The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
My interesting Photobooks of 2014 For those who follow my posts already know that I am a strong believer that anyone who has the endurance, determination and guts to publish their photobook deserves a strong pat on the back. You are all winners! The following photobooks have that little something extra, which may be exceeding... Continue Reading →
Copyright Hiroshi Watanabe 2014 co-published by Daylight Books and Tosei-sha Publishing Co., Ltd First I need to declare that I may be a tad bit biased in my photobook review as I was one of the text editors for this book. Hiroshi Watanabe’s (b. Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan 1951, currently resides in Los Angeles since 1975)... Continue Reading →
This is just a quick shout out about some current and pending photobook events. These are always great opportunities to hold, see, compare and purchase photobooks. It can also be a slight bit overwhelming, so give yourself plenty of time, which is good advice that I need to take myself. Also, for some popular book... Continue Reading →
Copyright Roger Ballen 2014 published by Thames & Hudson This photobook is another introspective project from Roger Ballen, the American (b. 1950 New York) photographer who relocated from New York City to Johannesburg South Africa in the 1970’s. This is the fourth photobook continuing the evolution of the investigation of an unknown place in South... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laia Abril 2014 Published by Dewi Lewis Laia Abril (b. 1986 Barcelona, Spain, currently resides in NYC and Barcelona) continues to develop narratives that probe identity issues for women. In The Epilogue, she expands on her earlier photographic project Thinspiration, a self-published zine investigating a pro-anorexia community, essentially women and girls, with obsessive eating disorders... Continue Reading →
Published by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contermporain with Museo Amparo, copyright the artist, 2013 & distributed by Thames & Hudson Last year an exhibition catalog, America Latina Photographs - 1960 – 2013, was published jointly by the two exhibiting museums, one in Paris and the other in Mexico for the exhibitions subsequently occurring in 2014.... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Phelps 2013 published by Kehrer Verlag Andrew Phelps (b. 1967, Mesa, AZ & residing in Austria since 1991) returns infrequently to the place of his birth, the arid and desert communities surrounding the regions of Mesa and Phoenix in the American Southwest. His childhood home is resplendent with past memories and with a... Continue Reading →
Copyright the photographers, various titles recently published by Aalphabet A brief shout-out about the pending World Photobook Day occurring on October 14th. This fun day (this year on a Monday) originated by The Photobook Club of Madrid in conjunction with my buddy Matt Johnston whose idea was to form the various Photobook Clubs from his... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various photographers 2014; Published by Thames & Hudson This photobook is a curatorial discussion of the contemporary practice of landscape photography and perhaps why the practice of Landscape photography matters today. The editor of the book, William A. Ewing, a museum curator and writer about photography, makes the elegant point that the current (and... Continue Reading →
. Copyright Laia Abril 2014 "The Epilogue" published by Dewi Lewis Publishing I just received Laia Abril's photobook "The Epilogue" and I was surprised by a design aspect of her photobook that is both unique as well as very smart; interior pages (leaf) that a reader could pull out to reveal a hidden panel. Perhaps... Continue Reading →
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