The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright 2014 Kenny Braun Photographer: Kenny Braun (born & resides TX, USA) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX Essays: Stephen Harrigan Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, lithographic printing, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: DJ Stout & Barret Fry Notes: Braun’s lyrical black and white photographs investigate the excitement... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Photographers: Adam Broomberg (born South Africa) & Oliver Chanarin (born UK) both reside in UK Concept: Gigi Giannuzzi (d. December 2012), publisher Trolley Books Published & copyright: 2013 Publisher: Trolley Books (UK) Text: English Hardcover book with tipped in image, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Italy Photobook designer: Fernando Gutierrez... Continue Reading →
Photograph copyright Dragana Jursic 2015 (YU The Lost Country) I have been contemplating some changes to this blog for a while now, due to a combination of factors. First is the large quantity of photobooks that are being published at an almost dizzying rate since I started this blog in 2008. Second is the growing quantity... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 Bryan Schutmaat & Ashlyn Davis, Published by Silas Finch Islands of the Blest is a collaboration by an American photographer and artist, Bryan Schutmaat (b. 1983 Houston, Texas, currently resides in Austin, Texas), and an American writer, Ashlyn Davis (b. 1986 Port Arthur, Texas, currently resides in Austin, Texas) constructing a historical narrative... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2013 Andreas Oekter-Kast, Published by bt:st Verlag This photobook is photographed in a documentary style and could be considered a quintessential American Road-Trip, perhaps without the same amount of angst as found in Robert Frank’s The Americans. Both Frank and Andreas Oekter-Kast (Born 1964, Baden-Baden, Germany, currently lives in Kiel, Germany) are Europeans who... Continue Reading →
copyright, 2014, the various photographer, writers and published by Daylight Books It is April and the American baseball season is now in full swing, to savor the pun. I had obtained this photobook shortly after it was published in the Fall of last year, right smack in the middle of the American Football season, not exactly... Continue Reading →
Copyright Carolyn Drake 2014, self-published This photobook by Carolyn Drake (b. 1971 Los Angeles, CA and currently resides in Mississippi) incorporates an allegory story of the same name, Wild Pigeon, written by Nurmuhemmet Yasin who is a Uyghur author. The Yasin story narrates the Uyghur experience in this remote region of Western China (XinJiang Uyghur... Continue Reading →
Printed Matter's (2015) LA Art Book Fair This coming weekend on the Left Coast is what is becoming an annual event; Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair which will take place again at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. As I have written about the past (2014) LA Art Book Fairs taking place at MOCA, this... Continue Reading →
Copyright Kate Nolan 2014, self-published Neither is a three year project by Kate Nolan (b. 1979 Dublin, Ireland, where she currently resides) that takes place in Kalingrad, formerly called Königsberg (German), a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. This place was... Continue Reading →
Copyright Laura Curran, 2014 self published/After Image Publishing From the moment that I first saw the photographs from Laura Curran’s photobook Lots of Cake!, her project resonated with me. The project was made all the more delightful in the layout and design of this photobook object. Curran uses a documentary style to investigate her family,... Continue Reading →
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