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© Oliver Weber - Polaroid EE 100 - Fujifilm FP 100C + Flash Cube

The probably best selling baking book in Germany, Dr. Oetker's Backen Macht Freude – here the original from 1960.

© Oliver Weber - Polaroid 600 ONE -  Contact Sheets with cat (2012) - C-Print - 24x24 inches

A wonderful picture book to study the history of famous photographs: MAGNUM Contact Sheets.

© Oliver Weber // MAGNUM PHOTOS

© Oliver Weber - Polaroid 600 One

This year I will give away little carry-along books, credit card sized, 20 pages, softcover. Title: Marrakech
Among all who contact me via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or write a comment on Facebook, there is a chance to get one of ten copies.
The deadline is Sunday, the 18th of December.
The winners will be announced on monday the 19th.
Best of luck. ;-)

And the winners are.

© THIAPS - Oliver Weber

After the interview - Frans Peter had with me - on the THIAPS magazine he asked me the second time this year if I would like to share my photographic work in his new book project UNLIMITED GRAIN 2011.  I agreed with great pleasure and I am happy to see my photographs on four pages (pp 80/ 84).


Order UNLIMITED GRAIN 2011

 
© Oliver Weber, Polaroid 600 One - Taschen Verlag

Instant Newton
A collection of Helmut Newton's test Polaroids

Helmut Newton,
Polaroids Helmut Newton
Hardcover, 21 x 27.5 cm (8.3 x 10.8 in.),
224 pages,
$ 59.99
ISBN 978-3-8365-2886-3
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

Thanks to my dad for this lovely gift.

© Silver Pocket Press - Jörg M. Colberg

Today the postman brought a wonderful little book directly from Esthampton. A book that every photographer should call his own.
Especially if she / he is really serious about photography.

Jörg M. Colberg: Conversations With Photographers Vol. 1: Brian Ulrich, Hellen van Meene, Christopher Anderson

Conversations With Photographers expands contents published on Conscientious Extended and brings it to a bookshelf near (next to) you! Volume 1, now available, presents in-depth interviews with Brian Ulrich, Hellen van Meene, and Christopher Anderson. Two of these interviews were previously published on Conscientious Extended: Brian Ulrich, 2006, and Christopher Anderson, 2010. The book includes new follow-up interviews for both photographers. In addition, there is a brand-new interview with Hellen van Meene about her new body of work. The Conversations With Photographers series is designed with portability in mind. It's a softcover, measuring 4" x 6" (10cm x 15cm), 54 pages, and it costs $8.00. The series will be expanded with new additions regularly. There are 300 copies available for Volume 1 right now, depending on demand more copies will be printed.

Getting your copy of Conversations With Photographers - Volume 1 is simple: Use PayPal

© DIE ZEIT - Oliver Weber

The Online – Edition of the German nationwide weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT published today my “Peninsula Series” (German only):

Porträts aus Spanien - Sommergesichter

DIE ZEIT – Redaktion: „Oliver Weber ist nicht nur Fotograf, sondern auch Arzt. Vielleicht ist das der Grund, warum ihn die Menschen so nah an sich heran lassen. Wir zeigen Porträts aus Spanien. Península – Halbinsel – nennen die Spanier ihr Festland. Klingt in diesem Namen die selbst im Hinterland gefühlte Nähe zum Meer an? Península heißt auch die Serie von Porträts, die der Fotograf Oliver Weber auf dem spanischen Festland aufgenommen hat. In seinen Bildern scheint das Meer nicht weit. Die Gesichter sind rau und wettergegerbt. Sie spiegeln die Ruhe heißer Tage. Und ein Spanien, von dem man nicht erwartet hätte, dass es so noch existiert.

Oliver Weber: "Analogue – Photographs // Interviews" ist in limitierter Auflage bei VirgenBooks Inc., New York, erschienen. Format: Hardcover, 72 Seiten. Nummer 1 bis 20 sind ausverkauft. Nummer 21 bis 100 erhältlich für 39 Euro.“ © DIE ZEIT

Link 1: Porträts aus Spanien
Link 2: DIE ZEIT - Redaktions Empfehlungen: Die besten Fotostrecken

© DIE ZEIT - Oliver Weber

© Joni Sternbach -  from the series SurfLand

Another interview has been added to the TWO WAY LENS - project. Please come and read a very interesting contribution by Joni Sternbach, which is a worthy continuation to the themes and wisdom already provided by:

Magnum photographers Martin Parr and Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Andrew Phelps, Deborah Hamon, James Friedman, Jessica Todd Harper, Richard Renaldi, Ron Jude, David Hilliard, Susan Wides, Aline Smithson, Terry Weifenbach, Tim Hailand, Lori Nix, William Greiner, Zoe Strauss, Tema Stauffer, Tony Mendoza, Tierney Gearon, Scott Passfield, Russ Martin, Hiroshi Watanabe and Oliver Weber, ect.

Joni Sternbach makes contemporary photography with an equipment and technic unchanged used since the late 1850's. Her cameras are old 19th century view cameras and always with her on the shoots is a portable darkroom. The process she uses is called "wet collodion" and dates back to the late 1850's. The plate has to stay wet during the entire procedure. It is a bit unpredictable and many times you get very beautiful and unexpected surprises. Even though Joni uses this very rare, slow and unique technic, her work and her subjects are totally contemporary.

Please visit Joni's website for more info and more of her beautiful work to see and read the interview on Two Way Lens.

 
© Little Brown Mushroom Books (1)

by Brad Zellar

Edition of 500 - I got number 384 :-)
Designed by Hans Seeger
Publication date, March 2011
30 pages, french-folded, 6.625×7.875in, custom side stapled
B/W offset with 17 hand-tipped, color photographs
$55

In the autumn of 1972, a delegation of Japanese police officials visited the United States to study traffic control in several large cities, including New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The unofficial photographer for the delegation was Eizo Ota, an inspector with the law enforcement department of the Yamanashi Prefecture, and he produced a record of the group’s travels that might best be described as forensic tourism. Using Inspector Ota’s snapshots as launching points, Brad Zellar plundered traffic manuals, haiku anthologies, the Watergate transcripts, and The Godfather for textual inspiration. The mysterious result is a Zen travelogue through 1972 America. From a collection of 60 C-Prints, a mix-and-match assortment of 17 will be hand-tipped into individual volumes, making each book a singular work of art.

All proceeds go to Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami relief.

Buy it here: Little Brown Mushroom Books

Read also the review by Jörg Colberg on his blog Conscientious. Like Jörg said - Conductors of the Moving World clearly will be part of my “best of 2011” list.

© Little Brown Mushroom Books (2)

© Joe Skilton - Café Royal Books

Black Pudding - Joe Skilton

24 Pages
14cm x 20cm
b/w digital
numbered edition of 100
published by Café Royal Books (2011)

In alternation tender, dreamy, grim to match the shiftless pallor of the sky - Charles Baudelaire.
An overcast love affair with Scotland and its people.

£4.50

I got number 47/100 !

 
© Shi Guang Zhi - Little River

And again: via THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOBOOK I came to the work of Shi Guang Zhi and ordered the new book “Little River”. Fascinating photographs printed on orange paper. I love it and I am happy that the number “46” of the signed edition is mine.

Shi Guang Zhi
Little River
140pages
70 B&W photos on orange paper
20x30cm
Soft cover
Offset print
Edition of 200 copies
Price: $22 (including postage worldwide)

“This book starts in a ship and ends in a train, this book is not about story, not about landscape, even not about river, need be patient to read it.”

© Philip Cartland - The Coast

I'm a frequent visitor to THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOBOOK – founded by Hester Keijser and Dr. Joerg Colberg - where I ordered the new book of Philip Cartland: The Coast. A wonderful made booklet with such much love. So I am very happy that I cached number 12 of 100 signed copies.

Info:

Philip Cartland
The Coast
A5 Booklet/zine 40 BxW pics 100 available
Pigment digital on cream paper
£10 + £3p&p

Description: Images from 1994, taken when I had no gray hair, exploring 'The Coast' - a dream as much as a real place. Vol II will cover the same theme but taken with new eyes, 15+ years later.

Unlimited Grain Portraits   Publisher: The International Analogue Photographic Society (2011)     Editor: Frans Peter Verheyen Participating Photographer: Oliver Weber     Format: Hard and Softcover Pages:  120 Size: 33x28 cm     52 Euro and  43 Euro

I am very pleased to announce that the book Unlimited Grain Portraits by The International Analogue Photographic Society is published.

After the interview - Frans Peter had with me - on the THIAPS magazine he asked me if I would like to share my photographic work in his new book project on analogue portrait photography. And I agreed with great pleasure.

The participating photographers: Lauren E. Simonutti, Joshua Black Wilkins, Frans Peter Verheyen, Vittorio Colombi, Stephane Polteau, James Wigger, Steffo Weber, Maciek Lesniak, Urs Bernhard, Claudia Moroni, Carmen Palermo, Tanel Verk, Shannon Richardson, Alek Lindus, Tadas Kazakevicius, László Lejkó, Deborah Parkin, Ben Parks, Edoardo Pasero, Madlen Kirchner, Flavia Schaller, Tobias Feltus, Anna Chobotova, Milosz Wozaczynski, Tim Franco, Alexey Alexeev, Giancarlo Rado, Ocaña Fernández, Laurent Orseau, Vít Kocián, Daryan Dornelles, Piotr Biegaj, Kiarash Sadigh, Leo Tage-Hansen, Aleksandra Patova, Vladimir Longauer, Marina Romanova, Takala, Joshua Black Wilkins, Katsunori Yamaguchi, Rik Garrett, J.R. Ball, Philippe Mougin, Edward Olive, Christo Stankulov, Cole Emde, Jonas Mattsson, Saroyan Humphrey, Lambis Stratoudakis, Steve Korn, Caglar Tahiroglu, Yuichiro Miyano, Lars Daniel Terkelsen, Ben Rains, Thomas Krauss and Oliver Weber.

Frans Peter Verheyen about the book:

"Why a book on analogue portrait photography? More and more photographers are starting or returning to use film. There is a revival going on.

On our website we can see a growing interest in this now called “vintage” phenomenon of analogue (analog) photography.We realize that analogue is not the right term and it should really be “photography that includes a chemical process”. However, this is a mouthful, so we stick with analogue. We run the THIAPS website now for about 3 years and slowly we grew tired of looking at brilliant photography on a computer screen.

So let’s print it. It took us 6 months to create a short list of photographers who we wanted to ask for this project. We also came to the conclusion that one book would probably not be satisfactory, so we decided to go for a series of books. For some reason we thought that portraits would be the perfect theme for the first one. Other topics, like landscape’s, urban, street photography, nocturnal and more could follow.

And we call it the UNLIMITED GRAIN series.

So, now we have 120 pages with a wide variety of analogue photography from large format via 35mm to instant film. I hope this book will inspire you and that more people will take an interest working with film and chemicals. Enjoy!"

© Oliver Weber - Canon AE-1

Rain and storm here on La Gomera. Finally time to light the fireplace while drinking a good glass of wine and having a look through various picture books.

A recommendation:

Amazigh : Voyage dans le temps berbère by Carlos Freire and Driss Benzekri.

157 pages
ISBN-10: 2850259853
ISBN-13: 978-2850259852

Amazon.fr

© Jim Goldberg - Magnum Photos

Rich and Poor: Photographs by Jim Goldberg on magnumphotos.com

The photographs in this book constitute a shocking and gripping portrait of contemporary America. Jim Goldbergs photographs of rich and poor people, with the subjects own handwritten comments about themselves on the prints, give us an inside look at the American dream at both ends of the social scale. A great book!

© Livia Corona - powerHouse Books (2008)

For the past 8 years photographer Livia Corona has documented the Enanitos Toreros, troupes of little people performing as bullfighters. She toured and lived with them throughout Mexico and migrant farming communities in the US, often traveling 12 to14 people to a van. The cars blared out a tailored audiotape advertisement: "This evening, in your town, the Enanitos Toreros have arrived with a show that will kill you.

© Oliver Weber - Kulturbuch Verlag, Berlin (2007)

Oliver Weber
Photographs 2004 - 2007
La Gomera  Havana  Moscow

ISBN: 978-3-88961-133-8

Kulturbuch Verlag (2007)

More information about the book you can find aout here.