The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
copyright, 2014, the various photographer, writers and published by Daylight Books It is April and the American baseball season is now in full swing, to savor the pun. I had obtained this photobook shortly after it was published in the Fall of last year, right smack in the middle of the American Football season, not exactly... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Matej Sitar, published by Angry Bat, Ljubljana Admittedly, this photobook review for Matej Sitar’s Morning Sun has been very slowly developing and for all of the right reasons. There are photobooks I have received which are over the top and very obvious as to subject, concept and content. Some of these are really... Continue Reading →
Copyright the artists 2012, LBM Dispatch #3: Michigan, published by Little Brown Mushroom A couple of years ago at the LA Art Book Fair I acquired LBM Dispatch issue #3; Michigan, published by Little Brown Mushroom (aka LBM), an unusual zine that is the brain-child of Alec Soth (photographer) and Brad Zellar (writer). I had... Continue Reading →
Copyright Carolyn Drake 2014, self-published This photobook by Carolyn Drake (b. 1971 Los Angeles, CA and currently resides in Mississippi) incorporates an allegory story of the same name, Wild Pigeon, written by Nurmuhemmet Yasin who is a Uyghur author. The Yasin story narrates the Uyghur experience in this remote region of Western China (XinJiang Uyghur... Continue Reading →
Printed Matter's (2015) LA Art Book Fair This coming weekend on the Left Coast is what is becoming an annual event; Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair which will take place again at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. As I have written about the past (2014) LA Art Book Fairs taking place at MOCA, this... Continue Reading →
Copyright Michelle Frankfurter 2014 published by FotoEvidence This is my first review of the photobook series published by Svetlana Bachevonaova and FotoEvidence, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on the global issues of Social Justice. Michelle Frankfurter (b. April 1961, Jerusalem, Israel – living in the US since 1967 and currently resides near Washington DC)... Continue Reading →
Copyright Julia Borissova 2014, self-published (with Limited Edition slip cover) I am intrigued by Julia Borissova’ s (b. Tallinn, Estonia and lives in St. Petersburg, Russia) recent concept that led to her self-published photobook Running to the Edge, with the way that history and memory is perceived through images. Using found Black & White photographs,... Continue Reading →
Copyright Kate Nolan 2014, self-published Neither is a three year project by Kate Nolan (b. 1979 Dublin, Ireland, where she currently resides) that takes place in Kalingrad, formerly called Königsberg (German), a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. This place was... Continue Reading →
Copyright Alejandro Cartagena 2014, self-published “Carpooling” is an American, maybe Southern Californian, term for an occasion when multiple individuals ride in the same vehicle to the same destination. On the freeways of California the need to increase the quantity of carpoolers in order to relive the increasing congestion has raised the process and infrastructure of... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laura Curran, 2014 self published/After Image Publishing From the moment that I first saw the photographs from Laura Curran’s photobook Lots of Cake!, her project resonated with me. The project was made all the more delightful in the layout and design of this photobook object. Curran uses a documentary style to investigate her family,... Continue Reading →
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