The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographs copyright of the various photographers What I sometimes find useful to help me understand the thinking and concepts behind the photobooks I collect and write about here, are the occasional books that attempt to explore or describe the conceptual ideas of the photographer. Thus I wanted to share three books that have been sitting... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 Laia Abril self-published First be warned, this is a troubling, if not disturbing, photobook. As such, it is a photo-documentary of a community of mostly young women who appear to obsessively starving themselves to death. In a bazaar twist on social networking, these women post and share self-portraits of their current anorexia state... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2010 Andre Cepeda published by Le caillou bleu Andre Cepeda in his photobook titled Ontem (English translation: Yesterday) provides an interesting investigation of a specific set of places that abound around Porto, called islands. Apparently these are areas that were previously built as working class neighborhoods which over time have seemed to have outlived their... Continue Reading →
Copyright 1986, 2010 Renee Jacobs published by The Pennsylvania State University Press (Stiff cover) Limited Edition hard cover book with print (Sonny Mekosh) Renee Jacobs first photobook is subtitled A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania and investigates a city and region of Pennsylvania that is slowly being eroded away by an underground coal fire that... Continue Reading →
Copyright the photographers published by The Aftermath Project The Aftermath Project has just published the fifth (V) of it series of volumes in which they examine and create a dialog around War, which is "only half the story", or perhaps better stated by Sara Terry, Founder of The Aftermath Project; "offer(s) a rich and complex... Continue Reading →
Copyright the estate of Edward Weston & 1981 U of Arizona Reagents, published by AMMO 2012 This Edward Weston monograph is a contemporary examination of a Modernist Photographer viewed from today’s perspective. As a photographer of the West Coast (USA) school of photography, Edward Weston (b. 1886 – d. 1958 ) has a legendary presence... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2012 Brian Finke published by Decode Books While curating my photobook exhibition for Fotografia di Roma last Fall, while exploring the theme of Work, one of my disappointments was the late arrival (at least too late for me to include in the exhibition) of Brian Finke’s photobook Construction. Finke explores, as he has... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2012 David Schulz published by the Book Bakery (Publication Studio, Toronto) Lone Wolf is one in a series of photo-bookworks developed by David Schulz. He investigates various “motifs (which) act as gears that engage the photographs and provide opportunities for (mis) aligning the visual content through the graphic structure of a bookwork. As... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 Cristina de Middel (Puch), self-published Christina de Middel created a historical novella with her artists book The Afronauts about what might could have been. In 1964 Edward Makuka Nkoloso created the Zambian Space Program with the goal to fly twelve astronauts, including one girl, and ten cats to Mars. He was convinced that... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Florian Van Roekel self-published, first edition 2010, second edition 2012 Of the photobooks I selected for the theme of “Work” for 2012 Fotografia di Roma’s photobook exhibition, “How Terry Likes his Coffee; A Photo Odyssey into Office Life” by Florian van Roekel resonates the strongest with me as it relates to my day... Continue Reading →
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