Daido Moriyama’s Ango and the MM collaboration, reviewed by Torsten Nyström
Ango Daido is the first really successful combination of photos and short stories in the series of photobooks made by designer Satoshi Machiguchi and...
View ArticleKagerou by Yusuke Takagi, reviewed by Robin Titchener
One of the first images in Yusuke Takagi’s Kagerou is the shadow of a hand hovering over the swollen belly of a pregnant woman. A gesture...
View ArticleZuisha by John Sypal, reviewed by Robert Dunn
How important is an actual story to a photobook? By story here I mean almost literal narrative, with characters and situations: a mini-movie or...
View ArticleReading Raymond Carver by Mary Frey, reviewed by Robert Dunn
In my last review for Photobookstore magazine I looked into how story works in photobooks. By story I meant something less than an out...
View ArticleI Called Her Lisa Marie by Clementine Schneidermann, reviewed by Robin Titchener
I’m no Elvis Presley fan….but my mum is, and as I was growing up, the strains of songs like Wooden Heart, Blue Suede Shoes, Return...
View ArticleShe Dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship, reviewed by Robert Dunn
The dream springs eternal. Hit the highway (preferably along fabled Route 66) and discover America. Jack Kerouac did it, so did Robert Frank. So...
View ArticleHigh 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...
View ArticleFast 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...
View ArticleBorder 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...
View ArticleKhichdi (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...
View ArticleApproximate 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...
View ArticleShaky 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...
View ArticlePublic 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...
View ArticleLook, 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...
View ArticleOkinawa 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleArtistic 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,...
View ArticleDaichi 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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