Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra (book dummy) 2018 Douglas Stockdale As I just announced on my personal photo-blog Singular Images, I am very excited to accept pre-orders for my artist book Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra! Which is one of the reasons that I have not been providing book reviews for the past couple of weeks. The other wonderful reason... Continue Reading →
Photo Book pop-up exhibit and curator talk at Palos Verdes Art Center
Photo Book Pop-up exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, February 2018 copyright photos by Karen Schuenemann As was previously announced, I gave a curatorial talk about Photo Books as Art for the Photographic and Digital Art (PADA) group of the Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC) at their facility last week. I had intended to highlight just the... Continue Reading →
Photobook Day March 17 With Douglas Stockdale & Special Guests – LACP Open House (March 16-18, 2018)
Photo courtesy of Douglas Stockdale, Founder/Editor of The PhotoBook Journal Join LACP for our Sixth Annual Spring Open House Featuring workshops, panel discussions, portfolio & photo book walk, raffle prizes, vendors, food, drink and much more!! March 16th - 18th, 10 am – 5 pm On Friday, March 16, 10 am – 5 pm, bring your... Continue Reading →
Photo Books as Art – Artist talk
Book dummy #2, Middle Ground, copyright 2018 Douglas Stockdale For those on the left coast next week, I am very happy to be speaking on "PhotoBooks as Art" for the Photographic and Digital Artist Group (PADA) at the Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC) on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 7 pm. For non-members there is a... Continue Reading →
Photo-eye bookstore on the move & moving sale
Photo-eye new book store location Here's the update on the move for the Photo-eye bookstore in Santa Fe, New Mexico: After 27 years at our Garcia Street location, photo-eye Bookstore will be moving to a much larger space at 1300 Rufina Circle, Suite A3 (across from the old Santa Fe Greenhouses on the corner of... Continue Reading →
Classic Photographs at Bergamot Station
Judy Dater, Only Human, Santa Monica, February 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale This past weekend Gerry Clausing and I took a small road trip from Orange County to Santa Monica for the Classic Photographs exhibition event. It is appearing that this will one of the few photographic exhibition events in Southern California with Photo l.a. and... Continue Reading →
The PhotoBook Journal Ranked #1
Interesting Photobooks for 2017 selection by TPBJ staff This weekend we were treated with a little surprise as we received notice that this photobook website was selected as one of the top twenty photobook sites on the web. Okay, not bad! Then I read a little further and found out that not only are we... Continue Reading →
LA Art Book Fair – Update
For 2018 it was just announced that there will not be a LA Art Book Fair, which is some sad at the end of the year news for the left coast. This has a been a popular event in LA, extremely well attended and a fair that is notable for its diverse publications for sale. I... Continue Reading →
Interesting Photobooks of 2017 (plus a few from 2016)
Interesting Photobooks of 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale As in years past, we have been providing a short list of photobooks we have found interesting, whether it was the photographic content, concept of the project, the book’s design or production qualities; and most interesting when it was a delightful combination of all of these book elements.... Continue Reading →
Duane Michals – Portraits
Photographer: Duane Michals (born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; resides in New York City) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, © 2017 Essays and commentary: Duane Michals Text: English Hard cover with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color printing; 176 numbered pages; 178 captioned photographs with additional notes and commentary; 12x10 inches; printed and bound in China... Continue Reading →