Issue #006 - Spring 2014
The PhotoBook Review Issue 006
Guest edited by Bruno Ceschel, founder of Self Publish, Be Happy—an organization dedicated to shaping contemporary photography and visual culture through publishing, online and offline events, and educational programs. Ceschel also leads the organization’s publishing arm, SPBH Editions.
Featured Content
Issue Details
Guest Editor Bruno Ceschel invites contributors and readers “to explore the nuanced relationship between pleasure, photography, and the photobook.” In this issue, Ceschel asked select bibliophiles and artists to discuss their relationships with their favorite photobooks in relation to lust, desire, or arousal. The resulting contributions—from Vince Aletti, Anouk Kruithof, Adam Broomberg, Paul Graham, Paul Kooiker, Sean O’Hagan, George Pitts, and many more—evoke a wild array of responses. Additional features include interviews with Ceschel and librarian/curator David Senior, Todd Hido in conversation with Aaron Schuman, and an interview with Yurie Nagashima and Ishiuchi Miyako on the female nude in Japanese photography. The Reviews section brings further in-depth focus on ten volumes, including Delphine Bedel on Eric Stephanian, Joanna L. Cresswell on Nico Krijno, Amanda Maddox on Mao Ishikawa, and Tomoki Matsumoto on Oliver Sieber’s Imaginary Club (2013), which would go on to win the 2014 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Editor’s Note
Bruno Ceschel
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Publisher Profile
Artist Slash Publisher: Bruno Ceschel in conversation with David Senior
Designer Spotlight
Ivan Vartanian on Match and Company
Collector Profile
Aaron Schuman in conversation with Todd Hido
Publishing the Body
Lesley A. Martin in conversation with Miyako Ishiuchi and Yurie Nagashima
The Case for Digital
By Simon Bainbridge
PhotoBook Lust
All the PhotoBooks We Desire
Vince Aletti, Adam Broomberg, JH Engström, Paul Graham, Paul Kooiker, Justine Kurland, Michael Mack, Roxana Marcoci, Laurel Nakadate, George Pitts, Lise Sarfati, and more
PLUS web exclusives by:
Brad Feuerhelm, Guido Guidi, Ed Templeton, and Olivier Richon
Centerfold
by Lorenzo Vitturi
Reviews
Amanda Maddox on
Mao Ishikawa, Hot Days in Okinawa
Tomoki Matsumoto on
Oliver Sieber, Imaginary Club
Elspeth H. Brown on
Robert Mapplethorpe, Object
Yannick Bouillis on
Marie Angeletti, Fabricants Couleurs
Christy Lange on
Lucas Blalock, Windows Mirrors Tabletops
Sarah Bay Williams on
Stefan Burger, The Pommel Horse Popo
Joanna L. Cresswell on
Nico Krijno, Smoke Room, Issue 1
Marc Feustel on
Louis Porter, Conflict Resolution
Nicholas Muellner on
Olaf Nicolai and Jan Wenzel, Four Times Through the Labyrinth
Delphine Bedel on
Eric Stephanian, Lucas
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