The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
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 Klaus Pichler 2013 self-published Over a period of years Klaus Pichler roamed the backrooms, hallways and storage lockers of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. He has created a series of absurd and humorous juxtapositions of found objects as well as those which border on haunting and the surreal. Through serendipity, he observed... Continue Reading →
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
Copyright 2012 the photographer, Manca Juvan published by Sanje Publishing In the United States, the nation of Afghanistan has come to symbolize a weary drawn out war with nightly TV combat clips of the destruction and an endless roll call of the latest military casualties. I think we have become emotionally deaden to the human suffering... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Throughout his photographic career, Bill Brandt (Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, b. 1904 Hamburg, Germany – 1983) continued to explore the poetry of the nude form. Brandt had assisted Man Ray in his Paris studio in the 1930’s when Brandt started to think of using a nude subject to investigate the unique perspective... 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 →
Copyright 1986, 2010 Renee Jacobs published by The Pennsylvania State University Press (Stiff cover) Limited Edition hard cover book with print (Sonny Mekosh) Renee Jacobs first photobook is subtitled A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania and investigates a city and region of Pennsylvania that is slowly being eroded away by an underground coal fire that... Continue Reading →
Copyright Chris Killip 2011 published by Steidl and GwinZegal During an intermittent period of fourteen months spanning 1983 and 1984 Chris Killip photographed a small hardworking but tight-knit community located on the Northeastern coast of the United Kingdom. His subjects are the families and individuals who were making their living collecting and selling the coal found... Continue Reading →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2011 Warning Notice: this is a self-serving personal shout-out about the availability of my book in a Limited Edition Book + Photograph set. You may find yourself spending a small amount of loot while yet making a wonderful investment so be warned before proceeding any further!! I recently published two small versions of a Limited Edition Book +... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • I think that the concept for this book is best stated by Benge: These photographs follow my recent four part series AS IT IS? Here I continue to question the nature and substance of the things I see and the idea of ITness itself. Copyright Harvey Benge 2011 courtesy of the... Continue Reading →
