The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographs copyright 2012 Lorenzo Formicola Lina Pallotta (author of ) I just received a couple of photographs from Lina Pallotta which were taken by Lorenzo Formicola during the opening of my photobook exhibition at Fotografia in Rome last month. Lina is the author of Piedras Negras which I had selected for this exhibition and is my Ace on-the-floor... Continue Reading →
copyright the various photographers Please join me for one evening this month as I share a pop-up photobook exhibition of the vast majority of the photobooks that are currently included in my exhibition at FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale in Rome Italy, which explores the theme of "work". I will provide a short introduction about my selection... Continue Reading →
photograph copyright 2012 Marc Prust Thanks to Marc Prust, I have my first look at the FotoGrafia di Roma photobook exhibition. Very nice! Regretfully due to a change in travel plans, I was unable to attend the grand opening of Fotografia di Roma last week. Looking at this photograph by Marc I can see that... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of the artists The concept that the XI FotoGrafia di Roma is intent on exploring is the theme of "Work". Likewise as curator of the photobook exhibition, I am also interesting in broadly interpreting this theme. I am also intrigued with the idea that a photobook is a physical product of a photographer's... Continue Reading →
Copyright Charlotte Dumas 2011 published by FantomBooks The animal portrait photographs by Charlotte Dumas for her photobook Al Lavoro! (At Work!) are of dogs at their places of “work." The book investigates how might “work” be defined for an animal, as surely we can speculate that these dogs might not define this “work” in the... Continue Reading →
Copyright Christian Patterson 2011 published by MACK This photobook is Christian Patterson’s retelling of the murder spree of a psychopath, Charles Starkweather, and his young girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, that occurred in late 1958 and early 1959. As elegantly described by Luc Sante “(Patterson) followed Starkweather and Fugate’s trail, visiting all the places where they... Continue Reading →
Copyright Michal Chelbin 2010 published by Twin Palms Publishers Wrestling is a sport requiring intense exertion with direct and intimate contact between two opponents. This is not the wrestling entertainment common to late night television, but an athletic sport that harkens back to the first Olympic Games conducted in Greece. Two individuals grapple together, each... Continue Reading →
copyright Kendall Messick 2010 published by Princeton Architectual Press Over a period of years Kendall Messick employed a documentary style to photograph the life of a retired movie projectionist; Gordon Brinckle (1915 – 2007). This is also an investigation into personal identity, when one becomes so consumed with their profession work, that they re-create a similar workplace at home.... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andy Freeberg 2009 published by photolucida This is an investigation about women who are docents and guardians of artworks, whose job is to provide mute testimony as to the importance of the adjacent art works. There is universality to this project in which the actual location, even thought these art museums are located the... Continue Reading →
Copyright Nina Poppe 2011 published by Kehrer Verlag Nina Poppe spent time on the coast of Japan investigating the commercial work of Japanese women who “free dive” in the pursuit of abalone, a type of sea-snail. These abalone hunters, known as “ama-san”, the majority of which are women, typify an aging Japanese profession. They dive... Continue Reading →
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