Welcome to our 39th Issue • We again greet the summer with a selection of photobooks for you to consider for your holidays and vacations plans. We are also delighted to provide six photobooks supporting Ann Mitchell's latest Thinking About Photographyshowcase, Place. Concurrently we are aghast and severely disappointed with many of the recent American Supreme Court decisions that are being handed down by a super-majority of ultra-conservative justices. On... Continue Reading →
PhotoBook Journal – Issue #17
Welcome to our 17th Issue •Regretfully in the United States we still need to deal with the Administration's mis-management of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result this continuing pandemic has ravaged and impacted art schools, publishers, book-printers, artist & photographers, book-stores, galleries, big and small, and in many ways impacted just about every-one in between.This month we offer a broad range of... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Middle Ground / En Medio Tierra
Review by Gerhard Clausing • This innovative artist book by Douglas Stockdale brings to mind the parable “Before the Law” by Franz Kafka, in which a man is confronted by what seems to be an overwhelming obstacle and fails to overcome it, even though he could have, as we who are the readers readily understand.... Continue Reading →
Pre-order: Douglas Stockdale – Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra
Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra (book dummy) 2018 Douglas Stockdale As I just announced on my personal photo-blog Singular Images, I am very excited to accept pre-orders for my artist book Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra! Which is one of the reasons that I have not been providing book reviews for the past couple of weeks. The other wonderful reason... Continue Reading →
Photobook Day March 17 With Douglas Stockdale & Special Guests – LACP Open House (March 16-18, 2018)
Photo courtesy of Douglas Stockdale, Founder/Editor of The PhotoBook Journal Join LACP for our Sixth Annual Spring Open House Featuring workshops, panel discussions, portfolio & photo book walk, raffle prizes, vendors, food, drink and much more!! March 16th - 18th, 10 am – 5 pm On Friday, March 16, 10 am – 5 pm, bring your... Continue Reading →
Interesting Photobooks of 2017 (plus a few from 2016)
Interesting Photobooks of 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale As in years past, we have been providing a short list of photobooks we have found interesting, whether it was the photographic content, concept of the project, the book’s design or production qualities; and most interesting when it was a delightful combination of all of these book elements.... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book
Author and Principal Photographer: Douglas Stockdale (born Butler, PA; resides Rancho Santa Margarita, CA) Publisher: Self-published; first edition, first printing of 400; copyright © 2017 Text: English Stiff-cover saddle-stitched book of 40 numbered pages with 14 images on several types of paper; 7.5x9 inches; full-color digital lithography, printed by Dual Graphics, Brea, California; $19.95 plus shipping... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Bluewater Shore
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 →
Douglas Stockdale – Pine Lake
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published Limited Edition Artist Book I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand-made artist book Pine Lake. Thus post is not intended to be a book review, as I need to let others provide more objective assessments. This is just a blatant self promotion. Pine Lake... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – In Passing
Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2008, self published. This aftermath project explores my on-going series; memory and its preservation. Hardcover book with dust jacket, one photograph plate per page spread with captions on the facing page. This book is out of print and now sold out. Best regards