The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Chris Jordan, 2006 courtesy Princeton Architectual Press Artist’s have long realized that they could use their creative efforts in an attempt to influence public opinions and policies that are aligned with their environmental and social concerns. Jacob Riis photographically documented the New York slums in the 1880’s dates, Thomas Moran applied his paint in... Continue Reading →
ParisChanging: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris by Christopher Rauschenberg for Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 A photobook that is almost 50% composed of photographs by Eugene Atgetis going to be difficult for me to objectively review. I have to admit that I have a relatively strong bias about Atget, because I like his straight forward photographic content... Continue Reading →
Copyright Debbie Fleming Caffery 2009, courtesy Radius Books The dark and shadowy lead-in photograph for Debbie Flemming Caffery’s photobook, The Spirit & The Flesh, provides adequate notice that this is not going to be a straight forward documentary. Caffery creates mysterious photographs about the life and economic survival in a small Mexican village. As a... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright J Bennett Fitts courtesy Kopeikin Gallery Recently I acquired the two latest exhibition catalogs for J. Bennett Fitts from his exhibitions at the Kopeikin Gallery. The earlier catalog was "no lifeguard on duty", exhibited/published in 2006 and "Industrial Landscap[ing]" which was exhibited and concurrently published earlier this year (2009). Fitts landscape photographs seem to... Continue Reading →
Copyright Eugene Richards, 2008, courtesy PHAIDON Press After reading Eugene Richards recent photobook The Blue Room, I found myself thinking about the book’s title, perhaps more so than other books that I have recently reviewed. I think that I have two interpretations of his title, which are complementary and indicative of this body of work.... Continue Reading →
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