H2O @ 32ºF by Buck Holzemer

I'd like to share a series of images that I began capturing in the winter of 2020 during the pandemic. With the unexpected free time brought on by the coronavirus, I started taking long walks along the Mississippi River. I was captivated by the ice formations along the riverbanks. Soon my camera joined me on these cold walks.

The ice that forms in a moving body of water creates a remarkable and ever-changing variety of structure and formations, a process further enhanced by freeze-thaw cycles and crystallization effects. I photographed these patterns with a high-resolution digital camera to capture maximum detail. In post-production, I aimed to shift the images into that enigmatic border between nature and abstraction. This more abstract portrayal of the ice seems to convey a sense of stillness and movement simultaneously, mirroring my own emotions as I walked along the river.

Buck Holzemer
As an eight year old boy, Buck Holzemer began his photography career by climbing onto a garage roof to take pictures of his friends playing basketball in the driveway below. Although this seemed to limit his on-court skills forever, it introduced him to the wonders of viewing the world through that magic little window on the back of the camera. After an eight year detour to study the unseen world through physics and mathematics, he returned to the “magic little window” in his late twenties and began a career in photography. He added filmmaking shortly after that and has enjoyed a varied and successful career as an image maker for many years.

He has won numerous awards. These include the prestigious Clio award for television commercials, several appearances in the Communication Arts Photography Annual, awards from Print magazine and the Grand Prize for fine art work from PDN magazine. In 2013 he won a best of show award from the International Photography Awards and the People’s Choice Award from National Geographic in 2019.

A versatile image maker, he has worked in a wide variety of photographic genres . His filmmaking work has included work in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Italy and Guatemala.

During the past five years has has focused most of his time on personal photographic projects.
www.buckh.com
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Diana Markosian: Father

By Diana Markosian

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 144 pages

Diana Markosian’s Father is an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.

Diana Markosian: Father presents the photographer’s journey to another place and another time, where Markosian attempts to piece together an image of a familiar stranger—her long-lost father. The book explores her father’s absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement. The images, made over the course of a decade, take place in her father’s home in Armenia. In Markosian’s first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), the photographer recreates the story of her family’s journey from post–Soviet Russia to the US in the 1990s. Father uses both documentary photographs and archives of objects, letters, and vernacular images to probe the fifteen years of absence and separation from the photographer’s childhood. In this voyage of self-discovery, Markosian touchingly renders her longing for connection to a man she barely remembers and who asks her, when she finds him, “Why did it take you so long?”

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Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images

By Aperture

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 312 pages

The first title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Book Series—featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice.

Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combatting racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times Lens blog, Berger’s incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling. By directing attention to the most revealing aspects of images, Berger makes complex issues comprehensible, vivid, and engaging. The essays illuminate a range of images, issues, and events: the modern civil rights movement; African American–, Latinx–, Asian American–, and Native American photography; and pivotal moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when race, photography, and visual culture intersected. They also examine the full spectrum of photographic imaging: from amateur to professional pictures, from snapshots to fine art, from mugshots to celebrated icons of photojournalism.

Race Stories collects together Berger’s reader-friendly essays in their breadth and brilliance to encourage a broad range of readers to look at and think about photographs in order to better understand themselves and the diverse world around them.

The Minimalist Photographer: 50 techniques for capturing beauty in simplicity

By Antony Zacharias

Publisher : Laurence King Publishing

2025 | 144 pages

Find out how to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary with this guide to minimalist photography.

With advice on composition, balance, shape and texture, this book takes inspiration from the masters of minimalism to demonstrate how stripping a subject down to its very essence can help you craft beautifully bold and unique images.

Illustrated with the finest examples of the style from the likes of Fan Ho, Imogen Cunningham, Michael Kenna, Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston and Horst P. Horst, this book guides you through the key techniques that define minimalism and provides easy-to-follow advice for how to create your own minimalist images that are visually striking in their simplicity.

Alan Schaller: Metropolis

By Alan Schaller

Publisher : TeNeues

2023 | 240 pages

In his coffee table book Metropolis, Alan Schaller presents city life in his own individual way, setting standards in modern street photography. For all lovers of spectacular black-and-white photography, the coffee table book Metropolis is a must-have, because there is hardly anything comparable on the market. In a unique way, Alan Schaller depicts urban contrasts that big cities like New York, London, Paris, Tokyo or Istanbul hold in store in their architecture and everyday life. In the photo book Metropolis, Alan Schaller elevates city views to an art form, playing with light and perspective and creates a world in black and white that captivates the viewer. This is what fans of Schaller love about his work. The photo artist manages to capture moments for eternity. Accompany Alan Schaller in his coffee table book Metropolis on 240 pages through the most famous metropolises on earth. Look forward to impressive black-and-white photographs, with extraordinary city views in which people and architecture merge in an intimate moment.

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