The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Melanie Chapman • Upon opening UPSTATE for the first time, this reviewer was immediately taken back to her own years spent living in the Hudson Valley while attending Bard College. Not only because the subject of Tema Stauffer’s new work is the nearby city of Hudson and the surrounding landscape, but because Stauffer’s... Continue Reading →
book-dummy, Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce my participation at two up coming photobook events; a photobook panel discussion at PhotoLA on February 3rd and a book design workshop with the Medium Festival on March 23 and 24th in San Diego. PhotoLA - Photobook... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • This retrospective monograph that explores one of John Divola’s urban landscapeprojects created between 1974 and 1975 while finishing his MFA at UCLA (1974). His practice was a form of what today we would call “staged photography”; creating (spray painting) structures and staging events for the single purpose of being photographed,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Tobias Kruse, born Mecklenburg and residing Berlin, Germany Publisher: Kerber Verlag Berlin/Nürnberg, Germany Text(s): German and English Softcover, Width: 17cm x Length: 24cm, bound, 42 places, 35 people, 216 pages Design: Neue Gestaltung Berlin Notes: Berlin is a hot spot where the good life is lived, toasted, and celebrated. But truth be told, the... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Notes: As many photo-book collectors may agree, each book has its own personality. Some are small and intimate, some large and comprehensive. Some offer confection for the eyes, some serve to feed the mind. The more one spends time with STANDING STRONG, the new book of black and white photographs... Continue Reading →
Ekaterina Vasilyeva – Shipwrecked, Copyright 2018 Artist; Ekaterina Vasilyeva (Екатерина Васильева)(born and residing in St. Petersburg, Russia) Self-published, St Petersburg, Russia Afterword: Ekaterina Vasilyeva Text: English Stiff cover front with original archive photograph (First #1-30 book covers), board back-cover book, twine sewn binding, four-color lithography, Limited edition, hand-made, signed & numbered, of 50, size: 12... Continue Reading →
Magnum China, Edited by Colin Pantall and Zheng Ziyu Published by Thames & Hudson, copyright 2018 Essays; Colin Pantal, Zheng Ziyu, and Jonathan Fenby Text: English Hardcover with dust jacket, 376 pages, 350+ photographs and illustrations, printed and bound by Pacom, South Korea Notes: As a child raised on her American grandmother’s stories of moving... Continue Reading →
As in years past TPBJ has been providing a short list of artistbooks and photobooks we have found to be very Interesting. These are books that we continue to return to in order to enjoy again. Our selection derives from books with intriguing photographic content, brilliant project concepts, excellent book designs that support the artist/photographer’s... Continue Reading →
Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1882, 1st edition, English, cloth cover As some of you know, Manfred Heiting's extensive photobook collection was purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in 2012 and was destined for their Hirsch Library. His photobook collection was approximately 22,000 volumes, of which 5,828 photobooks were relocated to the... Continue Reading →
Ekaterina Solovieva, The Earth’s Circle. Kolodozero, 2018 Photographer: Ekaterina Solovieva, (Born Moscow, lives in Hamburg, Germany) Publisher: Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, copyright 2018 Essay: Ekaterina Solovieva Text: English, Translation by Diego Benning Wang Softcover, Swiss Binding, 141 pages, 68 images B&W, 7 1/4 " x 9 1/2" x 2 inches, printed in Stuttgart by Offizin Scheufele Art... Continue Reading →
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