Photobooks

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A Short History of the African Photobook

For Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, publisher of Fourthwall Books, the photobook is a space for political and social history.

Editor's Note

A book with “cinematic flair”; “a quasicinematic, nonlinear narrative”; “raw, cinematic, stream-of-consciousness”—you hear these things about photobooks…

Robert Adams on Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX

D. H. Lawrence admired the American Southwest but found Southern California troubling: “In a way, it has…

Guilty Pleasures/Hidden Treasures: Darius Himes and Frish Brandt

              Darius Himes on Robert Spector The Pizza Hut Story Melcher…

Frédérique Destribats on Children’s PhotoBooks

  As photography developed in the wake of its invention in 1839, constant improvement in processing and…

Video Response: Amos Mulder on Inka and Niclas Lindergård, The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth

Amos Mulder is a video artist whose works include visual responses to found footage, texts, and photographic…

Publisher Profile

TBW Books Matthew Leifheit in conversation with Paul Schiek So often in art—as in life—the decision to…

Editor’s Note

The essential goal of publishing is to make public. But when publishing photobooks, who do we consider…

Peter Kayafas on Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks

  America is defined as much by its open spaces—where the hand of man is invisible or…

The Accidental PhotoBook

We are at a moment when the community of photobook makers and collectors is expanding rapidly, yet…

Justine Kurland on Mariken Wessels Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor

A photographer’s obsessive relationship with his wife, and the powerful yet peculiar work that resulted.

Publisher's Profile: Ruben Lundgren in conversation with Yuan Di, Jiazazhi Press

Ruben Lundgren speaks with Yuan Di about his independent Chinese publishing house, Jiazazhi Press

Doug DuBois on Chris Killip In Flagrante Two

My first encounter with In Flagrante (1988) was in San Francisco, where the year it was released…

Vicki Goldberg on Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance

In 1826 a thirty-year-old slave escapes captivity becoming a legally free, outspoken and effective supporter of the abolitionist cause.

Eugénie Shinkle on Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Spirit is a Bone

The images in Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Spirit is a Bone were made using advanced facial…

Andrew Stefan Weiner on Marcel Broodthaers Musée d ’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Section Publicité

The Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers has long suffered from a bifurcated reception: while his work has been…

Kristen Lubben on Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye The Fae Richards Photo Archive

Kristen Lubben reflects on a collection of glamour shots, stills from movie sets, photobooth portraits, family snapshots, and typewritten captions which make up a fictional archive.

The PhotoBook and the Archive

In what ways is the photobook a useful framing device for archival projects?
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Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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