The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Simon Roberts (born & resides Great Britain) Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK, 2017 Text: English Introduction by David Chandler and essays by A L Kennedy, Alex Vasudevan, Carol Ann Duffy, David Matless, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ian Jeffrey, Irenosen Okojie, Nikesh Shukla and Tristram Hunt. Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color lithography, detailed captions, pagination, printed by... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • This innovative artist book by Douglas Stockdale brings to mind the parable “Before the Law” by Franz Kafka, in which a man is confronted by what seems to be an overwhelming obstacle and fails to overcome it, even though he could have, as we who are the readers readily understand.... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Christoph Oeschger (born and living in Zürich, Switzerland) Publisher: cpress, Zürich, Switzerland; © 2017 Essay: Léopold Lambert Text: English Softcover, naked-stitched binding with transparent dust cover; 140 pages, non-paginated, with 1060 photographs; 16x26 cm; edition of 600 copies; printed by Graphius, Ghent, Belgium Photobook Designers: Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger, Chiara Zarotti Notes: Over... Continue Reading →
LA Pages - Book Fair for Independent West Coast Publishers Dates: May 18-19-20th Times: 11am - 8pm Location: Mayra's Banquet Hall, 6075 Normandie Ave, Los Angeles (yes, believe it or not, just below South Park) This event is produced by 8-Ball Community, Bunny Jr and Ooga Booga, and it's a one time only, not for... Continue Reading →
Acid-Free LA Art Book Market, Blum & Poe 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale This past weekend, May 4-6th, 2018 was the first Acid-Free LA Art Book Market held at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, near the Culver City Art District. This is a new left coast art book event that occurred this weekend here in Southern... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Nuno Moreira (born and lives in Lisbon, Portugal) Texts: Poem by Paul Éluard; prose by Adolfo Luxúria Canibal; foreword by M. F. Sullivan; afterword by Jesse Freeman Languages: English and Portuguese Self-published softcover with flaps; naked-bound and glued to the rear board; 22x28 cm (8.7x11 inches); 84 unnumbered pages with 42 black-and-white photographs; first... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra (book dummy) 2018 Douglas Stockdale As I just announced on my personal photo-blog Singular Images, I am very excited to accept pre-orders for my artist book Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra! Which is one of the reasons that I have not been providing book reviews for the past couple of weeks. The other wonderful reason... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Jeffrey Milstein (born in Los Angeles, California; lives in Woodstock, New York) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York City; © 2017 Essays: Jay Maisel, Owen Hopkins, Jeffrey Milstein Text: English Hardcover, sewn, with illustrated dust cover; 10x13 inches; 144 numbered pages with 84 photographs; printed in China Photobook Designers: Jeffrey Milstein with Abigail Sturges... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Rose-Lynn Fisher (born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Los Angeles) Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press, New York, NY; © 2017 Essays: William H. Frey II, Ph.D., Ann Lauterbach, Rose-Lynn Fisher Text: English Paperback, stiff cover with French flaps; 128 pages with duotone images; 8x8 inches; printed and bound in China Photobook Designer: Mulberry Tree Press,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Gary Ng (born and resides in Hong Kong) Self-published, © 2017 Stiff cover, machine-sewn; 15x21 cm; 49 pages in full color; edition of 50 signed and numbered copies Notes: Several years ago, there was a series of books by Fred Hüning, published by Peperoni Books, Berlin, entitled Einer/Zwei/Drei (2010-2011), subsequently reissued in... Continue Reading →
