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5B4 is now 4B5 Books and Photography! 30 Jun 2013 | 10:58 pm
5B4 Photography and Books has been dead for a while but 4B5 Books and Photography is very much alive. Visit today and catch up on book reviews, books for sale and original photographic prints at very...
Five books in a suitcase 22 Aug 2011 | 03:56 am
While in Europe a couple months ago for the Rencontres d'Arles festival I found quite a few interesting items and as I look over them I see my tastes have drawn me to almost as many non-photobooks as ...
Yesterday's Pictures #4 by Gunther Karl Bose 26 Jun 2011 | 09:13 pm
Longtime readers of 5B4 will know I have continuously sung the praises of the Institut fur Buchkunst in Leipzig. The quality of the books they publish, most often by their students and instructors, ha...
Drawings on a Bus, 1954 by Ellsworth Kelly 20 Jun 2011 | 09:41 pm
After the Kassel festival I suffered from a bit of photobook burnout. The festival is growing to a decent size but 4 twelve hour days looking and talking about books can send even the most dedicated t...
L.A. Women by Joachim Schmid 14 Jun 2011 | 09:25 pm
One of the foundations of Joachim Schmid's work is the thought that there are way too many photographs in the world already so why not put those that exist to some intelligent use. At least, let us lo...
A Criminal Investigation by Watabe Yukichi 10 Jun 2011 | 04:47 am
Many of you have wondered if 5B4 is dead. The answer is no, I needed a two month break. Not because I am too busy publishing (I always keep myself very busy) but because I was having trouble finding t...
Tea, Coffee, Cappuccino by Boris Mikhailov 10 Apr 2011 | 04:24 am
Writing in the foreword to his 1996 book Am Boden (By the Ground) Boris Mikhailov states; The fourth year of change. Not much has been reorganized, but a lot has changed. I already notice the tendency...
d.a. levy Electric Greek Poems by Jon Beacham 5 Apr 2011 | 04:57 am
My love of typography especially that adapted by great designers like Jan Tschichold and others has led to an appreciation of the concrete poets working from the 1950s onward. These were poets who ref...
Films by Paul Graham 1 Apr 2011 | 04:59 am
The debate years ago on whether film was "better" than digital ruffled a lot of feathers. The old guard held tight to their precious rolls fearing for their eventual disappearance. The argument was fr...
Kiss the Past Hello by Larry Clark 22 Mar 2011 | 11:00 pm
The idea is to put all these fucking teenage boys in one place and just finish it there. just put the whole obsession with going back in one book and maybe it will be finished, maybe I can do somethin...
