The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
American Dream Copyright 2011 Agnieszka Rayss Photographer: Agnieszka Rayss (born, resides Poland) Publisher: Foundation Photography Institute Pro Fotografia (Poland) Essays: Agnieszka Rayss Text: English Hardcover book, linen cover with foil stamping, page marker, sewn binding, four-color lithography Photobook designer: Ania Nalecka (Tapir Book Design) Notes: When I was asked by the editor of Emaho magazine to become the “American”... Continue Reading →
Dust Copyright 2013 Michele Cera Photographer: Michele Cera (born Bari, resides Rome, IT) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) A conversation between Michele Cera and Francesco Zanot Text: English Hardcover book with tipped in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Vincenzo Schiraldi Notes: Cera’s urban landscapes provide a lonely setting for his subjects who frequently have their eyes... Continue Reading →
Marcin Grabowiecki - babie lato (Indian Summer) Copyright 2013 Photographer: Marcin Grabowiecki (born Gliwice, resides Warsaw, PL) Published: Muzuem in Gliwicach with Czytelnai Sztuki (Poland) Essay: Marcin Grabowiecki Text: English & Polish Stiff cover book, embossed cover, stab-sewn binding & string closure, edition of 300, four-color lithography, printed in Poland Photobook designer: Marcin Grabowiecki Notes: The subject... Continue Reading →
The LA Art Book Fair will again be at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and will be another delightful maze of rooms with amazing displays of photobook and zines. This event has always been punctuated with some wonderful finds for me. From Printed Matter: Printed Matter presents the fourth annual LA Art Book Fair, from... Continue Reading →
Malformed - Forgotten Brains of the Texas Mental Hospital Copyright 2014 Adam Voorhes Photographer: Adam Voorhes (born San Jose, CA, resides Austin, TX, USA) Publisher: powerhouse Books (USA) Essay: Alex Hannaford Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in China Photobook designer: DJ Stout & Stu Taylor (TX) Notes: I obtained this book due... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Julia Borissova Artist: Julia Borissova (born Talinn, Estonia, resides St. Petersburg, RU) Self-published artist book, signed and numbered edition of 100 Text: English & Russian Stiffcover book with stab-sewn booklet and multiple gatefolds, naked-sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Russia Photobook designer: Julia Borissova Notes: Borissova investigates home and identity in a subtext of the Document... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Ken Schles Photographer: Ken Schles (born & resides in Brooklyn, NY) Publisher: Steidl (Germany) Excerpts: Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorges Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Jean Baudrillard Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Ken Schles and Jack Woody Notes: This is a new Steidl version of Schles photobook... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Alejandro Cartagena Photographer: Alejandro Cartagena (born Dominican Republic, resides Mexico) Publisher: Self-published (Mexico) Text: English & Spanish Multiple components, variable sizes, unbound in a heavy printed board folder, black & white lithography (newsprint), printed in Mexico Photobook designer: Alejandro Cartagena & Fernando Gallegos Notes: For Cartagena, “in 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in México.... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Alec Soth Photographer: Alec Soth (born & resides Minneapolis WI, USA) Publisher: MACK (UK) Text: English Embossed hardcover book, sewn binding, Photographic Index, black & white lithography, printed by Ofset Yapimevi in Turkey Photobook designer: Alec Soth & Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine Notes: The black and white photographs in this photobook are extracted from a photo-reportage style collaborative project, The... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Lukas Felzmann Photographer: Lukas Felzmann (born Zurich, CH, resides SF, CA, USA) Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers (Switzerland) Essays: Lukas Felzmann, Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed and bound by Kosel in Germany Photobook designer: Lukas Felzmann & Integral Lars Muller Notes: Much like his scientific subject, Felzmann provides a well organized investigation of a... Continue Reading →
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