Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
This just in: the Photography Book Now contest, which I’ve been involved with, has just opened up voting to the masses. That’s all of us. They’ve created a People’s Choice Award category and will be taking votes until September 10th, when all winners will be announced, including the Grand Prize recipient. The contest organizers had anticipated several hundred entries but they received an overwhelming 2,000 submissions. you can check out the submissions here.
Here’s how it works [straight from the Blurb.com website]:
“You can vote for one book, and one book only. Just go to the Photography.Book.Now bookstore to see all the work, then click on the voting button under your favorite book. (The button’s big and orange, should be pretty easy to spot.) Want to stack the deck for your top choice? We have some tools to make it easy for you to spread the word. You can download an image to forward along in emails, or grab a People’s Choice voting badge for your website or blog by clicking here to save the file.
Once you cast your vote, you can also send a note directly from the bookstore to bring your people right back to your top choice.
The winner of the People’s Choice Award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in San Francicsco on September 19th. Pick up your tickets here. Oh, and the prize? We’re keeping that one a secret. After all, who doesn’t love a little surprise?”
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I’m involved with a wagon-load of activities this Fall, some of which are Radius Books events and some of which are not, but all of which involve either great books or great photography and sometimes both!
September 11 & 13th: New York City
Fabled sculptor John McCracken simultaneously launches a major exhibition of work at David Zwirner and launches John McCracken: Sketchbook with Radius Books. Thursday night, from 6-8pm is the opening and Saturday at 11am is the artist talk and booksigning. John McCracken Press Release.
September 19th: San Francisco
First of the Photography Book Now symposiums, to be held at Bimbo’s 365 Club.
October 10th: London
Second of the Photography Book Now symposiums, to be held at the Delfina Galleries.
October 22nd: New York City
Third of the Photography Book Now symposiums, to be held at the New Musuem.
October 23rd: New York City
Photo Plus Expo at Javitts. I’m moderating the same panel discussion I did as last year called Photobook Publishing: The Inside View. It’ll be Thursday at 3:30-5:30
October 25th: New York City
Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair has teamed up with the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY) to produce a conference on contemporary artists’ books. I’ll be presenting and on a panel discussion on Saturday morning in the NYPL South Court Auditorium
October 31st: Santa Fe
Andrew Smith Gallery opens Lee Friedlander: New Mexico, accompanied by a monograph of the same title by Radius Books. Friedlander will be in attendance at the opening.
Tags: Artists' Books Conference, David Zwirner, John McCracken, Photo Plus Expo, Photography Book Now
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Words Without Pictures (Aperture, 2010)
Short Track, by Jake Mendel
Bird Watching, by Paula McCartney