The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Tobias Kruse, born Mecklenburg and residing Berlin, Germany Publisher: Kerber Verlag Berlin/Nürnberg, Germany Text(s): German and English Softcover, Width: 17cm x Length: 24cm, bound, 42 places, 35 people, 216 pages Design: Neue Gestaltung Berlin Notes: Berlin is a hot spot where the good life is lived, toasted, and celebrated. But truth be told, the... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Notes: As many photo-book collectors may agree, each book has its own personality. Some are small and intimate, some large and comprehensive. Some offer confection for the eyes, some serve to feed the mind. The more one spends time with STANDING STRONG, the new book of black and white photographs... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Angela Merkel is certainly one of the wonders of the 21st century. As the first female German Chancellor, she wields her power in a rather unassuming and dutiful manner, without much of the pomp and swagger that marks other leaders. Photographs taken of her, for the most part, are marked... Continue Reading →
Ekaterina Vasilyeva – Shipwrecked, Copyright 2018 Artist; Ekaterina Vasilyeva (Екатерина Васильева)(born and residing in St. Petersburg, Russia) Self-published, St Petersburg, Russia Afterword: Ekaterina Vasilyeva Text: English Stiff cover front with original archive photograph (First #1-30 book covers), board back-cover book, twine sewn binding, four-color lithography, Limited edition, hand-made, signed & numbered, of 50, size: 12... Continue Reading →
Magnum China, Edited by Colin Pantall and Zheng Ziyu Published by Thames & Hudson, copyright 2018 Essays; Colin Pantal, Zheng Ziyu, and Jonathan Fenby Text: English Hardcover with dust jacket, 376 pages, 350+ photographs and illustrations, printed and bound by Pacom, South Korea Notes: As a child raised on her American grandmother’s stories of moving... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • The southeastern Austrian region known in English as Styria, and in German as Steiermark, is a mostly rural area that has the city of Graz as its center of culture and population density. Little has been known about the area’s mostly rural practice of consuming arsenic, which goes back several... Continue Reading →
As in years past TPBJ has been providing a short list of artistbooks and photobooks we have found to be very Interesting. These are books that we continue to return to in order to enjoy again. Our selection derives from books with intriguing photographic content, brilliant project concepts, excellent book designs that support the artist/photographer’s... Continue Reading →
Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1882, 1st edition, English, cloth cover As some of you know, Manfred Heiting's extensive photobook collection was purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in 2012 and was destined for their Hirsch Library. His photobook collection was approximately 22,000 volumes, of which 5,828 photobooks were relocated to the... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • I asked to review this project because it struck me as a challenging enigma. The photographer, Rose Steinmetz, who originally hails from the country of Georgia and now lives in Brazil, herself has a background that shares several cultural streams and influences. So it only seems fitting that this photographic... Continue Reading →
Ekaterina Solovieva, The Earth’s Circle. Kolodozero, 2018 Photographer: Ekaterina Solovieva, (Born Moscow, lives in Hamburg, Germany) Publisher: Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, copyright 2018 Essay: Ekaterina Solovieva Text: English, Translation by Diego Benning Wang Softcover, Swiss Binding, 141 pages, 68 images B&W, 7 1/4 " x 9 1/2" x 2 inches, printed in Stuttgart by Offizin Scheufele Art... Continue Reading →
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