Copyright 2017 by Journalistic, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
Editor: Rebecca Rego Barry
Photography columnist: Andrea Volpe
Stiffcover, perfect bound magazine
Through serendipity I recently came to know of FineBooks & Collections, a quarterly published by Journalistic, Inc. out of their Chapel Hill, NC offices. As you might imagine the magazine reports on all things related to “Fine” Books, Manuscripts, and other published empheria that might end up in a collection.
The events that led to my obtaining a review copy of FineBooks was a survey article being prepared about photobooks, titled Photography in Motion, Collecting Photobooks is a way of Collecting Change by Andrea Volpe. One of the subjects that Volpe discussed was Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquisition/donation of the Indie Photobook Library develop by Larissa Leclair (we reported on this earlier). To illustrate the indie type of phtotobooks in Leclair’s collection, FineBooks wanted to use the cover of my photobook Ciociaria, published by Edizioni Punctum that was included in the Yale acquisition. That placed my photobook alongside some very nice photographic company; Alvin Langdon Coburn, Lewis Hine, Danny Lyons, Richard Avedon and Gary Winogrand.
Other articles of note for photographers and book makers: Not the End for Endpapers, a short interview of Daile Kaplan who is the head of photography at the Swann Auction Galleries and her Pop Photographica collection, a review of a Henry Thoreau exhibition that includes an interesting daguerreotype of him and her In View column (The Sum of its Parts) by Volpe.
Bottom line for those make and collect photobooks, this magazine is an enjoyable and diverse read that provides a bit more expansive book landscape.
You may also want to check out their blog, provides some interesting reading as well. This was also added to our resource page for recommended photobook blogs.
Cheers,
Douglas Stockdale
PhotoBook Journal 
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