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Magazine spread, Photoworld interview with Ken Schles © Photoworld

Photoworld Interview

February 04, 2013  by Schles, Ken

Ken Schles shares an interview he gave Chinese magazine Photoworld about digital promotion for the photographer.

Q&A and Booksigning with Scott Schuman, The Sartorialist, 22 January, 2013 © Foam

The Sartorialist

January 24, 2013  by Crawford, Jonathan

Scott Schuman is better known as 'The Sartorialist'. Well, maybe not by his mum, but for the rest of us, he and his blog are one and the same.

The Afronauts, Cristina De Middel (Self published)

Elisa's Top 5 Photobooks

January 02, 2013  by Medde, Elisa

Foam Magazine managing editor, Elisa Medde, shares her favourite photo books of 2012.

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Gifts, Greetings and Books (of the year)

December 21, 2012  by Schles, Ken

Ken Schles wraps up 2012 with an overview of his book publishing projects.

Unconscious Places - Thomas Struth

Tosja's Top 5

December 17, 2012  by Coronel, Tosja

Our Foam librarian and knower of all things bookish shares her top five photobooks of this year.

Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, Penny Cousineau-Levine

No Canada

December 13, 2012  by Clarke, Chris

Chris Clarke looks at the notion of Canadian photography after rediscovering 'Faking Death' in a Belfast bookshop.

Is This Place Great or What? © Brian Ulrich

Patriotic Shopping

December 06, 2012  by Kurtis, Seba

Seba Kurtis meets up with Brian Ulrich to talk about his book based on the idea of patriotic shopping in the US.

Library © Foam

Nostalgia

November 22, 2012  by Coronel, Tosja

After perusing the books that are waiting to be added to our photography library at Foam, I found something quite special.

MGM recording Leo the Lion (whose real name was Jackie) roaring for its official movie title logo which was first used for MGM's first talking picture 'White Shadows in the South Seas' in 1928. Jackie was used as the MGM logo for all of their films from 1928 to 1956 and was the first lion to appear in a Technicolor film in 1932 (courtesy The John Kobal Foundation)

Jackie The Lion

November 14, 2012  by Best, Suky

Suky Best looks at MGM's use of the big cat in their company's logo and title sequence.

BJ2, from the series Cruising © Chad States

Cruising by Chad States

August 30, 2012  by Bohr, Marco

Chad States's recently published book Cruising is a collection of photographs that depict gay men looking for a sexual encounter with other men.

A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Images In Our Heads (White Press, 2008) © Ken Schles

In Splendid Isolation

August 01, 2012  by Schles, Ken

Ken Schles explains how not just images, but our very selves are unavoidably the product of what surrounds and informs us.

Dutch Landscapes © Mishka Henner

The Camera Around Your Neck

July 13, 2012  by Kurtis, Seba

Seba Kurtis meets Mishka Henner to talk about appropriation and self-publishing in photography,

The Geometry of Innocence © Ken Schles

A Call from the Wilderness

June 01, 2012  by Schles, Ken

Ken Schles acknowledges the important role programmes like Noorderlicht play in supporting the development of an artist's practice.

Hailey Clauson at Prabal Gurung © Pari Dukovic

Pari Dukovic Interview

May 29, 2012  by Brown Michael Christopher

This blog post was a way for me to meet Pari Dukovic, who made some really nice fashion pictures this year for New York Magazine.

Montparnasse (photograph & book in origional box), 1995 © Andreas Gursky

My Relationship with the Monograph

May 21, 2012  by Baden, Evan

Evan Baden explains the good and bad of photography in book form.

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W.M. Hunt on Collecting

May 15, 2012  by Crawford, Jonathan

1000 Words Photography blog posts a video montage of W.M Hunt's lecture on his photography collection, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious.

@earth © Peter Kennard

Meanwhile, Back @earth...

May 10, 2012  by Bareman, Karin

Karin Bareman takes a tour around the work of collage artist Peter Kennard and his book, @earth.

Unfolded, Schletens & Abbenes © Ina Jang

Unfolded

May 08, 2012  by Jang, Ina

Spotted last Thursday night at Dashwood bookstore was Amsterdam-based photography couple, Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes.

04_Invisible City,1988,Twelvetress Press

Staving Off Infinite Regress By Way of Interpreting Agee

May 02, 2012  by Schles, Ken

In his first post for the Foam Blog, Ken Schles takes James Agee as a starting point to explain the relationship between seeing and knowing.

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Viviane Sassen - Parasomnia

May 01, 2012  by Crawford, Jonathan

La Lettre de la Photographie takes a look at Viviane Sassen, one of the photographers who featured in Foam Magazine #11.

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