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Mike Johnston of Sunday Morning Photographer fame has let me know that his first photography book, The Empirical Photographer, has just been published and is now available for $26.99.

“I’ve been writing about photography since 1988. I was East Coast Editor of CAMERA & DARKROOM magazine, Editor-in-Chief of PHOTO TECHNIQUES magazine, and currently write for BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY (U.K.) and CAMERA ARTS (U.S.). I write a popular regular column on the web called THE SUNDAY MORNING PHOTOGRAPHER that is published at The Luminous Landscape, Photo.Net, and Steve’s Digicams, and is translated into Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Greek. I also publish a small independent photography newsletter called THE 37th FRAME.

THE EMPIRICAL PHOTOGRAPHER is a very select collection of the best of my critical articles, show reviews, and essays. It includes several articles that garnered attention when first published, including “The Fashion Photographer’s Nightmare: Richard Avedon in the American West,” “Photography’s Quiet Giant,” about the retirement of John Szarkowski from MoMA, which A.D. Coleman said was “the most beautifully written essay” ever to appear in the magazine in which it was published, and my article on Helen Levitt, which Miss Levitt said was one of the three best things that have ever been written about her work.”

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