Issue #009 - Fall 2015
The PhotoBook Review Issue 009
Guest edited by Kummer & Herrman, the award-winning Utrecht, Netherlands–based design studio founded by Arthur Herrman and Jeroen Kummer.
Featured Content
Issue Details
In this issue, guest editors Arthur Herrman and Jeroen Kummer (design duo Kummer & Herrman) challenge the idea of photobook-making as a solitary practice, inviting us instead to consider their dictate that “togetherness and mutual reinforcement are key for creating a successful project—especially in its realization in book form.” A section on “Design Books to Know” offers a quick-hit list of design-oriented books by designers and design critics including Irma Boom, Rick Poynor, and Andrew Sloat. Taco Hidde Bakker compiles brief conversations on collaboration between six teams of coconspirators: Laia Abril and Ramón Pez; Alejandro Cartagena, Fernando Galllegos, and Roberto Salazar; and Sarah Entwistle and Antonio de Luca; among others. Femke Lutgerink focuses the Designer Spotlight on Ania Nałęcka, who frequently works with the collective Sputnik Photos; and Arjen Ribbens profiles publisher Willem van Zoetendaal. Reviews include Giulia Zorzi on Lisa Barnard, Stephanie H. Tung on Xu Yong, Rahaab Allana on Laura El-Tantawy, Tamara Berghmans on Hillie de Rooij, and more. Issue 009 also presents the books shortlisted for the 2015 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Editors’ Note
by Kummer & Herrman
Publisher’s Note
by Lesley A. Martin
Design Books to Know
Irma Boom on Kunst der sechziger Jahre and the work of Jan Vermeulen; Bruno Monguzzi on The Photographer’s Eye; Rick Poynor on About Graphic Design; Sven Ehmann on Fliehkraft; and Andrew Sloat on Learning from Las Vegas
Publisher Profile
Arjen Ribbens on Willem van Zoetendaal
Designer Spotlight
Femke Lutgerink on Ania Nalęcka
One Plus One Is Three
A Conversation on Collaboration
Centerfold
by Kummer & Herrman
The 2015 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Reviews
Rahaab Allana on
Laura El-Tantawy
In the Shadow of the Pyramids
Stephanie H. Tung on
Xu Yong
Negatives
Arnold van Bruggen on
Carlos Spottorno
Wealth Management
Isabelle Evertse on
Sjoerd Knibbeler
Paper Planes
Giulia Zorzi on
Lisa Barnard
Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden
Matthew Goodman on
Antony Cairns
LDN EL
Rémi Coignet on
Henrik Malmström
Life Is One Live It Well
Tamara Berghmans on
Hillie de Rooij
Myopia
Chris Boot on
Bruce Gilden
FACE
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