The Spring 2009 issue of Ag, Ag55,
is in the shops and on its way to subscribers, and includes the final call for
entries to our Brilliant Book Awards. We’re looking for your best photobook
ideas, and the winners will be printed as beautiful hardbacks by Blurb.com --
plus prizes from Adobe of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2. Over £2500 in prizes
to be won! Cover photographer Andy Gotts talks about photographing the stars
and we have exclusive new colour work from John Blakemore. David Lee reviews a
new body of work from Chris Killip -- Here Comes Everybody -- and Bill Jay
advises on how to fake appearing profound about photography. Gerry Badger hails
a series of books on photobooks from Errata Editions and Tim Daly describes how
to reproduce b&w print effects using inkjet output. Eddie Ephraums
discusses the relationship between text and pictures, plus we have six great
portfolios in Scene Around. And we have the usual mix of new and views and some
of our favourite new photobooks. Click the link top left for more.
