My review of Girl Plays With Snake by Clare Strand (MACK, 2016) is now available on photo-eye. You can read it here and get the book here.
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Adam Bell is a photographer and writer. His work has been widely exhibited, and his essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Afterimage, Aperture, The Art Book Review, The Photobook Review, The Brooklyn Rail, fototazo, Foam Magazine, Lay Flat, photo-eye and Paper Journal. His books include Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts and The Education of a Photographer. He is currently on staff and faculty at the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts.
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Books
All text © Adam Bell, unless otherwise noted
Essays/Interviews
- All That Paradise Allows - Interview w/ Nicholas Muellner
- Chris Killip (Isle of Man / In Flagrante Two / Pirelli Work / Seacoal)
- The Surrealist's Grand Tour, in foam (Issue 33, Winter 2012)
- What good are the critics, or how to dance about photography, in afterimage, Vol. 41, No. 1
- Red Blood Snow, in foam (Issue 30, Spring 2012)
- Notes for an eponymous city guide, in foam (Issue 23, Summer 2010)
- Photographs About Photographs, in Lay Flat 02: Meta
Reviews
- Museum Bhavan by Dayanita Singh
- Subscription Series #5 - TBW Books
- Two Blue Buckets by Peter Fraser
- Rift/Fault by Marion Belanger
- Fancy Pictures by Mark Neville
- Girl Plays with Snake by Clare Strand
- Fate Shifts Shapes
- The Epic Love Story of A Warrior by Peter Puklus
- A Spectacle and Nothing Strange by Ahndraya Parlato
- Zzyxz by Greg Halpern
- Isle of Man Revisited / In Flagrante Two / Pirelli Work / Seacoal by Chris Killip
- Unassisted Readymade by John Stezaker
- The Itinerant Languages of Photography by Eduardo Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles
- PROVOKE: Between Protest and Performance by Diane Dufour and Matthew Witkovsky
- Ext.-Int. by Raimond Wouda
- Aliqual by Massimo Mastrorillo
- Meridian by Colin Stearns
- The Home Front by Kenneth Graves
- Silent Histories by Kazuma Obara
- Due to a Lack of Interest... by Sanne Peper
- Hold the Line by Siegfried Hansen
- My Life as a Man by Carmen Winant
- My Blank Pages by Michael Schmelling
- Ways of Knowing by Daniel Stier
- Stranger by Olivia Arthur
- Lago by Ron Jude
- Voyage of Discovery by Carly Steinbrunn
- Find a Fallen Star by Regine Petersen
- Catarsi by Massimo Leardini
- Block by Aapo Huta
- Island of my Mind by Irina Rozovsky
- Fire in Cairo by Matthew Connors
- Bergen by Daniela Keiser
- Archipelago by Matthew Porter
- Infinite Power by David Brandon Geeting
- The Sun Shone Glaringly by Seth Lower
- Half Wild by Peter Happel Christian
- Out of Order by Penelope Umbrico
- Invisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles
- Islands of the Blest by Bryan Schumaat and Ashley Davis
- Aaron Siskind: Another Photographic Reality by Gilles Mora
- Songbook by Alec Soth
- Tranquility by Heikki Kaski
- Printed in Germany by Christopher Williams
- Out There by Bruno Augsburger
- Land Without Past by Phillip Ebeling
- 100 Years by Doug Aitken
- Sudden Flowers by Eric Gottesman
- Events Ashore by An-My Lê
- Entree Entre by Stephan Keppel
- billie by Ofer Wolberger
- A Perpetual Season by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine
- North Philadelphia by Daniel Traub
- El Porqué de las Naranjas by Ricardo Cases
- Intergalático by Guilherme Gerais
- Tectonic by Johan Rosenmunthe
- The Epilogue by Laia Abril
- Common Love by Isidro Ramirez
- Does Yellow Run Forever? by Paul Graham
- Natur by Michael Schmidt
- Frowst By Joanna Piotrowska
- Stasis By Trine Søndergaard
- Walker Evans: The Magazine Work by David Campany
- Le Nome Qui Efface La Couleur - Israel Arino
- Early Black and White by Saul Leiter
- Overnight Generation by Italo Morales
- Tales from the City of Gold by Jason Larkin
- World of Details by Viktoria Binschtok
- The 99 and The 9 by Katy Grannan
- Dolce Via by Charles Traub
- Costa by Jose Pedro Cortes
- The Place We Live by Robert Adams
- Ad Infinitum by Kris Vervaeke
- Away from Home by Kürsat Bayhan
- History of a Visit by Daniel Reuter
- Personal Matters by Motohiko Hasui
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Erik Schubert
- Conjuring Paradise by Betsy Karel
- The Sochi Project: An Atlas Of War And Tourism In The Caucasus by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen
- Drawing a Line by Wataru Yamamoto
- Between the Shell by Paul Salveson
- Mystic Places by Justin James Reed
- The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography by Joan Fontcuberta
- Field Trip by Martin Kollar
- The Canaries - Thilde Jensen
- Still Lifes, Portraits and Parts by Daniel Gordon
- She Dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship
- Notes from the Foundry and Dangerous Women (Spaces Corners)
- Speaking of Scars by Teresa Eng
- Gasoline by David Campany
- Dalston Anatomy by Lorenzo Viturri
- LDN2 by Antony Cairns
- Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake
- Nine Nameless Mountains by Maanantai
- Black Sea of Concrete by Rafal Milach
- The Arrangement by Ruth van Beek
- Ametsuchi by Rinko Kawauchi
- Twin Boat by Koji Onaka
- Garry Winogrand ed. Leo Rubinfien
- Disquiet by Amani Willet
- Wildlife Analysis by Bryan Graf
- White Road by Ivan Sigal
- Selections from the Joint Photographic Survey by Adam Ryder
- Andrey Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids, and Writings
- Paris Photo by David Lynch ed. by Julian Frydman
- A Partial Eclipse by Martin Boyce
- Casa De Campo by Antonio M. Xoubanova
- Passengers by John Schabel
- The Unphotographable
- Concrete Geographies [Nomads] by Xavier Ribas
- Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
- Agroperifèrics by Ignasi Lopez
- Kodachrome by Luigi Ghirri
- The Cliffs by Bertrand Fleuret
- Another Language by Mårten Lange
- The Actor and She Called Me By Name by John Gossage (double review)
- A City in the Mind by Peter Fraser
- Elementary Calculus by J Carrier
- Welcome to Springfield by Michael Abrams
- Mrs. Merryman's Collection by Anne Sophie Merryman
- American Portraits: 1979-1989 by Leon Borensztein
- Photographs Not Taken Ed. by Will Steacy
- Lick Creek Line by Ron Jude
- Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present: A Different History of Photography
- The Present by Paul Graham
- Timothy H. O'Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs
- Eva's Book/Berlin in Pictures by John Gossage
- Summertime by Mark Steinmetz
- The Significant Savages by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine
- Watching the Weather Change by Marco van Duyvendijk
- Redwood Saw by Richard Rothman
- Oculus by Ken Schles
- Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson
- A by Greg Halpern
- Traces by Ian Teh
- In The Face of Silence by Christophe Agou
- Adendsonne by Misha De Ridder
- Cruising by Chad States
- A New Map of Italy by Guido Guidi
- Chinese Sentiment by Shen Wei
- One To Nothing by Irina Rozovsky
- Brut by Paul Kranzler
- House of Love by Dayanita Singh
- The Mushroom Collector, or letters from Scranton
- Time Forks and Terrestial Maps: Bertrand Fleuret's Landmasses and Railways
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