Issue #011 - Fall 2016
The PhotoBook Review Issue 011
Guest edited by Denise Wolff, senior editor at Aperture. She has spearheaded the commission of Aperture’s education-oriented titles, such as The Photographer’s Playbook (2014) and The Photography Workshop Series (2014–ongoing), in addition to children’s books by authors like Joel Meyerowitz, Jason Fulford, and Susan Meiselas.
Featured Content
Issue Details
In this issue, Guest Editor Denise Wolff poses a series of questions that expand our ideas about what constitutes a photobook and whom we consider its audience. As proposed in the introduction to the section “The Accidental PhotoBook”: “it is a good time to consider other types of books that use photography, but are not considered photobooks qua photobooks.” Contributors, including Todd Hido, Laurie Simmons, Sonya Dyakova, Frish Brandt, John Gossage, and Paolo Ventura, advocate for their personal favorites in “Guilty Pleasures/Hidden Treasures,” selecting from cookbooks, crime dossiers, and sex manuals. Several roundups include Frédérique Destribats on children’s photobooks, Chris McCaw on photography manuals, Marvin Heiferman on photobooks about the moon, and others on urban architecture and interior design. Matthew Leifheit interviews Paul Schiek of TBW Books for the Publisher Profile, and Joseph Logan is featured in the Designer Spotlight. Reviews include Robert Adams on Gregory Halpern, LaToya Ruby Frazier on Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem (2016), Shantrelle P. Lewis on Jamel Shabazz, and Paula Kupfer on Guadalupe Ruiz. Issue 011 also presents the books shortlisted for the 2016 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Publisher Profile
Matthew Leifheit in conversation with Paul Schiek, TBW Books
Designer Spotlight
A conversation with Joseph Logan
The Accidental PhotoBook
Denise Wolff
The Masters Make Cookbooks
Guilty Pleasures/Hidden Treasures
With contributions by Darius Himes and Frish Brandt
Guilty Pleaseure/Hidden Treasures continued
With contributions by Alexa Dilworth, Sonya Dyakova, Joan Fontcuberta, John Gossage, Hans Gremmen, Todd Hido, Mutsuko Ota, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Laurie Simmons, Paolo Ventura
Frédérique Destribats on
Children’s PhotoBooks
Chris McCaw on Photography Manuals
Marvin Heiferman on
PhotoBooks of the Moon
Alan Rapp on
Illustrated Urban Architecture
Ivan Shaw on
Interior Design Books
Centerfold
PhotoBook ColoringBook
Selections by Martin Parr and Denise Wolff
We Sell Things You Don’t Need . . .
Amelia Lang in conversation with
Paulina Nassar and Nick Sarno, Press SF
The 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Reviews
Justin Carville on
Eamonn Doyle
End.
Peter Kayafas on
Terry Tempest Williams
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
Robert Adams on
Gregory HalpernZZYZX
LaToya Ruby Frazier on
Michal Raz-Russo, Ed.
Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem
Shantrelle P. Lewis on
Jamel Shabazz
Back in the Days Coloring Book
Charlotte Cotton on Kim Kardashian West
Selfish
Jeffrey Ladd on Marie-Isabel Vogel and Alain Rappaport, Eds.Maximilian Stejskal-Folklig idrott
Paula Kupfer on Guadalupe RuizKleine Fotoenzyklopädie
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The PhotoBook Review Issue 017
Guest edited by Carmen Winant, whose creative practice involves “creation and transformation, an Ouroborus in which printed material is both created and destroyed.” Her photobooks, such as Body Index (2020), and My Birth (2018), have been informed by her deeply held commitment to feminism.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 016
Guest edited by Federica Chiocchetti, a writer, curator, editor, and lecturer specializing in photography, fictions, and words. Through her on- and offline platform The Photocaptionist, she collaborates with institutions such as The Photographers’ Gallery, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Foam.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 015
Guest edited by David Campany, writer, curator, photographer, and educator, one of the most prolific critics on modern and contemporary photography in the field today. In early 2020, he was appointed the managing director of programs at the International Center of Photography, New York.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 014
Guest edited by Deirdre Donohue, who brings her bibliographic and bibliophilic knowledge to this issue. Donohue is assistant director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library. Formerly, she was the Stephanie Shuman Director of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections at the International Center...
The PhotoBook Review Issue 013
Issue 013 was assembled by Lesley A. Martin, publisher of The PhotoBook Review and creative director at Aperture Foundation.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 012
Guest edited by Daria Tuminas, an independent scholar, writer, and curator specializing in the contemporary photobook. She currently works with Fotodok in the Netherlands, and is the former head of the Unseen Book Market and Unseen Dummy Awards.