TAKING SIDES has been chosen, along with Candy by Jim Goldberg, and Every iPhone Photo I Made 2012 - 2016by Vinny Martin, as one of Mike Mandel's 3 picks for best photo book of the year.
TAKING SIDES on Bookscrolling.com's "Best Books of 2017" list (#465): http://www.bookscrolling.com/the-best-art-photography-coffee-table-books-of-2017-a-year-end-list-aggregation/
T he Americans by Car 180 pages, Softcover Publication Date: 2016 A book of photographs and a conceptually-based study in influence, The Americans by Car contains 83 color photographs taken by Karl Baden from inside automobiles. With Robert Frank's classic, The Americans, (and to a somewhat lesser extent, Lee Friedlander's America by Car ) in mind, Baden decided that no new photographs would be made for the book; instead, he combed his archive of images and came up with 83 color photographs he had already taken, primarily from his car, between 2006 and 2016, each having some correspondence to a picture from The Americans . Baden's photos follow the exact sequence of the 83 images in the 1958 Grove Press edition of Frank's Americans . The book contains a Jack Kerouac forward, and an afterward by Robertson Leigh. Each copy signed and numbered. Price: $45 ...
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