pen to paper…
Dear friends and colleagues,
First, thank you for stopping by and visiting my new website.
For the past 5 years, I’ve worked as the editor of a fantastic, little quarterly magazine by the name of photo-eye Booklist. It has been a labor of love to take what had been a black-and-white mail order catalogue and slowly turn it into an international, community supported, beautifully designed object that mixes the vibrancy of a photography magazine with the depth of a literary journal. It was always my intention to make it a celebration of the “dramatic event called a book.”
So, I’d like to start off this blog–and I’ll get to the notion of “blogging” in a minute”–by thanking Rixon Reed of photo-eye, who gave me the opportunity and space to work on a journal that I am proud of. I’d also like to wholeheartedly thank all of the publishers, writers and photographers that we were able to work with at the magazine (and you are numerous).
If you’re reading this, then you’ve realized that I am currently involved with lots of various things. First and foremost is Radius Books, a new publishing company devoted to the arts, based in Santa Fe, distributed by D.A.P., and formed by myself and 3 other extremely creative individuals.
Now, back to “blogging” and writing and what you’ll find here. My life revolves, happily, around photography and books. Simply put, I like to look at photography and books and I like to write about photography and books. What you will find here will be a regular column of reviews along with occasional posts on a variety of topics.
I hope you enjoy! I’ll leave you with a favorite quote:
“A photobook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things ‘in themselves’ and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book.” –Ralph Prins
darius