San Francisco photographer Troy Paiva calls himself an urban explorer. He finds inspiration after dark in abandoned and off-limits factories, roadside wrecks, and decommissioned military bases. Paiva has turned his collection of fraying California landscapes into an offbeat book called Night Vision, published this summer by Chronicle Books. “What you see is what Troy [...]
Stories in Art:
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.
The ABFFE says: “Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in [...]
A trio of author updates
After I wrote yesterday about Latinos In Lotusland, editor Daniel Olivas shared the backstory of the anthology’s magical cover. He says, “Yes, it is a beautiful cover. Bilingual Press is affiliated with Arizona State University, which has the largest Chicano art collection in the country. So, last year, they flew me out to [...]
Remembering Rauschenberg
This week Robert Rauschenberg — one of the titans of 20th century American art — died in his Florida home. He was 82 and still working. In 2006, a major exhibit of his “combines” — his hybrid painting/sculpture combinations, which presaged Pop Art during the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism — was mounted at the Los [...]
An excerpt from Now Playing Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s
Anthony Slide with Jane Burman Powell and Lori Goldman Berthelsen. Now Playing tells the story of the previously unexplored cottage industry of historic, one-of-a-kind movie posters that existed throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Read the excerpt and see some of the posters here.
Previously featured
as our new release of the week: First Exposures. By Eric Auerbach; foreword by Dave Eggers. This new collection looks at the world through the eyes of kids in the SF Camerawork mentoring program. The book celebrates ten years of pairing Bay Area photographers with young people, ages 11 through 18, with backgrounds of [...]
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.
The ABFFE says: “Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in [...]
A trio of author updates
After I wrote yesterday about Latinos In Lotusland, editor Daniel Olivas shared the backstory of the anthology’s magical cover. He says, “Yes, it is a beautiful cover. Bilingual Press is affiliated with Arizona State University, which has the largest Chicano art collection in the country. So, last year, they flew me out to [...]
Remembering Rauschenberg
This week Robert Rauschenberg — one of the titans of 20th century American art — died in his Florida home. He was 82 and still working. In 2006, a major exhibit of his “combines” — his hybrid painting/sculpture combinations, which presaged Pop Art during the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism — was mounted at the Los [...]
An excerpt from Now Playing Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s
Anthony Slide with Jane Burman Powell and Lori Goldman Berthelsen. Now Playing tells the story of the previously unexplored cottage industry of historic, one-of-a-kind movie posters that existed throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Read the excerpt and see some of the posters here.
Previously featured
as our new release of the week: First Exposures. By Eric Auerbach; foreword by Dave Eggers. This new collection looks at the world through the eyes of kids in the SF Camerawork mentoring program. The book celebrates ten years of pairing Bay Area photographers with young people, ages 11 through 18, with backgrounds of [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 