Photobooks of 2017: Laurence Vecten
Photobooks of 2017: Laurence Vecten Bryan Schutmaat – Good Goddamn Bryan Schutmaat depicts rural America as I imagine it : bad boy, trucks, mud,…
Photobooks of 2017: Rodrigo Orrantia
Photobooks of 2017: Rodrigo Orrantia The Pigeon Photographer The latest photobook by independent publisher Nicoló Degiorgis at Rorhof. An amazing selection of Julius…
Photobooks of 2017: Laia Abril
Photobooks of 2017: Laia Abril Mathieu Asselin – Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation Mathieu Asselin’s acclaimed first book is composed of some of the…
Photobooks of 2017: David Solo
Photobooks of 2017: David Solo Chloe Sells – Flamingo Continuing to push book design in novel ways that complements the strong work. …
Photobooks of 2017: Thomas Wiegand
Photobooks of 2017: Thomas Wiegand Javier Arcenillas – UFO Presences Amusing investigation in 1950s style about places, where flying saucers were spotted. …
Photobooks of 2017: Jeffrey Ladd
Photobooks of 2017: Jeffrey Ladd Peter Piller – Von Erde Schoner In the age of photographic drones Petter Piller’s Von Erde Schoner (Prettier…
Photobooks of 2017: Robin Titchener
Photobooks of 2017: Robin Titchener 2017 has seen the release of some wonderful work, and I only wish I could have included more. However,…
Photobooks of 2017: Ron Jude
Photobooks of 2017: Ron Jude Some books I enjoyed this year, in no particular order: Tim Carpenter – Local Objects This is…
Photobooks of 2017: Erik Kessels
Photobooks of 2017: Erik Kessels Karel Martens – Motion This fascinating collection is essentially a behind the scenes look at Karel Martens creative…
Photobooks of 2017: Gabriela Cendoya
Photobooks of 2017: Gabriela Cendoya I’ve bought less books this year, but this list is still filled with books from my collection. Of…
Photobooks of 2017: Eva-Maria Kunz
Photobooks of 2017: Eva-Maria Kunz How do I buy books? There are those that matter, those that are simply gorgeous, those that the world…
Photobooks of 2017: Brad Feuerhelm
Photobooks of 2017: Brad Feuerhelm This list is compromised of titles that I find personally relevant and is in no way is an attempt…
Photobooks of 2017: Simon Baker
Photobooks of 2017: Simon Baker Mathieu Asselin – Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation An urgent topic and brilliantly conceived and delivered. Smart and important…
Photobooks of 2017: Ed Templeton
Photobooks of 2017: Ed Templeton These are my favorite photo books of the year out of the ones I came into contact with. I…
It Don’t Mean a Thing by Saul Leiter & Paul Auster, reviewed by Robert Dunn
Here’s the one time I met Saul Leiter. It was a couple years before his death, he was signing a new book at his…
Small Town Inertia by Jim Mortram, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Although regularly listed as one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, we – the UK – along with most other “first world” countries are…
The List #5, Latest Photobook Recommendations by Martin Amis
The List #5 by Martin Amis The fifth installment in the regular feature, The List, highlights my personal recommendations from the many arrivals…
Poste Restante by Christer Strömholm, reviewed by Robert Dunn
There’s a very helpful quote on the back of the reissue (finally!) of Christer Strömholm’s 1967 masterpiece, Poste Restante, from a contemporary review in…
The Disappearance Of Joseph Plummer by Amani Willett, reviewed by Robin Titchener
In 2013 Amani Willett released Disquiet, one of the most beautiful books of that year. A sequence of images that contrasted the first years…
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…
The List #4, Latest Photobook Recommendations by Martin Amis
The List #4 by Martin Amis The fourth installment in the regular feature, The List highlights my personal recommendations from the many arrivals…
Pak! by Brian Sergio, reviewed by Robin Titchener
“Manila is a shit hole….and you’re going to love it !” Well, it got my attention. Brian Sergio is a name that is going…
Daido Moriyama’s Never-Ending Tour, a review of Pretty Woman by Robert Dunn
The first time I met Daido Moriyama, I told him I thought of him as the Bob Dylan of photography. A small smile, an…
Nokturno by Andrej Lamut, reviewed by Christer Ek
The Angry Bat is a publication house run by Matej Sitar, photographer himself, with a very slow rhythm of publication, more or less one…
The Photobooks of Tiane Doan Na Champassak, an appreciation by Robin Titchener
I became aware of Tiane Doan Na Champassak pretty much from the time his books started to appear. His work instantly stood out as fresh and interesting…
The List #3, Latest Photobook Recommendations by Martin Amis
The List #3 by Martin Amis The third installment in the new regular feature, The List, highlights my personal recommendations from the recent…
People in Cars by Mike Mandel and Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan, a review by Robert Dunn
Fun 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…
Clear of People by Michal Iwanowski, reviewed by Robin Titchener
Books of landscape photography are tricky things. How do you present what is very often flawlessly beautiful, but somehow clichéd subject matter in such a way…
Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, reviewed by Robert Dunn (Part II)
True 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…
Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, reviewed by Robert Dunn (Part I)
Imagine: 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…