Issue #002 - Spring 2012
The PhotoBook Review Issue 002
Guest edited by Markus Schaden, photobook educator and evangelist, former owner of Schaden.com, cofounder of the PhotoBook Museum, and a primary contributor to The Photobook in Art and Society: Participative Potentials of a Medium.
Featured Content
Issue Details
Guest Editor Markus Schaden brings us an issue that is “equal parts contemplation of the finer details of book-making and ebullient manifesto-making.” Schaden introduces “The Dummy Shop,” which focuses on maquette-making and includes various pieces on the role of the dummy in the photobook-making process, as well as an intriguing proposal for the burgeoning idea of Photobook Studies, including an exercise in diagramming the history and context of an individual book. Photo-historian Gerry Badger joins Tate Shaw, director of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, in a comparative read on the art of sequencing photographs. Profiles include the collaborative design and creative team of Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, who publish under the name Böhm/Kobayashi; and Swedish designer and curator Greger Ulf Nilson.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Editor’s Note: Developing the Photobook
Markus Schaden
Sequencing the Photobook
Gerry Badger
Sequencing the Photobook
Tate Shaw
Publisher Profile: Böhm/Kobayashi
Darius Himes
Designer Profile: Greger Ulf Nilson
Alan Rapp
The Dummy Shop: Introduction
The Last Dummy Show
Marks Schaden
Dummies as Books as Dummies
Machiel Botman on Kioshi Suzuki; Danny Lyon on Danny Lyon
Unfinished Diary of an Erotomaniac
Tamara Berghmans on Sanne Sannes
Photographer, Detective, Photobook-Maker
Ken Schles interviews Christian Patterson
Spotlight on the Dummy Prize
Thomas Weigand/Dieter Neubert
Introduction to Photobook Studies
Marks Schaden
Centerfold: The La Brea Matrix Photobook Study
Reviews
Ivan Vartanian on
Katsumi Omori
Marc Feustel on
Taishi Hirokawa
Susan Bright on
POV Female
James Crump on
Ryan McGinley
Laurence Vecten on
Nina Poppe
Ramón Reverté on
Miguel Calderón
Joachim Brohm on
Michael Schmidt
Remí Coignet on
Paul Graham
Denise Wolff on
Helmut Newton
Paul Moakley on
Donald Weber
Marcel Feil on
Paolo Pellegrin
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