The 4th annual Kassel Photobook Festival is again sponsoring their 2011 Dummy Book Award. From the Festival: Enter your unpublished photobook for our Dummy Award 2011 now and win a complete book production. The inaugural Dummy Award 2010 was one of the highlights of the last festival. From a total of 489 registrations and 431 submitted... Continue Reading →
Kiyoshi Suzuki – Soul and Soul 1969 – 1999
Copyright estate of Kiyoshi Suzuki courtesy Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht, copyright 2008 In 1972 Kiyoshi Suzuki self-published his first photobook, Nagare no uta, which is known by the English translation Soul and Soul. Suzuki passed away in 2000 after self-publishing eight photobooks between 1972 and 1998. In 2008 Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht (Groningen, The Nederlands) created a retrospective photobook of Suzuki’s photobooks, titled Kiyoshi Suzuki,... Continue Reading →
Mona Kuhn – Evidence
Copyright Mona Kuhn 2007 courtesy Steidl In Mona Kuhn’s her first book, Photographs, there is an interesting mix of singular images with those that hint at a more complex narrative. Kuhn’s later photographs in her first book, with the shift to a color palette and groups of individuals, provides evidence that her style was evolving,... Continue Reading →
The Gernsheim Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Copyright the artist and respective estates 2010 co-published by Harry Ransom Center and University of Texas Press In 1963 the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas, Austin made a wonderful investment by purchasing one of three photographic collections amassed by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. It was, and probably still is, considered one the largest and finest... Continue Reading →
Henrik Malmstrom – On Borrowed Time
Copyright Henrik Malmstrom 2010 courtesy the photographer The self-published photobook by Henrik Malmstrom, On Borrowed Time, documents the final months, days and hours of his sister’s passing has really touched me. I found it difficult to write this review, having carried this book with me to Europe and back twice, picking it up often, but then... Continue Reading →
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