Photobooks of 2016: Anouk Kruithof
Photobooks of 2016: Anouk Kruithof Carmen Winant: My Life as a Man My Life as a Man depicts a single collage deconstructing and rearranging its composition….
Photobooks of 2016: Mariela Sancari
Photobooks of 2016: Mariela Sancari Anaesthesia by Valentina Abenavoli Black, dark, beautiful and thought provoking book. All the images are screen shots from news…
Photobooks of 2016: Thomas Wiegand
Photobooks of 2016: Thomas Wiegand New York in Photobooks by Horacio Fernandez A rather small book with a matching selection of New York books…
Photobooks of 2016: Simon Baker
Photobooks of 2016: Simon Baker JH Engstrom – Revoir Brilliant, wild, poetic, and deeply seductive. Plus it has fires on the covers. …
Photobooks of 2016: Tiane Doan na Champassak
Photobooks of 2016: Tiane Doan na Champassak Daisuke Yokota – Matter / Burn Out Penelope Umbrico – Out of Order : Bad…
Photobooks of 2016: Martin Parr
Photobooks of 2016: Martin Parr Badly Repaired Cars by Ronni Campana Hoxton Mini Press are producing books mainly about East London where they…
Photobooks of 2016: Laura El-Tantawy
Photobooks of 2016: Laura El-Tantawy Black Is The Day, Black Is The Night by Amy ElkinsA detail sensitive design of Elkin’s years of correspondence…
Photobooks of 2016: Robin Titchener
Photobooks of 2016: Robin Titchener Sakiko Nomura – Another Black Darkness Sakiko Nomura has been associated with brooding dark shadowy portraits and nudes since she…
Photobooks of 2016: Rudi Thoemmes
Photobooks of 2016: Rudi Thoemmes 2016 was in some ways a year to forget when it comes to new photobooks and I had…
Photobooks of 2016: Gabriela Cendoya
Photobooks of 2016: Gabriela Cendoya Anaesthesia by Valentina Abenavoli A very dark, haunting and demanding book, that raises a lot of questions on…
Photobooks of 2016: Rodrigo Orrantia
Photobooks of 2016: Rodrigo Orrantia These are my highlights of the year. They were all photo books I spotted during this year’s photobook festivals…
Photobooks of 2016: Erik Kessels
Photobooks of 2016: Erik Kessels Marianne Vitale – Train Wreck This artist/photo book shows found black and white images of train wrecks. Apart from…
Photobooks of 2016: Jeffrey Ladd
Photobooks of 2016: Jeffrey Ladd Diane Arbus – In the Beginning. The last decade of Diane Arbus’ life and work is so celebrated…
Photobooks of 2016
Welcome to Photobooks of 2016 We asked publishers, photographers, booksellers, writers and collectors to share some of their photobook highlights of the year in…
Mikiko Hara’s and Stephen Dixon’s Change, a review by Robert Dunn
The first question with Mikiko Hara’s and Stephen Dixon’s Change is how to read it. The photobook, the first published by the Gould Collection,…
Anaesthesia by Valentina Abenavoli, reviewed by Christer Ek
Valentina Abenavoli is the co-founder with Alex Bocchetto, of the wonderful publishing house Akina Books. Specializing in various publications from zines to artist books,…
Shadows of Wormwood by Arthur Bondar, reviewed by Robert Dunn
In my last review for PhotoBookstore Magazine, I looked at Renato D’Agostin’s Archaeologies: Los Angeles, and took it to task for the limitations of…
Bookshelf Picks – July to September 2016 by Martin Amis
Sugar Paper Theories by Jack Latham Recipient of the Bar Tur Photobook Award, Sugar Paper Theories is Jack Latham’s hugely impressive multi-layered project on…
Renato D’Agostin’s Los Angeles, a review by Robert Dunn
I wanted to write about Renato D’Agostin’s new book Archaeologies: Los Angeles because I was born and raised in L.A., and on trips back…
Let It Bleed: an interview with Rona Yefman by Sophie de Rakoff
“I am 20 year old guy, but only a 7 month old girl” – Gil Yefman 2002 Let It Bleed is Israeli photographer…
New Material by Miwa Susuda
Through the major museum exhibitions, professional photo journals, art fairs/contests, web site reviews, social network site prevalence and photo-book publishing by both independent publishers…
Astres Noirs by Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, reviewed by Robert Dunn
What do we do with black and white these days? Photographers can of course still shoot film, process it, print it; they can chase…
An Avid Observer: Thoughts around Carlos Alba’s The Observation of Trifles by Rodrigo Orrantia
Finding your way in London as a foreigner has never been easy. I think what impressed me most at the start, was the lack…
Chris Killip – In Flagrante Two, reviewed by Robert Dunn
It’s one thing simply to reissue a classic photobook, as Steidl did recently—and exemplarily—with Cartier-Bresson’s Decisive Moment, but it’s a bit more to put…