The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Kerim Aytac To See Here 2010 Straightline Press, courtesy of the artist. I have found Kerim Aytac’s recent photobook, To see Here, as ambiguous and minimal as his background story; “street photography that questions the value of the subject”. The book is an adaption of his project Nothing to See Here, which is about looking and what... Continue Reading →
Copyright Charles Grogg 2010 self-published and courtesy of the artist Charles Grogg’s first self-published first photobook After Ascension and Decent is a series of photographs that poses questions and subsequent elicits a narrative about connections. Frequently Grogg manipulates his Black and White photographs, where as digital photographs may have manipulated and altered the content, Grogg will actually alter the surface... Continue Reading →
Jasper Howard Copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale Located near the heart of London is a quaint and almost quintessential London book seller, but with a wonderful focus that is exclusively on photobooks. This is a small, well organized and run book shoppe, just as I have imagined my distant relative John Stockdale, publisher and bookseller of Piccadilly in the late 1700's in London. Photo Books... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Harvey Benge’s latest self published photobook (perhaps termed a zine) Birds is brief, elegant and subtly philosophical. Benge provides a brief background story for this slim narrative; that the photographs were made on one day from the deck of a ferry near Auckland Harbour and the photographs were made on the afternoon... Continue Reading →
Samantha Casolari - photobook wrap > "ODE TO STREET HASSLE (THE BOYS ARE KEEPING SECRETS) / untitled, nevada 2007" When I received Samantha Casolari's first published book just before my last departure to Europe, I was left in a quandary, the packaging of the book was so wonderful, I could not bear to open it. It is a... Continue Reading →
I just received a nice email from Tom Claxton, a London based photographers agent, regarding a Tumblr site (see sidebar update or poke here) that he has established for photobook reviews, which is very nice. Tom does have a wonderful feature imbedded that provides a mini-slide show for the photographs he has curated from each of the photobooks he features. If... Continue Reading →
Copyright Mark John Ostrowski 2010 Macula de plata, courtesy of the photographer Amerikana – concerning or characteristic of America, its civilization, or its culture; broadly, this is typical of America. In a series of photographs, many of which are frequently paired, Mark John Ostrowski provides a series of photographs that places doubt on the ability of any one,... Continue Reading →
Laurence Vecten apartment, Paris copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 When I found out that I was not going to be in Paris for the PIY (Publish it Yourself) exhibition ealier this month, I had let Laurence Vecten know what I was sending my regrets for not arriving in Paris in time. She in turn responded with an offer to... Continue Reading →
Copyright Henrik Saxgren 2009, courtesy Hatje Cantz Verlag and photo-eye Henrik Saxgren recent photobook Unintended Scupltures is wonderful reminders why in the rush of my daily life that I need to occasionally take time to pause and just observe. He shares with us that located amongst the various and assorted debris of our day to... Continue Reading →
Copyright the photographers 2004 published by Editions Flammarion, Paris It was my good fortune to meet up with Marc Feustel, consulting editor and photo-blogger (Eye Curious) in Paris last July to discuss photobooks, Japanese photography and a photobook that he conceptualized, developed and edited; Japan, A Self Portrait: Photographs 1945 – 1964. This was not the... Continue Reading →
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