Photographs by Pieter Hugo. Text by Ashraf Jamal and Mario Bellatin. RM, 2020. 136 pp., 56 illustrations, 12¼x13¾".
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This is Cape Town–based photographer Pieter Hugo’s homage to Mexico, in portraits, landscapes and still-life vignettes with bright shades of pink, blue and green.
Photographs by Gordon Parks. Text by Beatriz Jaguaribe, Maria De Carvalho, Natalie Spagnol and Sergio Burgi. Edited and with text by Amanda Maddox and Paul Roth. Foreword by Flávio Pinheiro, Peter Kunhardt and Timothy Potts.
Blake Andrews reviews Echo Mask photographs by Jonathan Levitt, published by Charcoal Press, 2019.
"Jonathan Levitt’s new book, Echo Mask, opens with a brief flurry of charcoal skies. Such scenes will be familiar to anyone who's spent time along Levitt's native Maine coast, where weather windows can close quickly. Next comes the book’s basic framework: a grainy monochrome image across a two-page spread, followed by a small centered block of text.…
…Regardless of specific subject, Echo Mask circles back continually to its fundamental themes: life/death, natural cycles, rudimentary elements. "The best food is usually very simple," Levitt tells Juxtapoz. "…It's the same with photography. The best pictures are simple and timeless." His visual style is primordial and murky, with “some element of chaos,” as Levitt describes it. That said, the pictures feel exact. They’re clean, not messy, and teed up precisely on the page as smallish frames with wide white cushions."—Michael Light Read more
