The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Christoph Oeschger (born and living in Zürich, Switzerland) Publisher: cpress, Zürich, Switzerland; © 2017 Essay: Léopold Lambert Text: English Softcover, naked-stitched binding with transparent dust cover; 140 pages, non-paginated, with 1060 photographs; 16x26 cm; edition of 600 copies; printed by Graphius, Ghent, Belgium Photobook Designers: Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger, Chiara Zarotti Notes: Over... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Anthony Hernandez (born Los Angeles & resides Los Angeles & Idaho) Published by Silas Finch, NY, USA, 2016 Text: English Printed chipboard over cloth end sheets, sewn binding, tri-tone black & white lithography, printed by Studley Press, Dalton, MA (USA) Photobook designer: Kevin Messina Notes: A monograph of Anthony Hernandez’s earliest body of work... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Richard S. Chow (born Hong Kong & resides Los Angeles, CA) Self-published 2016, Edition of 50 Text: English Stiff covers, perfect bound, black and white, printed by MagCloud (div. Blurb) Photobook designer: Richard S. Chow Notes: Richard S. Chow came to Southern California as a sixteen year old when his family emigrated from Hong Kong,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Nuno Moreira (born and lives in Lisbon, Portugal) Texts: Poem by Paul Éluard; prose by Adolfo Luxúria Canibal; foreword by M. F. Sullivan; afterword by Jesse Freeman Languages: English and Portuguese Self-published softcover with flaps; naked-bound and glued to the rear board; 22x28 cm (8.7x11 inches); 84 unnumbered pages with 42 black-and-white photographs; first... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Jeffrey Milstein (born in Los Angeles, California; lives in Woodstock, New York) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York City; © 2017 Essays: Jay Maisel, Owen Hopkins, Jeffrey Milstein Text: English Hardcover, sewn, with illustrated dust cover; 10x13 inches; 144 numbered pages with 84 photographs; printed in China Photobook Designers: Jeffrey Milstein with Abigail Sturges... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Gary Ng (born and resides in Hong Kong) Self-published, © 2017 Stiff cover, machine-sewn; 15x21 cm; 49 pages in full color; edition of 50 signed and numbered copies Notes: Several years ago, there was a series of books by Fred Hüning, published by Peperoni Books, Berlin, entitled Einer/Zwei/Drei (2010-2011), subsequently reissued in... Continue Reading →
Artist: Robert Stivers (born Palo Alto, CA & resides Santa Fe, NM and Los Angeles, CA) Published by Dark Spring Press, copyright 2017 Essay: Robert Flynn Johnson Text: English Hard cover, with image index, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Arizona Lithography and binding by Roswell Bookbinders, AZ Photobook designer: Andy Burgess and Dawne Osborne... Continue Reading →
Artist: Laia Abril (born & resides Barcelona, Spain) Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK, 2018 Text: English Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color and duotone lithography, printed by Grafiche dell’Artiere, Bologna (IT) Photobook designer: Laia Abril, Ramon Pez Notes: The extended title of Laia Abril’s new book is A History of Misogyny, Chapter One, On Abortion and... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Michael Dalton (born Marshfield, MA & resides in MA) Published by Peperoni Books, Berlin, DE copyright 2017 Text: English Hard cover book, sewn, printed by Wanderer, Germany Photobook designer: Kiran Puri Notes: I was fortunate to share a table at the Medium Festival in San Diego last October adjacent to one that Michael Dalton was... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Rodrigo Ramos (born and lives in Mexico City, Mexico) Publisher: Self-published; © 2015 Illustrated folder (29.5x40 cm) containing 8 sheets (76x27.5 cm), folded in half, yielding 32 pages; color offset printing by Offset Santiago in Mexico City; edition of 500 Photobook design: Alejandra Magdaleno, Emiliano Molina, Rodrigo Ramos Notes: I selected this book as an... Continue Reading →
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