Photobooks of 2020
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Self-Portraits by Yurie Nagashima, reviewed by Zak Dimitrov
It’s a small, unpretentious book; minuscule. In fact it’s smaller than the A5 notepad I’m using to write this. It can’t be overstated how…
The Locusts by Jesse Lenz, reviewed by Robin Titchener
“Don’t go far…..and be back for dinner!” Growing up in a small provincial town in England in the early seventies, seems to be a…
News That Stays News: Gordon Parks, “The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957,” Reviewed by Robert Dunn
I’m always intrigued by how a timeless photobook comes together. Most often it’s the artist setting out to create a book following their personal…
Getting Your Kicks on Route 66: Stephen Shore’s “Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979,” Part 2, Reviewed by Robert Dunn
As I was planning out this second piece on Stephen Shore’s new Mack book, “Transparencies,” I started thinking about the road trips that created…
A Plenitude of Novels: Stephen Shore’s “Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979,” reviewed by Robert Dunn
In the 2017 book “Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981,” put out right before Shore’s last grand solo MoMA show, the photographer Paul Graham writes,…
Daido’s Progeny: “Subway Diary” by Masakazu Murakami and “The Dreaming” by Yasuhiro Ogawa, reviewed by Robert Dunn
I wasn’t anywhere close to Japan when Daido Moriyama’s first book, “A Photo Theater,” dropped in 1968, but I like to think its effect…
The Living Mountain by Awoiska van der Molen, reviewed by Rodrigo Orrantia
It’s been six years since Awoiska van der Molen’s first photobook Sequester; it was also the first time I wrote about her work (for…
Far More Than “Pretty Vacant,” We Have No Place to Be by Joji Hashiguchi, reviewed by Robert Dunn
There are plenty of photobooks of punk rock days, it being such a visually wild time that it’s hard to not have them filled…
Utopia, rubber and dreams of madness, Fordlândia 9 by JM Ramirez-Suassi, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Fordlândia – The Place In the 1920’s American industrialist Henry Ford embarked on an audacious, almost incredulous plan. In order to secure a guaranteed…
Out On the Street – Rules of Street Photography, by Robert Dunn
In my last piece for Photobookstore Magazine I wrote about Jeff Mermelstein’s “Hardened,” his grand exploration of all things shot out on the street….
In Your Face: Street Photography and Jeff Mermelstein’s “Hardened,” by Robert Dunn
What do you do if you’re into Instagram, but want to move beyond selfies and shots of food truck delicacies? How about becoming a…
Bestselling Photobooks of 2019
Bestselling Photobooks of 2019 The Bestselling Photobooks of 2019 at Photobookstore were as follows: 1. I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating by…
Photobooks of 2019: A Summary
Photobooks of 2019: A Summary For our annual feature, we have once again invited people from a cross-section of photobook disciplines to select their…
Photobooks of 2019: Martin Amis
Photobooks of 2019: Martin Amis Some of my favourites from the past year in no particular order: The End of Industry by John MyersThe…
Photobooks of 2019: Awoiska Van Der Molen
Photobooks of 2019: Awoiska van der Molen IV by Ilse OosterkampTwenty-seven images ring-bound. We see a naked toddler trying to find a position on…
Photobooks of 2019: At least thirteen gentle men by Vanessa Winship
Photobooks of 2019: Vanessa Winship To do this all truly and sincerely takes the strength, good humour and love of a gentle man. It…
Photobooks of 2019: Mark Power
Photobooks of 2019: Mark Power It’s been said already, but this has been a good year for photobooks, and as a result I’m unable…
Photobooks of 2019: John Sypal
Photobooks of 2019: John Sypal Tibet by Shinya ArimotoShinya Arimoto spent the late 1990′s hitchhiking around Tibet with a Rolleiflex and a backpack full…
Photobooks of 2019: Jeffrey Ladd
Photobooks of 2019: Jeffrey Ladd Federal Triangle by Mike OsborneIf you’re exhausted by the state of current American politics avoid this book at all…
Photobooks of 2019: Gabriela Cendoya
Photobooks of 2019: Gabriela Cendoya Like every year I think it’s so hard for me to do a list. Choosing one leads me to…
Photobooks of 2019: Eva-Maria Kunz
Photobooks of 2019: Eva-Maria Kunz I’m starting out my 2019 noteworthy book list with my 2018 entry. This is what I wrote on Instagram…
Photobooks of 2019: Simon Baker
Photobooks of 2019: Simon Baker Busy Living: Everything with Everybody, Everywhere, All of the Time by Coco CapitanIf You’ve Seen it All, Close Your…
Photobooks of 2019: Sarah Allen
Photobooks of 2019: Sarah Allen The Pillar by Stephen Gill Seasons come and go but the constant in this book is the cast of…
Photobooks of 2019: Raymond Meeks
Photobooks of 2019: Raymond Meeks Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road by Tim CarpenterAs a fellow midwesterner, I’m familiar with a sensibility in Tim Carpenter’s…
Photobooks of 2019: Rob Hornstra
Photobooks of 2019: Rob Hornstra Are They Rocks or Clouds? by Marina CaneveThis book is overlooked, but buy it and you won’t regret it….
Photobooks of 2019: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi (Chose Commune)
Photobooks of 2019: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi (Chose Commune) Radiator Theatre by Ina JangIna Jang photographed colourful painted cutout shapes on her New York’s apartment radiator,…
Photobooks of 2019: Bryan Schutmaat
Photobooks of 2019: Bryan Schutmaat I’ve limited my selection to five titles because I’ve been a bit behind on photobooks this year. I wouldn’t…
Photobooks of 2019: Amanda Ling-Ning Lo
Photobooks of 2019: Amanda Ling-Ning Lo Gift by Mari KatayamaThe first book by Mari Katayama, which is both a retrospective and a portfolio of…
Photobooks of 2019: Maki
Photobooks of 2019: Maki In My Mind There is Never Silence by Diego MorenoAfter his very interesting first book “Huesped” published in 2018 Diego…
Photobooks of 2019: Brad Feuerhelm
Photobooks of 2019: Brad Feuerhelm This is a nearly impossible year to narrow down titles to 10 books, so you get 15. It was…
Photobooks of 2019: John Gossage
Photobooks of 2019: John Gossage The Unwanted by Thilde JensenA book that ties beauty and despair together, a most unlikely paring that in this…
Photobooks of 2019: 10×10 Photobooks
Photobooks of 2019: 10×10 Photobooks 10×10 Japanese Photobooks, 10×10’s first reading room project, launched in September 2012 and was ulimately donated to the International…
Photobooks of 2019: Rémi Coignet
Photobooks of 2019: Rémi Coignet Ten books I enjoyed this year, alphabetised by author. New Dutch Views by Marwan BassiouniThe title references the rich…
Photobooks of 2019: Terri Weifenbach
Photobooks of 2019: Terri Weifenbach Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road by Tim CarpenterMy main criteria for photo books is that they are carried by…
Photobooks of 2019: Rachel and Gregory Barker (STANLEY/BARKER)
Photobooks of 2019: Rachel and Gregory Barker Young New York by Ethan James Green To have your first book published by Aperture is impressive….
Photobooks of 2019: Robin Titchener
Photobooks of 2019: Robin Titchener Looking At The Overlooked by John MyersThis is the second volume in a trilogy forming a comprehensive overview of…
Photobooks of 2019: Miwa Susuda
Photobooks of 2019: Miwa Susuda Young New York by Ethan James Green Eschewing complicated explanation, Green’s portraiture is timeless and authentic, pure and simple….
Photobooks of 2019: Ed Templeton
Photobooks of 2019: Ed Templeton By The Sea by Markéta Luskačová I have an affinity for photos shot at the seaside, so this book…
Photobooks of 2019: Todd Hido
Photobooks of 2019: Todd Hido L’inventaire Infini by Sébastien Lifshitz L’inventaire Infini is a true find for me as I long for the days…
Photobooks of 2019: An Introduction
For our annual feature, we have once again invited people from a cross-section of photobook disciplines to select their favourite photobooks of the past…
We Are Family: Masahisa Fukase’s “Family,” and Guillaume Simoneau’s “Murder,” by Robert Dunn
No question, Masahisa Fukase was one crazy cat. His photobooks range from the slight (photos of sidewalk cracks, yep, just sidewalk cracks … except,…
Happy Birthday Stanley Barker, by Robin Titchener
It came to my attention the other day that one of my favourite people is turning five this year, Stanley Barker. Cue wry smile…
Color Film Changes Everything: Fun Times in the Soviet Union, Boris Mikhailov’s “Suzi et Cetera (Part 2),” by Robert Dunn
Few things are as interesting when it comes to artists than watching them discover their true work, what they’re supposed to do, who they’re…
Ghosts Are Real by Philip J Brittan, reviewed by Robin Titchener
People move in and out of our lives with no rhyme or reason. Some are there for just the blink of an eye, whilst…
The Photobook as Pulp Fiction, Tania Franco Klein’s “Positive Disintegration,” by Robert Dunn
When you think about it, it’s surprising there aren’t more photobooks that simply set out to tell an actual story, with photos ordered to…
Halland / Gerry Johansson and the Windmills of your Mind, by Torsten Nyström
The slash stroke is used by Gerry Johansson for most of his photobook titles, ever since ”Amerika / Gerry Johansson”, 1998. Now he has…
Photos to Books to Art Objects, Laura El-Tantawy’s “A Star in the Sea,” by Robert Dunn, Part 2
In Part 1 of this piece on Laura El-Tantawy’s work, I quoted her as saying, “Trying not to repeat myself, every project deserves its…
Photos to Books to Art Objects, Laura El-Tantawy’s “A Star in the Sea,” by Robert Dunn, Part 1
Laura El-Tantawy’s most recent work, “A Star in the Sea,” the latest in her string of highly artful self-published book productions, raises for me…
Nothing’s Coming Soon by Clay Maxwell Jordan, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Nothing’s Coming Soon is the first book from young American photographer Clay Maxwell Jordan, and it is a thing of quiet meditative beauty. Jordan…