The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Hans Hickerson • Some photobooks document social, political, and cultural projects photographers undertake in their desire to do something beneficial and worthwhile, and the process and structure involved in such projects can in turn organize and shape the work of the photographer. French photographer Céline Levain was involved with female prisoners in two... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson • In Maria Elisa Ferraris’ Aqua we witness the wild, terrible, awesome, raw, relentless power of water. In 34 spectacular photographs it rises, falls, lifts, pushes, pounds, churns, heaves, hammers, roils, boils, breaks, surges, slams, crashes, smashes, thunders, roars, and rages. It comes at you and doesn’t stop. The images in... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson • Part of the fun of reviewing photobooks is getting under the hood and taking a book apart to see what makes it work. Sergey Bykov’s photobook After Us is a good candidate for a closer look, as it resists easy analysis. Or rather there is an obvious reading but then... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • There can be no doubt that climate change is affecting our daily lives. Nick Brandt is a leading advocate for people and animals threatened by and suffering under these changing conditions. He is also a fantastic impresario of environmental portraits, thinking of unusual perspectives and locations for making a point... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • No one knows exactly what will happen when we all leave this earth. Many possibilities have been imagined over time; religious systems and mysterious other processes have been developed to try to give a structure to what might happen and to give people some hope for a chance at a... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • What do we think of when we see the word glitch? Some part of a technical system that doesn’t work, something that slips through a control mechanism, something used or abused, like a loophole? Something unusual or abnormal that suddenly appears and just as quickly disappears in the middle of... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • This fascinating photobook combines images of two seemingly unrelated subjects, old cars and cattle. In recent travels across the United States, Ute Behrend was struck by the ubiquitous presence of these two elements throughout the landscape. As we involve ourselves in the contents and juxtapositions found in this project, we... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • The photographic work of Arthur Tress is highly regarded, even treasured, for a number of reasons. He combines several genres in a unique and personal manner: street photography, portraiture/the depiction of relationships, and environmental observations. With a very special mysterious way of integrating moments, his images often border on or... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Some 25 years ago, the group of people known as the Uyghurs, a large ethnic minority in China, primarily of the Islamic faith, were still relatively unencumbered by much outside control. Since then the Chinese government has imposed many procedures on these people that have received international criticism. In 1998,... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian F. O’Neill • Ed Panar’s January 2024 release Winter Nights, Walking, has arrived after much anticipation. I originally became aware of Panar’s work with the 2018 release of In the Vicinity (published with Deadbeat Club), a book that depicted indirect aspects of the marijuana market in the so-called Emerald Triangle of California... Continue Reading →
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