Issue #008 - Spring 2015
The PhotoBook Review Issue 008
Guest edited by Ivan Vartanian, a writer, editor, and publisher based in Tokyo. Under the imprint Goliga, he copublished and coauthored The Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s with Aperture and is currently working on the forthcoming Japanese Photography Magazines, 1880s to 1980s.
Featured Content
Issue Details
Tokyo-based Guest Editor Ivan Vartanian brings a dual focus on contemporary Japanese photography and the “Photobook as Performance as Photobook.” Vartanian is driven to combine these two topics by questions of “what defines a photobook and how those parameters can be stretched to such a point that ‘book’ may no longer be an appropriate appellation of the thing in question.” Performative book-making by Daido Moriyama, Daisuke Yokota, and Takashi Homma are profiled, along with contributions by Sebastian Hau, Melinda Gibson, Aron Mörel, Katja Stuke, and Anouk Kruithof. An interview with Jason Fulford discusses how books and book launches can be made into experiences, and Kenji Takazawa profiles the publisher Sokyusha. The Reviews section features Daido Moriyama writing on William Klein, Kotaro Iizawa on Ryuichi Ishikawa, Russet Lederman on Nobuyoshi Araki, and Matthew Carson on Takashi Homma; while Marc Feustel brings together a roundup of “Photobooks After 3/11” by Rinko Kawauchi, Lieko Shiga, Tomoki Imai, and others. Additional reviews include Kira Josefsson on Philip Gefter, and Mira Jacob on Max Pinckers.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Photobook as Performance as Photobook
with Bruno Ceschel, Sebastian Hau, Melinda Gibson, Aron Mörel, Katja Stuke, and Anouk Kruithof
If You Came Here to Have Fun, You Will
Denise Wolff in conversation with Jason Fulford
Designer Spotlight Yoshihisa Tanaka
Publisher Profile Kenji Takazawa on Sokyusha
Collecting the Japanese Photobook
Conversations with Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian
Collecting the Japanese Photobook, Part Two
Conversations with Manfred Heiting and Lesley A. Martin
Centerfold
Anouk Kruithof and Lieko Shiga
Marc Feustel on Photobooks After 3/11
How to Move a Book: Whitewater Rafting and Photobook DistributionTricia Gabriel and Mike Slack
Reviews
Russet Lederman on
Nobuyoshi Araki
Chiro Love Death
Daido Moriyama on
William Klein
Tokyo 1961
Kotaro Iizawa on
Ryuichi Ishikawa
A Grand Polyphony and Okinawan Portraits 2010–2012
W. M. Hunt on
Bohnchang Koo
Slow Talk
Matthew Carson on
Takashi Homma
New Documentary
Kira Josefsson on
Philip Gefter
Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe
Mira Jacob on
Max Pinckers
Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty
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