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…
Literary Ambition and the Photobook: Black Garden Trilogy by Jason Eskenazi, by Robert Dunn
How ambitious can a photobook be? In a handout to accompany the publication of Jason Eskenazi’s two new books, “Black Garden” and “Departure Lounge”—the…
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…
Offprint 2019 by Robin Titchener
Well the dust has settled on the fifth annual Offprint London, so I thought I would take a few minutes to share my thoughts….
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…
Bestselling Photobooks of 2018
The Top 25 Bestselling Photobooks of 2018 at PhotoBookStore were as follows: 1. Margins of Excess by Max Pinckers 2. Past K-Ville by…
Photobooks of 2018: A Summary
Photobooks of 2018: A Summary For our annual feature, we have once again invited people from a cross-section of photobook disciplines to select…