Copyright 2014 Catherine Leutenegger Photographer: Catherine Leutenegger (born & resides in Switzerland) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) Essays: Catherine Leutenegger, A.D. Coleman, Joerg Bader, and Urs Stahel Text: English & French Hardcover book with printed paper belly-band, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Chris Gautschi Notes: In this documentary style investigation of a US city that has... Continue Reading →
John Gossage – The Thirty Two Inch Ruler – Map of Babylon
John Gossage copyright 2010 courtesy Steidl Photographer: John Gossage (born New York City, resides Washington DC) Publisher: Steidl Verlag (Germany) Essays: John Gossage, Gerhard Steidl Text: English Two companion volumes, hardcover book with reversible dust cover (The Thirty Two Inch Ruler on one side, Map of Babylon on the opposing), sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook... Continue Reading →
Aaron Siskind – Another Photographic Reality
Copyright 2014 the estate of Aaron Siskind Photographer: Aaron Siskind (1903 – 1991) USA Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin (TX) (first published by Editions Hazan, Paris, 2014) Essays: Charles Traub, Gilles Mora Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, Chronology, Bibliography, List of Photographs, printed in Italy Photobook designer: Nicolas Hubert Notes: A photographer... Continue Reading →
Dragana Jursic – YU The Lost Country
Copyright 2014 Dragana Jursic Photographer: Dragana Jursic (b. Yugoslavia, resides Ireland) Publisher: Oonagh Young gallery Essay: Dragana Jursic Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, with captions (Rebecca West/Dragana Jurisic), printed in Luxembourg Photobook designer: Oonagh Young Notes: Jursic documents her journey, retracing the steps of Rebecca West's 1937 novel Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, through what... Continue Reading →
Lori Vrba – The Moth Wing Diaries
Copyright 2015 Lori Vrba Photographer: Lori Vrba (born Texas, resides North Carolina (USA)) Publisher: Daylight Books Essay: Del Zogg Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, Index of Plates, four-color lithography, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: Ursula Damm Notes: A delightful book filled with dreamlike black & white toned photographs that investigate memory and identify. (Extracted from... Continue Reading →
Mary Ellen Mark – Man and Beast
Copyright 2014 the estate of Mary Ellen Mark Photographer: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 - 2015) Published & copyright: 2014 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin (TX) Essays: Melissa Harris Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed & bound in China Photobook designer: Mary Ellen Mark & Ellen McKie Notes: A photo project that the... Continue Reading →
Kenny Braun – Surf Texas
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 →
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin – Scarti
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 →
A change in my photobook commentaries
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 →
Andreas Oekter-Kast – Looking for (auf der suche nach) Wonderland
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 →