The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Berlin is most certainly a very complex and dynamic European city. The population includes people from all kinds of countries with all kinds of backgrounds, and at the same time the city shows a great deal of tolerance regarding behavioral idiosyncrasies and various belief systems when you compare it to... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • George Hoyningen-Huene was one of the foremost fashion and celebrity photographers of his time. He was also a participant in filmmaking and various other pursuits. Born in St. Petersburg in 1900, surrounded by Baltic-Russian nobility as well as having part American heritage, he was able to transition, via London and... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • The documentation of animal life all around us has long been a favorite area of photography. This very important volume illuminates animal photography of all sorts from a vast number of angles, featuring a number of photographers who concentrate on documenting animal life, as well as essays dealing with animal... Continue Reading →
Review by Paul Anderson • Two questions come to mind when looking through the 2022 photobook Machine Learning by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope. First, can ”machines” learn a specific task, and second, is this productive learning? The author, Kalantzis-Cope, presents us with ten examples of a specific kind of “machine learning.” In each example, he provides a single titled image (we... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • There can be no doubt that climate change is affecting our daily lives. Nick Brandt is a leading advocate for people and animals threatened by and suffering under these changing conditions. He is also a fantastic impresario of environmental portraits, thinking of unusual perspectives and locations for making a point... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • No one knows exactly what will happen when we all leave this earth. Many possibilities have been imagined over time; religious systems and mysterious other processes have been developed to try to give a structure to what might happen and to give people some hope for a chance at a... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • What do we think of when we see the word glitch? Some part of a technical system that doesn’t work, something that slips through a control mechanism, something used or abused, like a loophole? Something unusual or abnormal that suddenly appears and just as quickly disappears in the middle of... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • This fascinating photobook combines images of two seemingly unrelated subjects, old cars and cattle. In recent travels across the United States, Ute Behrend was struck by the ubiquitous presence of these two elements throughout the landscape. As we involve ourselves in the contents and juxtapositions found in this project, we... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Katherine Longly and Cécile Hupin have created a conceptual photojournalistic project; a series of interviews, quotes, screen grabs and reuse of photographs, repurposed to create a narrative that asks the question: If money cannot buy happiness, what drives people to participate in a lottery? The book is design and sequenced in... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • The photographic work of Arthur Tress is highly regarded, even treasured, for a number of reasons. He combines several genres in a unique and personal manner: street photography, portraiture/the depiction of relationships, and environmental observations. With a very special mysterious way of integrating moments, his images often border on or... Continue Reading →
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