David Gardner & Ansel Adams (date unknown) copyright Dual Graphics This is one in a series of on-going articles to help photographers understand a bit more about the design and printing intricacies that eventually leads to a creative book object. I recently had the opportunity to work with the design and printing team at Dual Graphics... Continue Reading →
Manca Juvan – Guardians of the Spoon
Photographer: Manca Juvan (b. & resides Ljubljana, Slovenia) Publisher: ZRC Publishing Essays: Manca Juvan, Sasa Petejan, Urska Strle Text: English (Slovene e-book edition is available) Hardcover book with slip-cover, ring binding, four-color lithography, split pages, Fascist internment timeline, printed at optimal media, Germany Photobook designer: Prapesa (Sara Badovinac & Peter Zabret) Notes: The opening photographs are... 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 →
Two book workshops for the Left Coast
Copyright 2016/7 Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce that I will be providing two more photobook workshops in partnership with LACP (Los Angeles Center for Photography) at their Los Angeles facilities later this year. Both have a 20% early-bird sign up until May 26th. Marketing Your Photo Book - This is a one-day... 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 →
Ellen Korth – CHARKOW
Photographer: Ellen Korth, (b. The Hague, Netherlands – resides Deventer (Netherlands) & Nordhorn (Germany) Publisher: Self-published, Deventer (Netherlands), copyright 2016 Interviews by: Ellen Korth, Sybren Kuiper Text: Netherlands, English & German Seven (7) Stiff-cover books in slip-case, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Fine Books Weesp (Jos Morree) in Netherlands Photobook designer: Sybren Kuiper ( -SYB-... Continue Reading →
Shane Lavalette – One Sun, One Shadow
Photographer: Shane Lavalette (b. Burlington, VT – resides Syracuse, NY) Publisher: Lavalette, Syracuse (NY), copyright 2016 Essay: Tim Davis Text: English Clothbound hardcover book, embossed with tipped in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Lithuania Photobook designer: Lavalette Notes: Shane Lavalette’s photobook is resulting from an earlier commission by the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA)... 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 →
International Photobook Competition 2017 – The Results!
Douglas Stockdale, Sarah Hadley & Chris Davies photo 2017 copyright by Marissa Caichiolo I was very honored to be a jurist for a second time of the International Photobook Competition. which is sponsored by Photo Independent. The selected photographic books will be featured as part of Photobook Independent during the same event in Los Angeles... 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 →