The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright 2014 Young-hwan Choi Photographer: Young-hwan Choi (born & resides in Seoul, South Korea) Self-Published (South Korea) Essays: Young-hwan Choi, Dong-sun Jin, Sang-yong Shim Text: Korean & English Stiffcover book with tipped in image, perfect binding, four-color lithography, printed by Photonet in South Korea Photobook designer: Photonet, South Korea Notes: Choi’s self-published photobook BABEL is a tall, thin collection... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2016 Daniel Alexander & Andrew Haslam Photographer: Daniel Alexander (born Edinburgh, Scotland, resides London, UK) Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) Essay: Daniel Alexander Text: English Hardcover book with embossed cover, inserts, multiple gatefolds, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Italy Photobook designer: Daniel Alexander Notes: Towards the end of World War I in 1917, the United Kingdom made a decision... Continue Reading →
Book review by Douglas Stockdale - Ara Oshagan and his self-published photobook Mirror uses a documentary style to create a predominately black and white diary of the Gor Mkhitarian band but with an unusual twist; he incorporates technology that allows the viewer to scan the appropriate interior pages and link up the related music on... Continue Reading →
LACP Introduction to Photo Book Design, photo Douglas Stockdale The early-bird registration discount of 20% for my Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop that I will be leading next April over two weekends will be ending midnight this Saturday, December 17th. This creative workshop is sponsored by Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP). So if... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2016 Kenneth O’Halloran Photographer: Kenneth O’Halloran (born Corofin, Country Clare, resides Dublin, Ireland) Self-published (Ireland) Essay: Presidential Announcement speech, 2015 Text: English Hardcover book with printed belly-band, sewn binding, four-color lithography, edition of 500, printed by Mirex, Gdansk (Poland) Photobook designer: Mac & Ken Notes: This documentary style project occurred in Los Angles on Hollywood Boulevard in the summer... Continue Reading →
photo-eye Santa Fe NM 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the pleasures of our recent Thanksgiving road trip to Santa Fe was visiting the photo-eye book store. After the first visit, I had to return for a second visit as there were holiday deals to take advantage of. The photo-eye bookstore is pretty unique in... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria published by Edizioni Punctum, now in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Just announced by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University that the Indie Photobook Library (iPL) has been just incorporated into their collection. The collection includes more than 2,000 photobooks from around the world along with related ephemera, archives of the... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Alex Van Gelder (residing Paris, France) Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, © 2015 Essays: Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist: “Ever Louise” / Introduction by Alex Van Gelder Text: English Hardcover book with 112 pages, not numbered; 81 color photographs without captions; sewn binding; cloth cover with dust jacket, printed and bound in... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Yanina Shevchenko Photographer: Yanina Shevchenko (born: Russia – resides: Barcelona, Spain) Publisher: The Velvet Cell (London, Taipei) Essays: Yanina Shevchenko Text: English Stiffcover book, saddle-stitch binding, four-color lithography, printed in Taiwan Photobook designer: Velvet Cell Graphics Notes: In America a “road-trip” in which one wants get up-close and personal with the land is usually by accomplished... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Terry Brown & Gordon Stettinius Photographic collaborators: Terry Brown (resides Richmond, VA) & Gordon Stettinius (resides Richmond, VA) USA Publisher: Candela Books (Richmond, Virginia) Essays: Dr. Manuel Moore, Terry Brown, Gordon Stettinius Text: English Hardcover book, embossed and tipped-in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, index, printed by Worth Higgins & Associates, Richmond, VA Photobook designer: Sarah... Continue Reading →
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