The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Hans Hickerson · Michael E. Northrup’s photobook Over the Electric Grapevine lives up to the Pynchonesque promise of its title: weird, wild, and wonderful. The book is an album of photographs made from 1972 to 2004. Northrup employed an evolving repertoire of techniques – too many to list, but including straight photography –... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Alex Llovet’s photobook Summer’s Almost Gone is a family album of sorts. The monochrome photos were taken on family vacations from 2016 to 2021. We see the natural world and children in nature, as well as a few photos of adults, presumably Llovet and his wife. I say “of sorts”... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Letters to Azan is about photographer Lali Khalid’s relationship with her son. Khalid is from Pakistan. She grew up and studied there before moving to the US to study photography. Her son Azan was born in the U.S. in 2012. We do not hear anything about Azan’s father, but we... Continue Reading →
Review by Max Cavitch · American photographer John Gossage’s new book, An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture, is dedicated “to the memory of my friend Anne Truitt, who taught me to love sculpture.” In her Daybook, Truitt describes a day in January 1980 when Gossage came to her studio to photograph the “forest” of sculptures she’d... Continue Reading →
Photo essay by Hans Hickerson · The second edition of the San Francisco Photobook Fair was held this past weekend on October 17 and 18 at the Harvey Milk Photo Center. Forty publishers, artists, and independent presses offered their books to an enthusiastic public. A list of the exhibitors is available here. Articles and photographs... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman · Never before has a book caused this reviewer such a strong case of writer’s block. Near paralysis might be an even better description. Not because it failed to deliver at the level of excellence that one has reasonably come to expect from the collaborative efforts of publisher Thames and Hudson... Continue Reading →
Interview by Hans Hickerson · HH: When did you start Kult and why? JR: It was 2016. I was finishing my master’s. I had moved from Finland to Sweden to do my master of art in photojournalism. At the time, when starting the master’s, I was really passionate about daily photojournalism and the daily press,... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · I was curious when I saw that photographer Neil Selkirk had published a book of writing, Why Photographs?. I was not familiar with Selkirk’s work. I knew only that he had printed Diane Arbus’ posthumous photographs. What did he, an elder statesman of the medium, have to say about the... Continue Reading →
Review by Matt Schneider · What does limestone have to do with the history, development, and politics of Malta? Apparently quite a lot, as this is the undergirding (and extremely) compelling question at the center of Marcin Piekałkiewicz photobook, Built on Sand. Perhaps as you would expect, Built on Sand opens with images of crystal... Continue Reading →
Review by Steve Harp · If my review of Susanne Willuhn’s 2019 self-published monograph Das Jahr der Eidechse (The Year of the Lizard) were to consist of a single word, that word could be quirky. Or, perhaps elusive. Thankfully, I have more than one (or two) words with which to explore this surprising and engaging... Continue Reading →
