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 →
Lisa Elmaleh – Everglades
Copyright 2016 Lisa Elmaleh Photographer: Lisa Elmaleh (b. Miami, FL & resides in West Virginia, USA) Publisher: Zatara Press Essays: Ann McCary Sullivan & Lisa Elmaleh Text: English Hardcover book with wrap around cover with interior pocket, Smyth-sewn binding, interior booklet saddle stiched, lithography, without captions or pagination, printed in Richmond, VA Photobook designer: Andrew Fedynak and Lisa... Continue Reading →
Rania Matar – L’Enfant-Femme
Copyright 2015 Rania Matar Photographer: Rania Matar (b. Lebanon – resides Boston, MA, USA) Publisher: Damiani (Italy) Essays: Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Louis Lowry, Kristen Gresh Text: English Hardcover book with tipped in photo, sewn binding, four-color lithography, captions and pagination, Plates, printed by Grafiche Damiani in Italy Photobook designer: Jesse Holborn, Design Holborn Notes:... Continue Reading →
Christoph Lingg – By The World Forgot – Portraits of the Indigenous Peoples of Asia
Copyright 2014 Christoph Lingg Photographer: Christoph Lingg (b. Schoppernau – resides Vienna, Austria) Publisher: Editions Aufbruch (Austria) Essays: Christoph Lingg, Diana Vinding Text: English, Deutsch Hardcover book with wood veneer (8 options to choose from), sewn binding, four-color lithography (black and white images), pagination and geographical chapters, Reading List, printed in Czech Republic, covers produced and bound by... Continue Reading →
Susan S. Bank – Piercing the Darkness
Copyright 2016 Susan S. Bank Photographer: Susan S. Bank (b. Portsmouth, NH and resides in both Philadelphia, PA & Portsmouth, NH USA) Publisher: Brilliant Press, Exton (PA) Essays: Susan S. Bank, John T. Hill Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, List of Plates, printed by Brilliant Press in USA Photobook designer: Jesse... Continue Reading →
Mara Dani – Almost Bari
Copyright 2015 Mara Dani Photographer: Mara Dani (born in Brindisi and resides in Bari, Italy) Self-published Essays: Gian Luigi Sylos Labini and Alessandro Crilillo Text: Italian and English Hardcover book with exposed boards and spine, belly band and elastic band closure, two-color offset printing with sewn binding, various papers, pagination and captions, printed by Presso Grafica... Continue Reading →
Sara Terry – Elvis in the Tree
Copyright 2016 Sara Terry Photographer: Sara Terry (b. Detroit and resides in Los Angeles, USA) Self-Published: 10 (X) Editions Text: English Hardcover artist book (boards with hand stamp and hand inscription on cover) with elastic belly band, leporello interior design, pigment ink prints with clear corner stays, hand-printed, limited edition book of 10. Photobook designer: Sara Terry Notes: Sara... Continue Reading →
Kurt Simonson – Northwoods Journals
Copyright 2015 Kurt Simonson Photographer: Kurt Simonson (born St Paul, MN, resides Long Beach CA, USA) Publisher: Flash Powder Projects (USA) Essay by George Slade, Poem by Franz Wright Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, multiple gate-folds, tipped-in tri-fold page, four-color lithography, printed by Bigger Dot in South Korea Photobook designer: Kurt Simonson, David Bram, Jennifer Schwartz Notes: Kurt Simonson’s... Continue Reading →
My take-away from Photo Book Independent
copyright the photographers, 2016 Douglas Stockdale A quick shout out of thanks to all of the photobook photographers & artist at Photo Book Independent. Above is a photo of my book acquisitions, trades & gifts. Not in any particular order, these include: Aline Smithson's Self & Others, published by The Magenta Foundation (lucky me, I... Continue Reading →
Brad Temkin – Rooftop
Copyright 2015 Brad Temkin Photographer: Brad Temkin (born & resides Chicago, IL) Publisher: Radius Books (USA) Essays: John Rohrbach, Steven Peck, Roger Schickedantz Text: English Hardcover with glued boards and accompanying perfect-bond booklet (essay and list of plates), Lucite slipcase, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Verona, Italy Photobook designer: David Chickey and David Skolkin Notes: The rooftops... Continue Reading →