Issue #010 - Spring 2016
The PhotoBook Review Issue 010
Guest edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, photographer and critic. His first book, One Wall a Webb (2018), was winner of the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award in 2018. He is currently assistant professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Featured Content
Issue Details
As guest editor, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa assembled “Notes for a History of the PhotoBook and the Archive,” an inquiry into how photobooks have been and can be useful framing devices for archival projects and the intersections of widely different types of photography. As he states in the introduction to that section, “it is through the considered articulation of the archival photobook that we are able to look again at our history of seeing the world.” Among the many contributors to this section are Susan Meiselas, Michael Lesy, David Campany, Thomas Sauvin, Renée Mussai, Mike Mandel, Brian Ulrich, and Andrew Stefan Weiner. For the Publisher Profile, Ruben Lundgren interviews Yuan Di of Jiazazhi Press; Antonio de Luca is featured in the Designer Spotlight. Additional review contributions include Justine Kurland on Mariken Wessels, Tim Carpenter on Michael Schmelling, Sarah Bay Gachot on Walid Raad, and Doug DuBois on Chris Killip.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Editor’s Note
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Publisher’s Profile
Ruben Lundgren in conversation with Yuan Di, Jiazazhipress
Designer Spotlight
Lesley A. Martin in conversation with Antonio De Luca
The PhotoBook and the Archive
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Notes for a History of the PhotoBook and the Archive
With contributions by
Marco Breuer, David Company, Jason Fulford, Michael Lesy, Susan Meiselas, and Brian Ulrich
Marco Breuer on
Mike Mandel and Larry SultanEvidence
Kristen Lubben on
Zoe Leonard and Cheryl DunyeThe Fae Richards Photo Archive
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa in conversation with
David Campany
Jason Fulford on the New York Public Library
The Picture Collection
Centerfold
The Picture Collection
Notes for a History of the PhotoBook and the Archive, continued
With Contributions by Melissa Catanese, Ron Jude, Erik Kessels, Mike Mandel, Renée Mussai, Lorie Novak, Eva Respini, Thomas Sauvin, John Tagg, Penelope Umbrico, Matthew Vollgraff, Brendan Wattenberg, Andrew Stefan Weiner, Ofer Wolberger, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, and Francesco Zanot
Reviews
Justine Kurland on
Mariken Wessels
Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor
Tim Carpenter on
Michael Schmelling
My Blank Pages
Eugénie Shinkle on
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Spirit is a Bone
Kate Palmer Albers on
Taisuke Koyama
Rainbow Variations
Jon Uriarte on
Mariela Sancari
Moisés
Sarah Bay Gachot on
Eva Respini, ED.
Walid Raad
Vicki Goldberg on
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance
Adam Bell on
Eduardo Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles
The Itinerant Languages of Photography
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