The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
photographs copyright of photographers and publishers FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma XI Edition: Work The theme of Work for XI FotoGrafia di Roma is complex and multi-faceted subject, which I attempted to broadly explore in my selection of contemporary PhotoBooks for this exhibition. This theme is also ambiguous and illusive, which can be as much about one does... Continue Reading →
Copyright Rob Hornstra 2011 self-published Rob Hornosta, in the third of a series of photobooks, investigates a region that will soon be the site the 2014 summer Olympics. It is an attempt to document a region that is and that might soon be what was with the anticipated and pending changes to accommodate the Olympics. In this... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Melissa Shook 2012 published by Kat Ran Press and Pressed Wafer Press Melissa Shook is investigating the back story of the stables and the workings of a horse-race track, Suffolk Downs, located in Massachusetts. She has been photographing at this small track for an extensive period when her access to the track’s operations... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Clayton Cotterell 2012 published by Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books This photobook is a mashed up narrative that intertwines the lives and family of two brothers, one brother is the subject, the unarmed solider, while the other is the unseen brother, who is the photographer. In this photobook, Clayton Cotterell provides a series of... Continue Reading →
Copyright Thijs Heslenfeld published by Oost West Thijs Best Heslenfeld appears to have traveled the global in search of men who are performing some unique work, or happen across a subject while in search of another. In reading Thijs Heslenfeld’s introduction to his fourth photobook “Man at Work”, he raises a rhetorical question: “The question... Continue Reading →
Copyright Silvia Camporesi 2011 published by Trolley Books To say the least, Venice is a daunting subject for a photographic project, as are the over photographed venues of New York City, Paris, Rome and San Francisco. This Italian city is a virtual cliché of photographic images. Silvia Camporesi is choosing to travel a different route employing... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Bruce Haley 2010 published by Edizioni Charta in conjunction with Daylight Community Arts Foundation From 1994 to 2002 Bruce Haley embarked on “a far reaching (photographic) journey through numerous former USSR and Iron Country countries”, investigating a transitional point of time encompassing post-communism and post-war. This body of photographic resulted in Haley’s gritty and... Continue Reading →
Supplement to Aperture magazine - issue 002, Spring 2012 Hear all about it! Get your Photobook News here!! Okay, a “newspaper” that is published only twice per year is not exactly something that provides the hot, hot, hot daily news one might expect or want. But then again, the evolution of the photobook industry is... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2011 Sarah Hobbs published by Edizioni Charta Oh My Gosh, do the photographs of Sarah Hobbs find an emotional home. I am immediately reminded of the domestic chaos and angst investigated by Julia Blackmon’s “Domestic Vacations”. Whereas Blackmon created her tableaux with her friends and family as subject, Hobbs methodology is devoid of any individuals,... Continue Reading →
Copyright James H. Evans 2010 University of Texas Press In photography, there are those who go wide and others go deep. James Evans is a photographer who has gone very deep into a region of Texas known as the Big Bend and found this place to be his muse of which he has courted for over twenty years. This is... Continue Reading →
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