Selected Reviews and Articles

2009 February 4 and 11 Photo-Eye Magazine review: "Ken Schles: A New History of Photography" by George Slade. Response by Ken Schles. Of the exchange, Daniel Espeset, Managing Editor of Photo-Eye Magazine said,“when first designing the magazine online we were very excited about the potential for creating dialogue and interaction, rather than simply offering unidirectional interpretations of the work. This is the first time I feel like we've fully achieved that goal...”

2008 December 31 Photo-Eye Magazine feature story: "a host of photo-world luminaries weigh in on the Best PhotoBooks of 2008" See Jeff Ladd and Markus Schaden's lists.

2008 December 30 Print Run "Best New Books | 2008" #2 A New History of Photography by Ken Schles "One of the most original and challenging books published this year."

2008 December 13 5b4 "Best Books of 2008" #4 A New History of Photography by Ken Schles (Schaden/White Press) Inventive, witty, smart and great book craftsmanship and concept.

2008 Winter 1000 Words Photography #03 winter 2008. Review of A New History of Photography by Ken Schles

2008 Novenmber 28 FAZ "How does a photographjic style develop? By observing the themes of our time!." Article on A New History of Photography by Ken Schles

2008 October 13 5b4 "Monkey see, Monkey do, everything I say sticks twice on you." review of A New History of Photography by Ken Schles

2008 September 26 Süddeutsche Zeitung Image As Container, excerpt from A New History of Photography by Ken Schles. Excerpt was translated by Andrian Kreye for publication in Germany's largest daily paper.

2008 August/September Hotshoe "Hot Books Ken Schles: A New History of Photography Insight into the mind of a great photographer," article by Bill Kouwenhoven.

2008 May 26 Süddeutsche Zeitung Cornell Capa obituary, article by Ken Schles.

2008 Spring The Hill Artists on the Hill, Kate Hanley (on the publication of A New History of Photography).

2006 March Art in America Ken Schles at Lucas Schoormans, Edward Leffingwell (in re: Promised Land).

2005 November New Yorker Goings On About Town Galleries-Chelsea (in re: Promised Land).

Interview between Miriam Nooi (050 Uitmagazine Groningen) and Ken Schles, August 1st 2005 regarding his project An Absence in the Presence of Things in the Promised Land exhibit at the Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen, The Netherlands, which ran July 30th 2005 through October 9th 2005.

2004 November/December Photograph Photo Books, Vice Aletti.

N.D. A description of Invisible City found on modernrare.com.

N.D. A description of The Geometry of Innocence found on modernrare.com.

2003 February PDN Something About Mary, Kristina Feliciano.

2002 Winter Issue 70 Volume 22 Issue 2 European Photography Chris Miller. (in re: The Geometry of Innocence).

1999 September Foto Portfolio Nieuw Werk van Ken Schles, Eddie Marsman (in re: The Geometry of Innocence).

1993 January Photometro, Letter From New York, No. 38 by A.D. Coleman (in re: Invisible City).

1989 April Splash, Thomas Beller.

1989 April VLS, Guy Trebay.

1988 December NY Times, Andy Grundberg selects Invisible City as a notable book.

"His books, like Invisible City or The Geometry of Innocence, are considered intellectual milestones of photography." —Andrian Kreye, Arts and Ideas Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

"hellishly brilliant..." —Vince Aletti, The New Yorker

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