The Contemporary Photobook Magazine
Review by Lee Halvorsen · This photo book is delightful and fun…a trip back in time at the author’s side where we meet the author’s father, his mother and look through the eyes of a 22-year-old artist at the world around him. Hickerson brings to life 105 black & white images from 1978-1979…a significant time... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · Good things come in small packages. Grenades come in small packages too, and you can compare Richard Zybert’s 1981 photobook Notebook on Time to a small explosive charge. Notebook on Time is the story of Zybert coming to terms with his dysfunctional family and in particular with the legacy of... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen · The Black Box book is multimedia art…the book itself, the images, and the text. In the Afterword, Joanna Howard writes, “Black Box marries personal memoir with artistic retrospective of such a rich career.” The style of the book, the intimacy of the images, and the reality of the storyteller’s words... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · A zine before there were zines, Lewis Baltz’ Nevada is also a print portfolio of the book’s 15 photographs. It was published in 1978 by Baltz’ gallery, Castelli Graphics, and was presumably intended as a marketing tool for the 600 8” X 10” prints that Baltz produced for the project... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson ∙ No, A Visit With Magritte has not been re-released. It was last published in 2010 by Steidl and my copy is the Matrix edition from 1981. I wanted to review it because I wondered if other photobook fans are aware of it and because it was such a revelation to... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson · The photographs in Dana Stirling’s Why Am I Sad were taken in ten different states across the U.S., but they are not about the places they were taken. They are about the feelings of the photographer and her reaction to what she saw and her photographs document and catalogue moments... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen · On February 24, 2022, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its neighbor and former ally. Byron Smith was there and for the rest of that year he immersed himself and his camera into the lives and the deaths and the hopes of the Ukrainian community. His mostly black and white... Continue Reading →
Review by Hans Hickerson • Photography is a surprising medium. You think that everything has been done already, that you have seen it all, and – surprise – along comes something original. Who knew? Maybe it has been done before, but Adam Thorman’s photobook Creatures Found was a new one for me. What Thorman has... Continue Reading →
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Mo Yi is an interesting Chinese photographer of Tibetan origin. He has had only a few major exhibitions in the West; this photobook and the related exhibitions (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and Arles Photography Festival) are a welcome change. His work encompasses several decades of experimenting with images of... Continue Reading →
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Lisa McCord’s “Rotan Switch” is a superb synthesis of content, design, and emotion…more than a story, more than photos, more than a book, it’s an experience. The design is unique and subtly compelling. At first look, the white space, the seemingly random text blocks, and the image arrangement didn’t click... Continue Reading →
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