The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Hiroshi Watanabe 2014 co-published by Daylight Books and Tosei-sha Publishing Co., Ltd First I need to declare that I may be a tad bit biased in my photobook review as I was one of the text editors for this book. Hiroshi Watanabe’s (b. Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan 1951, currently resides in Los Angeles since 1975)... Continue Reading →
Copyright Roger Ballen 2014 published by Thames & Hudson This photobook is another introspective project from Roger Ballen, the American (b. 1950 New York) photographer who relocated from New York City to Johannesburg South Africa in the 1970’s. This is the fourth photobook continuing the evolution of the investigation of an unknown place in South... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laia Abril 2014 Published by Dewi Lewis Laia Abril (b. 1986 Barcelona, Spain, currently resides in NYC and Barcelona) continues to develop narratives that probe identity issues for women. In The Epilogue, she expands on her earlier photographic project Thinspiration, a self-published zine investigating a pro-anorexia community, essentially women and girls, with obsessive eating disorders... Continue Reading →
Published by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contermporain with Museo Amparo, copyright the artist, 2013 & distributed by Thames & Hudson Last year an exhibition catalog, America Latina Photographs - 1960 – 2013, was published jointly by the two exhibiting museums, one in Paris and the other in Mexico for the exhibitions subsequently occurring in 2014.... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Phelps 2013 published by Kehrer Verlag Andrew Phelps (b. 1967, Mesa, AZ & residing in Austria since 1991) returns infrequently to the place of his birth, the arid and desert communities surrounding the regions of Mesa and Phoenix in the American Southwest. His childhood home is resplendent with past memories and with a... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various photographers 2014; Published by Thames & Hudson This photobook is a curatorial discussion of the contemporary practice of landscape photography and perhaps why the practice of Landscape photography matters today. The editor of the book, William A. Ewing, a museum curator and writer about photography, makes the elegant point that the current (and... Continue Reading →
Copyright the estate of Henri Cartier-Bresson & Magnum Photos, published by Thames & Hudson 2014, first English edition This is a thick and dense retrospective that devils deep into the details behind the well-known French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (b. August 22, 1908, Chanteloup-en-Brie, FR , d. August 3, 2004, Montjustin, FR). Although this monograph is... Continue Reading →
Copyright Amit Desai 2012 published by Stephen Cheng, Hong KongAmerica Sutra is an amazingly complex and layered artist book created by Amit Desai (b. 1977, Brahmin and resides in India) while he was in transit between one American seaboard and then back again, as well as its Southern border and eventually up to the Northern... Continue Reading →
Copyright the estate of Wynn Bullock 2014; published by University of Texas Press, Austin & High Museum of Art, Atlanta In some regards attempting to write about Wynn Bullock (b. Percy Wingfield Bullock, Chicago April 18, 1902, d. Monterey (CA) November 16, 1975) and his photography is a bit difficult for me having followed... Continue Reading →
Copyright the photographers 2014 published by LensWork Publishing Brooks Jensen is the Editor and Publisher of the LensWork journal and almost exclusively is focusing on Black and White photography. The bi-monthly journal is released concurrently in a print edition and a DVD that contains additional portfolios and audio interviews of the artist by Jensen. Jensen... Continue Reading →
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