The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Nicolas Hosting 2012 Published by Etudes Books; number 3 in a series. Nicolas Hosteing has assembled a complex photobook to explore the concept of fiction and as a result, raised essential similar questions as to what is reality. The book’s title, Matador, immediate creates images of the Spanish bullfighter killing a bull. The bullfighter... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 Michal Chelbin, published by Twin Palms Publishers This book is a collection of portraits of inmates who are being held in various prisons located in the Soviet Union, six in the Ukraine, one in Russia. The three kinds of prisons Chelbin photographed for this project were for men, women and boys. As such,... Continue Reading →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2008, self published. This aftermath project explores my on-going series; memory and its preservation. Hardcover book with dust jacket, one photograph plate per page spread with captions on the facing page. This book is out of print and now sold out. Best regards
Copyright 2012 Lise Sarfati published by Twin Palms Publishers A few years ago while in Paris I made a visit to one of my favorite used photobook stores on the rue de L’anceinne Comedie and while talking with the owner, Clement, I asked his recommendations for French photobooks which might be under the radar. One of the... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 the photographer, Manca Juvan published by Sanje Publishing In the United States, the nation of Afghanistan has come to symbolize a weary drawn out war with nightly TV combat clips of the destruction and an endless roll call of the latest military casualties. I think we have become emotionally deaden to the human suffering... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Brian Griffin published by Editions Bessard At first, the cover image was vexing; why an individual might be photographed with his head “cut-off”? Then serendipity in the timing of my recent review of the Tall Poppy Syndrome by Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar. This individual represents a successful business leader, thus he is a... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 Stein & Mehrfar, published by DECODE The photobook Tall Poppy Syndrome by Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar utilizes metaphors to narrate their joint investigation of a subtle cultural trait in Australia. In Australia, as in some of the other regions of British cultural influence, the Tall Poppy Syndrome is a term to... Continue Reading →
Copyright Torbjorn Rodland 2012 published by MACK This is the fifth book published by Torbjorn Rodland and previously I have only the opportunity to quickly browse his books, thus this is my first time to spend an extended duration with one. I can state that my first conclusion supports those earlier quick reads, this books... Continue Reading →
copyright Douglas Stockdale I am honored to be among those who are the ten on-line curators for the 10 x 10 American Photobooks exhibition. There are another ten curators who are selecting the photobooks for the reading room exhibition, which will preview in NYC next month (May 3-5), then move to Braddock PA for the... Continue Reading →
Copyright Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison 2000 published by Twin Palms Publishers Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s photobook The Architect’s Brother is a beautiful enigma. The book is composed of eight sections that were developed over a span of seven years (1993 – 2000). The sections are sequenced serially, The Architect’s Brother (1993 – 1994), Cardboard Sky... Continue Reading →
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