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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Daichi Koda’s (back)ground, reviewed by Robin Titchener
From the moment we fight our way into the world they look after us and nurture us. They teach us right from wrong, and…
Artistic Faith and the Photobook: Alec Soth’s “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” Part 2, by Robert Dunn
In Part 1 of my piece on Alec Soth’s new book, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” I wrote about how Soth,…
Will and the World in Photography: Alec Soth’s “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” Part 1, by Robert Dunn
In the promo materials for Alec Soth’s long-awaited, and quite wonderful, new photobook, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” Soth says, “I…
The Defamiliarisation of Ephemeral Reality Issei Suda’s “The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips” by Robert Dunn
It’s pretty old-school. Just bang out photos, taken on the street, and let them amass, then put them out in an inch-thick book of…
The Moor by Robert Darch, reviewed by Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning
Robert Darch’s The Moor photobook continues the successful publishing streak by Another Place Press, an independent publisher specialising in landscape photography broadly conceived. This…
Okinawa by Anders Petersen, reviewed by Robert Dunn
I’ve come to not like the term street photography. I feel in a way it’s time is over; it’s what Robert Frank and William…
Look, I’m wearing all the colours by Rikard Österlund, reviewed by Robin Titchener
“Look I’m wearing all the colours” is the first book by photographer Rikard Österlund. A very personal study, which recounts his day to day…
Public Matters by Janet Delaney, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Here’s the thing with street photography, it’s too easy to just take pictures of people walking down the street. And pictures simply of people…
Shaky Ground by Peter Dekens, reviewed by Robin Titchener
In 2012 Peter Dekens arrived quietly onto the photo book scene with the wonderful Touch. A beautifully conceived, and elegantly simple study of a…
Approximate Joy by Christopher Anderson, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Luxurious is one adjective that encapsulates the mood behind Christopher Anderson’s Approximate Joy. Before we even open the book, it’s beautifully screened cover exudes…
Khichdi (Kitchari) by Nick Sethi, reviewed by Robert Dunn
In my last review for Photobookstore Magazine, I wrote of Morten Andersen’s roughly 8 x 12–inch, 300-plus-page, full-bleed-color photobook on his travels to the…
Border I Korea by Yusuke Hishida, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Border I Korea by Yusuke Hishida, has behind it a relatively simple concept. To show the differences between the people and culture of the…
Fast Cities by Morten Andersen, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Here’s one way to make sense of the world now, the unsettling of the old order, the historical tipping point we all seem to…
High Fashion by Pawel Jaszczuk, reviewed by Robin Titchener
The new book by Polish photographer Pawel Jaszczuk, High Fashion, is at first glance a collection of pictures of drunk and exhausted Japanese businessmen…
She Dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship, reviewed by Robert Dunn
The dream springs eternal. Hit the highway (preferably along fabled Route 66) and discover America. Jack Kerouac did it, so did Robert Frank. So…
I Called Her Lisa Marie by Clementine Schneidermann, reviewed by Robin Titchener
I’m no Elvis Presley fan….but my mum is, and as I was growing up, the strains of songs like Wooden Heart, Blue Suede Shoes, Return…
Reading Raymond Carver by Mary Frey, reviewed by Robert Dunn
In my last review for Photobookstore magazine I looked into how story works in photobooks. By story I meant something less than an out…
Kagerou by Yusuke Takagi, reviewed by Robin Titchener
One of the first images in Yusuke Takagi’s Kagerou is the shadow of a hand hovering over the swollen belly of a pregnant woman. A gesture…