The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Filipe Casaca 2011, self-published Filipe Casaca’s self published book, A Minha Casa e Onde Estas (My Home is Where You Are) provides in a documentary style, a very intimate and poignant study of Filipe Casaca’s muse, similar to Harry Callahan’s muse, who is his wife. Similar in style to Callahan’s photographs of Eleanor, Casaca investigates his subject using a black... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • I think that the concept for this book is best stated by Benge: These photographs follow my recent four part series AS IT IS? Here I continue to question the nature and substance of the things I see and the idea of ITness itself. Copyright Harvey Benge 2011 courtesy of the... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright Rafal Milach 2011 courtesy of Kehrer Books The seven short stories attempt to provide a collective insight into his subject's existence in this region of the Soviet Union, with a heavy dose of reality clashing with hope. Accompanying each narrative are quotes by his subject to broaden the visual context. I found the pathos to be unrelenting and that it darkly... Continue Reading →
Copyright the Estate of Larry Sultan 2010 courtesy Steidl This book draws from the major photographic themes that preoccupied Larry Sultan over his life span. By many accounts he was a photographer whose teaching and personal project has directly influenced a generation of photographers. His last project, a fictional narrative about migrant workers in Northern California, is infused with a wonderful mix of an air... Continue Reading →
Copyright Max Pam 2011 courtesy of Editions Bessard This book has all of the appearances of photograph based diary complied by Max Pam during his journeys through the region of Yemen in 1993. Pam’s album is resplendent with a mash-up of photographs, marks, stamps and an interesting hand written travelogue. The square black and white... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2010 the photographers courtesy Pogo Books Sometimes with minimalist photobooks, it may be best that they speak for themselves. Here is a small sampler of photobooks published by Pogo Books (Berlin, Germany) with Jeff Luker, Hasis Park, Ting Cheng and Mark Peckmezian. The books all share a similar diminutive size, stiff covers with saddle stick binding, and minimalistic in... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2012 Roberto Schena courtesy Edizioni Punctum Road Trip is what immediately comes to mind when reading Roberto Schena’s recent photobook SP 67. In the U.S., the words Road Trip creates a vision of traveling on the famous US roadway Route 66 that stretches across the United States, starting in Chicago, Illinois and ending at the... Continue Reading →
Copyright Ron Jude 2008 published by The Ice Plant Ron Jude’s ubiquitous title “Other Nature” for his photobook published by Ice Plant leaves plenty of space to create a wide range of contexts for his photographs. The book’s title and a quote from Frank Kafka’s On Parables provide the only text (and descriptive context), as Jude... Continue Reading →
Copyright Tod Papageorge 2010 courtesy Edizioni Punctum Tod Papageorge received the annual commission from the FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma in 2010 to interpret the city of Rome. Papageorge is a photographer-flanuer, better known for his early black and white urban photographs and now the director of Yale’s photography program. As in the previous Rome commissions, he explores the city... Continue Reading →
Copyright Mona Kuhn 2011 published by Steidl I think that Mona Kuhn’s new photobook, Bordeaux Series, and her fourth with the publisher Steidl, may be her best to date. Each book has the nude as one as one her principal subjects, but in this book she intertwines the nude portraits of individuals with another theme to raise unanswerable and... Continue Reading →
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