The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Kristin Dittrich • The Japanese photographer Seiichi Furuya arrived in Dresden in 1984 with his wife and then three-year-old son. Today Furuya could be considered as one of the rare authors bringing up a coherent photographical work about the life during the 1980’s in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). At the end of... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Upon opening UPSTATE for the first time, this reviewer was immediately taken back to her own years spent living in the Hudson Valley while attending Bard College. Not only because the subject of Tema Stauffer’s new work is the nearby city of Hudson and the surrounding landscape, but because Stauffer’s... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • This retrospective monograph that explores one of John Divola’s urban landscapeprojects created between 1974 and 1975 while finishing his MFA at UCLA (1974). His practice was a form of what today we would call “staged photography”; creating (spray painting) structures and staging events for the single purpose of being photographed,... Continue Reading →
Ekaterina Solovieva, The Earth’s Circle. Kolodozero, 2018 Photographer: Ekaterina Solovieva, (Born Moscow, lives in Hamburg, Germany) Publisher: Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, copyright 2018 Essay: Ekaterina Solovieva Text: English, Translation by Diego Benning Wang Softcover, Swiss Binding, 141 pages, 68 images B&W, 7 1/4 " x 9 1/2" x 2 inches, printed in Stuttgart by Offizin Scheufele Art... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Notes: The investigation of an urban man-built landscape can be a sociological study of those who live in it as part of a photo-documentary practice. Dave Jordano adds another couple of more layers to the study of his subject, the city of Detroit. His visual framing of this urban landscape... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Having recently curated the ABSTRACT VISIONS Exhibition, I was very pleased to come across this work by Richard S. Chow. He is a prolific exhibitor in the Los Angeles area and internationally, has received a number of important awards for his work, and is also very active in furthering the... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • The rural region of Green Bank, West Virginia is a modern paradox; a mash-up of ultra-high technology in the midst of an almost non-tech community, confounded by the fact that this situation is by careful design. Green Bank is the home of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory built in... Continue Reading →
Max Sher - Palimpsests, Copyright 2018 Photographer: Max Sher, born St Petersburg (then Leningrad), resides Moscow (RU) Published by Ad Marginem with support from Heinrich Böll Foundation (Germany/Russia), 2018 Essays: Kate Bush, Maxim Trudolyubov, Nuria Fatykhova Text: Russian, English Hardcover book, embossed cloth over boards, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by IPK Pareto-Print, Russia Photobook designer:... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Saskia Groneberg (born in Munich; lives in Munich and Berlin, Germany) Publisher: Edition Taube, Munich and Zurich; © 2017 Essay: Thomas Seelig Text: German and English Hardback, thread-stitched; 76 pages, unpaginated; 21.5 x 29.5 cm; printed by Longo A.G., Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Photobook Designers: Saskia Groneberg and Jonas Beuchert Notes: Studying this photobook, one... Continue Reading →
Michael Kolster - Take Me to the River Photographer: Michael Kolster (born Milwaukee, WI, resides Brunswick, ME, USA) Publisher: George Thompson Publishing (USA) 2016 Essays: Michael Kolster, Alison Norström and Matthew Klingle Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, tri-tone (black & white) lithography, including 10 gatefolds, printed at ESB, Verona, Italy Photobook designer: David... Continue Reading →
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