The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Lee Halvorsen • You’re in the eye of the storm…you’ve seen the chaos and change that just occurred and in the not-too-far distance, you see more coming. Through Gray’s images, this is the storm’s eye view of mankind’s interaction with the planet and the mostly uncertain nature of that contact. You're standing on the... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This book is more experience than observation, more emotion than entertainment, more subtle and captivating than literal and descriptive. The volume is finely made, medium weight…two hundred twenty-seven fascinating pages filled with meditative styled images not typically brought together in such an immersive volume. And, immersive it is…slowly wrapping itself around... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This book is a treasure chest of smiles for the reader, all the fun types of smiles…broad, subtle, ironic, wistful, melancholy, and more! The images embrace the reader’s psyche with comfort and humor, warmth and song, humanity and the sense of being human. The images are stunning and well composed... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Rotkäppchen Românesc is a spellbinding photographic railroad journey in today’s Romania. Horst Klein made these images over several years as he traveled by train in wintertime Romania to remote and sometimes semi-abandoned train stations and train landscapes. These are not typical train photos but rather brief glimpses through the train windows... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • The physical form of the book is art and brings a tactile dimension to Michele’s visual story. The cover is dark green, heavy paper die cut with five circles of different sizes. The circles in the cover create a pinhole effect on the gray print of the next page’s introduction,... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen · Cutino’s opening poem provides a deep philosophical foundation for experiencing her book and images. She looks at her images as artifacts of her life, describing the making, collecting, viewing. and presenting them as existential taxidermy, preserving each memory as an object, a moment preserved beyond its “expiration date.” She invites... Continue Reading →
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