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Far More Than “Pretty Vacant,” We Have No Place to Be by Joji Hashiguchi,...

There are plenty of photobooks of punk rock days, it being such a visually wild time that it’s hard to not have them filled...

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Utopia, rubber and dreams of madness, Fordlândia 9 by JM Ramirez-Suassi,...

Fordlândia – The Place In the 1920’s American industrialist Henry Ford embarked on an audacious, almost incredulous plan. In order to secure a guaranteed...

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In Your Face: Street Photography and Jeff Mermelstein’s “Hardened,” by Robert...

What do you do if you’re into Instagram, but want to move beyond selfies and shots of food truck delicacies? How about becoming a...

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Ghosts Are Real by Philip J Brittan, reviewed by Robin Titchener

People move in and out of our lives with no rhyme or reason. Some are there for just the blink of an eye, whilst...

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Halland / Gerry Johansson and the Windmills of your Mind, by Torsten Nyström

The slash stroke is used by Gerry Johansson for most of his photobook titles, ever since ”Amerika / Gerry Johansson”, 1998. Now he has...

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Nothing’s Coming Soon by Clay Maxwell Jordan, reviewed by Robin Titchener

Nothing’s Coming Soon is the first book from young American photographer Clay Maxwell Jordan, and it is a thing of quiet meditative beauty. Jordan...

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Daichi Koda’s (back)ground, reviewed by Robin Titchener

From the moment we fight our way into the world they look after us and nurture us. They teach us right from wrong, and...

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Artistic Faith and the Photobook: Alec Soth’s “I Know How Furiously Your...

In Part 1 of my piece on Alec Soth’s new book, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” I wrote about how Soth,...

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Will and the World in Photography: Alec Soth’s “I Know How Furiously Your...

In the promo materials for Alec Soth’s long-awaited, and quite wonderful, new photobook, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,” Soth says, “I...

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The Defamiliarisation of Ephemeral Reality Issei Suda’s “The Mechanical...

It’s pretty old-school. Just bang out photos, taken on the street, and let them amass, then put them out in an inch-thick book of...

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The Moor by Robert Darch, reviewed by Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning

Robert Darch’s The Moor photobook continues the successful publishing streak by Another Place Press, an independent publisher specialising in landscape photography broadly conceived. This...

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Okinawa by Anders Petersen, reviewed by Robert Dunn

I’ve come to not like the term street photography. I feel in a way it’s time is over; it’s what Robert Frank and William...

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Look, I’m wearing all the colours by Rikard Österlund, reviewed by Robin...

“Look I’m wearing all the colours” is the first book by photographer Rikard Österlund. A very personal study, which recounts his day to day...

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Public Matters by Janet Delaney, reviewed by Robert Dunn

Here’s the thing with street photography, it’s too easy to just take pictures of people walking down the street. And pictures simply of people...

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Shaky Ground by Peter Dekens, reviewed by Robin Titchener

In 2012 Peter Dekens arrived quietly onto the photo book scene with the wonderful Touch. A beautifully conceived, and elegantly simple study of a...

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Approximate Joy by Christopher Anderson, reviewed by Robin Titchener

Luxurious is one adjective that encapsulates the mood behind Christopher Anderson’s Approximate Joy. Before we even open the book, it’s beautifully screened cover exudes...

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Khichdi (Kitchari) by Nick Sethi, reviewed by Robert Dunn

In my last review for Photobookstore Magazine, I wrote of Morten Andersen’s roughly 8 x 12–inch, 300-plus-page, full-bleed-color photobook on his travels to the...

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Border I Korea by Yusuke Hishida, reviewed by Robin Titchener

Border I Korea by Yusuke Hishida, has behind it a relatively simple concept. To show the differences between the people and culture of the...

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Fast Cities by Morten Andersen, reviewed by Robert Dunn

Here’s one way to make sense of the world now, the unsettling of the old order, the historical tipping point we all seem to...

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High Fashion by Pawel Jaszczuk, reviewed by Robin Titchener

The new book by Polish photographer Pawel Jaszczuk, High Fashion, is at first glance a collection of pictures of drunk and exhausted Japanese businessmen...

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