The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
William Eggleston, Paris, copyright 2009 courtesy Steidl, http://www.steidl.com William Eggleston’s recent book Paris, published by Steidl and commissioned by Foundation Cartier, is a collective body of work that comprises his oeuvre of color drawings and recent Paris photographs. Similar to Ben Shahn, Charles Scheeler, Diego Rivera, Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha, Eggleston has... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale * A pilgrimage is a journey made by individuals to either a special place that has moral significance or a holy place. I think of the photo documentation of scared sites by Linda Connor in her photobook Odyssey, with its emphasis on the sacred sites, for which the Odyssey was a destination... Continue Reading →
The Regulars copyright Sarah Stolfa 2009, courtesy of Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing When the subject of “regulars” comes up, I think of folks who visit a given place in a habitual way. After reading Sarah Stolfa’s photobook The Regulars, perhaps the immediate context is of a favorite club, tavern or bar. That probably arises from... Continue Reading →
Copyright of Linda Connors 2008 courtesy Chronicle Books I just acquired the September issue of B&W magazine, mostly on the basis of them featuring the Linda Connor's photobook Odyssey, published last year by Chronicle Books, which I reviewed earlier this year. And perhaps I was very interested in reading Stephen Vincent's review of her work. Because... Continue Reading →
Copyright Mark Klett 2008 courtesy of Cavallo Point Lodge & Edition One Books Time is such an elusive element, and for photographers, it is also an essential component for creating a photograph. As a result, the relevance of time to photography has been written about by John Berger, John Szarkowski, Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Andy... Continue Reading →
Copyright Chris Jordan, 2006 courtesy Princeton Architectual Press Artist’s have long realized that they could use their creative efforts in an attempt to influence public opinions and policies that are aligned with their environmental and social concerns. Jacob Riis photographically documented the New York slums in the 1880’s dates, Thomas Moran applied his paint in... Continue Reading →
ParisChanging: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris by Christopher Rauschenberg for Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 A photobook that is almost 50% composed of photographs by Eugene Atgetis going to be difficult for me to objectively review. I have to admit that I have a relatively strong bias about Atget, because I like his straight forward photographic content... Continue Reading →
Copyright Debbie Fleming Caffery 2009, courtesy Radius Books The dark and shadowy lead-in photograph for Debbie Flemming Caffery’s photobook, The Spirit & The Flesh, provides adequate notice that this is not going to be a straight forward documentary. Caffery creates mysterious photographs about the life and economic survival in a small Mexican village. As a... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright J Bennett Fitts courtesy Kopeikin Gallery Recently I acquired the two latest exhibition catalogs for J. Bennett Fitts from his exhibitions at the Kopeikin Gallery. The earlier catalog was "no lifeguard on duty", exhibited/published in 2006 and "Industrial Landscap[ing]" which was exhibited and concurrently published earlier this year (2009). Fitts landscape photographs seem to... Continue Reading →
Copyright Eugene Richards, 2008, courtesy PHAIDON Press After reading Eugene Richards recent photobook The Blue Room, I found myself thinking about the book’s title, perhaps more so than other books that I have recently reviewed. I think that I have two interpretations of his title, which are complementary and indicative of this body of work.... Continue Reading →
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