Issue #003 - Fall 2012
The PhotoBook Review Issue 003
Guest Editor Joan Fontcuberta is an iconoclastic artist, critic, and educator. He has created over twenty award-winning and critically acclaimed books of images and essays that distinctively tackle the nature of photography, perception, and authorship.
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Issue Details
As guest editor, veteran bookmaker, artist, and critic Joan Fontcuberta selected a group of books for review that make a statement about the artist book in the age of digital reproduction. His selection is driven by books that “take into account the alchemical mix of form, materiality, and presentation, as well as content,” proposing that “the photobook increasingly transcends the function of a mere repository of information—the book as catalog—to become a work in its own right, the book as art experience.” Reviews include Claudia Giannetti on Justin James Reed’s book printed with ultraviolet light; Quentin Bajac on Olivier Cablat’s pyramid-shaped book; Bruno Ceschel on Peter Puklus’s Handbook to the Stars; and Andres Hispano on Cristina de Middel. Additional content includes an interview with Rob Hornstra and an introduction to Venezuelan publishing house La Azotea. This issue also serves as the first catalogue for the shortlisted books selected for the inaugural Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Editor’s Note
Joan Fontcuberta
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Sequencing the Photobook, Part 2
Gerry Badger
Designer Profile: Yolanda Cuomo
Darius Himes
Publisher Profile: La Azotea
Leandro Villaro
The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards 2012
Centerfold: First Monument to the Photobook
Joan Fontcuberta
Interview: Rob Hornstra In Conversation with Jörg M. Colberg
Reviews
Joan Fontcuberta on
Julián Baron, Stephen Gill, Katja Stuke
Philip Gefter on
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph: 1964–1977 and Rauschenberg: Photographs: 1949–1962
Barbara Tannenbaum on
Stephen Shore
Marvin Heiferman on
Berenice Abbott
Claudia Giannetti on
Justin James Reed
Quentin Bajac on
Olivier Cablat
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio on
Paulo Nozolino
Diran Sirinian on
Anne Sophie Merryman
Roberta Valtorta on
Dirk-Jan Visser and Arthur Huizinga
Bruno Ceschel on
Peter Puklus
Emmanuelle Waeckerle on
David Alan Harvey
Andres Hispano on
Cristina de Middel
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