Issue 014 - Spring 2018
The PhotoBook Review Issue 014
Guest edited by Deirdre Donohue, who brings her bibliographic and bibliophilic knowledge to this issue. Donohue is assistant director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library. Formerly, she was the Stephanie Shuman Director of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Featured Content
Issue Details
Guest Editor Deirdre Donohue leads an exploration of the informal system of collections and libraries that care for the photobook, a network of connoisseurship that supports the community via the purchase, conservation, and discovery of individual volumes. Donohue brought together a group of collectors, institutional librarians, and artists working with book collections to explore this topic and illustrate how libraries can cultivate communities that contribute to the future of bookmaking. An international group of book collectors—from Terry Kurgan, to Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche and Manfred Heiting—talk about what, why, and how they collect. A small set of special collections and librarians is profiled in “Hidden, Iconoclastic, and Classic Libraries of PhotoBooks.” In addition, Russet Lederman of 10×10 Photobooks interviews curator Yumi Goto, speaking about the project space Reminders Photography Stronghold; and artist Ishiuchi Miyako reflects on her bookmaking practice. Highlights from the Reviews section include Kristen Lubben on Laia Abril, Christoph Wiesner on Carolina Caycedo, Lori Salmon on Artists Who Make Books, and Amanda Maddox on Carmen Winant.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Workshop Spotlight
Russet Lederman in conversation with Yumi Goto, Reminders Photography Stronghold
Bookmaker Profile
Ishiuchi Miyako: Reflections on Photobooks
Translated by Linda Hoaglund
On the Art of Collecting
with Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche, Ed Grazda, Manfred Heiting, Terry Kurgan, and Larissa Leclair
Compiled by Sarah Dansberger and Lesley A. Martin
Library as Studio/Artists on the Library
Dierdre Donahue
Including Carl DeKeyser, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Philippe Gronon, Alain Resais, and Taryn Simon
CenterfoldThe Oakes Twins: Camera Obscura on the NYPL
A Decidedly Unauthoratative Guide to Hidden, Iconoclastic, and Classic Libraries of PhotoBooks
Deirdre Donahue with Irène Attinger, Matthew Carson, Jon Evans, Ken Fox, Deborah Hollis, Mariela Sancari, David Senior, and Eric Taubman
Reviews
Christoph Wiesner on
Carolina Caycedo, Serpent River Book
Sean Corcoran on
Sean Vegezzi, DMYCC
Lori Salmon on
Artists Who Make Books (Andrew Roth, Philip E. Aarons, and Claire Lehmann, eds.)
Leandro Villaro on
Pablo Cabado,Psyche
Jovonna Jones on
Khalik Allah, Souls Against the Concrete
Kristen Lubben on
Laia Abril, On Abortion
Amanda Maddox on
Carmen Winant, My Birth
Wilco Versteeg on
Harry Gruyaert, Roots and East/West
Bernard Yenelouis on
Michael Disqué and Roman Ehrlich, The Theater of War
Rita Leistner on
Stephen Ferry and Elizabeth Ferry, La Batea, Impressions of Gold in Colombia
Back Issues
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In this issue, The PhotoBook Review celebrates the fine art of talking about books and what goes into their making. Offset artist Dayanita Singh has stated, “A book is a conversation with a stranger in the future.” This issue breaks the ice with a series of book makers and book aficionados in dialogue with one...
The PhotoBook Review Issue 018
Guest Editor Deborah Willis leads a survey of photobooks by Black artists, creating the scaffolding for future research and study. In her own studies and published works, Willis has laid the groundwork for the history of Black photographers as they established “a visual language of ‘testifying’ about their individual and collective experiences.”
The PhotoBook Review Issue 017
Guest edited by Carmen Winant, whose creative practice involves “creation and transformation, an Ouroborus in which printed material is both created and destroyed.” Her photobooks, such as Body Index (2020), and My Birth (2018), have been informed by her deeply held commitment to feminism.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 016
Guest edited by Federica Chiocchetti, a writer, curator, editor, and lecturer specializing in photography, fictions, and words. Through her on- and offline platform The Photocaptionist, she collaborates with institutions such as The Photographers’ Gallery, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Foam.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 015
Guest edited by David Campany, writer, curator, photographer, and educator, one of the most prolific critics on modern and contemporary photography in the field today. In early 2020, he was appointed the managing director of programs at the International Center of Photography, New York.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 013
Issue 013 was assembled by Lesley A. Martin, publisher of The PhotoBook Review and creative director at Aperture Foundation.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 012
Guest edited by Daria Tuminas, an independent scholar, writer, and curator specializing in the contemporary photobook. She currently works with Fotodok in the Netherlands, and is the former head of the Unseen Book Market and Unseen Dummy Awards.
The PhotoBook Review Issue 011
Guest edited by Denise Wolff, senior editor at Aperture. She has spearheaded the commission of Aperture’s education-oriented titles, such as The Photographer’s Playbook (2014) and The Photography Workshop Series (2014–ongoing), in addition to children’s books by authors like Joel Meyerowitz, Jason Fulford, and Susan Meiselas.