The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
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 →
While I was developing my review of Linda Connor's Odssey, I was contacted by Ben Zlotkin who founded Edition One Books and who by chance had been a student of Linda Connor. Subsequent conversations with Ben and Linda then segwayed to an introduction to Anne Veh, the photographic curator at Cavallo Point, a resort lodge across the Golden Gate... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Jerry Burchfield 2009 courtesy of Laguna Wilderness Press Jerry Burchfield’s recent (2009) photobook Understory: Florida Lumen Prints, is his sequal to his 2004 photobook Primal Images, both of which utilize his camera-less photographic process to create his unique Lumen prints. The subject of this book has shifted from the plants and flora of... Continue Reading →
Copyright Dan Nelken, 2008, courtesy Kehrer Verlag Dan Nelken’s Till the Cows Come Home, is a culmination of nine years photographing county fairs in the rural NorthEast region of the United States. His project evolved into creating moving portraits of the farming participants, especially the youth and the animals that they raised. Not shown are... Continue Reading →
Copyright Debra Bloomfield, 2008 courtesy Chronicle Books The subject of Debra Bloomfields latest book, Still, published in 2008 by Chronicle Books, is a series of oceanscapes; composed of part ocean and part sky with a horizon somewhere in between. Which is also to say that she treads softly on the edge of sentimentality and cliché.... Continue Reading →
I am getting caught up on other book publishing news and I want to pass along two recent international book awards. The Europena Publishers Award went to Klavdij Sluban, a French photographer, and the Award guarantees that his project 'East to East' will now be published in book form. So we look forward to seeing it probably sometime... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of David Maisel courtesy of Chronicle Books As a designer, principally developing sterile barrier systems for medical products, it was jarring for me to see David Maisel’s photographs from his recent book, Library of Dust. Seeing containers in these deplorable conditions is the stuff of nightmares for me. So I see his photographic content in a... Continue Reading →
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