The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
copyright Olaf Otto Becker, 2009 courtesy Hatje Cantz Verlag Olaf Otto Becker’s Above Zero is a beautiful documentary style narrative about the melt water of Greenland’s ice cap. Becker investigates the annual melt water that occurs each summer. It might seem that finding the presence of running water on top of snow and ice to... Continue Reading →
The results are now in and being announced for the two competitions at the 3rd International FotoBuch (PhotoBook) Festival recently held in Kassel, Germany. Here are the judges comments for three photobook Dummy Prize winners: The first prize was awarded to the Berliner Werner Amann for his book design American. Using light and also intensely expressive images, the photographer achieved to capture a... Continue Reading →
Copyright Alamo & Costello 2010, courtesy Dark Lark Press The 2010 World Cup has just started in South Africa and there will be many pubs, sports bars, taverns, and assorted watering holes where fans will be hoisting a few brews and cheering their favorite team and players on to victory. The fan support at The... Continue Reading →
Copyright Michael Light, 2009 courtesy Radius Books and photo-eye The aerial perspective and tight framing of Michael Light’s Bingham Mine / Garfield Stack introduces a vertigo similar to what I feel when riding the ski lifts in the Rockies. As I am carried over a ridge and momentarily suspended mid-air crossing a deep canyon to... Continue Reading →
Copyright Guy Tillim 2009 courtesy of Punctum Editions When Guy Tillim, a South African photographer, had an opportunity to investigate the inner city of Rome over a series of winter days, he seems to have found a somber and melancholic period of time in this hustle and bustle city. For me his book Roma, Citta... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Bush 2008 courtesy Yale University Press The concept of photographing those who co-exist with us on the crowded and packed Freeways, Highways and Expressways in the urban centers of the United States is intriguing and the subject of Andrew Bush’s photobook Drive. In particular, Bush is photographing his own locale area of Southern California,... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Phelps, 2009 courtesy Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg For my liking, Andrew Phelps’s introduction, printed on the inside book cover, places this entire photobook into an insightful context, “ But what does it mean to photograph with the pretense of documentation? I find it is easy to get caught up in chasing an illusion of... Continue Reading →
Copyright Aperture, 1973 From time to time, I will be digging deep in my photobook library to retrieve photobooks that I think may be relevant. The caveat to this statement is that the photobook is relevant for what ever reasons I choose. In this case, I am reading and preparing a review of the J.... Continue Reading →
Copyright Stan Gaz 2009, courtesy Princeton Architectural Press Meteorites and their impact on Earth are probably not something we ponder much about, but it is the subject of Stan Gaz’s photobook, Sites of Impact; Meteorite Craters Around the World. Meteorite craters are sites that provide physical evidence that immense celestial bodies have hurled into our... Continue Reading →
I was just alerted to another PhotoBook festival, Fotobuch Tage (English: PhotoBook Days), the first of which will be held in Hamburg Germany from June 4th- 6th. Thank you Edi Weitz! From the festival organizers: The Photobook Days 2010 are honoring the independence of photobooks by dedicating this festival to it. The lead organizer is the association Freundeskreis... Continue Reading →
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