The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright 2014 Ken Schles Photographer: Ken Schles (born & resides in Brooklyn, NY) Publisher: Steidl (Germany) Excerpts: Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorges Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Jean Baudrillard Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Ken Schles and Jack Woody Notes: This is a new Steidl version of Schles photobook... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2015 Alejandro Cartagena Photographer: Alejandro Cartagena (born Dominican Republic, resides Mexico) Publisher: Self-published (Mexico) Text: English & Spanish Multiple components, variable sizes, unbound in a heavy printed board folder, black & white lithography (newsprint), printed in Mexico Photobook designer: Alejandro Cartagena & Fernando Gallegos Notes: For Cartagena, “in 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in México.... Continue Reading →
Rachael Jablo Copyright 2013 Photographer: Rachael Jablo (born USA resides in Berlin, Germany) Publisher: Kehrer Heilderberg Berlin Verlag (Germany) Essays: Robert Wuilfe and Dawn Buse Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, List of Plates (photographs), printed in Germany Photobook designer: Katharina Stumpf Notes: An introspective study about Jablo's own personal medical condition and... Continue Reading →
Martin Toft Copyright 2015 Photographer: Martin Toft (born Denmark & resides in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK) Photographic Archivist: Gareth Syvret (resides in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK) Publisher: Self-published in conjunction with Societe Jersiaise Essays: Gareth Syvret Text: English Collection of Five (5) softcover zines (Atlantus, Portraits, Precious Galinthia, The Atlantic World, The Transoceanic Journey), unbound, four-color Flexographic... 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 →
Copyright 2015 Goran Bertok Photographer: Goran Bertok (born and resides in Slovenia) Publisher: The Angry Bat (Slovenia) Interview: Andraz Gombac Text: English (insert) Two stiffcover books in a stiffcover folder, self-bound Japanese binding, four-color lithography, printed in Slovenia Photobook designer: Matej Sitar Notes: Bertok investigates a very dark subject; death. Thus he is also tapping into man’s darkest fears... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2009 Max Pam Photographer: Max Pam (born Melbourne, resides in Australia) Publisher: T&G Publishing, Sydney, Australia Essays: Max Pam, Stephen Muecke Text: English (primarily) Hardcover book with dust jacket with one fold-out, sewn binding, four-color lithography, Index of Plates, printed & bound in Taiwan Photobook designer: Gianni Frinzi Notes: This photobook is a compilation of eight... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 the estate of Mary Ellen Mark Photographer: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 - 2015) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin (TX) Essays: Melissa Harris Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: Mary Ellen Mark & Ellen McKie Notes: A photo project that the... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Kenny Braun Photographer: Kenny Braun (born & resides TX, USA) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX Essays: Stephen Harrigan Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, lithographic printing, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: DJ Stout & Barret Fry Notes: Braun’s lyrical black and white photographs investigate the excitement... Continue Reading →
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