The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Katherine Longly and Cécile Hupin have created a conceptual photojournalistic project; a series of interviews, quotes, screen grabs and reuse of photographs, repurposed to create a narrative that asks the question: If money cannot buy happiness, what drives people to participate in a lottery? The book is design and sequenced in... 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 • The most extraordinary photobooks are those that have a grip on you and become very personal as you spend more time with them. Henry Schulz’s book is precisely that kind of a project. In 61 images he presents assemblages of human elements that cut through time and space. Even though... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman · At a certain age in life, admitting what you want to be when you grow up may feel like standing on the shore watching all boats, large and small, setting off to sea. You find yourself waving as the vessels grow more distant on the horizon and ever closer to adventures... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • None of us can escape the process of getting older. Lucky are those who have a granddaughter like Aleksandra Żalińska who can document that process in a sensitive manner and at the same time narrate details about a special personal bond that transcends the generations. We can recall the well-known... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Seldom do we see a photobook in which the implementation is exquisitely and totally in unison with the concept. Deb Achak’s debut project presents a rare sequence in which this has been achieved. Deb Achak was given final advice by her mother to always trust her instinct, and this book... Continue Reading →
Guest Review by Micah McCoy • Birgit Kleber’s book, Photographers, takes a simple concept and rigidly sticks to the script, only occasionally deviating from the framework set in motion from the first photograph in the book. The book’s power, and it is a forceful book, comes from Kleber’s dogged adherence to a set goal; to... Continue Reading →
Yet another year has gone by, and while the world peace we were hoping for is still further away than it was a year ago, it is nevertheless time for us to present you with our new list of interesting photobooks for the past year. Our selections feature intriguing photographic content, brilliant project concepts, and... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • When you first get this latest photobook by Schatz and Ornstein, you are immediately delighted just to hold it in your hands: it is compact in size and substantial in content. Once you open it, you can no longer put it down – you continue to explore the many pages... Continue Reading →
Review by Melanie Chapman • Thoroughly Modern Miller: The Photographs of a Master Who Refused to Remain a-Muse-ing Nearly one quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, and approximately one hundred years after the birth of Surrealism, the “female gaze” is finally gaining recognition as a credible artistic point of view. Thus, Lee Miller... Continue Reading →
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