The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Hans Hickerson • In Maria Elisa Ferraris’ Aqua we witness the wild, terrible, awesome, raw, relentless power of water. In 34 spectacular photographs it rises, falls, lifts, pushes, pounds, churns, heaves, hammers, roils, boils, breaks, surges, slams, crashes, smashes, thunders, roars, and rages. It comes at you and doesn’t stop. The images in... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian F. O’Neill • Ed Panar’s January 2024 release Winter Nights, Walking, has arrived after much anticipation. I originally became aware of Panar’s work with the 2018 release of In the Vicinity (published with Deadbeat Club), a book that depicted indirect aspects of the marijuana market in the so-called Emerald Triangle of California... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale · When Alfred Stieglitz began his Equivalents series in the early 1920’s, that while looking up into the clouds he attempted to describe more than the visible surface of objects. It was his attempt to express pure emotion, to reveal a parallel universe to his own inner state, and that his photographs could assume... Continue Reading →
Review by Rudy Vega • The first photograph in Nicholas Pollack's book, Meadow, is captioned “Empty lot, Kearny, New Jersey, 2017.” Although it displays an ostensibly vacant lot devoid of people or cars, it brims with subtle content. This photograph serves as a fitting prelude to Pollack’s overarching theme: there’s always more than meets the... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • This retrospective publication of Paul Caponigro is not meant to be in anyway inclusive of Caponigro’s entire body of work to date. This beautiful book encompasses some of his most wonderful, if not iconic, visual poems. Many of these same Caponigro’s photographs are what initially enticed me to consider the potential... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Emily White utilizes large format photographic equipment in conjunction with alternative photographic technics to investigate an urban and its bordering natural landscapes. There is an undercurrent of mystery, as though something is being haunted, in the dark moody body of work that White exhibited in her first solo show with Candela... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian O’Neill • There is a QR code at the end of several additional texts that come inserted with this book that takes you into the Amazon rainforest, roughly 70% of which is within the territorial boundaries of the nation-state we call Brazil. Those sounds are at once familiar to me – the buzzing activity... Continue Reading →
Review by Paul Anderson • Would you like to take a photographic tour of the martian landscape? A tour taken via fine-art photographs that were once scientific images? Nicolai Howalt has curated such a tour using a set of robotic rover images taken from four National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions to Mars. The... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Who has not flown over America’s Great Plains witnessing the immense circular patterns created by the farmers and wondered if these were the inspiration for the abstract artists of the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s and the Color Field paintings of the 1960s? For me, these aerial perspectives recall the abstract... Continue Reading →
Review by Wayne Swanson • At first glance, Impermanence seems an unlikely title for a monograph honoring the 50-year career of a master photographer and platinum printer whose work has stood the test of time. And quite a substantial book it is, weighing in at more than seven pounds and featuring 220 quadtone images lusciously reproduced on 12... Continue Reading →
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