The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
by Douglas Stockdale A beautifully printed retrospective monograph, which also functions as an exhibition catalog of a modern photographer who was a creative photographic innovator, poet, teacher and one of the co-founders as well as the first editor of Aperture magazine. Known for his spirituality and equivalence inspired photographs. This extensive and well-illustrated monograph contains... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Copyright Michelle Frankfurter 2014 published by FotoEvidence This is my first review of the photobook series published by Svetlana Bachevonaova and FotoEvidence, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on the global issues of Social Justice. Michelle Frankfurter (b. April 1961, Jerusalem, Israel – living in the US since 1967 and currently resides near Washington DC)... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2009 the estate of Irving Penn, published by the Getty Museum Small Trades is but one of many projects that was completed by Irving Penn (b. 1917 Plainfield, NJ – d. 2009), and one that actually spanned his photographic career. The photographs were created in the early 1950’s in Paris, London and New York.... Continue Reading →
Copyright Jock Sturges 1991 published by Aperture This review of Jock Sturges’s first photobook, The Last Day of Summer, published by Aperture in 1991, is an introduction to his many photobooks. This photobook is his first and now nearing twenty years in print. As part of the background story one social element that Sturges shares with... Continue Reading →
Copyright Suan Anderson 2009, courtesy powerHouse books Susan Anderson’s photobook High Glitz, The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants is a series of formal portraits of young girls who participate in beauty pageants that have been exclusively tailored for them. These pageants are unique to the United States. Anderson chooses to focus her lens on the resulting... Continue Reading →
Copyright Greg Friedler, (1970 - 2015) 2008 courtesy W.W. Norton & Co. Friedler’s fourth book in his Naked series is Naked Las Vegas. Earlier Friedler had published Naked New York, Naked Los Angeles, and Naked London. His three preceding books are photographed in black and white while Friedler thought that photographing in color was very... Continue Reading →
Copyright of the Estate of August Sander, 2003 courtesy Schirmer Mosel Verlag In 1929 August Sander (1876 – 1964), a German portrait photographer published his first book Antlitz der Zeit (Face of Our Time) by Kurt Wolff Verlag with an essay by the German writer Alfred Doblin. This famous book was re-issued by Schirmer Mosel... Continue Reading →
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