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More Ag downloads now at Lulu.com

We have added to the library of pdf downloads available at Lulu.com, which include whole issue of Ag magazine, as well as books, individual articles and series. For a full listing click here.

The Roma Journeys, by Joakim Eskildsen

Joakim Eskildsen is a young Dane who graduated with an MA from Helsinki’s University of Art & Design in 1998; as you will see from his website, he has already completed several bodies of exceptional work and published a number of books, including hand-made artist’s books and short-run editions. His latest, and most ambitious to date is The Roma Journeys. A huge body of work it is too.
Like Josef Koudelka before him (Gypsies, published in 1975), Eskildsen has spent six years following his subject, but unlike Koudelka he has divided his time – and that of his collaborator Cia Rinne – more evenly between the seven countries whose Gypsy travellers feature in the work. Also, most of Eskildesn's work – and the most striking – is in colour. The Roma Journeys is published by Steidl and there is a 10-page portfolio from the work in Ag51. Image © Joakim Eskildsen.

How to Make and Publish a Photobook

Every photographer’s must-have accessory!
In this new and unique little book Chris Dickie guides the reader through the various stages and decision-making processes involved in the making of a photobook. He offers advice based on over 30 years’ experience in publishing, during which time he has been professionally involved in every aspect of the publishing process: from writing and editing to art direction, from typesetting and design to print buying. For the past 25 years he has been publishing photography, in magazines and books. To date he has racked up almost 1500 photography publications.
How to Make & Publish a Photobook takes the reader step-by-step from image selection to selling your finished book. The way in which digital technology has revolutionised the publishing process is explained in depth: the costs and merits of the various print production options are compared and contrasted, and advice is offered on which route to take according to the scale and nature of your project.
How to Make & Publish a Photobook is published by Picture-Box Media at a mere £15. For more information or to place an order visit www.picture-box.com, or you can telephone on 020 8941 0249. UK postage is free. The book is also available as a pdf download at just £10 (no postage!) - click here for details.

Bruce Rae, Terry Jones & Tom Phillips in new limited edition artists book

A beautiful, intriguing and highly collectable limited edition art book is now available from the publishers of Ag magazine. Tableaux•Whispers•Echoes is a unique collaboration between three eminent British artists and features beautiful salt print studies by art photographer Bruce Rae, interpretive poetry by writer, director and Monty Python member Terry Jones and allusive illustration by renowned artist Tom Phillips RA. This handsome volume is printed, case-bound and embossed in Italy on the finest heavyweight art paper and presented in an illustrated protective slipcase.
Tableaux•Whispers•Echoes will be published in an edition of just 900 copies in November 2007. Each copy is individually numbered and signed by the three artists.
Of the edition, 30 copies - numbered 01-30 - are being offered as a Collector's Edition, each hand-bound in leather and accompanied by one of three numbered salt prints, each in an edition of 10, hand-coated and printed on fine watercolour paper and signed by Bruce Rae. Thanks to the nature of this earliest of photographic processes each print is unique in colour and tone and archivally permanent. Click here to visit the site and preview the book. Secure online ordering with pre-publication discount is now available.

Chris Dickie's latest book available online

Ag's editor & publisher Chris Dickie has a new book out at the on-demand internet print service Lulu.com. Produced as part of his on-going research into contemporary techniques for self-publishing photographers, The Lightning Tree is an 88-page hardback, printed in colour throughout, which presents a modern fable told in words and photographs. Click here to view the details.

World of Lith Printing out now

Lith print expert Tim Rudman's book 'The World of Lith Printing' - as featured at length in Ag44 - has just been published. The book draws together both imagery and experience from lith printers around the world and serves both as inspiration and a highly practical guide to the popular process. You can preview parts of the book and order copies - including a limited slipcased hardbound edition - at the World of Lith Printing website.

New photobook by Chris Dickie

A new book by Ag editor and publisher Chris Dic kie is now available from lulu.com, the internet-based digital print and publishing service. ‘In from the sea’ documents in words and photographs the relationship between the west coast of Lewis, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and the Atlantic Ocean. Reade rs can order a copy of the 60-page full colour softback First Edition for just $19.99 (that’s less than £12, plus carriage). Click here for further details.

The game rules

Here is a short extract from David Lee’s assessment of reGeneration, recently published by Thames & Hudson, with a claim to identify “50 photographers of tomorrow”, which appears in Ag41. You can read the entire diatribe (sorry, carefully constructed argument) in Ag – on sale now. Rock on Dave!
“The idea behind the book is to spot the photographic stars of 20 years hence. With this in mind the organisers asked photography schools of what they considered the highest repute from around the world to submit candidates from which the curators made their choice. I am appalled not only by the joyless uniformity of what they selected but by the depressing predictability with which the styles aped have obviously been imbibed from art magazines. It is as though students can no longer look for themselves but have to be told what to see and how to see it. reGeneration is useful only for the arty parlour game: Spot The Influence. Worst of all, it announces the now seemingly irreversible global reach of State Art in photography. It doesn’t matter where on the planet you live you can’t avoid being part of the club called ‘Art Photography’. German-speaking photographers seem steeped to a mensch in the unavoidable influence of the Bechers and the pore-portraiture of their followers, with Gursky’s digital trickery closing fast on the rails. Everyone else looks no further than William Eggleston and American Colour, ably supported by Cindy Sherman with her dressing up, mannikins, selfs, unselfs, de-selfs and doubtless her reSelfs. One looks in vain through this book for something unfamiliar, for something that isn’t garishly colourful and ponderously weighed up, for something local, for something felt. State Art was slow to adopt what was perceived as the vulgarity of colour photography – the medium of the Benidorm snap - but it is making up for it now with supervulgarity which challengingly outvulgarises the merely vulgar."
David Lee is editor of The Jackdaw

Joel Meyerowitz at Tate Modern

To mark the publication of a new career monograph 'Joel Meyerowitz' the photographer will be presenting a talk at Tate Modern on Monday 23 May at 6.30pm. The venue is the Star Auditorium: tickets cost £5 (£3 concessions) and you can book online at the Tate Gallery website or by phone on 020 7887 8888. There will be a book signing after the talk.

Nick Waplington double act

Publisher Trolley announces the arrival next month of Nick Waplington's latest book You Love Life. They go on to mention that the author was born in 1974 on the Ivory Coast (or Cote D'Ivoire as they prefer). There are clearly two Waplingtons: the one I know was born in England in 1965; we met in 1990 when he was on the MA at the Royal College of Art - and 16 is a little youthful for postgraduate study. And 17 is remarkably precocious to have a book (Living Room) published with accompanying texts from Richard Avedon and John Berger. The coincidences don't end there: the two Waplingtons have published books with identical titles, the publishers indicate. One wonders if the older Waplington turning 40 this year has anything to do with this? You Love Life will be published 30 May, £24.95, in a limited edition of 1000, ISBN 1-904563-42-2.