The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
La Fabrica Bookstore, Madrid, Spain 2011 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of months ago when I was preparing to spend a couple of nights in Madrid, some Facebook fans of The Photobook alerted me to the La Fabrica Bookstore located in downtown near the Museum de Prado. I did not make to their store in January, but I did visit it this week late... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various artist courtesy Boiler Corportation From Milano, Italy, via the Boiler corporation, aka Fantom Editions, comes a very smart photography magazine. It has the heft and feel of a stiff cover photobook and beautiful printed in Italy (Frafiche Antiga). What I had not realized is that Fantom Editions was also publishing photobooks, one of which, Charolette Dumas's Al... Continue Reading →
Benjamin Diguerher copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale Yesterday evening was the Editions Poursuite book signing event at Le Bal (Paris), part of a weekly book signing event that Sebastian Arthur Hau, Director of Le Bal Books, is hosting at his bookshop and exhibition gallery. It was a nice occasion and I had the opportunity to meet two of the... Continue Reading →
Copyright Teller 2010 courtesy of Trolley Ltd I have the nice opportunity to review Issue #1 of the new magazine out of Great Britain published by Trolley Books, the editorial brainstorm of Katherine Hunt and Ruby Russel. This stiffcover magazine is a wonderful read. From the publisher is this overview: Teller, a magazine of stories. Stories told... Continue Reading →
The 4th annual Kassel Photobook Festival is again sponsoring their 2011 Dummy Book Award. From the Festival: Enter your unpublished photobook for our Dummy Award 2011 now and win a complete book production. The inaugural Dummy Award 2010 was one of the highlights of the last festival. From a total of 489 registrations and 431 submitted... Continue Reading →
It is about this time of year that the various publishers, photographers and photobook collectors gather in wait to see which of the photobooks will be singled out as a "Best of 2010" on somebody's (or hopefully many) of the lists that are published by photobook reviewers (including yours truly), magazines, bloggers and other indicators of public opinion.... Continue Reading →
Reminder that Swann Galleries is having their last Photobook (Photographic Literature) auction for the year on December 9th, 2010, in NYC. This auction is concurrent with a photographic print auction. One photobook of interest: a signed copy of Andy Warhol’s America (estimate: $2,000 -3,000) and Index (estimate: $2,500 – 3,500) Also various numbers of Alfred Stieglitz's... Continue Reading →
Samantha Casolari - photobook wrap > "ODE TO STREET HASSLE (THE BOYS ARE KEEPING SECRETS) / untitled, nevada 2007" When I received Samantha Casolari's first published book just before my last departure to Europe, I was left in a quandary, the packaging of the book was so wonderful, I could not bear to open it. It is a... Continue Reading →
I just received the following photobook update for Paris Photo about a new venue, Offprint. Offprint is being initiated by Yannick Bouillis in reaction to a preceived lack of meeting places for the diversity of practice in the field of photography. Offprint is a project space for contemporary photography and a book fair for independent publishers.... Continue Reading →
Clement Kauter copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 Sometimes things don't always go as planned, but then when least expected, some unexpected and wonderful events unfold. Early this evening I thought I would walk down to the Seine, and since it was a little bit cool for a Paris late summer afternoon, I decided to bring my windbreaker, which thank... Continue Reading →
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