The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
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, 2014, the various photographer, writers and published by Daylight Books It is April and the American baseball season is now in full swing, to savor the pun. I had obtained this photobook shortly after it was published in the Fall of last year, right smack in the middle of the American Football season, not exactly... Continue Reading →
Copyright Carolyn Drake 2014, self-published This photobook by Carolyn Drake (b. 1971 Los Angeles, CA and currently resides in Mississippi) incorporates an allegory story of the same name, Wild Pigeon, written by Nurmuhemmet Yasin who is a Uyghur author. The Yasin story narrates the Uyghur experience in this remote region of Western China (XinJiang Uyghur... Continue Reading →
Copyright Kate Nolan 2014, self-published Neither is a three year project by Kate Nolan (b. 1979 Dublin, Ireland, where she currently resides) that takes place in Kalingrad, formerly called Königsberg (German), a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. This place was... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laura Curran, 2014 self published/After Image Publishing From the moment that I first saw the photographs from Laura Curran’s photobook Lots of Cake!, her project resonated with me. The project was made all the more delightful in the layout and design of this photobook object. Curran uses a documentary style to investigate her family,... Continue Reading →
Published by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contermporain with Museo Amparo, copyright the artist, 2013 & distributed by Thames & Hudson Last year an exhibition catalog, America Latina Photographs - 1960 – 2013, was published jointly by the two exhibiting museums, one in Paris and the other in Mexico for the exhibitions subsequently occurring in 2014.... 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 Henri Cartier-Bresson & Magnum Photos, published by Thames & Hudson 2014, first English edition This is a thick and dense retrospective that devils deep into the details behind the well-known French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (b. August 22, 1908, Chanteloup-en-Brie, FR , d. August 3, 2004, Montjustin, FR). Although this monograph is... Continue Reading →
Copyright Amit Desai 2012 published by Stephen Cheng, Hong KongAmerica Sutra is an amazingly complex and layered artist book created by Amit Desai (b. 1977, Brahmin and resides in India) while he was in transit between one American seaboard and then back again, as well as its Southern border and eventually up to the Northern... Continue Reading →
Copyright the photographers 2014 published by LensWork Publishing Brooks Jensen is the Editor and Publisher of the LensWork journal and almost exclusively is focusing on Black and White photography. The bi-monthly journal is released concurrently in a print edition and a DVD that contains additional portfolios and audio interviews of the artist by Jensen. Jensen... Continue Reading →
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