The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Photographer: Alexey Titarenko copyright 2003 courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery One of the benefits of providing book reviews at the beginning of year is that there are very few new publication releases at this time of year and a big leeway to discuss previously published books. One such opportunity is a review of Alexey Titarenko's Photographs published... Continue Reading →
All photographs copyright of the photographers courtesy of TheGuardian I had essentially stated a couple of days ago here, that with the advent of the Print on Demand (POD) book we can have a book in print almost 10 days after an event has occurred. With the recent election of Barrack Obama as President of the United... Continue Reading →
In Passing, Second Edition, by Douglas Stockdale, self-published (Blurb) 2008 Yes, yours truely just published the second edition of In Passing the series of road side memorials that I photographed from late 2005 - 2007. Twenty of the photographs from the series were published in LensWork Magazine (#74 Jan-Feb 2008). Earlier this year that I had self-published the... Continue Reading →
Ben Roberts, One More Night, Self-published, Blurb 2008 This book review is one part photograph project published by Ben Roberts, One More Night, and another part an assessment of self-publishing and Blurb's new 100 lb paper. The bottom like I like both parts! But first the London club scene of Ben Roberts. This small, tight hardcover book with the... Continue Reading →
copyright 2005 Nick Brandt published by Chronicle Books First let me say, I am not a big fan of "animal" books. But this is not photographic book of animals in the usual sense. Oh, yes, Brandt does show us many of the wild animals of East Africa, but in a very different context than the normal safari document. There... Continue Reading →
Time Out, 2005 copyright of Julie Blackmon, courtesy Radius Books At first glance, Blackmon's photographs are super real observations of a large knit family on the edge of total chaos and about to go out of control. In others words real life with families and real children. Whether her photographs really are direct observations or a constructed reality they connect with the... Continue Reading →
Copyright 1987 Joel Sternfeld; 1994 stiff-cover edition published by Chronicle Books in conjunction with The Friends of Photography I will first have to admit that I like Joel Sternfeld's urban landscape photographs thus discussing his first book, "American Prospects" , will be a relatively easy task for me. Sternfeld photographs the urban landscape in a similar vein as... Continue Reading →
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