The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright 2015 Lukas Felzmann Photographer: Lukas Felzmann (born Zurich, CH, resides SF, CA, USA) Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers (Switzerland) Essays: Lukas Felzmann, Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed and bound by Kosel in Germany Photobook designer: Lukas Felzmann & Integral Lars Muller Notes: Much like his scientific subject, Felzmann provides a well organized investigation of a... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Guilherme Gerais Photographer: Guilherme Gerais (born & resides Londrina, Brazil) Illustrations: Arthur Durate Publisher: Self-published, Avalanche Without captions, essay or pagination Text: English & Portuguese Hardcover book with sewn binding and an integral stiff cover book that is saddle stich & glued inside back cover, with poster, four-color lithography, printed in Brazil (Midiograf) Photobook designer: Guilherme... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Diane Vincent Photographer: Diane Vincent (born East Germany, resides Berlin, Germany) Self-Published: Germany Without pagination, captions or essay Text: English (title is German, English translation: Over) Stiff-cover book, printed dust-cover with hand sewn binding, black and white lithography, printed in Germany (Bookfactory, Bad Munder) Editing: Diane Vincent and Paul Gaffney Photobook designer: Diane Vincent Notes: Diane’s unusual... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Catherine Leutenegger Photographer: Catherine Leutenegger (born & resides in Switzerland) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) Essays: Catherine Leutenegger, A.D. Coleman, Joerg Bader, and Urs Stahel Text: English & French Hardcover book with printed paper belly-band, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Chris Gautschi Notes: In this documentary style investigation of a US city that has... Continue Reading →
by Douglas Stockdale A beautifully printed retrospective monograph, which also functions as an exhibition catalog of a modern photographer who was a creative photographic innovator, poet, teacher and one of the co-founders as well as the first editor of Aperture magazine. Known for his spirituality and equivalence inspired photographs. This extensive and well-illustrated monograph contains... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Andreas Oekter-Kast, Published by bt:st Verlag This photobook is photographed in a documentary style and could be considered a quintessential American Road-Trip, perhaps without the same amount of angst as found in Robert Frank’s The Americans. Both Frank and Andreas Oekter-Kast (Born 1964, Baden-Baden, Germany, currently lives in Kiel, Germany) are Europeans who... Continue Reading →
Copyright the various photographers 2014; Published by Thames & Hudson This photobook is a curatorial discussion of the contemporary practice of landscape photography and perhaps why the practice of Landscape photography matters today. The editor of the book, William A. Ewing, a museum curator and writer about photography, makes the elegant point that the current (and... Continue Reading →
Copyright the estate of Wynn Bullock 2014; published by University of Texas Press, Austin & High Museum of Art, Atlanta In some regards attempting to write about Wynn Bullock (b. Percy Wingfield Bullock, Chicago April 18, 1902, d. Monterey (CA) November 16, 1975) and his photography is a bit difficult for me having followed... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Paul Gaffney investigates a regional passion that is prevalent amongst those of the isles of Great Briton, that of walking. Whereas the leisure walks or foot journeys in the isles are usually of a short duration, Gaffney expanded the scope and range of his visual walking quest to 3,500 kilometers... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2012 Meme Bartels published by Sequence Publishers (Amsterdam) When I received Meme Bartels first publication, mononchrome, it was difficult to sort out, is this presentation a book, a collection of booklets & bits or as Bartels has stated; an exhibition in a box? Each component of this collection is intended to provide a unique... Continue Reading →
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