Lucie Photo Book Prize Exhibition

As we announced last August, the Lucie Photo Book Prize will include an exhibition of the juried books in NYC later this month, which is coming up shortly. Below are the photographers and, where appropriate, publishers, of the juried books and we have linked up the books which we have reviewed. Congratulations to all of... Continue Reading →

The PhotoBook Journal interview – Alejandro Cartagena

Alejandro Cartagena, Los Angeles, 2017 Douglas Stockdale Alejandro Cartagena first jumped on my photobook radar when I obtained his Suburbia Mexicana, a monograph that was published jointly by Daylight Books and Photolucida in recognition of Cartagena’s Critical Mass submission award in 2009. Suburbia Mexicana is an interesting mashup of portraits, urban landscape and developing urban... Continue Reading →

Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography from Dronestagram

Editor:  Ayperi Karabuda Ecer Publisher:  Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, © 2017 Essays:  Eric Dupin (foreword); Ayperi Karabuda Ecer (introduction) Text: English Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color printing, 288 numbered pages; 250+ captioned color images; 10x8.5 inches; drone user guide, author biographies, supplementary image references, index of photographers and websites, index of locations; printed... Continue Reading →

Tymon Markowski – Flow

Photographer: Tymon Markowski (born Kraków & resides Bydgoszcz, Poland) Self-Published & Print Edition (400), Limited Edition (100): Bydgoszcz, Poland, copyright 2017 Text: English & Polish Hard cover, Leporello (Concertina) layout, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Chromapress (Bydgoszcz, Poland) Photobook designer: Katarzyna Kubicka Editor: Joanna Kinowska Notes: Tymon Markowski’s self-published photobook Flow is a book design that conceptually... Continue Reading →

Alejandro Cartagena – A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption

Photographer: Alejandro Cartagena (born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic & resides Monterrey, Mexico) The Velvet Cell: Berlin (Germany) copyright 2017 Essays by Ximena Peredo Text: English Pair of books; hard cover, embossed exposed boards, sewn and taped binding, and a stiff cover, saddle stitch, both four-color lithography, Edition of 450, signed and numbered, printed in Taiwan Photobook... Continue Reading →

Jack Spencer – This Land: An American Portrait

Photographer:  Jack Spencer (born in Kosciusko, Mississippi; resides in Nashville, Tennessee) Publisher:  University of Texas Press, Austin, TX; © 2017 Essays:  Jon Meacham (foreword); Jack Spencer (introduction) Text:  English Cloth-bound sewn hardcover with dust jacket; 284 numbered pages; 148 captioned color or sepia images; 13x11 inches, printed in China Notes: “Spencer has found a mythical world,... Continue Reading →

Open call – The Anamorphosis Prize

Bluewater Shore, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Open call: The Anamorphosis Prize for self-published photo-based books. The Anamorphosis Prize was established to promote excellence, dialogue and excitement in the field of self-published photobooks and photo-based artist books. The word anamorphosis is derived from the Greek, ana meaning again and morphe meaning form. Anamorphosis is a distortion that... Continue Reading →

Brenda Moreno – B to B

Photographer: Brenda Moreno (born, Mexico City & resides Mexico & Spain) Publisher: Witty Kiwi, Italy, copyright 2017 Text: Spanish & English Essay: Carmen Dalmau Stiff cover, die-cut with French folds, sewn and glued binding, four-color off-set, printed by Artes Graficias Palermo (Spain) Photobook designer: Brenda Moreno & Paolo Berra Notes: Brenda Moreno’s photobook B to B... Continue Reading →

Giles Duley – One Second of Light

Photographer:  Giles Duley (born and resides in London, UK) Publisher:  Benway Publishing / EMERGENCY UK, London, © 2015 Essays:  Gino Strada, A.L. Kennedy, Melissa Fleming, Giles Duley; conversation with Giles Duley and Roger Tatley Text:  English Cloth-bound sewn hardcover; 172 pages, not numbered; four-color lithography, 117 images, numbered, captioned and with expanded background stories; list... Continue Reading →

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