White Night by Feng Li, reviewed by Robert Dunn
In my fiction writing class, after a piece has been read out loud, the first question we ask is: What’s the story? I like…
Read MoreIn my fiction writing class, after a piece has been read out loud, the first question we ask is: What’s the story? I like…
Read MoreThe first time I met Daido Moriyama, I told him I thought of him as the Bob Dylan of photography. A small smile, an…
Read MoreFun times! In this review, I’m looking at books from my own growing-up world, the celebrated/ridiculed San Fernando Valley suburbs north of Los Angeles/Beverly…
Read MoreTrue story: I was twenty, on a beach in San Diego, California, reading Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s sprawling God/devil-bedizened tale of Ahab’s obsession with his…
Read MoreImagine: There’s a novel that towers over all of 19th-century American literature, there’s a group of French poems that takes you where no other…
Read MorePerhaps it’s because I’m a novelist, because I studied lit in college, but what moves me most in a potentially great photobook is what…
Read MoreOne of the rarest, most interesting of photobook genres: I’m a talented young photographer, I’m doing wild, socially deviant stuff, throwing myself all the…
Read MorePhotographer Shane Lavalette had the good fortune (and as we’ll see, the tough climb) to be commissioned by the High Museum of Art in…
Read MoreWe open the new book 36 Views, by Russian photographer Fyodor Telkov and published by Ediciones Anómalas, to find a shot of a Soviet…
Read MoreIn my last review for Photobookstore Magazine, I talked about autobiography in photobooks, how all photobooks in a way chart a photographer’s life, since…
Read MoreWhat is autobiography in a photobook? On one level all photobooks are autobiographical, since a photographer has to be there to take a shot,…
Read MoreThe 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,…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreWhat do we do with black and white these days? Photographers can of course still shoot film, process it, print it; they can chase…
Read MoreIt’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…
Read MoreThe afterlife of Masahisa Fukase continues apace. In the last year I’ve picked up Slaughter (staged shots of his first wife, Yoko, posing in…
Read MoreIf you love Japanese photography, as I do, the new book Provoke: Between Protest and Performance is essential—and a godsend. The thick, black tome…
Read MoreMarcelo Greco’s Sombras Secas (Dry Shadows, in Portuguese) is a black-and-white Provoke-era-style photobook comprised of 35 recent shots from Greco’s home city of São…
Read MoreJacob Aue Sobol’s new book, By the River of Kings, plants him in Bangkok. Last year he put out a Leica tie-in book called…
Read MoreAlthough in most ways I’m an analog kind of guy, when I shoot for my photobooks, I shoot digital—unapologetically. Since I’m coming to my…
Read MoreRobert Dunn has kindly shared his photobook picks from the past year: 1.Daisuke Yokota – Taratine Daisuke Yokota’s masterpiece (so far). See my Photobookstore…
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