Tokyo Photobook Trip, Part 3, by Robert Dunn
So in Part Two of my Japan journal we left off with it being Sunday and my not knowing what to do. Well, I...
View ArticleOffprint 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....
View ArticleLiterary Ambition and the Photobook: Black Garden Trilogy by Jason Eskenazi,...
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...
View ArticlePhotos to Books to Art Objects, Laura El-Tantawy’s “A Star in the Sea,” by...
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...
View ArticlePhotos to Books to Art Objects, Laura El-Tantawy’s “A Star in the Sea,” by...
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...
View ArticleThe Photobook as Pulp Fiction, Tania Franco Klein’s “Positive...
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...
View ArticleColor Film Changes Everything: Fun Times in the Soviet Union, Boris...
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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleWe Are Family: Masahisa Fukase’s “Family,” and Guillaume Simoneau’s “Murder,”...
No question, Masahisa Fukase was one crazy cat. His photobooks range from the slight (photos of sidewalk cracks, yep, just sidewalk cracks … except,...
View ArticleOut On the Street – Rules of Street Photography, by Robert Dunn
In my last piece for Photobookstore Magazine I wrote about Jeff Mermelstein’s “Hardened,” his grand exploration of all things shot out on the street....
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