The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Beth Dow "In the Garden" 2008 Photography.Book.Now Grand Prize Winner The 2009 Photography.Book.Now self-publishing book competition is now open, with more information here. The lead book juriest for this will Darius Himes, co-founder of Radius Books, who was a judge in the 2008 competition. The grand prize will be again, $25,000.00, which is probably why there... Continue Reading →
Humble Arts has published at the end of 2008 an informative softcover publication, Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photography. This is by no means inclusive of all of the emerging fine art photographers, but it does provide an interesting selection of many photographers who are starting to create a presence. This 10 1/4 x 13" softcover, 180 page book... Continue Reading →
Verso Limited Editions has recently published their latest title, Bruce Davidson: Central Park in Platinum, which I had an opportunity to review at photo la last week. This book is really an object de arte, considering the exquisit use materials for its construction. But first, I want to discuss the photographs of Bruce Davidson in this book, which are from his... Continue Reading →
One of the interesting aspects of the pending Presidential inaguration of Barack Obama, is the growing number of books about him that are now being published. One segement of these new books are the photographic books, which interesting enough, are becoming very quickly available through the Print on Demand (POD) press. Almost as quick as the web, these books can... Continue Reading →
After extensive searching, I believe that I have the majority of the international book publishers who have a strong interest, if not an outright focus, on photographic monographs books linked up on the sidebar. These are the publishers who are printing the interesting photographic projects, sometimes in very limited production runs which can be very beautiful and very collectible books. They... Continue Reading →
Book review by Douglas Stockdale • After purchasing Robert Frank's PARIS, published by Steidl in 2008, I have been hesitating to publish my book review. Part of my procrastination was purchasing a copy of Frank's The Americans, published by Steidl as part of their "Robert Frank Project", as a baseline for comparison. I am happy that I did buy... Continue Reading →
The Americans - copyright of Robert Frank published by Steidl, 2008 special edition How one thing sometimes leads to another, as I had recently purchased a new Robert Frank book Paris while I was in Philadelphia and I figured it would be easy to relate Paris to The Americans without owning a copy of The Americans.... Continue Reading →
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