[SIC] DAY TWO HUNDRED SIX

Vol. 2, No. 56

Photobook stuff, inspired by Aaron Stern’s excellent, infrequent Another Newsletter.

[SIC] DAY TWO HUNDRED SIX

1. The Idiot’s Guide To Buying A Film Point And Shoot. Monster Children’s heavily tongue in cheek precis. Which inspired this theme when I ran across an IG post announcing..

2. Patrick O’Dell’s “Epicly Later’d” Getting a Photobook. I ran into Patrick recently and he showed me a copy, demurring with “It’s just party photos,” which is true - but it was a pretty damn unstoppable party, and it went on for years. Another thing Patrick told me was that he published it via (the excellent) Anthology editions because they’d published..

3. Jerry Hsu’s “The Beautiful Flower is the World” - which might be my favorite photobook ever. I’ve used the term ‘Gimlet Eye’ a bunch recently, and Jerry’s gimlet eye is sui generis and par excellence. The second edition was released recently and you should buy it immediately.

4. Tino Razo’s “Party in the Back” was another book published by Anthology that Patrick cited; it’s the opposite approach in a lot of ways - totally sincere and emotionally invested. Pictures of empty swimming pools and occasionally the men who love them.

5. Talia Chetrit’s “Joke”. Speaking of love, [SIC] homie Rob Hubbert gifted me a copy of this one, a wild and unlikely mix of strange vantages and oddball family portraits. It came to the fore again yesterday when I walked into our hotel room and discovered Talia was showing photos there…

6. Talia Chetrit Trusts Her 'Gut’. On view at 10 Corso Como’s Milanese concept store. No one I talked to in Milan knew that the legendary fashion destination has a three-room hotel attached to it, called appropriately “Three Rooms” and filled with conceptual art and design including, in our room (#2) the photo….

7. “Carnada” by Regina José Galindo. I was unfamiliar with the photographer but this shot is a kind of cousin to Chetrit’s work and I really liked it. I took my own (terribly lit) picture of it, which opens this digest.

8. Jim Mangan’s “The Crick”. When Rob introduced me to Talia’s book I reciprocated by showing him my favorite book so far this year, which I’ve mentioned here in [SIC] Weekly - but is just totally out-of-the-timeline beautiful. And so of course Rob, connoisseur that he is, came back with…

9. Matthew Genitempo’s “Dogbreath” which in a weird way applies Jim’s worldview to the exurbs of anyplace, American warm weather states, and is just as weird and beautiful. Just like the old editions of

10. Vice Magazine’s Photo Issue, which landed back in the world without fanfare, but augurs VICE’s return to print. I managed to check it out and have feelings about it. But I’ll save those for next time…

[SIC] DAY TWO HUNDRED SIX