The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright James H. Evans 2010 University of Texas Press In photography, there are those who go wide and others go deep. James Evans is a photographer who has gone very deep into a region of Texas known as the Big Bend and found this place to be his muse of which he has courted for over twenty years. This is... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright William Wylie 2010 published by Flood Editions I recently drove the Interstate 70 in the summer from Denver, CO to Kansas City, MO passing through Salina, Hays and Colby, Kansas, a route which runs a similar East-West pathway 30 miles South of Route 36. I recall a lot more rolling empty prairie than that... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2011 Ken Schles, published by Stichting Aurora Borealis The recent trend in photobooks seems to lean towards minimalism; all photographs without supporting text or captions. Ken Schles recent book Oculus is a refreshing change and his supporting essays are as interesting and challenging as are his photographs. As Schles states, “Oculus started with... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2012 Arthur Tress & published by Fine Arts Museumof San Francisco & Prestel Books This catalogue was published concurrent with the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco exhibition of Arthur Tress photographs, taking place March to June 2012. This body of work photographed in 1964 and re-discovered in 2009. Tress acknowledges that there... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Lukas Felzmann 2011 published by Lars Muller Publishers When first reading Lukas Felzmann’s recent photobook “Swarm”, my immediate recollection was a similar visual experience while in Rome. As the afternoon approached dusk, dense flocks of birds continue to create the most mesmerizing patterns overhead. From a distance, it appears as though there was an undulating plume... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Yaniv Waissa 2012, self published Yaniv Waissa has chosen to investigate a difficult memory that still seems to haunt the people of Israel; the Holocaust. He does not find it necessary to evoke large dramatic and dark vestiges of the places where past horrors occurred. His photographs are a glimpse here and a slight glance over... Continue Reading →
Copyright Wintergarten LTD 2012 Chinese Bondage in Peru is a trilogy of artists' books featuring a mashed-up collection of found photographs, printed matter and accompanying text organized around the vague fictitious narrative of a North American journalist's travels between the continents of Latin America andAsia. While the title of the series is taken from an academic publication... Continue Reading →
Copyright Filipe Casaca 2011, self-published Filipe Casaca’s self published book, A Minha Casa e Onde Estas (My Home is Where You Are) provides in a documentary style, a very intimate and poignant study of Filipe Casaca’s muse, similar to Harry Callahan’s muse, who is his wife. Similar in style to Callahan’s photographs of Eleanor, Casaca investigates his subject using a black... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • I think that the concept for this book is best stated by Benge: These photographs follow my recent four part series AS IT IS? Here I continue to question the nature and substance of the things I see and the idea of ITness itself. Copyright Harvey Benge 2011 courtesy of the... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright Rafal Milach 2011 courtesy of Kehrer Books The seven short stories attempt to provide a collective insight into his subject's existence in this region of the Soviet Union, with a heavy dose of reality clashing with hope. Accompanying each narrative are quotes by his subject to broaden the visual context. I found the pathos to be unrelenting and that it darkly... Continue Reading →
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