[REVIEW:] East of a New Eden by Alban Kakulya and Yann Mingard – Joerg Colberg (Conscientious)

When I grew up, which is not that long ago (or so I want to believe), Europe was cut in half by what people called the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain was more like a fence, albeit one that featured automatic guns (plus an assortment of other gruesome stuff). With a few exceptions, the western half of Europe was part of what was called the European Community, a group of countries, whose sole purpose appeared to be to determine how much milk and butter its farmers could first produce and would then destroy (at least that was my impression – I was a young boy, what did I know of economic realities?   — Joerg Colberg

Source and Read More: jmcolberg.com

[REVIEW:] VisionMongers :: Give The Gift of Encouragement Contest – Zack Arias

I’ve just read the best book about being a photographer that I’ve ever read. It is the new book VisionMongers by photographer David duChemin.

I don’t even know where to start with my review of this book. I do have to say for the sake of full disclosure that I am one of 9 photographers profiled as a case study.  I know that there will be some folks who discount my review of this book because I have a few pages in it.  So for those of you who may feel this way, please buy this book and rip those pages out and throw them in the trash. Hopefully the majority of you know that I don’t jump up and down and scream from the rooftops about anything but I am about this book.   — Zack Arias

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[REVIEW:] Review: I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) by Richard Polsky – Joerg Colberg (Conscientious)

Richard Polsky’s I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) sounds like a follow-up of I Bought Andy Warhol, and that’s probably what it is (I admit I haven’t read the first book). It’s not hard to figure out what I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) in part is about, namely how Polsky ended up selling an Andy Warhol painting before the most recent art-market bubble had reached its maximum point of expansion. Of course, it’s easy to sell art works at the wrong time – especially if there is a bubble developing, but you really have to know it’s a bubble to feel better about it. Thankfully, the book is about more than just that, though.   — Joerg Colberg

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[REVIEW:] [BEYOND REASONABLE DROUGHT] – dpexpert

This book is a collection of several hundred photographs that record the drought and its effect on the land, the people and the creatures, both native and introduced, of this continent. It is the work of an ad hoc group that calls itself Many Australian Photographers (MAP). They work at their own expense on their projects. Most of the nation is covered in the photographs. Parallels will be drawn with the famous American Farm Security Administration photographic project of the 1930s.   — dpexpert

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