The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Wieder’s intimate images and skilled story telling brings persistence, permanence, place, and people to life in Portland’s King School Park. Wieder spent several years photographing folks in the Park, people who return almost daily despite the tsunamis of neighborhood change over the years. Mitchell Jackson grew up in the community;... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Ed Kashi’s new photobook, A Period in Time, feels like both a personal diary and a sweeping portrait of our shared world. It gathers images from his more than 45 years as a photojournalist into one powerful collection that is as emotional as it is informative. This compendium is more... Continue Reading →
Interview by Brian Arnold · I can’t tell a lie – the first time I read Jasper by Matthew Genitempo, I didn’t get it. This isn’t a bad thing, rest assured, because I can say that about many of my favorite books. I think this is largely a result of complexity – in an initial... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • History, art, colonialism, exploitation, humanity…all swirling about in Stupich’s monumental collection of visual and textual art in this book. He brings North America’s Camino Real alive from the time of the Spanish Conquistadores to twentieth century’s Guggenheim’s vice like grip on silver and copper mining that are on the same trails ridden... Continue Reading →
Review and Interview by Hans Hickerson · Publishers of photobooks publish photography books, but sometimes they also publish books about photography books. Jason Eskenazi’s The Americans List, published by Red Hook Editions, is a good example. It is about Robert Frank’s seminal book The Americans. Eskenazi asked photographers he knew and met, as well as... Continue Reading →
Review by Matt Schneider · In Mingas+Solidarity, photographer and anthropologist Tristan Partridge introduces us to the cultural tradition of minga in the ancestral community of San Isidro, Cotopaxi, Ecuador. The word “minga” is adapted from the Kichwa/Quechua word Mink’a or Minka, and as we learn from the book’s introduction, indicates “collective or communal work, based... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian Arnold · “Before long, my five senses and sixth sense began to function, and connections to various things and events acted in concert with the territory of the unconscious to produce the form called memory, and I began to trace the individual history that goes by the name, I.” Daido Moriyama -... Continue Reading →
Review by Steve Harp · It takes time for what has been erased to resurface. Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder Loli Kantor’s Call Me Lola: In Search of Mother has been obstinately staring at me from my desktop for some weeks now. At each encounter, I would fitfully and clumsily try to find a way into... Continue Reading →
Review by Henry Kallerud · Victor Cobo holds a strong personal connection with the eponymous Roy Orbison song “In Dreams”. He grew up listening to Orbison’s music with his father’s side of his family: coal miners, from Kentucky. Later in life, he watched and felt a deep resonance with the David Lynch film Blue Velvet... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian F. O’Neill · The concepts of both space and place are widely used in our vernacular. Both are also often used in photographic projects drawing on the documentary and landscape traditions of the field. However, while the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, the distinctions between the two are instructive when deployed analytically... Continue Reading →
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