Popular Photography - February 2015 USA

EDITOR’S LETTER
Buy the Book
If you could see my office right now, you’d
think a library had exploded. Volumes overflow
the shelves into stacks, some towering and
precarious, on the floor, on my desk, behind
the sofa. I’ve run out of space and am having a
hard time parting with many of them. That’s
because photography books provide so much
pleasure and revelation—even more when the
images are paired with insightful text.
Of course, I’m fortunate. Publishers send their books to our office hoping
to get a review or interview, so I don’t have to spend the thousands of
dollars a year it would cost to buy them all. Sometimes these even spark
a feature story, as with our October 2014 Q&A with Art Wolfe when his
Earth Is My Witness came out. And our sister publication American Photo
rounded up more than 50 of the best photo books of the year (find it
at AmericanPhotoMag.com); the highlights I’m hanging onto include
Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis, Nan Goldin’s Eden and After, and Garry
Winogrand, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition catalog.
I also buy in bookstores and from photographers at signings. That’s how
I got The Long Shadow of Chernobyl, Gerd Ludwig’s haunting investigation
of the ongoing effects of the nuclear disaster. And I preordered Patrick
Brown’s crowdfunded work Trading to Extinction, a wrenching examination,
with text by reporter Ben Davies, of the global trade in poached wildlife.
I’ve been reading some new books about photography and
photographers, too. In Wagstaff Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography,
Philip Gefter tells the fascinating story of art curator and collector Sam
Wagstaff, who helped create a market boom when he turned his eye to
photography in the 1970s. I couldn’t put down my advance review copy of
photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s lively and absorbing memoir, It’s What I
Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, due in stores in February. And I’m
not the only editor here to mine this vein: Philip Ryan made off with Group
f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of
Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography by Mary Street Alinder.
But one new release sits proudly on my desk: Popular Photography’s own
How to Photograph Everything: Simple Techniques for Shooting Spectacular Images.
Published in November 2014 by our book division, Weldon Owen, this big
hardcover offers a wealth of tips from our editors. You’ve seen many of its
photos in this magazine—and a few of you, mostly our contest winners,
can even see your own work in the
pages of this big, glossy book.
NEWSSTAND The long-awaited Canon
EOS 7D Mark II swings into view at the
hands of photographer Brian Klutch.
Read our full test on page 65.
SUBSCRIBER Chad Copeland sent his
Nikon Coolpix A aloft in an octocopter
to get Emily Harrington climbing Moon
Hill in Yangshuo, China (page 44).
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