The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
The LA Art Book Fair will again be at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and will be another delightful maze of rooms with amazing displays of photobook and zines. This event has always been punctuated with some wonderful finds for me. From Printed Matter: Printed Matter presents the fourth annual LA Art Book Fair, from... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Julia Borissova Artist: Julia Borissova (born Talinn, Estonia, resides St. Petersburg, RU) Self-published artist book, signed and numbered edition of 100 Text: English & Russian Stiffcover book with stab-sewn booklet and multiple gatefolds, naked-sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Russia Photobook designer: Julia Borissova Notes: Borissova investigates home and identity in a subtext of the Document... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Ken Schles Photographer: Ken Schles (born & resides in Brooklyn, NY) Publisher: Steidl (Germany) Excerpts: Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorges Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Jean Baudrillard Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Ken Schles and Jack Woody Notes: This is a new Steidl version of Schles photobook... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Alejandro Cartagena Photographer: Alejandro Cartagena (born Dominican Republic, resides Mexico) Publisher: Self-published (Mexico) Text: English & Spanish Multiple components, variable sizes, unbound in a heavy printed board folder, black & white lithography (newsprint), printed in Mexico Photobook designer: Alejandro Cartagena & Fernando Gallegos Notes: For Cartagena, “in 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in México.... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Alec Soth Photographer: Alec Soth (born & resides Minneapolis WI, USA) Publisher: MACK (UK) Text: English Embossed hardcover book, sewn binding, Photographic Index, black & white lithography, printed by Ofset Yapimevi in Turkey Photobook designer: Alec Soth & Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine Notes: The black and white photographs in this photobook are extracted from a photo-reportage style collaborative project, The... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Lukas Felzmann Photographer: Lukas Felzmann (born Zurich, CH, resides SF, CA, USA) Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers (Switzerland) Essays: Lukas Felzmann, Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed and bound by Kosel in Germany Photobook designer: Lukas Felzmann & Integral Lars Muller Notes: Much like his scientific subject, Felzmann provides a well organized investigation of a... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2010 Sally Mann Photographer: Sally Mann (b. & resides in Virginia) USA Publisher: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) & Aperture Foundation Author: John B. Ravenal, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Essays: John B. Ravenal, David Levi Strauss, Anne Wilkes Tucker Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, Exhibition History, Bibliography,... Continue Reading →
Rachael Jablo Copyright 2013 Photographer: Rachael Jablo (born USA resides in Berlin, Germany) Publisher: Kehrer Heilderberg Berlin Verlag (Germany) Essays: Robert Wuilfe and Dawn Buse Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, List of Plates (photographs), printed in Germany Photobook designer: Katharina Stumpf Notes: An introspective study about Jablo's own personal medical condition and... Continue Reading →
Martin Toft Copyright 2015 Photographer: Martin Toft (born Denmark & resides in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK) Photographic Archivist: Gareth Syvret (resides in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK) Publisher: Self-published in conjunction with Societe Jersiaise Essays: Gareth Syvret Text: English Collection of Five (5) softcover zines (Atlantus, Portraits, Precious Galinthia, The Atlantic World, The Transoceanic Journey), unbound, four-color Flexographic... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2009 Jeannette Montgomery Barron Photographer: Jeannette Montgomery Barron (born Atlanta, GA, resides Rome, IT & Connecticut, USA) Publisher: Welcome Books (USA) Essays: James D. Barron, Patrick Kinmonth, captions by Jeannette Montgomery Barron Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in China Photobook designer: Kristen Sasamoto Notes: Barron creates a portrait of her late mother... Continue Reading →
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