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…
Photobook Recommendations and Bestsellers, by Martin Amis
With much of my time spent working on my own photobook, The Gamblers, I chose to pause my regular photobook recommendation feature, The List….
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…
Zuisha by John Sypal, reviewed by Robert Dunn
How important is an actual story to a photobook? By story here I mean almost literal narrative, with characters and situations: a mini-movie or…
Daido Moriyama’s Ango and the MM collaboration, reviewed by Torsten Nyström
Ango Daido is the first really successful combination of photos and short stories in the series of photobooks made by designer Satoshi Machiguchi and…
Blue Period/Last Summer by Nobuyoshi Araki, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Nobuyoshi Araki doesn’t need me to write about him. He probably doesn’t need anybody to write about him at this point, five hundred or…
The Absence of Two by Akihito Yoshida, reviewed by Robin Titchener
“I wonder where he’s gone? He went out on his motorbike and hasn’t been back since” This moving new book from Japan, The…
Good Goddamn by Bryan Schutmaat, reviewed by Robin Titchener
In 2013 one of the most beautiful photo books that I have ever seen was released. The majestic Grays the Mountain Sends by Bryan Schutmaat. A study…
Night Procession by Stephen Gill, reviewed by Robert Dunn
First comes the hunger. An actual physical urgency to make pictures. I feel it all the time, especially if I haven’t been out shooting…
Signos by Veejay Villafranca, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Over the last few years I have been delighted to see the appearance of some fine work emerging from the Philippines, and about time…
Bestselling Photobooks of 2017
Top 25 Bestselling Photobooks of 2017 at PhotoBookStore were as follows: 1. Alec Soth – Sleeping by The Mississippi 2. Masahisa Fukase –…
Photobooks of 2017
Photobooks of 2017 We asked publishers, photographers, booksellers, writers and collectors to share some of their photobook highlights of the year in the hope…
Photobooks of 2017: Martin Amis
Photobooks of 2017: Martin Amis Over the course of the year I share some of my personal picks from the Photobookstore shelves on…
Photobooks of 2017: Mark Power
Photobooks of 2017: Mark Power In no order other than (almost) alphabetical, these are my favourite twelve book purchases of 2017: Mathieu Asselin –…
Photobooks of 2017: Rémi Coignet
Photobooks of 2017: Rémi Coignet Laia Abril – On Abortion Laia Abril started work on the long term project « A History of Misogyny », long…
Photobooks of 2017: Maki
Photobooks of 2017: Maki Masaki Yamamoto – Guts It is common nowadays to show in the photo books intimate scenes about the photographers…
Photobooks of 2017: Rudi Thoemmes
Photobooks of 2017: Rudi Thoemmes I looked at fewer photo books this year, about 400-500, which is probably about 10% or thereabouts of…
Photobooks of 2017: Alec Soth
Photobooks of 2017: Alec Soth Mary Frey – Reading Raymond Carver Made in the late 1970’s while pregnant and starting a career in…
Photobooks of 2017: Colin Pantall
Photobooks of 2017: Colin Pantall I haven’t seen as many books as I have in previous years so I know there are some…
Photobooks of 2017: Rob Hornstra
Photobooks of 2017: Rob Hornstra This is a list for everyone who believes the world around us is more important than photography. …
Photobooks of 2017: 10×10 Photobooks Team
Photobooks of 2017: 10×10 Photobooks Team Multiple viewpoints are essential components in 10×10 Photobooks’ activities and approaches within the photobook community. Managed by three…