The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Since I was soooo busy with finishing Pine Lake, my artist book, I neglected to provide some updates on other events such as Le PhotobookFest which will be occurring this coming weekend in conjunction with Paris Photo. The Le PhotobookFest will be at a different venue, L'Ancienne Imprimerie/Picture Tank, 19 rue Bisson 75020 Paris, than the... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published Limited Edition Artist Book I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand-made artist book Pine Lake. Thus post is not intended to be a book review, as I need to let others provide more objective assessments. This is just a blatant self promotion. Pine Lake... Continue Reading →
With the publication of my commentary on Gina Genis's photobook, I have reached an interesting milestone. This is the 275th photobook commentary I have published on this blog. I think if I knew that I would be reaching this goal when I stated this blog in 2008, that could have been intimidating enough that I... Continue Reading →
Copyright the photographers; Paul Schiek's "Dead Men Don't Look Like Me" (TBW Books), Dan Gluibizzi's "Folding Space"/Zefrey Throwell's "Pressing Time" (Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books), Nicolas Hoosteing's Matador (Etudes Books), Notes on Fulford's Raising Frogs for $$$ (The Ice Plant), Alec Soth & Brad Zellar's "Michigan" (Little Brown Mushroom), The LA Art Book Fair Catalog. I had an opportunity to attend the LA Art Book... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2012 Lorenzo Formicola Lina Pallotta (author of ) I just received a couple of photographs from Lina Pallotta which were taken by Lorenzo Formicola during the opening of my photobook exhibition at Fotografia in Rome last month. Lina is the author of Piedras Negras which I had selected for this exhibition and is my Ace on-the-floor... Continue Reading →
copyright the various photographers Please join me for one evening this month as I share a pop-up photobook exhibition of the vast majority of the photobooks that are currently included in my exhibition at FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale in Rome Italy, which explores the theme of "work". I will provide a short introduction about my selection... Continue Reading →
photograph copyright 2012 Marc Prust Thanks to Marc Prust, I have my first look at the FotoGrafia di Roma photobook exhibition. Very nice! Regretfully due to a change in travel plans, I was unable to attend the grand opening of Fotografia di Roma last week. Looking at this photograph by Marc I can see that... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of the artists The concept that the XI FotoGrafia di Roma is intent on exploring is the theme of "Work". Likewise as curator of the photobook exhibition, I am also interesting in broadly interpreting this theme. I am also intrigued with the idea that a photobook is a physical product of a photographer's... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright of photographers and publishers FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma XI Edition: Work The theme of Work for XI FotoGrafia di Roma is complex and multi-faceted subject, which I attempted to broadly explore in my selection of contemporary PhotoBooks for this exhibition. This theme is also ambiguous and illusive, which can be as much about one does... Continue Reading →
I was recently invited to submit a curatorial proposal for a photobook exhibition based on the thematic subject of "work", which is an interesting word as well as subject for photographers. Idea is tap into the history of photography in recent years, reinterpreted through a great deal of attention to differences and changes of the languages of photography and contemporary work.... Continue Reading →
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