Issue #015 - Fall 2018
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.
Featured Content
Issue Details
David Campany guest edited this issue around questions such as: How do we select and sequence photographs in book form to create meaning? What does editing look like? Do we need a more formal discourse around editing and sequencing, taking into account László Moholy-Nagy’s statement that a sequence of images “can either be a potent weapon or a tender poetry”? Thematic content includes Sara Knelman’s historical consideration of novelist André Malraux’s curatorial project Museum without Walls; interviews with Roe Ethridge and Keith Smith, who discuss their individual approaches to editing and sequencing; and a series of analyses on a selection of photobook sequences from contributors such as Ryuichi Kaneko, Claudia Rankine, and Felipe Abreu. Taco Hidde Bakker profiles Roma Publications, and Hannes Wanderer is memorialized by Mary Frey and Giulia Zorzi. In the Reviews section, Nina Strand writes on Nina Berman, and Brendan Embser on August Sander; additionally, Oluremi C. Onabanjo considers the legacy of David Goldblatt’s photobook oeuvre, and Rebecca Bengal proposes a fresh look at the contemporary American landscape, focusing on books by Justine Kurland, Sam Contis, and Susan Lipper. Issue 015 also catalogues the shortlisted books for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards for its seventh year.
Table Of Contents
Features and Columns
Editor’s Note
David Campany
Publisher’s Note
Lesley A. Martin
Publisher Profile
Roma Publications by Taco Hidde Bakker
In Memoriam:Hannes Wanderer
by Mary Frey and Giulia Zorzi
Designer Spotlight
Sonya Dyakova by Robyn Taylor
Getting It Exactly Wrong
A conversation with Roe Ethridge
Reordering the World: Some Thoughts on André Malraux’s Museum without Walls
Sara Knelman
This Is How I Read . . . On Sequence and the PhotoBook
With contributions by Felipe Abreu, David Campany, Joanna Cresswell, Jeff rey Fraenkel, Ryuichi Kaneko, Claudia Rankine, and Laurie Taylor
Picture Relationships and the Structure of the Visual Book
A conversation with Keith Smith
Centerfold
What does editing look like?
The 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Reviews
A Modest and Hidden Complexity: The Legacy of David Goldblatt’s PhotoBooks
Oluremi C. Onabanjo
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa on
Arthur Jafa, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Nina Strand on
Nina Berman, An autobiography of Miss Wish
Alice Rose George on
Alexandra Catiere, Behind the Glass
Alistair O’Neill on
Andrzej Steinbach, Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei
Brendan Embser on
August Sander, Persecuted/Persecutors: People of the 20th Century
Rebecca Bengal on
Susan Lipper, Kristine Potter, Justine Kurland, and the Contemporary American Landscape
Alexa Dilworth on
Susan Meiselas, A View of a Room
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