The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Chris Mottalini (born Buffalo, NY & resides Brooklyn NY, USA) Self-Published: Corgi Editions (E: 350): Brooklyn, NY copyright 2017 Text: English & Thai Stiff cover with French folds, Japanese folded pages and cold-glue binding, four-color lithography, printed in Belgium by Die Keure Photobook designer: Remake Design (Mike Dyer) Notes: Chris Mottalini’s recently self-published photobook Land... Continue Reading →
As we announced last August, the Lucie Photo Book Prize will include an exhibition of the juried books in NYC later this month, which is coming up shortly. Below are the photographers and, where appropriate, publishers, of the juried books and we have linked up the books which we have reviewed. Congratulations to all of... Continue Reading →
Alejandro Cartagena, Los Angeles, 2017 Douglas Stockdale Alejandro Cartagena first jumped on my photobook radar when I obtained his Suburbia Mexicana, a monograph that was published jointly by Daylight Books and Photolucida in recognition of Cartagena’s Critical Mass submission award in 2009. Suburbia Mexicana is an interesting mashup of portraits, urban landscape and developing urban... Continue Reading →
Editor: Ayperi Karabuda Ecer Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, © 2017 Essays: Eric Dupin (foreword); Ayperi Karabuda Ecer (introduction) Text: English Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color printing, 288 numbered pages; 250+ captioned color images; 10x8.5 inches; drone user guide, author biographies, supplementary image references, index of photographers and websites, index of locations; printed... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Tymon Markowski (born Kraków & resides Bydgoszcz, Poland) Self-Published & Print Edition (400), Limited Edition (100): Bydgoszcz, Poland, copyright 2017 Text: English & Polish Hard cover, Leporello (Concertina) layout, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Chromapress (Bydgoszcz, Poland) Photobook designer: Katarzyna Kubicka Editor: Joanna Kinowska Notes: Tymon Markowski’s self-published photobook Flow is a book design that conceptually... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Alejandro Cartagena (born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic & resides Monterrey, Mexico) The Velvet Cell: Berlin (Germany) copyright 2017 Essays by Ximena Peredo Text: English Pair of books; hard cover, embossed exposed boards, sewn and taped binding, and a stiff cover, saddle stitch, both four-color lithography, Edition of 450, signed and numbered, printed in Taiwan Photobook... Continue Reading →
The Photobook Club Madrid (Juan Barte, Juan Cires and Bonifacio Barrio Hijosa) in association with Matt Johnson sent us an interesting message today: The first photographically illustrated book dates back to 1843 and was done by a female botanist/artist, Anna Atkins. Her Wikipedia entry itself is fascinating; it informs us of her background as well... Continue Reading →
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