The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Hans Hickerson · I thought I qualified as prolific. I have three, possibly four, new photobooks coming out this year, for a career total of seventeen, if you include the zines. It is not a competition of course, and not all photobooks are created equal. But check out Robert Dunn’s Ecstatic Light Photo... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Marseille – A True Fictional Photostory Hans Hickerson’s Marseille backstory is that this is a series of photographs that were captured in August 1983. A time when “You think the grass is greener somewhere else, but then you travel and discover that it is not… you go somewhere else, but you are... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • I was drawn to this book by the image on its cover promising a deep look into the city, people, and texture of Calcutta (Kolkata), and I was not disappointed. Kowshik is a street photographer, and his book immerses us into the places, cultures, and people of Kolkata. His images... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Here’s a winning formula for doing photography: Carry your camera with you everywhere. Explore the world, what’s out there – people, places, life, reality. Be humble. Be patient. Look at your photographs and learn from them. Don’t let ideas or pre-conceived formulas keep you from recognizing and connecting with your... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This book is a masterful blend of history, urban transformation, and culture brought together in the context of a street known round the world: Manhattan’s Broadway. Throughout 1905, C.G. Hine a businessman and amateur photographer made images along Broadway, organized them geographically by city block, and then created hand-made books... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This delightful photographic journey through parts of Mexico is a fun, heartfelt connection to the culture and the car that brings them together. That car, an icon of their national identity, imagination, and energy, is the Volkswagen Bug, The Beetle, and, in Mexico Los Vochos! Villar moved to Mexico in 2016 with... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman · Brian Rose is an accomplished photographer, but he is also a masterful magician. Not in the pull a rabbit out of a hat sense, but rather in the make order out of chaos and pull forth sounds and smells from still images version of magic. This is a skill he... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Disarmingly direct and unassuming, Tom Lyon and Pauline Vanden Neste’s On est venus ici pour la vue presents people and places in the Aurore neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium. Built in the 1960s, the neighborhood comprises seven high-rise apartment blocks set among green spaces along a canal. Like other engineered housing... Continue Reading →
Review by Paul Anderson · Jan Staller’s recent book Manhattan Project is a beautifully crafted collection of photographs taken at New York City construction sites between 2010 and 2024. In Staller’s photographs, steel beams and joints, cables, rebar, pipes, manifolds, connectors, and the like are stripped of their backgrounds and taken out of context. This... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · A contemporary trend in photobooks is to be clever and mix in various and sundry subjects in an attempt to add meaning and depth. Sometimes this works, but often it doesn’t and just comes across as empty attention seeking. Artists who share meaningful issues stand out. Usually it is because... Continue Reading →
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