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Go Inside East Germany's Stasi Archives

During the Cold War, escape attempts from East Germany were thoroughly reenacted and photographed by the Ministry for State Security

By Jeffrey Ladd

Go Inside the Legendary Studio 54

In the history of New York nightclubs and the social scene, Studio 54 is legendary. During its most popular years between 1977 and 1981 it was the place to see and be seen and drew...

By Jeffrey Ladd

The Return of Henri Cartier-Bresson's Decisive Moment

For 62 years, only the most fortunate of photographers and photo book collectors could peruse Henri Cartier-Bresson's masterpiece The Decisive Moment. This is about to change as German publisher Steidl is putting the finishing touches to the book's first ever reprint

By Jeffrey Ladd

30 Years in Appalachia: Moving Beyond the Hillbilly Clichés

In 1985, fascinated by stories of women working in mines in Appalachia, Bertien van Manen embedded herself with families in the region. What emerged was an epic, intergenerational photography project spanning nearly 30 years.

By Jeffrey Ladd

DIY Skateparks: A Global Architecture of Rebellion

Richard Gilligan traveled around Europe and the United States photographing these self-built skate spots for a new book by Prestel called DIY / Underground Skateparks

By Jeffrey Ladd

Fueling the American Dream

Jeff Ladd spoke with writer David Campany about his newest book Gasoline, which explores the notion of how petrol and gasoline stations have been portrayed in photographs from the news.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Paris In My Time: Mark Steinmetz's Homage to the City of Lights

'Paris in My Time,' Mark Steinmetz’s newest book from Nazraeli Press, offers homage to the city of lights.

By Jeffrey Ladd

The Holy Bible, Appropriated: An Illustrated Scripture by Broomberg and Chanarin

Artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin speak about their newest book, Holy Bible, and the changing implications of photography and text as evidence in our image saturated culture.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Luigi Ghirri's Kodachromes Revisited

Jeffrey Ladd writes for LightBox about a recently re-released edition of Luigi Ghirri's 1978 book, 'Kodachrome'.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Great Heights In The Swissair Archive

Swissair might have been once world renowned for its high standards of service and customer relations, but one might not know that photography was a driving passion of its co-founder. LightBox explores some of the treasures in the archives of the airline.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Coexistence by Stephen Gill

The photographic voice of English photographer Stephen Gill always has a playfully inventive ring. The photos in his new book, 'Coexistence,' mix the scientific and conceptual while documenting a pond's microscopic communities.

By Jeffrey Ladd

David Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines"

LightBox presents exclusive images from the re-release of David Goldblatt's 'On the Mines,' the prolific South African photographer's documentation of the mining industry during apartheid.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Looking For Love in 90's by Alec Soth

The history of mankind is rife with love producing illogical and oddball behavior. Alec Soth's newest book Looking for Love, 1996 is, in its way, about the search for love guided by the heart and the search of love guided by the eye.

By Jeffrey Ladd

The Sweet Life: Revisited

In photography, "the road trip," especially by car around the United States, has been a right of passage for many photographers. Embarking on a fourteen-month world tour however is a bit less common, but that ambitious challenge was taken on in 1959 by the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda. The resulting photographs would turned into one of the most epic Dutch photobooks ever produced, The Sweet Life.

By Jeffrey Ladd

The Darkroom: Nostalgia for a Dying Craft

Adam Bartos’s new book sheds some white light on the dying craft of analog printmaking and the environments that have produced most of the medium’s greatest images.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Master of the Photobook: Robert Delpire's Long and Legendary Influence

Few publishers in the history of photography have had as lengthy a track record of producing books that are now considered the medium’s landmarks as Robert Delpire, who is honored in a tribute exhibition in New York City.

By Jeffrey Ladd

'Passengers' Wins the Fifth International Fotobook Festival Dummy Awards

The Le Bal photography museum in Paris hosted the Fifth International Fotobook Festival from April 20 – 22. Here we present selections from the top three winners for the festival's Dummy Award.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Danny Lyon: The World Is Not My Home

For the past five decades the photographer Danny Lyon has produced a mix of documentary photographs and film—both politically conscious and personal. As the artist turns 70 this year, a coinciding exhibition will open at the Menil Collection in Houston.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Retouching a Classic: 'Less Américains'

In the digital age, touching the work of established photographic masters can be a sensitive business. London-based artist Mishka Henner explores Robert Frank's classic opus in his newest book, Less Américains.

By Jeffrey Ladd

A Brief, Photographic History of Republished Books

In a medium like photography, where the book plays such an important role in its progression, it is an unfortunate fact that some of the greatest photobooks have been essentially lost to history.

By Jeffrey Ladd
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