Copyright Erik van der Weijde 2010 courtesy 4478ZINE and the artist In Germany in the 1910’s and into the early 1930’s a series of books were published by Karl Robert Langewiesche by his publishing house Verlag Langewiesche Nachfolger. In the late 1920’s Langewiesche came up with the idea of creating inexpensive books to bring culture and self-improvement to... Continue Reading →
Mona Kuhn – Photographs
Copyright Mona Kuhn 2004 published by Steidl In 2004, Mona Kuhn published her first photobook Photographs with the German publisher Steidl. Subsequently Steidl has published two additional Kuhn titles Evidence and most recently Native. Photographs is a body of work this was developed over a period of over six years and draws from two of her then current portfolios Black... Continue Reading →
Jock Sturges – The Last Day of Summer
Copyright Jock Sturges 1991 published by Aperture This review of Jock Sturges’s first photobook, The Last Day of Summer, published by Aperture in 1991, is an introduction to his many photobooks. This photobook is his first and now nearing twenty years in print. As part of the background story one social element that Sturges shares with... Continue Reading →
Kerim Aytac – To See Here
Copyright Kerim Aytac To See Here 2010 Straightline Press, courtesy of the artist. I have found Kerim Aytac’s recent photobook, To see Here, as ambiguous and minimal as his background story; “street photography that questions the value of the subject”. The book is an adaption of his project Nothing to See Here, which is about looking and what... Continue Reading →
Charles Grogg – After Ascension and Descent
Copyright Charles Grogg 2010 self-published and courtesy of the artist Charles Grogg’s first self-published first photobook After Ascension and Decent is a series of photographs that poses questions and subsequent elicits a narrative about connections. Frequently Grogg manipulates his Black and White photographs, where as digital photographs may have manipulated and altered the content, Grogg will actually alter the surface... Continue Reading →
Harvey Benge – Birds
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Harvey Benge’s latest self published photobook (perhaps termed a zine) Birds is brief, elegant and subtly philosophical. Benge provides a brief background story for this slim narrative; that the photographs were made on one day from the deck of a ferry near Auckland Harbour and the photographs were made on the afternoon... Continue Reading →
Samantha Casolari – Ode to Steet Hassle & Untitled, Nevada 2007
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 →
Claxton Projects – Tom Claxton
I just received a nice email from Tom Claxton, a London based photographers agent, regarding a Tumblr site (see sidebar update or poke here) that he has established for photobook reviews, which is very nice. Tom does have a wonderful feature imbedded that provides a mini-slide show for the photographs he has curated from each of the photobooks he features. If... Continue Reading →
Mark John Ostrowski – Amerikana
Copyright Mark John Ostrowski 2010 Macula de plata, courtesy of the photographer Amerikana – concerning or characteristic of America, its civilization, or its culture; broadly, this is typical of America. In a series of photographs, many of which are frequently paired, Mark John Ostrowski provides a series of photographs that places doubt on the ability of any one,... Continue Reading →
Laurence Vecten – a conversation
Laurence Vecten apartment, Paris copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 When I found out that I was not going to be in Paris for the PIY (Publish it Yourself) exhibition ealier this month, I had let Laurence Vecten know what I was sending my regrets for not arriving in Paris in time. She in turn responded with an offer to... Continue Reading →