The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright 2014 Catherine Leutenegger Photographer: Catherine Leutenegger (born & resides in Switzerland) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) Essays: Catherine Leutenegger, A.D. Coleman, Joerg Bader, and Urs Stahel Text: English & French Hardcover book with printed paper belly-band, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Chris Gautschi Notes: In this documentary style investigation of a US city that has... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Aapo Huhta Photographer: Aapo Huhta (born & resides Finland) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) Essay: Jenny Hollowell Text: English Hardcover book, folded text insert, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Aapo Huhta & Heikki Kaski Notes: The context of Huhta photographs is ambiguous, obviously investigating a stark, urban landscape, although stated to be New York City;... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Baron investigates an eccentric, if not at times surreal, city and the lifestyle of a smattering of equally eccentric citizens located in the arid desert of Southern California. She is drawn to the unique desert architecture which spawn the mid-century designs built to stylishly survive the intense arid heat before... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Goran Bertok Photographer: Goran Bertok (born and resides in Slovenia) Publisher: The Angry Bat (Slovenia) Interview: Andraz Gombac Text: English (insert) Two stiffcover books in a stiffcover folder, self-bound Japanese binding, four-color lithography, printed in Slovenia Photobook designer: Matej Sitar Notes: Bertok investigates a very dark subject; death. Thus he is also tapping into man’s darkest fears... Continue Reading →
John Gossage copyright 2010 courtesy Steidl Photographer: John Gossage (born New York City, resides Washington DC) Publisher: Steidl Verlag (Germany) Essays: John Gossage, Gerhard Steidl Text: English Two companion volumes, hardcover book with reversible dust cover (The Thirty Two Inch Ruler on one side, Map of Babylon on the opposing), sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • The concept for this series of photo books was developed by Harvey Benge, who subsequently acted as the project Editor. Essentially the ten selected photographers would produce a photobook based on the photographs of a specific day; June 21, 2010. Other than that, no rules. The resulting photobooks were Jessica Backhaus’s... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Cig Harvey Photographer: Cig Harvey (born Devon, UK, resides Rockport, Maine, USA) Publisher: Schilt Publishing, (The Netherlands) Essays: Cig Harvey, Vicki Goldberg Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Deb Wood (Brooklyn, NY) Notes: Gardening at Night is an exploration of home, family, nature, and time. He narrative investigates settling into one’s... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2009 Max Pam Photographer: Max Pam (born Melbourne, resides in Australia) Publisher: T&G Publishing, Sydney, Australia Essays: Max Pam, Stephen Muecke Text: English (primarily) Hardcover book with dust jacket with one fold-out, sewn binding, four-color lithography, Index of Plates, printed & bound in Taiwan Photobook designer: Gianni Frinzi Notes: This photobook is a compilation of eight... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 the estate of Aaron Siskind Photographer: Aaron Siskind (1903 – 1991) USA Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin (TX) (first published by Editions Hazan, Paris, 2014) Essays: Charles Traub, Gilles Mora Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, Chronology, Bibliography, List of Photographs, printed in Italy Photobook designer: Nicolas Hubert Notes: A photographer... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Dragana Jursic Photographer: Dragana Jursic (b. Yugoslavia, resides Ireland) Publisher: Oonagh Young gallery Essay: Dragana Jursic Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, with captions (Rebecca West/Dragana Jurisic), printed in Luxembourg Photobook designer: Oonagh Young Notes: Jursic documents her journey, retracing the steps of Rebecca West's 1937 novel Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, through what... Continue Reading →
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