The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photo Book Photography; Norman strobe set-up, April 2017 Copyright Douglas Stockdale While I was working on the printing of my artist book Bluewater Shore with the printing team at Dual Graphics, they offered me an opportunity to tour their facility to observe how they provide front-to-back color management for their book printing processes. This led... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Terry Brown & Gordon Stettinius Photographic collaborators: Terry Brown (resides Richmond, VA) & Gordon Stettinius (resides Richmond, VA) USA Publisher: Candela Books (Richmond, Virginia) Essays: Dr. Manuel Moore, Terry Brown, Gordon Stettinius Text: English Hardcover book, embossed and tipped-in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, index, printed by Worth Higgins & Associates, Richmond, VA Photobook designer: Sarah... Continue Reading →
Malformed - Forgotten Brains of the Texas Mental Hospital Copyright 2014 Adam Voorhes Photographer: Adam Voorhes (born San Jose, CA, resides Austin, TX, USA) Publisher: powerhouse Books (USA) Essay: Alex Hannaford Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in China Photobook designer: DJ Stout & Stu Taylor (TX) Notes: I obtained this book due... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Jenny Riffle Photographer: Jenny Riffle (born WA, resides Seattle, WA, USA) Publisher: Zatara Press (USA) Essays: None Text: English Stiffcover book, glued binding, four-color lithography, two gate folds, Photographic Index, printed in Virginia (USA) Photobook designer: Not stated Notes: Documentary style photographic project by Riffle, a visual biography of an individual who is on a quest for treasures, but... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Janire Najera Photographer/author: Janire Najera (born Spain, resides Spain & UK) Landscape photographer (panoramas): Matt Wright Published & copyright: 2015 Publisher: Spain Arts & Culture (Spanish Embassy) in conjunction with Editorial RM (Spain) Essays: Janire Najera, Orlando Romero, David Roybal, Alexander King Text: English & Espana (Spanish) Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Spain... Continue Reading →
This weekend in LA is the initial Photobook International that will occur in conjunction with Photo Independent and Paris Photo LA. The opening night premiere party and exhibition preview is Friday, May 1, 5-10pm and the exhibition is Sat 11am - 7pm and Sunday 11am - 6pm. Both Photobook Independent and Photo Independent will be... Continue Reading →
Copyright the artists 2012, LBM Dispatch #3: Michigan, published by Little Brown Mushroom A couple of years ago at the LA Art Book Fair I acquired LBM Dispatch issue #3; Michigan, published by Little Brown Mushroom (aka LBM), an unusual zine that is the brain-child of Alec Soth (photographer) and Brad Zellar (writer). I had... Continue Reading →
Summer is coming to a close, schools are getting into high gear and Fall is quickly approaching!As you may have noticed, I took most of the summer off from posting photobook reviews, not that I was avoiding photobooks per se, but more about a concentration on another of my personal projects (working title: Memory Pods)... Continue Reading →
While I was reviewing some recent photobooks, I realized that I have been using some book design and publishing jargon that may not be as well known to photographers and readers of photobooks. I think for many folks, the book printer (and bindery) may be a black-box; photographs and essays go in one side and... Continue Reading →
Copyright Hyunjin Kim, courtesy Farewell Books Similar to the previous Farewell book that I recently reviewed of Noriko Takazawa’s Sensation, Kim Hyunjin’s Even Your Ears is a study in contextual minimalism, with the book’s title as the only clue for the accompanying photographs. This book does not have an introduction, artistic statement, captions or accompanying... Continue Reading →
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