The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Today is 2025 World Cyanotype Day and I am very honored to share this biographical book review of Anna Atkins (Anna Children, 1799 – 1871) now known as the first person to publish a photographically illustrated book in 1843. She is also a historical enigma. It is purported that if it was... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale · During the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic with the immediate requirement to shelter in place many of us were probably wondering what we were to do, when is this going to end, how am I going to be impacted this, on and on and on. Many, like Amy Elkins, were... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • In these pandemic times we are certainly being reminded that things we cannot see, such as viruses, can hurt us badly, and that our human tendency to ignore dangers we cannot visually ascertain can lead us astray. So it is with atomic energy and its flip-side, nuclear waste, some of... Continue Reading →
Review by Wayne Swanson • Earlier this year, we lost a photographic artist with a truly unique vision when Paula Riff succumbed to cancer. Yet this diminutive Los Angeles artist with an outsized personality left us with a beautiful gift, finished just months before her death. Paula Riff: works on paper, like the artist herself, is... Continue Reading →
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