The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photo Book Photography; Norman strobe set-up, April 2017 Copyright Douglas Stockdale While I was working on the printing of my artist book Bluewater Shore with the printing team at Dual Graphics, they offered me an opportunity to tour their facility to observe how they provide front-to-back color management for their book printing processes. This led... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Barbara Peacock (b. Waltham, MA – resides Portland, ME) Publisher: Bazan Photo Publishing (Brooklyn, NY) copyright 2016 Essays: Barbara Peacock, Ernesto Bazan Text: English Embossed linen hardcover with tipped in photograph, sewn binding, four-color lithography, list of photographs, printed by Puritan Capital (New Hampshire) Photobook designer: Kevin Sweeney Notes: Barbara Peacock documented her own hometown of 30... Continue Reading →
David Gardner & Ansel Adams (date unknown) copyright Dual Graphics This is one in a series of on-going articles to help photographers understand a bit more about the design and printing intricacies that eventually leads to a creative book object. I recently had the opportunity to work with the design and printing team at Dual Graphics... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Manca Juvan (b. & resides Ljubljana, Slovenia) Publisher: ZRC Publishing Essays: Manca Juvan, Sasa Petejan, Urska Strle Text: English (Slovene e-book edition is available) Hardcover book with slip-cover, ring binding, four-color lithography, split pages, Fascist internment timeline, printed at optimal media, Germany Photobook designer: Prapesa (Sara Badovinac & Peter Zabret) Notes: The opening photographs are... Continue Reading →
Photo Independent book competition winners, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Your editorial team for The PhotoBook Journal, me and Associate Editor Gerhard Clausing, had a table and an opportunity to meet and discuss photobooks at Photo Independent on the weekend of April 21 - 23rd, 2017. This including some more time with the Photo Independent book competition... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2016/7 Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce that I will be providing two more photobook workshops in partnership with LACP (Los Angeles Center for Photography) at their Los Angeles facilities later this year. Both have a 20% early-bird sign up until May 26th. Marketing Your Photo Book - This is a one-day... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Ellen Korth, (b. The Hague, Netherlands – resides Deventer (Netherlands) & Nordhorn (Germany) Publisher: Self-published, Deventer (Netherlands), copyright 2016 Interviews by: Ellen Korth, Sybren Kuiper Text: Netherlands, English & German Seven (7) Stiff-cover books in slip-case, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Fine Books Weesp (Jos Morree) in Netherlands Photobook designer: Sybren Kuiper ( -SYB-... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Shane Lavalette (b. Burlington, VT – resides Syracuse, NY) Publisher: Lavalette, Syracuse (NY), copyright 2016 Essay: Tim Davis Text: English Clothbound hardcover book, embossed with tipped in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Lithuania Photobook designer: Lavalette Notes: Shane Lavalette’s photobook is resulting from an earlier commission by the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA)... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale, Sarah Hadley & Chris Davies photo 2017 copyright by Marissa Caichiolo I was very honored to be a jurist for a second time of the International Photobook Competition. which is sponsored by Photo Independent. The selected photographic books will be featured as part of Photobook Independent during the same event in Los Angeles... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of Dual Graphics & Peanut Press, 2017 photo by Douglas Stockdale I have been asking around to various publishers and book printing companies for some commercial signatures to help illustrate some aspects of my pending Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop. A signature is somewhat foreign to photographers who have not been involved in commercial printing... Continue Reading →
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