The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Brian O’Neill • There is a QR code at the end of several additional texts that come inserted with this book that takes you into the Amazon rainforest, roughly 70% of which is within the territorial boundaries of the nation-state we call Brazil. Those sounds are at once familiar to me – the buzzing activity... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian O’Neill • Jesse Marlow is a street photographer. You may have seen him on the streets, or on social media, as he is a well-regarded photographer with a list of impressive national exhibits, as well as being a Leica brand Ambassador. In these ways, there is no denying he is the envy... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Parents always worry about their children, since the world is full of challenges. Once the kids are out there in the big wide world, away from the protective nest that was their home of origin, these parental worries become intensified. Sonia Lenzi has produced this effective visual essay that expresses... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • As I write this review here in Southern California, which also is an area subjected to the instability of the earth from time to time, I am in awe of the destruction shown in these images and impressed by the spirit, resiliency, and continuity of the people of Nepal who... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Those of us who have undergone operations know about the many forms of mental and physical anguish these entail, as well as about the stamina, fortitude, and patience we as patients are expected to muster during the whole process, before, during, and afterward. When it comes to very serious operations... Continue Reading →
Review by Paul Anderson • Would you like to take a photographic tour of the martian landscape? A tour taken via fine-art photographs that were once scientific images? Nicolai Howalt has curated such a tour using a set of robotic rover images taken from four National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions to Mars. The... Continue Reading →
Review by Steve Harp • In considering Miro Kuzmanovic’s Signs by the Roadside, one would do well to keep in mind the title while moving through the book. For what does a road sign do but orient the traveler to where one is and where one may be headed? The traveler depends on signs for... Continue Reading →
Review by Wayne Swanson • In 1955, a 14-year-old Black youth from Chicago, visiting relatives in the South, walked into Bryant’s Grocery Store in rural Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till wasn’t inside long, but he is said to have whistled at a white woman behind the counter. A few days later his body — beaten, shot, and... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • All of us who have roots or interests in more than one culture (maybe that’s even most of us) can benefit greatly from the many insights Rohina Hoffman has incorporated in this new photobook. As a member of US society with roots in India, as one who has advanced to... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Collecting can easily be very intense, perhaps more so than other pursuits. But then other kinds of activities including photography have been known to become highly ritualized as well. Need I remind you of the meticulous pursuits of water towers in order to present them in tomes of typologies, or... Continue Reading →
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