IN PRINT / NEW PHOTO BOOKS

Flak Photo considers unsolicited photography books from artists, publishers and galleries for inclusion in its pages. To submit a title for consideration, contact editor Andy Adams by email at photo@flakmag.com.


Findings | Hiroshi Watanabe

Photolucida is pleased to announce the publication of Hiroshi Watanabe's Findings. As the first Book Prize of Photolucida's annual Critical Mass competition, Watanabe is honored by the organization for his unique way of seeing. This beautiful monograph shows, in a subtle and elegant way, small stories of daily life in far-flung parts of the globe including Ecuador, Japan, Burma, Iceland, and Tahiti. The book's subtle observations weave together quiet scenes of human interaction to reflect a world laced with metaphor. Watanabe's wisdom emerges in his images without visual complications and his lens shows us private spaces in various corners of the world to reveal the quiet moments in between.

Hardcover • 57 black & white photographs • 64 pages • 8.5 x 8.5 in. • $40.00 US • About the Book

Still | Robb Kendrick

The cowboy may well be the quintessential American icon. Kendrick employs an early photographic process — tintype — to create one-of-a-kind images that present a collection of cowboy images captured on ranches across fourteen states of the American West, as well as British Columbia, Canada and Coahuila, Mexico. These photographs reveal the rich variety of people who are drawn to the cowboying life — women as well as men; Native Americans, Mexican Americans and African Americans as well as Anglos. Both an evocative work of art and a masterful documentary record, Still honors the resilience of modern cowboys as they bring traditional ways of living on the land into the twenty-first century.

Hardcover • 148 color photographs • 232 pages • 7.75 x 9.75 in. • $50 US • About the Book

In Almost Every Picture #6 | Ed. Erik Kessels

In Almost Every Picture returns for its sixth incarnation with the story of an anonymous woman who photographed herself almost every year for most of her life. In an age of digital cameras and online communities it seems ordinary, even necessary, to make pictures of one's self. Yet this heroine's motivations are more obscure. Did she undertake this project as a way of preserving her personality? Out of vanity? Insecurity? Pride? Part of the collection's appeal is how it asks viewers to complete its protagonist's story for themselves. We fill in the blanks of her experience with our own interpretations of her intentions, which in the end, says as much about ourselves as it does about the subject.

Softcover • 62 black & white photographs • 136 pages • 6.25 x 7.75 in. • $42.00 US • About the Book