The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Massimo Vitali 2011 published by Steidl Massimo Vitali’s Natural Habitats was one of the larger photobooks in overall size and mass published by Steidl in 2010, which is a nice match up with the large format photographs that Vitali works with. I had access to inspect some of Vitali press images, two of which... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Jefferson Hayman 2012 published by Ampersand Gallery and Fine Books This is a smaller stiff-cover book that utilizes the print on demand technology; hence the binding is tight and creates restrictions in opening and reading the book’s contents. As such, this is not a book that the interior pages will lay flat, which... Continue Reading →
Copyright Mitch Epstein 2013 published by Steidl Mitch Epstein’s recent photobook New York Arbor is a slight departure from his earlier photographic work, most recent of which is American Power (2009) and Berlin (2011), also published by Steidl. Although New York Arbor was photographed with his trademark 8 x10” view camera, the film and resulting... Continue Reading →
Since I was soooo busy with finishing Pine Lake, my artist book, I neglected to provide some updates on other events such as Le PhotobookFest which will be occurring this coming weekend in conjunction with Paris Photo. The Le PhotobookFest will be at a different venue, L'Ancienne Imprimerie/Picture Tank, 19 rue Bisson 75020 Paris, than the... Continue Reading →
Photograph copyright Jane Alt For the past couple of months I have been pretty self-absorbed in getting my own artist photobook Pine Lake published. While developing the book dummy, I did not anticipate how much band width would be consumed in producing the 25 copies of this hand made book. Essentially my last photobook review... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published Limited Edition Artist Book I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand-made artist book Pine Lake. Thus post is not intended to be a book review, as I need to let others provide more objective assessments. This is just a blatant self promotion. Pine Lake... Continue Reading →
copyright Abe Frajndlich 2011 (cover - Cindy Sherman) published by Schirmer/Mosel This book is a compilation of artist portraits of individuals rarely seen, mainly because Abe Frajndlich’s subjects are the photographers who stand behind the camera, not in front of the lens. This particular photobook is very interesting for me as a photographer, especially as... Continue Reading →
Copyright Paul Schiek 2012 published by TBW Books Paul Schiek has constructed an interesting photobook based on found “mug shots”, an interesting selection of vernacular photographs collected by Mike Brodie at an abandoned Georgia prison. These identification head shots have isolated from their context as prisoner information, thus in a similar vein to Chris Crites... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Jane Fulton Alt published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Berlin Upon initially viewing the color photographs of Jane Fulton Alt’s aptly title photobook “The Burn”, I was feeling more than a bit conflicted. First, her photographs are poetic, surreal, mysterious as well as lyrical. As aptly stated by Deborah Gribbon in her essay, “Alt... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright Andreas Seibert 2013 published by Lars Muller Publishers The opening color photographs of Andreas Seibert’s The Colors of Growth, China’s Huai River appear lyrical, what may seem a documentary of a beautiful place for peaceful contemplation. Then the landscape, portraits and captions rapidly transforms into a haunting narrative of a huge ecological disaster... Continue Reading →
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