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Noah McLaurine
Noah McLaurine

Five & Why with Noah McLaurine

Noah McLaurine, UNM’s photography lab manager, has used photography books to inspire, motivate and push his own work forward since the day he picked up a camera. These are some of his top five.

1. “The Photography Book” by Phaidon Publishing

“It’s 500 pages with 500 photographers, so each page is a different photographer with a little blurb about them. For me, that was really informative because I could just sit there and leaf through it and get to know the photographers and what they were about and view their images. It expanded my idea about photography. When you start out, you read about Ansel Adams and the big straight photographers. But in this book, you get a lot of different kinds of photography and you get a bigger field of what photography can be.”

2. “Eleanor” by Harry Callahan

“It’s this amazing collection of his wife and him throughout the both of their lives. It’s kind of amazing because they seem to be a normal ’50s family, but he was really pushing the boundaries of photography. He would put both his wife and his child in these situations that looked or felt absurd to them at the time, but it was groundbreaking photographically.”

3. “On Photography” by Susan Sontag

“It’s an incredible book because she is not a photographer. She’s just a thinker and incredibly literate, and she gets into what it means to take photographs in a deeper level than just a picture. She was really able to deal with complex ideas in kind of a dexterous way.”

4. “Hiroshi Sugimoto’s 2010 monograph” 
by Hiroshi Sugimoto

“He really pushed the boundary of what it means to photograph. He explores time in a really concrete way. One of his really famous projects in the ’70s was (when) he set up in a movie theater: He would leave the shutter open for the entirety of the movie, so what you get is a big, white screen in the middle with the entire theater lit by the screen. They are really beautiful photographs, but what they are doing is capturing a certain moment in time.”

5. “Believing 
is Seeing” 
by Errol Morris

“He uses photographs to explain things about the world. This started as a project he was doing for the New York Times that were a bunch of articles in a series that came together in a book.”

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Nick Fojud is a freelance reporter and photographer for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @DailyLobo.

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