Kevin Romero on 360 New York

During the time I spent as a teen intern in the ICP library I came across a book that I loved. The book's name is 360 New York by Nick Wood. I like this book because it shows us places that are popular here in New York. I could  go visit these places myself. This…

Josh Lutz’s “Hesitating Beauty”

The cover of faculty member, Josh Lutz’s new book lures you in; it’s title, “Hesitating Beauty” is printed directly across the blinking eyes of a woman in pearls and an evening gown. She has been caught mid-blink, or possibly mid-sneeze, during a formal portrait session. Something is curiously amiss. To fully appreciative Lutz’s unsettling story,…

Teeny Academy

Saturday March 9th, the ICP Library and the ICP Store hosted “Teeny Academy”, our story time for young photobibliomaniacs. This time teeny readers were treated to the debut of Rachel Hulin’s new book Flying Henry, read by the artist and author Rachel Hulin with a book signing afterward. Flying Henry is a children's photobook that follows…

Collaborations in Japanese Photobooks: Shuji Terayama, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno

Photobooks by their very nature are collaborative endeavors. On their most basic level they involve a photographer and a printer. More often than not, they also engage a collaborative dialogue with a designer. During the 1960s in Japan, as traditional artistic boundaries blurred to form truly interdisciplinary creative think tanks, photographers such as Daido Moriyama,…

Why I Like This Book: W The First 40 Years

I like W The First 40 Years because there is so much in it! I enjoy looking through fashion magazines and books because I love to see all the combinations one can make with fabric and other materials. In this book you can see how W Magazine has evolved through 40 years. For example, the first few covers…

10×10 American Photobooks Seeks Funding for its Publication

We need your help to fund the 10x10 American Photobooks publication - support the campaign by clicking this link. 10x10 is going to Tokyo in 2013! 10x10 is taking 100 contemporary American photobooks to Tokyo this year and we need to create a catalogue. We’re looking for backers to help fund the publication production –…

Orchard – Collaborative Journals by Raymond Meeks

I had the pleasure one afternoon of meeting Kevin Messina who publishes artists books under the Silas Finch imprint. Kevin was generous enough to spend some time showing me the Orchard series of books, each by Raymond Meeks and a different artist. Deborah Luster, Wes Mills and Mark Steinmetz have been collaborators. I came across these books on my visit to Les…

FRIENDS OF THE ICP LIBRARY

In 2012 we decided to re-imagine what a support group for our library might look like. Our extraordinary Library Committee had been supporting all that we do for a decade, but we wanted more members, international members, and people who are not already in ICP’s community to join in. The co-chairs of the Library Committee,…

We passed upon the stair. . .

ICP Staff Photograph from 1981 or 1982 . Taken upon the staircase of the Willard D. Straight House (1130 Fifth Avenue, at East 94th Street on the northeast corner). Staff Atlas from the 1981 image John Abrams, Technical Assistant Gideon deMargitay, Planning Consultant Keith Spradlin, Bookkeeper ?? ?? Bedrich Grunzweig, Administrative Associate (volunteer) Anne White,…

Haley Bueschlen’s Kicking Mao’s Book across Tiananmen

We have recently acquired Kicking Mao's Book across Tiananmen : [After Rainer Ganahl] 1 Day Before the Massacre Anniversary, a darkly playful artist's book by the ICP's own Haley Bueschlen. Haley, who grew up in Beijing as an American citizen, endeavors  to dismantle systems of power between the US and China through photography, video and…