The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographs copyright Pierre Bessard 2007 published by TimeZone 8 China’s spectacular industrial growth has also created a massive need for industrial infrastructure; a key consumable commodity is their electrical power grid. Pierre Bessard was invited to photograph the industrial workers who toil away at producing some of the largest hydro-eclectic equipment in the world that... Continue Reading →
Copyright Darin Mickey copyright 2007 published by J & L Books The concept behind Darin Mickey’s photobook is relatively straightforward, in 2001 he began following his father around, documenting his life at work and at home. This photobook has developed into a desire by the photographer to understand what his father did as a salesman... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andreas Oetker-Kast 2008 self-published Andreas Oetker-Kast embarked on what I think is a difficult journey, even thought he did not have to venture too far to find his subject, to try to investigate the essence of those who work as found within the boundaries of their workplace. In doing so, he was granted access... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright of photographers and publishers FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma XI Edition: Work The theme of Work for XI FotoGrafia di Roma is complex and multi-faceted subject, which I attempted to broadly explore in my selection of contemporary PhotoBooks for this exhibition. This theme is also ambiguous and illusive, which can be as much about one does... Continue Reading →
Copyright Rob Hornstra 2011 self-published Rob Hornosta, in the third of a series of photobooks, investigates a region that will soon be the site the 2014 summer Olympics. It is an attempt to document a region that is and that might soon be what was with the anticipated and pending changes to accommodate the Olympics. In this... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Melissa Shook 2012 published by Kat Ran Press and Pressed Wafer Press Melissa Shook is investigating the back story of the stables and the workings of a horse-race track, Suffolk Downs, located in Massachusetts. She has been photographing at this small track for an extensive period when her access to the track’s operations... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Clayton Cotterell 2012 published by Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books This photobook is a mashed up narrative that intertwines the lives and family of two brothers, one brother is the subject, the unarmed solider, while the other is the unseen brother, who is the photographer. In this photobook, Clayton Cotterell provides a series of... Continue Reading →
Copyright Thijs Heslenfeld published by Oost West Thijs Best Heslenfeld appears to have traveled the global in search of men who are performing some unique work, or happen across a subject while in search of another. In reading Thijs Heslenfeld’s introduction to his fourth photobook “Man at Work”, he raises a rhetorical question: “The question... Continue Reading →
Copyright Silvia Camporesi 2011 published by Trolley Books To say the least, Venice is a daunting subject for a photographic project, as are the over photographed venues of New York City, Paris, Rome and San Francisco. This Italian city is a virtual cliché of photographic images. Silvia Camporesi is choosing to travel a different route employing... Continue Reading →
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 →
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