The Christmas Tree Bucket by Trent Parke featured on Time Lightbox

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In 2004, Parke had just completed a two-year road trip with his partner and fellow photographer, Narelle Autio, documenting the full spectrum of life around Australia. The photographs taken during this road trip resulted in his acclaimed series, Minutes to Midnight.

The Christmas Tree Bucket, his next work,  started at the close of this journey, when Parke and Autio had their first son, Jem. “Wanting more space, family support and a change of scenery, we moved from Sydney to Adelaide, where Narelle grew up,” Parke tells TIME.

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Trent Parke—Magnum/Courtesy of Steidl

Trent Parke—Magnum/Courtesy of Steidl


Mother Jones' Photographers Pick the Best Photobooks of 2013

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DAVID GOLDBLATT IS one of the world's great photographers and, arguably, the greatest ever from South Africa. Apartheid is the great moral theme of his work, but it's only part of a deeper reckoning of the varieties of human suffering and grace. The Transported of KwaNdebele, first published in 1989 and newly reissued in an expanded edition, is a testament to Goldblatt's unerring vision. The book chronicles the grueling bus ride that workers from KwaNdebele, a semi-independent homeland for poor blacks, took to their jobs in the factories and mines of Pretoria—a roughly 75-mile journey that began well before dawn. Goldblatt's compositions are immaculate, even when he's cramped in bus aisles or alongside highways at 5 a.m. There are scenes here—expressions of pain or exhaustion, certain tones of light—that cut to the bone. —Jeremy Lybarger

Malls Across America by Michael Galinsky featured in the Daily News

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Michael Galinsky captured an authentic sliver of American life in 1989, but didn't share it with the world until 2010. Since then, the images rocketed across the Internet, became a book and enchanted countless viewers. Now the Brooklyn-based filmmaker takes The News inside a project that benefited from being shelved for two decades.

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The Unknow Berenice Abbott featured on CNN

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Editors O’Neal and Ronald Kurtz worked with publisher Gerhard Steidl to curate and share works by Abbott that “time and economics” rendered largely unknown, they say.

The first volume of “The Unknown Berenice Abbott” reveals New York from 1929 to 1931. The second, “The American Scene,” details her travels around the United States, often in rural areas. The third, “Deep Woods” delves into logging activity, while the fourth, “Greenwich Village,” shows the neighborhood evolving from 1935 to 1950. The final book, “U.S. 1, USA,” features black-and-white and color images Abbott shot along the old roadway, before interstates dominated.

Water by Edward Burtynsky: 2013 Photo Books of the Year: Environment | American Photo

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Water
by Edward Burtynsky
Burtynsky’s bird’s-eye views trace the roles of this essential substance in freshwater sources (glaciers, streams), industrial settings (dams, irrigation systems), and scenes of aquaculture (bathing rituals, waterfront communities). The collection shows just how much we love—and waste—water.

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Water by Edward Burtynsly featured in StyleZeitgeist

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The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is known for his sweeping, panoramic photographs of human industry. And by industry I mean our antlike insistence on building things coupled with our desire to beat this planet into submission.

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Malls Across America featured in the Wall Street Journal

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A monthlong trek taken 23 years ago by Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer Michael Galinsky has now become an unexpected cultural statement. "Malls Across America," newly published by the German art press Steidl, chronicles an expedition to photograph the public life of shopping malls from Long Island to Washington state.

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Swedish Red by Joakim Eneroth featured in Spectrum Culture

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Steidl is one of the great art book publishers. As seen in the 2010 documentary How to Make a Book with Steidl, Gerhard Steidl takes exquisite care to supervise each step of the process, from artist to print shop. So you might be surprised to learn that the simple but obscure images made by Joakim Eneroth for Swedish Red is available for sale online at Wal-Mart. Maybe IKEA, but Wal-Mart?

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The Making of an Argument by Gordon Parks featured in The New Yorker

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“The Making of an Argument” evaluates the editorial decisions made by the magazine and, in doing so, comments on how the context in which a picture is presented can drastically alter its message. “In order to meet the expectations set up by the subtitle and the opening text, an overwhelming majority of the pictures selected underscore violence, fear, frustration, aggression, or despair. Of the twenty-one images reproduced, only five strike a lighter note,” writes Russell Lord, the curator of photographs at NOMA. Lord also notes that the ways the images were cropped and darkened further functioned to convey the magazine’s intended message.

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Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948

Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948