Photographer: Richard Humphries (born St. Albans, UK; resides Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Publisher: Richard Humphries Photography, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, © 2016 Essays: Foreword and captions by Richard Humphries; Introduction by Gerard McDermott Text: English Sewn cloth-bound hardback with 200 numbered pages, 79 captioned color images and 2 maps; 25x16.5 cm; printed in Italy Photobook Designer: ... Continue Reading →
Cheryl Dunn – This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Photographer: Cheryl Dunn (born in Old Tappan, NJ; resides in New York City, NY) Publisher: Deadbeat Club Press, Los Angeles, CA; © 2017 Stiff cover, saddle-stitched; 52 unnumbered pages with 43 black-and-white and color images; digital offset printing, 6x9 inches, edition of 300. (Deadbeat Club #53) Notes: For all those who are wondering what the... Continue Reading →
David Kregenow – At Eye Level. Photographers Photographed
Photographer: David Kregenow (born and resides in Berlin, Germany) Publisher: The Unknown Books, Sintra, Portugal, © 2015 Essay: Preface by Wim van Sinderen Text: English Stiff cover, HP Indigo printing, perfect-bound, 21x14.8 cm; 48 unnumbered pages, 21 black and white photographs; edition of 110 Notes: Excellent portraits of photographers are rare indeed. We often see... Continue Reading →
Roger Ballen – The Theatre of Apparitions
Photographer: Roger Ballen (born in New York City, NY; resides in Johannesburg, South Africa) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London; © 2016 Essays: Preface by Roger Ballen; introduction by Colin Rhodes Text: English Hardcover with dust jacket, sewn binding; 192 numbered pages; 90 monochrome captioned photographs; printed in China; 17.5x25 cm Notes: On April 22,... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Bluewater Shore
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Photobooks that present their images in a loose format, i.e., not permanently bound and sequenced but changeable, are still the exception. One such successful work was David Alan Harvey's 2012 project entitled (based on a true story), dealing with life in Rio, with real and imagined storylines. That innovative volume... Continue Reading →
Christian Nilson – The Swiss
Photographer: Christian Nilson (born Lerum, Sweden; resides Zürich, Switzerland) Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, Switzerland, © 2016 Essay: Jon Bollmann Text: English and German Cloth-bound sewn hardcover with debossed circles and cut holes; 96 numbered pages, four-color lithography, 67 images, not captioned; 19.5×26.5 cm, printed in Germany Photobook Designer: Greger Ulf Nilson Notes: The essay by... Continue Reading →
Frances F. Denny – Let Virtue Be Your Guide
Photographer: Frances F. Denny (born San Francisco, CA; resides Brooklyn, NY) Publisher: Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, © 2015 Essay: Lisa Locascio Text: English Cloth-bound sewn hardcover, protective transparent acetate dust cover; 108 pages, color lithography; 36 9x9 inch images, a composite sepia leporello fold-out, and the reproduction of a sampler; 10x10.5 inches, printed in... Continue Reading →
Klaus Pichler and Clemens Marschall – Golden Days Before They End
Photographer: Klaus Pichler (Austrian, lives and works in Vienna) Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, Switzerland, © 2016 Essay and quotes: Compiled and edited by Clemens Marschall Text: German or English (translated by Charlotte Maconochie and Clemens Marschall Hardcover book, sewn binding; 250 unnumbered pages; 120 color photographs; German and English editions; including 100/96 pages of... Continue Reading →
Lorena Endara – É Arenas: Nariz
Photographer: Lorena Endara (Los Angeles, CA) Music: Composed, arranged, and produced by Eduardo Arenas Publisher: Producciones Con Sal, Los Angeles, © 2016 Stiff cover, saddle stitch binding; 32 unnumbered pages; 13 color photographs, accompanied by the corresponding song titles from the vinyl album that it accompanies; printed in Los Angeles, CA; 8.5x8.5 inches Photobook... Continue Reading →
John Loengard – Moment By Moment
Review by Gerhard Clausing John Loengard is a photojournalist with many decades of experience. As part of his distinguished career with Life magazine and beyond, he has photographed many notables and others along the way. Thus one will find among the 135 photographs in this volume some interesting shots of singers such as the... Continue Reading →