The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Cosplay is a fun activity. You take your innermost thoughts out to be seen in public, as you embody, through your costume and makeup, a fictional character you admire, showing yourself as your personal hero or heroine to everyone out there. These personalized and externalized emotions can be seen at... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • I know from my experience with students acting out various drama roles on the stage, in a foreign language even, that the most effective performances take place when the role is totally internalized and performed not just from the mind but also from the heart. It is at that moment... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Emily White utilizes large format photographic equipment in conjunction with alternative photographic technics to investigate an urban and its bordering natural landscapes. There is an undercurrent of mystery, as though something is being haunted, in the dark moody body of work that White exhibited in her first solo show with Candela... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • I really love portraits that are mysterious and different. Fryd Frydendahl has definitely succeeded in consistently producing such unorthodox portraits over a ten-year period that fit the bill, and then some. This photobook gives us insights into her method. If you look at the front cover above, you find one... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • To cover more than 70 years of history and the accompanying photographic styles and to make an interesting photobook out of it requires quite a bit of talent. Gerry Badger, with all his editorial and curatorial background, is the one that can accomplish such a gargantuan task; he presents all... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Reviewing Jason Paul Reimer’s book Excavation: A Journey Through Loss is not the first time that I have seen this body of work. While jurying an earlier photobook competition for Los Angeles Center of Photography, Reimer’s project was submitted as a book-dummy/singular-artist-book. It was juried into the subsequent exhibition as well as garnering... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • To me, the fact that human beliefs can result in the intentional deaths of others has always been an unfathomable tragedy. Whether it is local warfare against minorities or worldwide imperialist campaigns against some groups, the goal in all these instances seems to be the enforcement of the preferences of... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Crumple the Dress, Handle Tenderly the Lens Arresting Beauty, the new Thames and Hudson publication of photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) is truly a thing of beauty to behold and be held. Drawing from the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum (home to the world’s largest collection of Cameron’s... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian O’Neill • There is a QR code at the end of several additional texts that come inserted with this book that takes you into the Amazon rainforest, roughly 70% of which is within the territorial boundaries of the nation-state we call Brazil. Those sounds are at once familiar to me – the buzzing activity... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian O’Neill • Jesse Marlow is a street photographer. You may have seen him on the streets, or on social media, as he is a well-regarded photographer with a list of impressive national exhibits, as well as being a Leica brand Ambassador. In these ways, there is no denying he is the envy... Continue Reading →
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