The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographs copyright 2012 Arthur Tress & published by Fine Arts Museumof San Francisco & Prestel Books This catalogue was published concurrent with the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco exhibition of Arthur Tress photographs, taking place March to June 2012. This body of work photographed in 1964 and re-discovered in 2009. Tress acknowledges that there... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Lukas Felzmann 2011 published by Lars Muller Publishers When first reading Lukas Felzmann’s recent photobook “Swarm”, my immediate recollection was a similar visual experience while in Rome. As the afternoon approached dusk, dense flocks of birds continue to create the most mesmerizing patterns overhead. From a distance, it appears as though there was an undulating plume... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Yaniv Waissa 2012, self published Yaniv Waissa has chosen to investigate a difficult memory that still seems to haunt the people of Israel; the Holocaust. He does not find it necessary to evoke large dramatic and dark vestiges of the places where past horrors occurred. His photographs are a glimpse here and a slight glance over... Continue Reading →
Copyright Wintergarten LTD 2012 Chinese Bondage in Peru is a trilogy of artists' books featuring a mashed-up collection of found photographs, printed matter and accompanying text organized around the vague fictitious narrative of a North American journalist's travels between the continents of Latin America andAsia. While the title of the series is taken from an academic publication... Continue Reading →
Copyright Filipe Casaca 2011, self-published Filipe Casaca’s self published book, A Minha Casa e Onde Estas (My Home is Where You Are) provides in a documentary style, a very intimate and poignant study of Filipe Casaca’s muse, similar to Harry Callahan’s muse, who is his wife. Similar in style to Callahan’s photographs of Eleanor, Casaca investigates his subject using a black... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • I think that the concept for this book is best stated by Benge: These photographs follow my recent four part series AS IT IS? Here I continue to question the nature and substance of the things I see and the idea of ITness itself. Copyright Harvey Benge 2011 courtesy of the... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright Rafal Milach 2011 courtesy of Kehrer Books The seven short stories attempt to provide a collective insight into his subject's existence in this region of the Soviet Union, with a heavy dose of reality clashing with hope. Accompanying each narrative are quotes by his subject to broaden the visual context. I found the pathos to be unrelenting and that it darkly... Continue Reading →
Copyright the Estate of Larry Sultan 2010 courtesy Steidl This book draws from the major photographic themes that preoccupied Larry Sultan over his life span. By many accounts he was a photographer whose teaching and personal project has directly influenced a generation of photographers. His last project, a fictional narrative about migrant workers in Northern California, is infused with a wonderful mix of an air... Continue Reading →
Copyright Max Pam 2011 courtesy of Editions Bessard This book has all of the appearances of photograph based diary complied by Max Pam during his journeys through the region of Yemen in 1993. Pam’s album is resplendent with a mash-up of photographs, marks, stamps and an interesting hand written travelogue. The square black and white... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2010 the photographers courtesy Pogo Books Sometimes with minimalist photobooks, it may be best that they speak for themselves. Here is a small sampler of photobooks published by Pogo Books (Berlin, Germany) with Jeff Luker, Hasis Park, Ting Cheng and Mark Peckmezian. The books all share a similar diminutive size, stiff covers with saddle stick binding, and minimalistic in... Continue Reading →
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