The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: 2008 copyright Michael Lundgren, courtesy Radius Books Michael Lundgren's natural landscape photographs in his book Transfigurations published in 2008 by Radius Books are not what you might expect of this genre of photography. It is a very cerebral set of images that examine the American Southwest landscape. His photographs are more in line with the New Topographics concept of a direct recording... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Henry Horenstein copyright 2008 courtesy Pond Press Henry Horenstein recently published book Animalia from Pond Press might also be viewed as a "best of photographs" from three of his previously published books, "Creatures", "Canine" and "Aquatics". These delicate and interesting photographs are brought together in a wonderfully duo-tone printed book over 90 pages with a cloth hardcover and a... Continue Reading →
I had the opportunity to acquire an advance copy of Bertrand Fleuret's soon to be published photographic book Landmassess and Railways at photo la earlier this month. This is a limited edition (100 each) of a schaden.com imprint of the J&L 2009 Edition, which has a unique hardcover cover. I find that this book very fascinating on many levels. It is... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Alexey Titarenko copyright 2003 courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery One of the benefits of providing book reviews at the beginning of year is that there are very few new publication releases at this time of year and a big leeway to discuss previously published books. One such opportunity is a review of Alexey Titarenko's Photographs published... Continue Reading →
Photographs 2008 copyright of Lauren Victoria Burke This is another Print on Demand (POD) that has been published at the end of 2008 immediately after the election of Barack Obama by Lauren Burke Birth of a Statesman - Barack Obama. Where as TheGuardian's A Message For Obama was a global collaboration of a broad spectrum of photographers Burke's... Continue Reading →
All photographs copyright of the photographers courtesy of TheGuardian I had essentially stated a couple of days ago here, that with the advent of the Print on Demand (POD) book we can have a book in print almost 10 days after an event has occurred. With the recent election of Barrack Obama as President of the United... Continue Reading →
Verso Limited Editions has recently published their latest title, Bruce Davidson: Central Park in Platinum, which I had an opportunity to review at photo la last week. This book is really an object de arte, considering the exquisit use materials for its construction. But first, I want to discuss the photographs of Bruce Davidson in this book, which are from his... Continue Reading →
One of the interesting aspects of the pending Presidential inaguration of Barack Obama, is the growing number of books about him that are now being published. One segement of these new books are the photographic books, which interesting enough, are becoming very quickly available through the Print on Demand (POD) press. Almost as quick as the web, these books can... Continue Reading →
I had missed the Photo-eye best of 2008 list, but it was brought to my attention at photo l.a. by Jeffery Ladd, who made one of the lists, (but alas I did not). So check this out and follow the various matrix of links to the various best of 2008 books lists, a ton of recommended books to... Continue Reading →
Last Friday I had an opportunity to attend photo l.a., which is a wonderful opportunity to see a broad spectrum of photographs, but also see the most currently published books and sometimes meet the photographers who created them. Thus, I have a large pile of new books on the nightstand;- ) I did have an opportunity to... Continue Reading →
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