The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Copyright Paula McCartney 2010 Princeton Architectural Press courtesy of the artist I must admit when I first saw the first announcement for Paula McCartney’s photobook Bird Watching, it drew a long yawn. I mean, OMG what were the photobook publishers thinking? When I later learned that Darius Himes had written the Afterword, I started to reconsider... Continue Reading →
By Douglas Stockdale • Memory is a very tricky thing. Sometimes it just seems that the things that you want to forget are somehow stuck between your eyebrows regardless of what you attempt to do to forget them. Other times, there are those memories you cherish and never want to lose, and the more you... Continue Reading →
From Flying Pictures by Daniel Gordon, 2009 published by powerHouse Books Daedalus with his son Icarus had to flee Crete and the solution to their problem was the wings that Daedalus fashioned to allow them to safely fly to freedom. Nevertheless, Daedalus had to admonish his son Icarus to not fly too close to the sun,... Continue Reading →
Copyright Hiroshi Watanabe 2010, courtesy Hiroshi Watanabe and Toesi-sha Publishing On first viewing of Hiroshi Watanabe’s Love Point I find his studio portraits beautiful and aesthetically wonderful with a mysterious charm. Watanabe’s photographic studio portraits appear somehow familiar. The black & white photographs are formal and stylistically similar to his previously published work; Kabuki Players (actors in costume), Noh... Continue Reading →
Copyright Doug Keyes 2008 Courtesy DECODE Books In Doug Keyes photobook, Collective Memory, he utilizes the multiple images of book pages to create complex visual metaphors for memory, and indirectly the duration of time, providing a conceptual product that can only be approximated with photography. An overview of his process is nicely stated in the... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Hiroshi Watanabe courtesy of Photolucida Hiroshi Watanabe's book Finding published by Photolucida is the grand prize winner of the 2006 Critical Mass. While reading this I find that I am always looking at life through a veil. There always seems to be something between me and what I think the subject is. Which may be overlooking one the... Continue Reading →
Photographs are copyright of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison courtesy of Twin Palms Publishers In an attempt to better understand Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's new book counterpoint, I found myself referring to The Architect's Brother,an earlier published book by Robert ParkeHarrison from Twin Palms Publishers. Regretfully I did not purchase the earlier book when it was available. The Architect's Brother is the initial story of ParkeHarrison's "Everyman",... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Amy Stein A couple purchase a beautiful cactus in the desert at a roadside stand. The cactus is budding and about to bloom. They hurry home and perch it on a decorative counter in their living room. And they watch with anticipation but something wrong seems to be happening. The cactus is starting to... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Jeremy Stigter, courtesy of Nazareli Books I have been enjoying Jeremy Stigter's first book The Jewish Bride, a photo play recently published by Nazareli Press at the end of 2008. Unlike my attendance at most theatrical plays there is no introduction or prologue provided. Nor is there any text within the book to help establish a contextual framework, just the serial black... Continue Reading →
Photographer Lee Friedlander copyright 2008 published by Radius Books Lee Friedlander: New Mexico was published concurrently by Radius Books with the Friedlander exhibition at the Andrew Smith Gallery Santa Fe, NM in the Fall of 2008. Thus in one sense this book can be viewed as one heck of a great catalog. Usually I defer to the end of the review... Continue Reading →
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