The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Max Cavitch · American photographer John Gossage’s new book, An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture, is dedicated “to the memory of my friend Anne Truitt, who taught me to love sculpture.” In her Daybook, Truitt describes a day in January 1980 when Gossage came to her studio to photograph the “forest” of sculptures she’d... Continue Reading →
Interview by Hans Hickerson · HH: When did you start Kult and why? JR: It was 2016. I was finishing my master’s. I had moved from Finland to Sweden to do my master of art in photojournalism. At the time, when starting the master’s, I was really passionate about daily photojournalism and the daily press,... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Breathtaking! Stunning! Immersive! And that’s just the cover. This art object, the book itself, the printed pages, the images, the text…their fusion; this book is one for the generations. The volume is large, 12.5” x 15” but the size isn’t awkward or intimidating…rather, it’s striking and compelling, a wonder in... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Jerusalem is a city like no other…traditions, faiths, races, separation, strife, love, hate, all living, loving and lasting together for 5,000 years. Gabay describes these city attributes as “layers” where places and people share the same space, sometimes the same frame and in that "captured in the camera" moment lives... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • I was gifted this book by the author and PBJ editor, Hans Hickerson who expressly did NOT want a review, only for me to enjoy his journey down this tortured and touching trip down memory lane. The vibrant colors of the small book’s cover capturing a computer screen were familiar and... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • A gripping tale of friendship and a hidden land is preserved in this story with stunning images from Cuba some thirty years ago. DeStefano traveled to Cuba in 1993, 1996 and again in 1998, during Cuba’s “Special Period” where everything for Cuba’s common person was hard to get…food, gasoline, currency,... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This book is a collection of magical, imaginative moments in what must have been a difficult, almost grieving time for the artist and her father. Her father, mostly “invisible” in the book, was leaving his Amsterdam apartment of thirty years because the building had been sold. He was downsizing and... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Imagine sitting in an overstuffed chair, in a hushed, book-lined sanctuary, completely spellbound by a virtuoso storyteller spinning tales of love, war, resilience, post-war recovery in Europe and the canvas of artistic mid-century New York City. This wonderful collection of firsthand images of post-war transitions in Europe and Manhattan was... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This delightful photographic journey through parts of Mexico is a fun, heartfelt connection to the culture and the car that brings them together. That car, an icon of their national identity, imagination, and energy, is the Volkswagen Bug, The Beetle, and, in Mexico Los Vochos! Villar moved to Mexico in 2016 with... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · I recently read someone’s comment that there are two kinds of photobooks, art books and story books. A possible third category could be concept books. El Retrato De Tu Ausencia is definitely based on a concept, an approach, an original idea. The author, Alejandro “Luperca” Morales, rephotographed Ciudad Jaurez newspaper... Continue Reading →
