The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
If you are in NYC, an interesting exhibit about Book Dummies is taking place at the ICP (International Center of Photography) through December 27th, 2008. From the exhibit: Book Dummies is an exhibition that gives insight into the process of making a photo book. It reveals the many layers of the process, and gives a step-by-step... Continue Reading →
East of Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1971 copyright David Plowden Last year in 2007 a retrospective book was published about David Plowden's photographs Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photograph with an introduction by Steve Edwards and published by W. W. Norton. Initially I thought that this book by Plowden was going to be easy to review. It is beautifully... Continue Reading →
On October 20th, 2008, the Lucie Awards were presented in NYC. And of course the catagory of interest to us was the Book Publisher catagory. And the results are (drum roll, please): BOOK PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR - And the winner is 21st Editions | Jamie Baldridge - The Everywhere Chronicles Presented by Amy Arbus, Photographer... Continue Reading →
Similar to the recent Blurb juried POD book on-line exhibition, the 23 Sandy Gallery Portland, OR is now having a call to photographers for a self publishing print on demand (POD) book exhibition. This exhibition is not limited to just Burb printed books. This exhibition is being co-juried by Christopher Rauschenberg and Laura Russell, the galleries owner and director. Rauschenberg... Continue Reading →
copyright 2005 Nick Brandt published by Chronicle Books First let me say, I am not a big fan of "animal" books. But this is not photographic book of animals in the usual sense. Oh, yes, Brandt does show us many of the wild animals of East Africa, but in a very different context than the normal safari document. There... Continue Reading →
Time Out, 2005 copyright of Julie Blackmon, courtesy Radius Books At first glance, Blackmon's photographs are super real observations of a large knit family on the edge of total chaos and about to go out of control. In others words real life with families and real children. Whether her photographs really are direct observations or a constructed reality they connect with the... Continue Reading →
Copyright 1987 Joel Sternfeld; 1994 stiff-cover edition published by Chronicle Books in conjunction with The Friends of Photography I will first have to admit that I like Joel Sternfeld's urban landscape photographs thus discussing his first book, "American Prospects" , will be a relatively easy task for me. Sternfeld photographs the urban landscape in a similar vein as... Continue Reading →
Windows and Mirrors by John Szarkowski, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) When I initially wrote about Windows and Mirrors, American Photography since 1960 by the late John Szarkowski in August 2008, it was from my personal perspective of how I have used this book over the years to try to help me understand his two basic photographic tenets; a... Continue Reading →
review by Douglas Stockdale • I recently had the opportunity to purchase a used copy of the Aperture Monograph of Diane Arbus, which had been reissued in softcover in 1997 as a twenty-five year anniversary issue. With a retrospective look at a photographers body of work there is an opportunity to see how well it weathers the test of... Continue Reading →
After extensive searching, I believe that I have the majority of the international book publishers who have a strong interest, if not an outright focus, on photographic monographs books linked up on the sidebar. These are the publishers who are printing the interesting photographic projects, sometimes in very limited production runs which can be very beautiful and very collectible books. They... Continue Reading →
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