The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Artist: Alice Q. Hargrave (born & resides Chicago, IL) Publisher: Daylight Books (North Carolina, USA) copyright 2016 Interview: Alice Hargrave & Kendra Paitz, Essay by Allison Grant Text: English Hardcover with sewn binding, four-color lithography, index, printed by Ofset Yapimevi (Turkey) Photobook designer: Ursula Damm Notes: I have found Alice Hargrave’s photobook Paradise Wavering to be complex,... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Cheryl Dunn (born in Old Tappan, NJ; resides in New York City, NY) Publisher: Deadbeat Club Press, Los Angeles, CA; © 2017 Stiff cover, saddle-stitched; 52 unnumbered pages with 43 black-and-white and color images; digital offset printing, 6x9 inches, edition of 300. (Deadbeat Club #53) Notes: For all those who are wondering what the... Continue Reading →
Photographer: David Kregenow (born and resides in Berlin, Germany) Publisher: The Unknown Books, Sintra, Portugal, © 2015 Essay: Preface by Wim van Sinderen Text: English Stiff cover, HP Indigo printing, perfect-bound, 21x14.8 cm; 48 unnumbered pages, 21 black and white photographs; edition of 110 Notes: Excellent portraits of photographers are rare indeed. We often see... Continue Reading →
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 →
Photographer: Barbara Peacock (b. Waltham, MA – resides Portland, ME) Publisher: Bazan Photo Publishing (Brooklyn, NY) copyright 2016 Essays: Barbara Peacock, Ernesto Bazan Text: English Embossed linen hardcover with tipped in photograph, sewn binding, four-color lithography, list of photographs, printed by Puritan Capital (New Hampshire) Photobook designer: Kevin Sweeney Notes: Barbara Peacock documented her own hometown of 30... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Roger Ballen (born in New York City, NY; resides in Johannesburg, South Africa) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London; © 2016 Essays: Preface by Roger Ballen; introduction by Colin Rhodes Text: English Hardcover with dust jacket, sewn binding; 192 numbered pages; 90 monochrome captioned photographs; printed in China; 17.5x25 cm Notes: On April 22,... Continue Reading →
David Gardner & Ansel Adams (date unknown) copyright Dual Graphics This is one in a series of on-going articles to help photographers understand a bit more about the design and printing intricacies that eventually leads to a creative book object. I recently had the opportunity to work with the design and printing team at Dual Graphics... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Manca Juvan (b. & resides Ljubljana, Slovenia) Publisher: ZRC Publishing Essays: Manca Juvan, Sasa Petejan, Urska Strle Text: English (Slovene e-book edition is available) Hardcover book with slip-cover, ring binding, four-color lithography, split pages, Fascist internment timeline, printed at optimal media, Germany Photobook designer: Prapesa (Sara Badovinac & Peter Zabret) Notes: The opening photographs are... Continue Reading →
Photo Independent book competition winners, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Your editorial team for The PhotoBook Journal, me and Associate Editor Gerhard Clausing, had a table and an opportunity to meet and discuss photobooks at Photo Independent on the weekend of April 21 - 23rd, 2017. This including some more time with the Photo Independent book competition... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Photobooks that present their images in a loose format, i.e., not permanently bound and sequenced but changeable, are still the exception. One such successful work was David Alan Harvey's 2012 project entitled (based on a true story), dealing with life in Rio, with real and imagined storylines. That innovative volume... Continue Reading →
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