The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Alec Soth 2011 copyright - published by Edizioni Punctum What do you have when you mix a Midwestern American Photographer, a Nineteenth Century English Poet, a prominent Italian city and a French titled poem = Alec Soth’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci (a.k.a. LBDSM) Earlier this year Soth resided in Rome to complete a commission for the tenth... Continue Reading →
copyright Chris Crites 2011 courtesy Ampersand Gallery and Fine Books I have noted recently that of the many types of ephemera that seem to be cherished are the police mug shots, which either intentionality or intentionality, capture the subjects at their worst. Chris Crites has accumulated a wonderful collection of vintage mug shots, transferred the image... Continue Reading →
Copyright John Ryan Brukaker 2011 courtesy Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books Strange Cities, the recent photobook collaboration between the every wandering John Ryan Brubaker and Ampersand Galley and Fine Books (Portland,OR) is a recasting of the “stranger in a strange land” genre, set in Vietnam. We experience the journey of a photographer-flaneur, who, utilizing a documentary style, investigates... Continue Reading →
Photographs 2011 copyright of the various photographers Most of the photobooks that I review on this blog are usually authored by a single photographer who investigates a concept in relative depth. Other than featuring a photographic magazine that I feel warrants attention, I tend to avoid photobooks that attempt to investigate a thematic subject explored by a large... Continue Reading →
Copyright Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre 2010 courtesy of Steidl Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have assembled an exquisite photographic collection of urban debris. Like modern-day archeologist, they have found a contemporary and abandoned ruin, of which they have the luxury to document the discarded remnants. The framing of their subject has strong aesthetic and graphic undertones, with... Continue Reading →
Susan Burnstine copyright 2011 courtesy of the artist, published by Edizioni Charta Susan Burnstine’s first photobook, Within Shadows, is an accumulation of interpretive photographs defined by three themes, titled “On Waking Dreams”, “Between” and “Flight”, which in turn are derived from her dreams and nightmares. As such, it is an autobiographic oeuvre that traces its... Continue Reading →
Copyright Francesco Fossa 2010 courtesy Edizioni Punctum Portraits continue to be fascinating genre of photography, whether it is a single photograph of an individual, an entire book devoted to one person (Anne Deniau’s Nicolas Le Riche comes immediately to mind) or about a group of people with a shared commonality (Martin Schoeller’s Female Bodybuilders). We visual explore... Continue Reading →
Ampersand, Portland, OR While in Portland, Oregon recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet up with Myles Haselhorst, the guy behind counter at Ampersand Vintage, a nice place to find both new and slightly read photobooks, gallery, vintage printed material and photographs, and most recently, Ampersand published books. Here are excerpts from our conversation; Hi Myles,... Continue Reading →
CCNY - Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair open call for entries The CCNY Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair is a two day fair, July 16th & 17th The public is welcome to submit as well as check out self-published photo-books and photo-zines All the proceeds go back to the artists (unless they wish... Continue Reading →
Copyright Renate Aller 2010 courtesy photo-eye, Oceanscapes co-published by Radius Books & Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Renate Aller began to photograph and investigate the ocean landscape near her adopted American home, perhaps wistfully looking out towards her native home across the Atlantic Ocean. In the ensuring ten years, her studies developed into this titled work, Oceanscapes.... Continue Reading →
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