The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Artist: Robert Stivers (born Palo Alto, CA & resides Santa Fe, NM and Los Angeles, CA) Published by Dark Spring Press, copyright 2017 Essay: Robert Flynn Johnson Text: English Hard cover, with image index, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Arizona Lithography and binding by Roswell Bookbinders, AZ Photobook designer: Andy Burgess and Dawne Osborne... Continue Reading →
Artist: Laia Abril (born & resides Barcelona, Spain) Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK, 2018 Text: English Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color and duotone lithography, printed by Grafiche dell’Artiere, Bologna (IT) Photobook designer: Laia Abril, Ramon Pez Notes: The extended title of Laia Abril’s new book is A History of Misogyny, Chapter One, On Abortion and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was a very exciting day at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) in Hollywood. During its Open House Weekend, March 17 emphasized photobooks. The day started with a fascinating presentation by our own Douglas Stockdale. In covering the topic “Photobook Pre-Visualization,” he took the audience on a tour of his own book-publishing history,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Michael Dalton (born Marshfield, MA & resides in MA) Published by Peperoni Books, Berlin, DE copyright 2017 Text: English Hard cover book, sewn, printed by Wanderer, Germany Photobook designer: Kiran Puri Notes: I was fortunate to share a table at the Medium Festival in San Diego last October adjacent to one that Michael Dalton was... Continue Reading →
Photo Book Pop-up exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, February 2018 copyright photos by Karen Schuenemann As was previously announced, I gave a curatorial talk about Photo Books as Art for the Photographic and Digital Art (PADA) group of the Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC) at their facility last week. I had intended to highlight just the... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Rodrigo Ramos (born and lives in Mexico City, Mexico) Publisher: Self-published; © 2015 Illustrated folder (29.5x40 cm) containing 8 sheets (76x27.5 cm), folded in half, yielding 32 pages; color offset printing by Offset Santiago in Mexico City; edition of 500 Photobook design: Alejandra Magdaleno, Emiliano Molina, Rodrigo Ramos Notes: I selected this book as an... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • A mysterious and ambiguous narrative with dark hints of surrealism, which in some ways appears that I am attempting to describe a fine bottle of wine. Perhaps I am. In Harvey Benge’s introduction, he states that this smaller body of work is an extraction from a trade book intended... Continue Reading →
Photo courtesy of Douglas Stockdale, Founder/Editor of The PhotoBook Journal Join LACP for our Sixth Annual Spring Open House Featuring workshops, panel discussions, portfolio & photo book walk, raffle prizes, vendors, food, drink and much more!! March 16th - 18th, 10 am – 5 pm On Friday, March 16, 10 am – 5 pm, bring your... Continue Reading →
Book dummy #2, Middle Ground, copyright 2018 Douglas Stockdale For those on the left coast next week, I am very happy to be speaking on "PhotoBooks as Art" for the Photographic and Digital Artist Group (PADA) at the Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC) on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 7 pm. For non-members there is a... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Charles-Frédérick Ouellet (born in Chicoutimi; lives in Québec City, Canada) Publisher: Les Éditions du renard, Montréal, Canada; © 2017 Text: Poem “Dompter le naufrage” by Fabien Cloutier Language: French Illustration: Frédérik Lévesque Hardback, sewn; 108 pages with 55 images, paginated; 9 x 10.5"; printed in Canada by Deschamps Impression; edition of 500 and special... Continue Reading →
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