The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographs copyright Bruce Haley 2010 published by Edizioni Charta in conjunction with Daylight Community Arts Foundation From 1994 to 2002 Bruce Haley embarked on “a far reaching (photographic) journey through numerous former USSR and Iron Country countries”, investigating a transitional point of time encompassing post-communism and post-war. This body of photographic resulted in Haley’s gritty and... Continue Reading →
Supplement to Aperture magazine - issue 002, Spring 2012 Hear all about it! Get your Photobook News here!! Okay, a “newspaper” that is published only twice per year is not exactly something that provides the hot, hot, hot daily news one might expect or want. But then again, the evolution of the photobook industry is... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2011 Sarah Hobbs published by Edizioni Charta Oh My Gosh, do the photographs of Sarah Hobbs find an emotional home. I am immediately reminded of the domestic chaos and angst investigated by Julia Blackmon’s “Domestic Vacations”. Whereas Blackmon created her tableaux with her friends and family as subject, Hobbs methodology is devoid of any individuals,... Continue Reading →
Copyright James H. Evans 2010 University of Texas Press In photography, there are those who go wide and others go deep. James Evans is a photographer who has gone very deep into a region of Texas known as the Big Bend and found this place to be his muse of which he has courted for over twenty years. This is... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright William Wylie 2010 published by Flood Editions I recently drove the Interstate 70 in the summer from Denver, CO to Kansas City, MO passing through Salina, Hays and Colby, Kansas, a route which runs a similar East-West pathway 30 miles South of Route 36. I recall a lot more rolling empty prairie than that... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2011 Ken Schles, published by Stichting Aurora Borealis The recent trend in photobooks seems to lean towards minimalism; all photographs without supporting text or captions. Ken Schles recent book Oculus is a refreshing change and his supporting essays are as interesting and challenging as are his photographs. As Schles states, “Oculus started with... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2012 Arthur Tress & published by Fine Arts Museumof San Francisco & Prestel Books This catalogue was published concurrent with the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco exhibition of Arthur Tress photographs, taking place March to June 2012. This body of work photographed in 1964 and re-discovered in 2009. Tress acknowledges that there... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Lukas Felzmann 2011 published by Lars Muller Publishers When first reading Lukas Felzmann’s recent photobook “Swarm”, my immediate recollection was a similar visual experience while in Rome. As the afternoon approached dusk, dense flocks of birds continue to create the most mesmerizing patterns overhead. From a distance, it appears as though there was an undulating plume... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Yaniv Waissa 2012, self published Yaniv Waissa has chosen to investigate a difficult memory that still seems to haunt the people of Israel; the Holocaust. He does not find it necessary to evoke large dramatic and dark vestiges of the places where past horrors occurred. His photographs are a glimpse here and a slight glance over... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright Rafal Milach 2011 courtesy of Kehrer Books The seven short stories attempt to provide a collective insight into his subject's existence in this region of the Soviet Union, with a heavy dose of reality clashing with hope. Accompanying each narrative are quotes by his subject to broaden the visual context. I found the pathos to be unrelenting and that it darkly... Continue Reading →
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