The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Simon Roberts (born & resides Great Britain) Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK, 2017 Text: English Introduction by David Chandler and essays by A L Kennedy, Alex Vasudevan, Carol Ann Duffy, David Matless, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ian Jeffrey, Irenosen Okojie, Nikesh Shukla and Tristram Hunt. Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color lithography, detailed captions, pagination, printed by... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • This innovative artist book by Douglas Stockdale brings to mind the parable “Before the Law” by Franz Kafka, in which a man is confronted by what seems to be an overwhelming obstacle and fails to overcome it, even though he could have, as we who are the readers readily understand.... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Anthony Hernandez (born Los Angeles & resides Los Angeles & Idaho) Published by Silas Finch, NY, USA, 2016 Text: English Printed chipboard over cloth end sheets, sewn binding, tri-tone black & white lithography, printed by Studley Press, Dalton, MA (USA) Photobook designer: Kevin Messina Notes: A monograph of Anthony Hernandez’s earliest body of work... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra (book dummy) 2018 Douglas Stockdale As I just announced on my personal photo-blog Singular Images, I am very excited to accept pre-orders for my artist book Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra! Which is one of the reasons that I have not been providing book reviews for the past couple of weeks. The other wonderful reason... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Michael Dalton (born Marshfield, MA & resides in MA) Published by Peperoni Books, Berlin, DE copyright 2017 Text: English Hard cover book, sewn, printed by Wanderer, Germany Photobook designer: Kiran Puri Notes: I was fortunate to share a table at the Medium Festival in San Diego last October adjacent to one that Michael Dalton was... Continue Reading →
Editor: Ayperi Karabuda Ecer Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, © 2017 Essays: Eric Dupin (foreword); Ayperi Karabuda Ecer (introduction) Text: English Hard cover, sewn binding, four-color printing, 288 numbered pages; 250+ captioned color images; 10x8.5 inches; drone user guide, author biographies, supplementary image references, index of photographers and websites, index of locations; printed... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Tymon Markowski (born Kraków & resides Bydgoszcz, Poland) Self-Published & Print Edition (400), Limited Edition (100): Bydgoszcz, Poland, copyright 2017 Text: English & Polish Hard cover, Leporello (Concertina) layout, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed by Chromapress (Bydgoszcz, Poland) Photobook designer: Katarzyna Kubicka Editor: Joanna Kinowska Notes: Tymon Markowski’s self-published photobook Flow is a book design that conceptually... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Alejandro Cartagena (born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic & resides Monterrey, Mexico) The Velvet Cell: Berlin (Germany) copyright 2017 Essays by Ximena Peredo Text: English Pair of books; hard cover, embossed exposed boards, sewn and taped binding, and a stiff cover, saddle stitch, both four-color lithography, Edition of 450, signed and numbered, printed in Taiwan Photobook... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2016 Algis Griskevicius Photographer: Algis Griskevicius (born & resides Vilnius (Lithuania)) Publisher: NoRoutine Books (Lithuania) Essay: Leonidas Donskis Text: Lithuanian and English Hardcover book, sewn and exposed tape binding, black & white lithography, glued insert booklet (saddle stitch), contact proof print, printed by UAB Druka, Klaipeda, Lithuania Photobook designer: Gysis Skudzinskas Notes: Algis Griskevicius includes in his... Continue Reading →
Photographer: KayLynn Deveney (born Albuquerque, New Mexico; resides in Northern Ireland and New Mexico [summers]) Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg & Berlin, Germany; © 2015 Essays: KayLynn Deveney, Jean Valjean Vandruff, Hank Stuever Text: English Cloth-bound sewn hardcover; 128 numbered pages, 62 full-color illustrations; 20x24 cm, printed in Germany Designer: KayLynn Deveney and Kehrer Design Notes: The... Continue Reading →
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