The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Alexandra Huddleston (born Freetown, Sierra Leone; resides Santa Fe, New Mexico) Publisher: Kyoudai Press, Santa Fe, NM, © 2014 Essays: Introduction by the photographer, as well as quotes and journal entries Text: English Stiff cover, perfect-bound; 48 numbered pages with 18 color images; 8 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches; printed by Oddi Printing, Iceland... Continue Reading →
Artist: Julia Borissova (born Talinn, Estonia, resides St. Petersburg, RU) Self-published, 2015 (second edition of 300, 2017) Essays: Julia Borissova Text: English & Russian Linen hardcover with tipped in photographs, handmade sewn binding, Leporello format with one four-panel gate-fold and two three-panel gate-folds, digital lithography, printed St. Petersburg, RU Photobook designer: Julia Borissova Notes: In the... Continue Reading →
Artist: Alice Q. Hargrave (born & resides Chicago, IL) Publisher: Daylight Books (North Carolina, USA) copyright 2016 Interview: Alice Hargrave & Kendra Paitz, Essay by Allison Grant Text: English Hardcover with sewn binding, four-color lithography, index, printed by Ofset Yapimevi (Turkey) Photobook designer: Ursula Damm Notes: I have found Alice Hargrave’s photobook Paradise Wavering to be complex,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: David Kregenow (born and resides in Berlin, Germany) Publisher: The Unknown Books, Sintra, Portugal, © 2015 Essay: Preface by Wim van Sinderen Text: English Stiff cover, HP Indigo printing, perfect-bound, 21x14.8 cm; 48 unnumbered pages, 21 black and white photographs; edition of 110 Notes: Excellent portraits of photographers are rare indeed. We often see... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Barbara Peacock (b. Waltham, MA – resides Portland, ME) Publisher: Bazan Photo Publishing (Brooklyn, NY) copyright 2016 Essays: Barbara Peacock, Ernesto Bazan Text: English Embossed linen hardcover with tipped in photograph, sewn binding, four-color lithography, list of photographs, printed by Puritan Capital (New Hampshire) Photobook designer: Kevin Sweeney Notes: Barbara Peacock documented her own hometown of 30... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Roger Ballen (born in New York City, NY; resides in Johannesburg, South Africa) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London; © 2016 Essays: Preface by Roger Ballen; introduction by Colin Rhodes Text: English Hardcover with dust jacket, sewn binding; 192 numbered pages; 90 monochrome captioned photographs; printed in China; 17.5x25 cm Notes: On April 22,... Continue Reading →
David Gardner & Ansel Adams (date unknown) copyright Dual Graphics This is one in a series of on-going articles to help photographers understand a bit more about the design and printing intricacies that eventually leads to a creative book object. I recently had the opportunity to work with the design and printing team at Dual Graphics... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Manca Juvan (b. & resides Ljubljana, Slovenia) Publisher: ZRC Publishing Essays: Manca Juvan, Sasa Petejan, Urska Strle Text: English (Slovene e-book edition is available) Hardcover book with slip-cover, ring binding, four-color lithography, split pages, Fascist internment timeline, printed at optimal media, Germany Photobook designer: Prapesa (Sara Badovinac & Peter Zabret) Notes: The opening photographs are... Continue Reading →
Photo Independent book competition winners, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Your editorial team for The PhotoBook Journal, me and Associate Editor Gerhard Clausing, had a table and an opportunity to meet and discuss photobooks at Photo Independent on the weekend of April 21 - 23rd, 2017. This including some more time with the Photo Independent book competition... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Photobooks that present their images in a loose format, i.e., not permanently bound and sequenced but changeable, are still the exception. One such successful work was David Alan Harvey's 2012 project entitled (based on a true story), dealing with life in Rio, with real and imagined storylines. That innovative volume... Continue Reading →
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