The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
review by Douglas Stockdale • I recently had the opportunity to purchase a used copy of the Aperture Monograph of Diane Arbus, which had been reissued in softcover in 1997 as a twenty-five year anniversary issue. With a retrospective look at a photographers body of work there is an opportunity to see how well it weathers the test of... Continue Reading →
After extensive searching, I believe that I have the majority of the international book publishers who have a strong interest, if not an outright focus, on photographic monographs books linked up on the sidebar. These are the publishers who are printing the interesting photographic projects, sometimes in very limited production runs which can be very beautiful and very collectible books. They... Continue Reading →
My friend Roy Hammans just alerted me to a relatively new small photographic book publisher Errata Editions who is re-publishing of some interesting photographic titles. The embarrassing part of all of this is that one of the founders of Errata Editions is Jeffery Ladd, who publishes 5B4 and was recently blogging from China during the press run who I have... Continue Reading →
I have been adding a couple of more catagories to the side bar over the last couple of days, thinking that these links could be useful for those interested in the photographic book community, whether collecting or developing a book project. I had deceided to add Radius Books to the book Publishers and while Googling... Continue Reading →
"cour 7 rue de Valencia", 1922, Eugene Atget, courtesy of MOMA I had published an earlier article in Singular Images about my continuing interest in Eugene Atget's photographic urban landscapes. I subsequently purchased the hardcover book Atget by the late John Szarkowski published by MOMA as a first edition in 2000. All I can say is that this is a wonderful book for... Continue Reading →
In the Garden, copyright of Beth Dow, and Grand Prize Winner, 2008 If you have not had a chance to browse the winners of the Blurb photo book contest Photography.Book.Now, you just might want to and see the possibilities of self publishing. The templates of many of the Print on Demand (POD) publishers can be limited, but... Continue Reading →
Book review by Douglas Stockdale • After purchasing Robert Frank's PARIS, published by Steidl in 2008, I have been hesitating to publish my book review. Part of my procrastination was purchasing a copy of Frank's The Americans, published by Steidl as part of their "Robert Frank Project", as a baseline for comparison. I am happy that I did buy... Continue Reading →
(Originally posted in Singular Images, 10/01/07) I am starting to come to the realization that I am going to be making my first limited edition book in conjunction with someone from The Photophers Exchange, who is a custom box binder. I have been reading with great interest the series of articles in Photo-eye Review about book publishing. Especially... Continue Reading →
The Americans - copyright of Robert Frank published by Steidl, 2008 special edition How one thing sometimes leads to another, as I had recently purchased a new Robert Frank book Paris while I was in Philadelphia and I figured it would be easy to relate Paris to The Americans without owning a copy of The Americans.... Continue Reading →
Placerita Canyon Cascade, photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale (Originally published in Singular Images, 05/31/07)...Minor White published the text for Octave of Prayer as an Aperture publication in 1972 concurrent with an exhibit of the same name at MIT. Worth reading if you can find a copy. I have been re-reading my tattered copy (a "HURT" book to begin... Continue Reading →
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