Two men reading the Sandusky Register, Sandusky Ohio, December 1914 Forgive the silence on this blog. Things have been quiet on the LBM front, but I’m happy to report that I’ve been busy ...
Last May, five Magnum photographers (Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky and myself) and the writer Ginger Strand, set out from San Antonio, Texas in an RV named Uncle Jac...
Last year I worked with Ginger Strand as part of the Postcards From America project. This week Ginger is releasing her new book. It looks fantastic. Read an excerpt of Ginger’s book here Watch ...
After selling out the first edition of House of Coates in under two weeks, we’re happy to announce that we are printing another 1000 copies in a sexy brown cover. Preview the book here Buy the ...
Thanks to everyone that came out to the fantastic book signing event at the Midwest Hotel. Click to view slideshow. photos by Carrie Thompson
Listen to the interview here: http://tinyurl.com/7ans3 nc
To celebrate the release of House of Coates, Little Brown Mushroom will be hosting a very special book signing event at the infamous Midwest Hotel. Zellar & Soth will be signing books in the hote...
House of Coates is going fast. Since releasing it last Wednesday, we only have half of the 1000 copies left. If you plan on buying a copy, we recommend doing so sooner than later. Buy it here
Little Brown Mushroom is proud to announce the release of a new book, House of Coates, by Brad Zellar (with photographs by Lester B. Morrison). In House of Coates, writer Brad Zellar pieces together ...
Carrie Thompson: When I was pregnant I had a studio visit with Lorna Simpson. She is a mother, so I asked her for advice. I wanted to know what I should do before I have my baby. What would be the ch...
LBM Tote bags have arrived! Screen Printed by our friends over at the lovely Faux Poco here in Minnesota. 100% Cotton Canvas 15 x 16 (Inches) $8.00 Only a limited amount available. Get yours here!
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Alec Soth’s new exhibition, Broken Manual. The opening will take place on Thursday, February 2, from 6pm until 8pm. The artist will be prese...
Last May, Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky, Ginger Strand and I drove an RV from San Antonio to Oakland. Since then, we’ve been trying to make something that expr...
Here in Minnesota, where we usually spend the post-holidays buried in snow and bundling up against sub-zero temperatures, we experienced a lovely extended autumn that now seems to have skipped us ahe...
In response to a recent post, I received an email from Cait who wrote: “Like you, my partner shoots with a large format camera and makes treks around the country (and sometimes the world) for h...
Orson Wells by Eve Arnold. 1966 A number of people have privately emailed me with concerns about all of the age talk on the blog lately. Am I depressed? Am I going to give up photography and buy a Fe...
For my twenty-second birthday, my brother signed me up for a woodworking class. The classroom was in a suburban strip mall and all of the participants were men over sixty. While we whittled our first...
If Robert Adams represents one model for the aging photographer, this film by Weegee depicts a very different example.
A recent post by Blake Andrews on dead photoblogs has me thinking a lot about life online and off. From 2006 to 2007, I poured a lot of energy into my blog. On my first post, I wrote that I was ‘hung...
Following up on my post on the age when photographers do their most influential work, I decided to look up the ages of the photographers who’d made the most influential books of the year (accor...
We’re happy to report that two LBM publications made year-end lists of best photobooks. Conductors of the Moving World by Brad Zellar was selected by Joerg Colberg in Time Magazine and Elisabet...
While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year, I noticed that numerous selections could be classified as crime stories. So in creating this year’s list, I thought it would be an entertaining exe...
I have a renewed appreciation for kindness and generosity thanks to all of the people who helped Brad Zellar pay off his medical bills. I dont have an exact amount to announce but I can say that what...
We are having a holiday sale from today through Friday (11/28-12/2). For order’s of $20 or more, we will add a FREE copy of The Little Brown Mushroom Coloring Book and will wrap your purchases ...
Elliott Erwitt once said that the thing he likes about photographing dogs is that they don’t ask for prints. But this isn’t always the case. The picture above was made for a collector (th...
I want to thank everyone who came to the Brad Zellar fundraiser/birthday party last night. It was a great night. I also want to remind people that there are a few more days to bid on a portrait sessi...
Stacey, South Plains, Texas Earlier this year we released a book entitled Conductors of the Moving World by Brad Zellar. Brad’s book raised $10,000 for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief. S...
Last Friday I gave a lecture in Syracuse about my desire for narrative in photobooks. The reason behind this desire, I explained, was a feeling of saturation in the era of Google Images, Flickr and s...
Now that I’m getting a little long in the tooth as a photographer, I’m thinking about starting my own advice column. ASK BIG AL? What do you think? In the meantime, here’s some insp...
The best thing about having the LBM sandbox is that I get to invite people over to play. One of the most vibrant artists I know is the 30-year-old Dutch bookmaker/installation artist Anouk Kruithof. ...
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