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Copyright Louie Palu 2007 published by Photolucida At the conclusion of the Photolucida's Critical Mass event in 2006, three photographers were awarded monographs, Hiroshi Watanabe, Sage Sohier and Louie Palu, for his photo-project Gage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt. For Palu, along with Charlie Angus who conducted the interviews, their project... Continue Reading →
Copyright of the photographers 2010 & courtesy of Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), published by Modernbook Editions The museum of Photographic Arts had a thematic exhibition in 2010, which resulted in the catalog book published by Modernbook Editions, Streetwise, Masters of 60s Photography. The curators have selected eight photographers whose photographic intent might have been influenced by Robert Frank... Continue Reading →
Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin & H. Woods McLaughlin copyright 2010 self-published The Color of Hay; The Peasants of Maramures is a self-published book and a collaborative project between a photographer and writer, who are also a wife and husband team. The resulting thick book is a blending of photographs and words to narrate their story about a... Continue Reading →
Alec Soth 2011 copyright - published by Edizioni Punctum What do you have when you mix a Midwestern American Photographer, a Nineteenth Century English Poet, a prominent Italian city and a French titled poem = Alec Soth’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci (a.k.a. LBDSM) Earlier this year Soth resided in Rome to complete a commission for the tenth... Continue Reading →
copyright Chris Crites 2011 courtesy Ampersand Gallery and Fine Books I have noted recently that of the many types of ephemera that seem to be cherished are the police mug shots, which either intentionality or intentionality, capture the subjects at their worst. Chris Crites has accumulated a wonderful collection of vintage mug shots, transferred the image... Continue Reading →
Copyright John Ryan Brukaker 2011 courtesy Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books Strange Cities, the recent photobook collaboration between the every wandering John Ryan Brubaker and Ampersand Galley and Fine Books (Portland,OR) is a recasting of the “stranger in a strange land” genre, set in Vietnam. We experience the journey of a photographer-flaneur, who, utilizing a documentary style, investigates... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Tiane Doan Na Champassak 2011 The self published book by Tiane Doan Na Champassak incorporates a title that is an interesting play on words. Usually someone who is known as The King of Photography amongst photographers might be considered as one of the contemporary greats, or someone boasting about their photographic abilities. But in this case, it... Continue Reading →
Review by Karen Jenkins • Douglas Stockdale spends a lot of time looking at and thoughtfully writing about books of contemporary photography as a fellow reviewer for this magazine and as founder of The PhotoBook blog among other projects. His own photography has now been collected in his first commercial book, Ciociaria from Rome's Punctum Editions. It... Continue Reading →
Photographs 2011 copyright of the various photographers Most of the photobooks that I review on this blog are usually authored by a single photographer who investigates a concept in relative depth. Other than featuring a photographic magazine that I feel warrants attention, I tend to avoid photobooks that attempt to investigate a thematic subject explored by a large... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • At first reading, Havery Benge’s self-published Eat Me, is a photobook that documents the results of cooking peaches as a family treat. It even includes the recipe for cooking the peaches. In typical Benge style, there is a minimum of text to provide guidance as to what you are viewing.... Continue Reading →
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