The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Douglas Stockdale • While preparing this book review of Regina Anzenberger’s family album titled Under the Apple Tree, I was reminded of the stilted circumstance of taking family pictures while photographing my own family after an Easter Egg hunt. Capturing a family event for ‘posterity’ when attempting to photography ‘candid’ moments of individuals who are... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Reviewing Jason Paul Reimer’s book Excavation: A Journey Through Loss is not the first time that I have seen this body of work. While jurying an earlier photobook competition for Los Angeles Center of Photography, Reimer’s project was submitted as a book-dummy/singular-artist-book. It was juried into the subsequent exhibition as well as garnering... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian F. O’Neill • Bron is the first monograph by photographer Zindzi Zwietering (Netherlands), released in 2022 by Dutch publisher The Eriskay Connection, who have been releasing wonderfully designed and thought-provoking books across the course of their catalogue. This publisher has been a model of using the book form to open new possibilities between... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Crumple the Dress, Handle Tenderly the Lens Arresting Beauty, the new Thames and Hudson publication of photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) is truly a thing of beauty to behold and be held. Drawing from the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum (home to the world’s largest collection of Cameron’s... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian O’Neill • There is a QR code at the end of several additional texts that come inserted with this book that takes you into the Amazon rainforest, roughly 70% of which is within the territorial boundaries of the nation-state we call Brazil. Those sounds are at once familiar to me – the buzzing activity... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian O’Neill • Jesse Marlow is a street photographer. You may have seen him on the streets, or on social media, as he is a well-regarded photographer with a list of impressive national exhibits, as well as being a Leica brand Ambassador. In these ways, there is no denying he is the envy... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • As I write this review here in Southern California, which also is an area subjected to the instability of the earth from time to time, I am in awe of the destruction shown in these images and impressed by the spirit, resiliency, and continuity of the people of Nepal who... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman · Camera, Color, Cacophony, Collage: the Magic of Discovery through Harry Gruyaert’s eyes. Between Worlds, the newest (and one of the best) Thames and Hudson publication(s) of Harry Gruyaert’s photography, is an impressive showcase for his well-earned reputation as a master colorist and confirms Gruyaert’s gift for creating beautiful visual puzzles. Throughout... Continue Reading →
Review by Paul Anderson • Would you like to take a photographic tour of the martian landscape? A tour taken via fine-art photographs that were once scientific images? Nicolai Howalt has curated such a tour using a set of robotic rover images taken from four National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions to Mars. The... Continue Reading →
Review by Steve Harp • In considering Miro Kuzmanovic’s Signs by the Roadside, one would do well to keep in mind the title while moving through the book. For what does a road sign do but orient the traveler to where one is and where one may be headed? The traveler depends on signs for... Continue Reading →
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