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John Draper's avatar

I highly recommend Alec Soth's photobook reviews on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9aSFMVpi-w He did one in 2022 that covered several photobooks, all completely different. It's a remarkable dive into what's special about photobooks. For 2024, he just released another video on a single photobook, Rosalind Fox Solomon's "A Woman I Once Knew." One might consider the book too self-indulgent, but it is still a very powerful autobiography of Solomon's career, introducing striking book-design styles with the chapters of her life. She was a contemporary of Diane Arbus, with a large archive and many photobooks. She's in her 90's now. Soth makes a point of thanking her for NOT committing suicide as Arbus did.

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New subscriber here! Love what I'm seeing so far. Thanks for this content :)

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