For those of you (like me) that appreciate Robert Frank. You can find it at the PhotoEye bookstore in Santa Fe.

Me and My Brother
Photographs by Robert Frank
Steidl The Masters, Gottingen, 2007
Publisher’s Description: Me and My Brother, Robert Frank’s first feature-length film, premiered at the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Everything that had defined Frank’s art up to that point is packed into this film-the view of America as if from the outside, the placement of the marginal in a central role, the poetic libertinage of the Beats. The story, which takes place during the showing of another film in a rundown movie theater, weaves together opposites, playing the counterfeit against the authentic, pornography against poetry, acting against being, Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism, monochrome against color. Me and My Brother celebrates the poetic essay, affirms the underground and the assemblage form, and packs in some bizarre twists and turns. This book and DVD set includes stills, dialogue and the re-edited 85-minute film.

This is an excellent read from Henry Jenkins. The book makes excellent points on the change in power structures between producers and consumers. Media power is no longer just in the hands of those with a printing press and a platform.

From the Introduction: Don’t expect the uncertainties surrounding convergence to be resolved anytime soon. We are entering an era of prolonged transition and transformation in the way media operates. Convergence describes the process by which we will sort through those options. There will be no magical black box that puts everything in order again. Media producers will only find their way through their current problems by renegotiating their relationship with their consumers. Audiences, empowered by these new technologies, occupying a space at the intersection between old and new media, are demanding the right to participate within the culture. Producers who fail to make their peace with this new participatory culture will face declining goodwill and diminished revenues. The resulting struggles and compromises will define the public culture of the future. -more

The Image to Come.
Text by Diane Dufour, Serge Toubiana. Numerous contributing photographers.
Steidl / Magnum, Gottingen, 2007. 208 pp.
Publisher’s Description:

Magnum Photos and the Cinematheque Francaise sent 10 photographers to the movies and asked them to create original work in response to the oeuvre of a film director who has influenced their vision. In carrying out the assignment, Abbas, Antoine D’Agata, Bruce Gilden, Harry Gruyaert, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Gilles Peress, Mark Power, Alec Soth, Donovan Wylie and Patrick Zachmann have set out to absorb all the mixed media that differentiates the moving image from their own intensely distilled single frames: Beyond prints, projections and film stills, they consider audio-visual material, written notes, soundtracks, and publications, each in his own way exploring the domain of the visible. Among their subjects: Pinkhassov looks at Andrei Tarkovski, Gruyaert at Michelangelo Antonioni, Abbas at Roberto Rossellini, Power at Krzysztof Kieslowski, Soth at Wim Wenders and Gilden more broadly at film noir from the 40s and 50s.

You can find this book at my favorite photography bookstore, the Photo-Eye in Santa Fe, New Mexico.