The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Mariken Wessels 2010 courtesy Alauda Publications In 2008 Mariken Wessels self-published her small print edition photobook Elisabeth - I want to eat. This book then went on to win the Silver Medal For Books at the 2009 FotoFrafia, The Festival Internazionale di Roma. Last year, Esther Krop and Alauda Publications re-issued Elisabeth - I want to eat, which is the book that I am discussing... Continue Reading →
Copyright Darius Himes & Mary Virginia Swanson 2011 courtesy Princeton Architectural Press I had started to acquire the quarterly photo-eye Booklist (no longer in publication) founded and edited by Darius Himes after he and Mary Virginia Swanson were already well into their series of articles regarding the ins and outs of publishing a photobook. The back articles were... Continue Reading →
Copyright Camille Hervouet 2010 courtesy Poursuite Editions What does happen when you go home again? There are usually the lingering memories of youth, but how do these memories mesh with the realities of the present day? In Geographie Intime (English translation: Intimate Geography), Camille Hervouet, who now lives in Nantes, returns to explore and investigate the geography of... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2010 Valeria Cherchi courtesy AAlphabet Libri Valeria Cherchi is providing a short and relatively dark narrative about a house that is inhabited by two individuals who do not appear to be connecting with each other. Her two subjects for this photobook are a young man and a young woman and the building tension between... Continue Reading →
Copyright Todd Hido, Marianne Mueller, Alec Soth, Abner Nolan 2008 (2009) courtesy TBW Books and photo-eye TBW Books is providing selected photographers with a unifying theme for an annual publication of four books co-published as a set. For the Subscription Series #2, the four photographic artists, Marianne Mueller, Noon, Todd Hido, Ohio, Alec Soth, Sheep, and... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laurent Chardon 2010 Courtesy Les éditions Poursuite Laurent Chardon stated that as young man he was fascinated by the photographs of Mongolia and in the winter of 2002, he had an opportunity to investigate the memories of his youth, as well as the current culture. It may not have been the experience that he had... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrej Krementschouk 2009 courtesy Kehrer Verlag In the Thomas Wolfe book, aptly titled You Can’t Go Home Again, in which the title comes from the finale of the novel when protagonist George Webber realizes, "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's... Continue Reading →
Coyright Vicki Topaz 2009 courtesy Kehrer Verlag In his foreword to William Wylie’s photobook Route 36, the poet and essayist Merrill Gilfillan states, “It seems continually necessary to reassert that landscape study and its reflective arts are anything but passive disciplines, that civilization in a sustaining, daily sense emerges most surely from good relations with one’s surroundings... Continue Reading →
Copyright Lucy Hilmer 2010 courtesy of the artist Over a period of twenty one years, Lucy Hilmer in partnership with her husband, daughter and many long stem roses, created a series of black and white photographs. These photographs were subsequently printed as postcards and mailed to family and friends to celebrate Valentines Day, an American holiday of love and... Continue Reading →
Copyright Henry Horenstein 2010 - courtesy Pond Press Henry Horenstein is investigating the many small clubs and theaters that recently have become known as places for the performance of neo-burlesque for his latest photobook titled Show. In the United States the neo-burlesque’ roots dates back to the period of vaudeville, when the multi-act format performances were... Continue Reading →
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