Issue #020 - Fall 2021

The PhotoBook Review Issue 020

Clément Chéroux, Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, helms issue 020 of The PhotoBook Review on the occasion of the publication’s tenth anniversary.

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Clément Chéroux, Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, helms issue 020 of The PhotoBook Review on the occasion of the publication’s tenth anniversary. Chéroux leads a special survey of the photobook and how it has evolved over the past two decades: Have we phased out of, or are we still in the midst of “the Photobook phenomenon”? How has the narration of the history of this field evolved? What is the current state of photobook criticism? Has the audience for photobooks expanded or merely folded in on itself—and what are the next steps for its further development of new readerships? A range of international contributors explore these and other questions and propositions about the photobook.

Table Of Contents

Features and Columns

Publisher’s Note

Editor’s Note
Clément Chéroux

Publisher Profile: New Voices, New Models
Nao Amino (torch press), Lukas Birk (Fraglich Publishing), Ana Casas Broda (Hydra), Sohrab Hura (Ugly Dog Books), and Justine Ellis and Dan Rule (Perimeter Editions)

Design Spotlight: The Droste Effect
Jeroen Kummer and Arthur Herrman

Books about Books
Vince Aletti

Why Is This a PhotoBook?
A Call for a Richer PhotoBook Criticism
David Solo

How They See
A Conversation with Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, 10×10 Photobooks

A Decade of PhotoBook Digression and Discourse
Mariama Attah, Flemming Ove Bech & Johan Rosenmunthe, Alejandro Cartagena, Bruno Ceschel, Sarah Piegay Espenon & Lewis Chaplin, Federica Chiocchetti, Teju Cole, Julien Frydman, Evita Goze, Naoko Higashi, Jeffrey Ladd, Elisa Medde, Ramón Reverté, Nina Strand, Stanley Wolukau- Wanambwa, Yanyou Yuan Di, Giulia Zorzi

An Infographic Snapshot of the PhotoBook Phenomenon, 1999–2021

A Select Bibliography of “Books on Photobooks,” 1999–2021

The 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Emilie Boone, art historian; Sonel Breslav, director of fairs and editions, Printed Matter; Darius Himes, international head of photographs, Christie’s; Lesley A. Martin, creative director, Aperture; and Jody Quon, director of photography, New York magazine

Reviews

Tracing Ancestors in Kurt Tong’s PhotoBook Practice
Linde B. Lehtinen

A Myth of Two Souls
Kamayani Sharma on Vasantha Yogananthan

The Place of the Book in the Work of Stéphanie Solinas
Emmanuelle Kouchner

Clothing the Ghosts in Jo Ractliffe’s PhotoBooks
Nicole Acheampong

A Timeline of the PhotoBook Phenomenon, 1999–2021
Darius Himes


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