this tool is able to produce valid e-books based on a single XHTML input stream I might be able to replace Calibre with this library in my Alfresco EPUB Publication Module. The code looks interesting enough, so I hope to find some time tomorrow or Friday to run some tests.
Jan 12th
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Make Your Own Museum →
Create your own Dan Flavin piece in just one hour for less than $100. The step by step guide you will see when you follow this link is part of a new zine by Eric William Carroll called Make Your Own Museum.
Jan 11th
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Photo documentation of a precise cigarette-tosser... →
Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Anne Geene's Encyclopedia of an Allotment
Anne Geene executed the project PERCEEL NR. 235. Encyclopedie van een volkstuin [Plot No. 235. Encyclopedia of an Allotment] as part of her degree course. Initiallly she self published the photobook in an edition of 400 copies, but thanks to positive reviews from significant people like Hans Aarsman, the book was soon out of print. When Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant invited her for their weekly...
Jan 8th
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Deconstructing DeckShare: A brief look at Alfresco... →
DeckShare is built on top of Alfresco’s new Web Content Management (WCM) offering called Web Quick Start. Honestly, Web Quick Start, as the name implies, provides a good starting point for building a dynamic web site on top of Alfresco, and the sample site was so close to what a basic slide-sharing site needed, we didn’t have to do a whole lot of work. Even so, if you want to do...
Jan 7th
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PHOTO-EYE: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2010 →
This year’s list of contributors offers up the aesthetic tastes of 27 contributors from Europe, the US, Japan and Mexico. Let the photobook hunt begin. Broken Manual by Alec Soth has 6 selections closely followed by Quatorze Juillet by Johan van de Keuken (5 selections). There is a lot of praise for Dutch photobooks. Martin Parr for example about How Terry Likes His Coffee: The Dutch...
Jan 7th
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Bits: Finding a Use for Tumblr →
Trying to find a reason to use the highly popular social service Tumblr.
Jan 1st