The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Simon Roberts (born & resides Great Britain) Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK, 2017 Text: English Introduction by David Chandler and essays by A L Kennedy, Alex Vasudevan, Carol Ann Duffy, David Matless, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ian Jeffrey, Irenosen Okojie, Nikesh Shukla and Tristram Hunt. Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color lithography, detailed captions, pagination, printed by... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Family mysteries and family secrets, how does one investigate these and then subsequently report their findings? What if there is no collaboration; those who could speak to what occurred are no longer among us, then how does one know really with certainty what the "truth", a slippery slope at best,... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • This innovative artist book by Douglas Stockdale brings to mind the parable “Before the Law” by Franz Kafka, in which a man is confronted by what seems to be an overwhelming obstacle and fails to overcome it, even though he could have, as we who are the readers readily understand.... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Christoph Oeschger (born and living in Zürich, Switzerland) Publisher: cpress, Zürich, Switzerland; © 2017 Essay: Léopold Lambert Text: English Softcover, naked-stitched binding with transparent dust cover; 140 pages, non-paginated, with 1060 photographs; 16x26 cm; edition of 600 copies; printed by Graphius, Ghent, Belgium Photobook Designers: Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger, Chiara Zarotti Notes: Over... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Anthony Hernandez (born Los Angeles & resides Los Angeles & Idaho) Published by Silas Finch, NY, USA, 2016 Text: English Printed chipboard over cloth end sheets, sewn binding, tri-tone black & white lithography, printed by Studley Press, Dalton, MA (USA) Photobook designer: Kevin Messina Notes: A monograph of Anthony Hernandez’s earliest body of work... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Richard S. Chow (born Hong Kong & resides Los Angeles, CA) Self-published 2016, Edition of 50 Text: English Stiff covers, perfect bound, black and white, printed by MagCloud (div. Blurb) Photobook designer: Richard S. Chow Notes: Richard S. Chow came to Southern California as a sixteen year old when his family emigrated from Hong Kong,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Nuno Moreira (born and lives in Lisbon, Portugal) Texts: Poem by Paul Éluard; prose by Adolfo Luxúria Canibal; foreword by M. F. Sullivan; afterword by Jesse Freeman Languages: English and Portuguese Self-published softcover with flaps; naked-bound and glued to the rear board; 22x28 cm (8.7x11 inches); 84 unnumbered pages with 42 black-and-white photographs; first... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Jeffrey Milstein (born in Los Angeles, California; lives in Woodstock, New York) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York City; © 2017 Essays: Jay Maisel, Owen Hopkins, Jeffrey Milstein Text: English Hardcover, sewn, with illustrated dust cover; 10x13 inches; 144 numbered pages with 84 photographs; printed in China Photobook Designers: Jeffrey Milstein with Abigail Sturges... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Rose-Lynn Fisher (born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Los Angeles) Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press, New York, NY; © 2017 Essays: William H. Frey II, Ph.D., Ann Lauterbach, Rose-Lynn Fisher Text: English Paperback, stiff cover with French flaps; 128 pages with duotone images; 8x8 inches; printed and bound in China Photobook Designer: Mulberry Tree Press,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Cig Harvey (born Devon, UK & resides in Rockport, Maine) Published by Schilt Publishing, (Amsterdam, NL), 2017 Essay: Vicki Goldberg Text: English Hardbound with linen covers, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Offizin Scheufele, Stuttgart (DR) Photobook designer: Deb Wood (Brooklyn, NY) Notes: This is Cig Harvey’s third photobook in her introspective series that investigates... Continue Reading →
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