The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Gerhard Clausing • As a resident of a town that presents us with plenty of ocean views, I have a special affinity for the moments of twilight, the time between sunset and dusk. The variously nuanced moods presented by a combination of nature, especially the sun and environmental strata, can at times lead... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale · During the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic with the immediate requirement to shelter in place many of us were probably wondering what we were to do, when is this going to end, how am I going to be impacted this, on and on and on. Many, like Amy Elkins, were... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • The Australian photojournalist Michael Coyne is most interested in supplying us with ample documentation of how people cope in these rapidly changing times, and he does so with huge amounts of photographic acumen and investigative and personal enthusiasm. Since the end of the 20th century, he has been traveling and... Continue Reading →
We are very pleased that six reviews dealing with the water theme are featured as a part of Ann Mitchell's Fall Showcase, THINKING ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, just published: https://www.thinkingaboutphotography.com/photobook-journal-water Please take a look! The reviews included are: I Just Wanna Surf by Gabriella Angotti-Jones --- Review by Douglas Stockdale Forgotten Seas by Tanja Engelberts --- Review... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Thoroughly Modern Miller: The Photographs of a Master Who Refused to Remain a-Muse-ing Nearly one quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, and approximately one hundred years after the birth of Surrealism, the “female gaze” is finally gaining recognition as a credible artistic point of view. Thus, Lee Miller... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale · The COVID-19 pandemic turned our normal accustomed social interactions on its head and had a huge impact on our global society. In conjunction with the resulting medical misery, many governments implemented home quarantine as a means to limit the spread of this highly contagious virus. It’s one thing to leave and... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Nature demands our attention as well as our contemplation. Even more important, it requires us to be ever mindful as custodians of what has been around for millions of years. As Lynne Buchanan states in her afterword in this book, nature can help us deal with “the darkness of the... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • “Never did bother Nobody”: The grounded and authentic culture of rural Kentucky as seen by a native son, From the Heads of the Hollers is a gorgeous new GOST publication of portraits by Kentucky native Shelby Lee Adams. Representing previously unpublished work made over 36 years, Adams’ environmental portraits... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Sometimes it is refreshing to see a top photographer's first photographic project that has not previously been published. Recently I reviewed Roger Ballen’s reissue of his first documentary project, boyhood, and noted that it showed many instances of the promise that was later expanded and realized in many different ways.... Continue Reading →
Review by Wayne Swanson • As current events continue to remind us, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is all too often the land of the repressive and the home of the intolerant. Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia-Kilroy explore one shameful example of this dichotomy — the incarceration of 120,000... Continue Reading →
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