The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Darius Himes & Mary Virginia Swanson 2011 courtesy Princeton Architectural Press I had started to acquire the quarterly photo-eye Booklist (no longer in publication) founded and edited by Darius Himes after he and Mary Virginia Swanson were already well into their series of articles regarding the ins and outs of publishing a photobook. The back articles were... Continue Reading →
Pierre Bessard, copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale I first became aware of the Parisian photographer, Pierre Bessard, when I had the opportunity to review his photobook, Wuhan Boiler Company Workers, an intriguing industrial landscape photobook sponsored by a Chinese company, Wuhan Boiler Company Workers. I will have to admit, I was initially very skeptical about a “company... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various artists 2010 courtesy DieNacht I had the opportunity to review a recent edition (#8) of DieNacht magazine, a nice compact magazine out of Trier, Germany with the accompanying text in both English and German (Deutsch). The magazine is issued twice a year by the tireless efforts of Calin Kruse, who is all things rolled into one; publisher, designer,... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various photographers 2008 courtesy of LensWork - While I was updating the photography magazine section of this blog and providing very brief overviews of various photographic magazines that I though had some aesthetic merit, I realized that there was an opportunity for a two-fer, to discuss the LensWork magazine while shamelessly promoting my own photographic... Continue Reading →
La Fabrica Bookstore, Madrid, Spain 2011 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of months ago when I was preparing to spend a couple of nights in Madrid, some Facebook fans of The Photobook alerted me to the La Fabrica Bookstore located in downtown near the Museum de Prado. I did not make to their store in January, but I did visit it this week late... Continue Reading →
Copyright Camille Hervouet 2010 courtesy Poursuite Editions What does happen when you go home again? There are usually the lingering memories of youth, but how do these memories mesh with the realities of the present day? In Geographie Intime (English translation: Intimate Geography), Camille Hervouet, who now lives in Nantes, returns to explore and investigate the geography of... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2010 Valeria Cherchi courtesy AAlphabet Libri Valeria Cherchi is providing a short and relatively dark narrative about a house that is inhabited by two individuals who do not appear to be connecting with each other. Her two subjects for this photobook are a young man and a young woman and the building tension between... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various artist courtesy Boiler Corportation From Milano, Italy, via the Boiler corporation, aka Fantom Editions, comes a very smart photography magazine. It has the heft and feel of a stiff cover photobook and beautiful printed in Italy (Frafiche Antiga). What I had not realized is that Fantom Editions was also publishing photobooks, one of which, Charolette Dumas's Al... Continue Reading →
Copyright Todd Hido, Marianne Mueller, Alec Soth, Abner Nolan 2008 (2009) courtesy TBW Books and photo-eye TBW Books is providing selected photographers with a unifying theme for an annual publication of four books co-published as a set. For the Subscription Series #2, the four photographic artists, Marianne Mueller, Noon, Todd Hido, Ohio, Alec Soth, Sheep, and... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laurent Chardon 2010 Courtesy Les éditions Poursuite Laurent Chardon stated that as young man he was fascinated by the photographs of Mongolia and in the winter of 2002, he had an opportunity to investigate the memories of his youth, as well as the current culture. It may not have been the experience that he had... Continue Reading →
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