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Category Archives: Book reviews
Review: Mariken Wessels, Queen Ann. P.S. Belly Cut Off
From the moment you hear its title, it becomes clear that Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off is not going to be an ‘easy’ photobook. By ‘easy’ I mean a book that gives itself to you on first viewing, immediately hitting all the right buttons. To use one of my favoured musical analogies, in the [...]
Also posted in European photography, Photo-books Tagged artist book, Holland, Mariken Wessels 2 Comments
Review: Hijacked Vol. 2, Australia/Germany
When I first saw Hijacked Vol. 2, I did a double-take. With an Australian mother and German father, you don’t come across many photobooks that appear to be you in book form. I had missed Hijacked Vol. 1, Australia/America when it came out two years ago so I was excited to discover the Hijacked ‘format’. [...]
Book of the Week #2: Erik Van der Weijde / Der Baum
I wrote about Erik van der Weijde‘s eclectic publishing activities before over on eyecurious books etc. The title of his latest book, Der Baum (The Tree), is taken from Der Baum im Bildde der Landschaft, a 1931 photobook published as part of a series which aimed to “provide cheap educational tools for the uneducated masses.” [...]
Also posted in Book of the Week, European photography, Photo-books Tagged Erik van der Weijde, Self-published, Trees Leave a comment
Review: 10 years of in-public
Street photography is a strangely controversial photographic genre. When I started blogging, I was a little surprised at how divisive it seemed to be within the photo community and its ability to get people worked up, whether they were in the ‘for’ or ‘against’ camp. As with many other photographic genres ‘street photography’ is a [...]
Also posted in Contemporary art, European photography, Photo-books, Tangents Tagged Blake Andrews, Jeffrey Ladd, Nick Turpin, street photography 3 Comments
Review: Leo Rubinfien, A Map of the East
I should say this up front: this is not so much a review as a eulogy. It has been a long time since a photobook has had such an strong impact on me (to the point where I found myself poring over it at 3am during a bout of insomnia). I am not going to [...]
Also posted in American photography, Photo-books Tagged Asia, Donald Richie, East, Japan, Leo Rubinfien, Shomei Tomatsu 2 Comments
Review: Mao Ishikawa, Life in Philly
There is a famous saying in Japan, “The nail that sticks out is hammered down.” If there is any truth to that over-used trope, Mao Ishikawa cannot have had an easy life. Born in 1953 in Okinawa, she was one of the very few female photographers of her generation who attempted to make a career [...]
Also posted in Japanese photography, Photo-books Tagged Daido Moriyama, Mao Ishikawa, Okinawa, Philadelphia, sex, Shomei Tomatsu, street photography 1 Comment
Review: Stefan Heyne, The Noise
Stefan Heyne‘s The Noise is aptly named. His images give the impression of being situated between two states, like the static between radio stations. Their subjects, a window, the keel of a boat, a doorway, a phone, are still recognizable but are reduced to the most basic forms emerging from the surrounding darkness. Heyne uses [...]
Also posted in European photography, Photo-books Tagged Gerhard Richter, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stefan Heyne Leave a comment
Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s
Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko’s Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s belongs to a new breed of photobook: the book on books. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s two-volume history of the photobook is probably the best known of these, but there are other interesting examples. Jeff Ladd‘s Errata Editions is taking this one step [...]
Also posted in Asian photography, Collecting, Japanese photography, Photo-books Tagged Errata Editions, Gerry Badger, Ivan Vartanian, Jeff Ladd, Kikuji Kawada, Martin Parr, Ryuichi Kaneko 1 Comment
Review: Lewis Koch, Touchless Automatic Wonder
“I like seeing things and I like words. There is something revelatory about the two together, an almost pentecostal feeling of seeing in tongues” Lewis Koch Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder started out as a web-based project quite a few years ago (the site is optimized for Internet Explorer 5, so it shows its age) [...]
Review: Adriaan van der Ploeg, Mont Purgatoire