The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Frances F. Denny (born San Francisco, CA; resides Brooklyn, NY) Publisher: Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, © 2015 Essay: Lisa Locascio Text: English Cloth-bound sewn hardcover, protective transparent acetate dust cover; 108 pages, color lithography; 36 9x9 inch images, a composite sepia leporello fold-out, and the reproduction of a sampler; 10x10.5 inches, printed in... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Cig Harvey Photographer: Cig Harvey (born Devon, UK, resides Rockport, Maine, USA) Publisher: Schilt Publishing, (The Netherlands) Essays: Cig Harvey, Vicki Goldberg Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Deb Wood (Brooklyn, NY) Notes: Gardening at Night is an exploration of home, family, nature, and time. He narrative investigates settling into one’s... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laia Abril 2014 Published by Dewi Lewis Laia Abril (b. 1986 Barcelona, Spain, currently resides in NYC and Barcelona) continues to develop narratives that probe identity issues for women. In The Epilogue, she expands on her earlier photographic project Thinspiration, a self-published zine investigating a pro-anorexia community, essentially women and girls, with obsessive eating disorders... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Phelps 2013 published by Kehrer Verlag Andrew Phelps (b. 1967, Mesa, AZ & residing in Austria since 1991) returns infrequently to the place of his birth, the arid and desert communities surrounding the regions of Mesa and Phoenix in the American Southwest. His childhood home is resplendent with past memories and with a... Continue Reading →
Copyright Sarah Malakoff 2013 published by CHARTA Sarah Malakoff (b. 1972 Wellesley, MA and resides in Boston, MA) chose to photograph a subject that she knows well, the interior living spaces found in the greater Boston area where she was born and raised. Her pensive photographs are characterized by a warmth and intimacy. These are... Continue Reading →
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 →
Copyright 2009 Emmet Gowin, Steidl First Edition I first have to admit that I did not acquire this Emmet Gowin Steidl edition book until 2011 while I was attending the Gowin exhibition at Le BAL (Paris, FR). I had been aware of this book and a number of the now iconic Gowin photographs that are... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 Laia Abril self-published First be warned, this is a troubling, if not disturbing, photobook. As such, it is a photo-documentary of a community of mostly young women who appear to obsessively starving themselves to death. In a bazaar twist on social networking, these women post and share self-portraits of their current anorexia state... Continue Reading →
Time Out, 2005 copyright of Julie Blackmon, courtesy Radius Books At first glance, Blackmon's photographs are super real observations of a large knit family on the edge of total chaos and about to go out of control. In others words real life with families and real children. Whether her photographs really are direct observations or a constructed reality they connect with the... Continue Reading →
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