The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Lee Halvorsen • This is small book with a very large heart, capturing generations living strong, but challenged, in rural Kansas…far from the bustling crowds but also distanced from metropolitan healthcare. Steward’s Master of Arts, Journalism project found him spending a great deal of time with Larry Engstrom and his family after Larry... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Where photographer Bruce Haley lives, BLM does not stand for “Black Lives Matter.” It stands for “Bureau of Land Management,” the federal agency that manages some 245 million acres of public land, or about ten percent of the United States, an area bigger than France and Italy combined. Most of... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Wieder’s intimate images and skilled story telling brings persistence, permanence, place, and people to life in Portland’s King School Park. Wieder spent several years photographing folks in the Park, people who return almost daily despite the tsunamis of neighborhood change over the years. Mitchell Jackson grew up in the community;... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • History, art, colonialism, exploitation, humanity…all swirling about in Stupich’s monumental collection of visual and textual art in this book. He brings North America’s Camino Real alive from the time of the Spanish Conquistadores to twentieth century’s Guggenheim’s vice like grip on silver and copper mining that are on the same trails ridden... Continue Reading →
Review by Matt Schneider · In Mingas+Solidarity, photographer and anthropologist Tristan Partridge introduces us to the cultural tradition of minga in the ancestral community of San Isidro, Cotopaxi, Ecuador. The word “minga” is adapted from the Kichwa/Quechua word Mink’a or Minka, and as we learn from the book’s introduction, indicates “collective or communal work, based... Continue Reading →
Review by Steve Harp · It takes time for what has been erased to resurface. Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder Loli Kantor’s Call Me Lola: In Search of Mother has been obstinately staring at me from my desktop for some weeks now. At each encounter, I would fitfully and clumsily try to find a way into... Continue Reading →
Review by Henry Kallerud · Victor Cobo holds a strong personal connection with the eponymous Roy Orbison song “In Dreams”. He grew up listening to Orbison’s music with his father’s side of his family: coal miners, from Kentucky. Later in life, he watched and felt a deep resonance with the David Lynch film Blue Velvet... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian F. O’Neill · The concepts of both space and place are widely used in our vernacular. Both are also often used in photographic projects drawing on the documentary and landscape traditions of the field. However, while the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, the distinctions between the two are instructive when deployed analytically... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Photography is a medium, a tool. There are many ways to use it, and you do not have to be interested in pursuing photography’s traditional concerns to use it effectively. Charlotte Dumas’ photobook A Terra is a good example of this. She uses photographs to explore and present a topic... Continue Reading →
Review by Brian Arnold · Pres-tige /pre ste(d)ZH Noun Widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or something based on perception of their achievements or qualities John Cutter, one of the principal characters in Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film The Prestige, tells us there are three basic acts composing any magic trick. The first is called... Continue Reading →
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