Tag: Book Reviews

Dragana Jursic – YU The Lost Country

Copyright 2014 Dragana Jursic Photographer: Dragana Jursic (b. Yugoslavia, resides Ireland) Publisher:  Oonagh Young gallery Essay: Dragana Jursic Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, with captions (Rebecca West/Dragana Jurisic), printed in Luxembourg Photobook designer: Oonagh Young Notes: Jursic documents her journey, retracing the steps of Rebecca West's 1937 novel Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, through what... Continue Reading →

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Lori Vrba – The Moth Wing Diaries

Copyright 2015 Lori Vrba Photographer: Lori Vrba (born Texas, resides North Carolina (USA)) Publisher: Daylight Books Essay: Del Zogg Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, Index of Plates, four-color lithography, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: Ursula Damm Notes: A delightful book filled with dreamlike black & white toned photographs that investigate memory and identify. (Extracted from... Continue Reading →

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Mary Ellen Mark – Man and Beast

Copyright 2014 the estate of Mary Ellen Mark Photographer: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 - 2015) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin (TX) Essays: Melissa Harris Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: Mary Ellen Mark & Ellen McKie Notes: A photo project that the... Continue Reading →

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Kenny Braun – Surf Texas

Copyright 2014 Kenny Braun Photographer: Kenny Braun (born & resides TX, USA) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX Essays: Stephen Harrigan Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, lithographic printing, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: DJ Stout & Barret Fry Notes: Braun’s lyrical black and white photographs investigate the excitement... Continue Reading →

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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin – Scarti

Copyright 2013 Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Photographers: Adam Broomberg (born South Africa) & Oliver Chanarin (born UK) both reside in UK Concept: Gigi Giannuzzi (d. December 2012), publisher Trolley Books Published & copyright: 2013 Publisher: Trolley Books (UK) Text: English Hardcover book with tipped in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Italy Photobook designer: Fernando Gutierrez... Continue Reading →

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A change in my photobook commentaries

Photograph copyright Dragana Jursic 2015 (YU The Lost Country) I have been contemplating some changes to this blog for a while now, due to a combination of factors. First is the large quantity of photobooks that are being published at an almost dizzying rate since I started this blog in 2008. Second is the growing quantity... Continue Reading →

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Bull City Summer

copyright, 2014, the various photographer, writers and published by Daylight Books It is April and the American baseball season is now in full swing, to savor the pun. I had obtained this photobook shortly after it was published in the Fall of last year, right smack in the middle of the American Football season, not exactly... Continue Reading →

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Carolyn Drake – Wild Pigeon

Copyright Carolyn Drake 2014, self-published This photobook by Carolyn Drake (b. 1971 Los Angeles, CA and currently resides in Mississippi) incorporates an allegory story of the same name, Wild Pigeon, written by Nurmuhemmet Yasin who is a Uyghur author. The Yasin story narrates the Uyghur experience in this remote region of Western China (XinJiang Uyghur... Continue Reading →

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Kate Nolan – Neither

Copyright Kate Nolan 2014, self-published Neither is a three year project by Kate Nolan (b. 1979 Dublin, Ireland, where she currently resides) that takes place in Kalingrad, formerly called Königsberg (German), a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. This place was... Continue Reading →

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