The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published Limited Edition Artist Book I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand-made artist book Pine Lake. Thus post is not intended to be a book review, as I need to let others provide more objective assessments. This is just a blatant self promotion. Pine Lake... Continue Reading →
copyright Abe Frajndlich 2011 (cover - Cindy Sherman) published by Schirmer/Mosel This book is a compilation of artist portraits of individuals rarely seen, mainly because Abe Frajndlich’s subjects are the photographers who stand behind the camera, not in front of the lens. This particular photobook is very interesting for me as a photographer, especially as... Continue Reading →
Copyright Paul Schiek 2012 published by TBW Books Paul Schiek has constructed an interesting photobook based on found “mug shots”, an interesting selection of vernacular photographs collected by Mike Brodie at an abandoned Georgia prison. These identification head shots have isolated from their context as prisoner information, thus in a similar vein to Chris Crites... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Jane Fulton Alt published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Berlin Upon initially viewing the color photographs of Jane Fulton Alt’s aptly title photobook “The Burn”, I was feeling more than a bit conflicted. First, her photographs are poetic, surreal, mysterious as well as lyrical. As aptly stated by Deborah Gribbon in her essay, “Alt... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright Andreas Seibert 2013 published by Lars Muller Publishers The opening color photographs of Andreas Seibert’s The Colors of Growth, China’s Huai River appear lyrical, what may seem a documentary of a beautiful place for peaceful contemplation. Then the landscape, portraits and captions rapidly transforms into a haunting narrative of a huge ecological disaster... Continue Reading →
copyright Jacquie Maria Wessels 2010 published by Voetnoot Publishing (Amersterdam) There are two really large genres in photography; one of which is the landscape (an investigation of where) and the other portraiture (an investigation of who). Of growing interest to me is where these two intersect, which is the case in both title and content... Continue Reading →
copyright Matej Sitar 2012 self-published by The Angry Bat Tucked away inside the deceivably simple folding cover is an interesting and complex set of overlapping photobooks. The entirety focuses on selected moments of a road-trip journey, which in this case Sitar's subject is the Pacific coast of the United States. Interior and three books -... Continue Reading →
Copyright Jerry Spanoli 2012 published by Steidl Jerry Spanoli’s second photobook “American Dreaming” is a cryptic, layered and complex book, which in the wake of the recent NSA operational leaks from Edward Snowden, this book now appears almost prophetic. The subject of Spanoli’s book is the years of the Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm), although... Continue Reading →
Copyright Thodoris Tzalavras 2010 published by Book ex Machina Thodoris Tzalavras’s photobook titled Nicosia in Dark and White is a haunting story about an abandoned place, a place that represents a victim. It is a place where time seems to have stopped, yet obvious that nature continues to takes its course reclaiming the man-built structures and... Continue Reading →
Copyright Klaus Pichler 2013 self-published Over a period of years Klaus Pichler roamed the backrooms, hallways and storage lockers of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. He has created a series of absurd and humorous juxtapositions of found objects as well as those which border on haunting and the surreal. Through serendipity, he observed... Continue Reading →
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