The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright the various photographers 2008 courtesy of LensWork - While I was updating the photography magazine section of this blog and providing very brief overviews of various photographic magazines that I though had some aesthetic merit, I realized that there was an opportunity for a two-fer, to discuss the LensWork magazine while shamelessly promoting my own photographic... Continue Reading →
Copyright Simon Roberts 2009, courtesy of Chris Boot Ltd & Simon Roberts When I first became aware of Simon Roberts photobook project that would eventually develop into We English, I was very intrigued by the concept, his past photographic work in Russia, and what he was attempting to investigate in his own homeland. And probably... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Bush 2008 courtesy Yale University Press The concept of photographing those who co-exist with us on the crowded and packed Freeways, Highways and Expressways in the urban centers of the United States is intriguing and the subject of Andrew Bush’s photobook Drive. In particular, Bush is photographing his own locale area of Southern California,... Continue Reading →
Copyright Andrew Phelps, 2009 courtesy Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg For my liking, Andrew Phelps’s introduction, printed on the inside book cover, places this entire photobook into an insightful context, “ But what does it mean to photograph with the pretense of documentation? I find it is easy to get caught up in chasing an illusion of... Continue Reading →
Copyright Lewis Koch 2009 courtesy Lewis Koch & Borderland Books The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from the real world”. There is no doubt that Koch is attuned to the abundant text that we swim through on a daily basis, to notice those juxtapositions that naturally occur, or with... Continue Reading →
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. The surrounding ground is a patchwork of grass and dirt, with a barren tree lurking on the edges of the fame. This... Continue Reading →
By Douglas Stockdale - At one point in her life, Amanda was living in two different cultural landscapes, San Francisco, California (telephone area code 415) while she was working on her MFA at San Francisco Art Institute and her home in Quebec, Canada (telephone area code 514). These are two very different geographical locations on... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2005, Candida Höfer courtesy Schrimer/Mosel Verlag I like libraries. I like the smell of books; old leather covers or the fresh ink recently laid on new sheets. I like to wonder along the library isles among the towering columns of books, getting lost physically and in thought. And I am a photobook collector with a... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Bernd & Hilla Becher courtesy of Schirmer/Mosel and Prestel USA Bernd and Hilla Becher are the German photographic team who become well known over the last 30+ years for the development of their industrial Typologies (and how many times have I unknowing read this as Topologies). This book is a catalog, published by Schirmer/Mosel in... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Donald Weber courtesy of Photolucida Donald Weber's Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl is his Photolucida 2006 Critical Mass book and a scary look at what could be our potential post-Nuclear civilization. It is also about a marginalized society and the reclamation of the land. Weber's photographic documentary project investigates the no-man's region surrounding Chernobyl (Ukraine) where 20 years ago in... Continue Reading →
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