8th Annual Photobook Exhibition Catalog and Online Gallery

 

Davis Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography

43 Photobooks – ONLINE
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William Ash, Tsukiji

William Ash, Tsukiji

William Ash artist’s website

Tsukiji: Tokyo Fish Market Suite
Naomi Otsubo, Translator
2017
8.5” x 8.5”
48 pages
40 photographs
Soft cover
Printer: Ingram Spark
ISBN: 978-1-935461-10-4
$14.99
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Tsukiji, the place that gives the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market its common name, is somewhere between a well regulated machine and chaos. Stepping into the market is like stepping into a raging river where, if you don’t quickly learn to navigate, you will drown under its activity. I stepped into this torrent for the first time in 1991, when nearly 3,000 tons of seafood was handled each day, making this the largest fish market in the world. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to relocate the market because of its aging 1935 infrastructure. 

William Ash is the author of Tibet: Hikari-to-no-deai, published in Japan; and Futon Daiko: A Japanese Festival; Between Two Rivers: A Year at Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area;  Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Emptiness: Tokyo Landscape, and Tsukiji: Tokyo Fish Market Suite. His work has been publilished and exhibited in Japan and the US.


Beautiful Trailertown by Nancy Baron

Beautiful Trailertown by Nancy Baron

Nancy Baron 
artist’s website

Beautiful Trailertown
2017

 8″x8” book
limited edition of 100
offered with a 6×6″ archival pigment print

80 pages
40 photographs
soft cover
Magcloud
$100  
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While exploring Palm Springs, the charm of the mobile home parks pulled me in. Although the parks have themes, residents are given a wide berth for personal expression in their own homes. These are the pioneers of the Tiny House movement, embracing the less is best concept while skimming the grid. With no historic overlay preservation codes to hamper them, creativity abounds. Extra fancy or plain and simple, there are no two homes alike.

Nancy Baron documents the world nearby, mostly in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, where she lives. Baron’s work is held in public and private collections and has been exhibited in galleries in the United States and internationally. Her photography has been published in many notable magazines and newspapers. Her two monographs, The Good Life > Palm Springs and Palm Springs > The Good Life Goes On are published by Kehrer Verlag. Beautiful Trailertown is self-published.


September 16, 2015 #371 Block Island RI

Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh
 artist’s website

Meditations
2017
5.25” x 7.25”
32 pages
26 photographs
Hard cover
hand-made, Accordion fold.
ISBN# 978-0-692-98138-2
$35
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Meditations is a hand made book composed of twenty-six photographs, thirteen of “The Rock” and thirteen of crushed drink cans found lying on the ground. The book is a Leporello fold design, also known as Concertina or Accordion fold. The rock series is presented on one side and the can series on the reverse, creating a continuous feedback loop of presentation and meditation. Together, these photographs present a brief meditation on permanence and ephemerality, with some side commentary on uniformity and individuality.

Mr. Bogdanffy-Kriegh is a self trained photographer living and working in Beacon,NY. Formally trained as an architect, he has focused exclusively on his photography work since 2013. His w ork has been developed through a daily meditative walk and writing practice during which he photographs whatever compels him. Michael’s work has appeared in several exhibitions, including Center for Photography in Woodstock, Griffin Museum of Photography and Shots Magazine.


Phillip Buehler
(UN)THINKABLE


A Golden State by Shawn Bush

A Golden State by Shawn Bush

Shawn Bush  artist’s website
A Golden State
Artist book designed, edited and produced by the artist
2016
96 pages
64 photographs
Hard Cover
Hand-Made Artist Edition of 10 books in clamshell boxes (plus 2 AP)
$1,000.00 w/ free domestic shipping
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Since the American Western landscape was first settled it has captivated the hearts of Americans and non-Americans alike. The expansive topography that dominates the territory encapsulates the allure of defining American ideologies. Cinema, habitual media and commercial industries use the seduction of the Western landscape to sell, define and project a merit of social status. In the name of progress, the topography is constantly changing and shedding its layers to suit the conditional needs of humanity. Employing some of the tactics of cinema that have been used to describe the landscape, A Golden State questions the relationship of prescriptive identity to place.

Shawn Bush is an artist living and working in Providence, RI.  Bush’s work appropriates tropes of popular American culture to construct one-off worlds deriding the fallacy of idealized Western mythos.


you are, all of this, except for.... by Michael Callaghan

you are, all of this, except for…. by Michael Callaghan


Mike Callaghan
 
artist’s website

“you are, all of this, except for…”
2017
8 inches high – 10 inches wide
60 pages
33 photographs
Hard Cover
Printer: Blurb
$70 US
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This book marks the layers of meaning and historicity embodied in the cognizance of an object. As something gets close to no longer being, it becomes radically powerful and redolent. When an object has taken shape and form and then is about to disappear, it becomes essential.

My work focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation — considering the intimate cycles of identity, self-preservation and mortality.

My work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe, including among others, Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Reece Museum, the Soho Photo Gallery, Center for Photographic Art, Spiva Center for the Arts, Davis Orton Gallery, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery (London), Propeller Gallery and PhotoIreland. Also, my work has appeared in a number of publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, BlackFlash and Drain. I earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.


Journey by Catharine Carter

Journey by Catharine Carter

Catharine Carter   artist’s website

Journey
Designed and printed in collaboration
with Horse and Buggy Press
2016
8.5” x 11”
56 pages
51 photographs
Soft cover
Images were printed on an Indigo press at Laser Image printing in Durham, NC
The cover was printed on a hand-fed, hand cranked letterpress at Horse and Buggy Press in Durham, NC
The book was smith-sewn by BlindTech in Nashville, TN and then assembled by hand by John Buller in Hendersonville, NC.
Limited edition of 300 copies, numbered and signed.
ISBN 000-10-00000-01-0 
$140.00
 

Journey is a collection of lyrical photomontage by artist Catharine Carter. She combines imagery that is intensely personal and at the same time connected to the rich traditions of myth, allegory, fable and archetypal storytelling. Through the study of the works of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Carter has become fascinated with the concept of participating as the hero (heroine) in her own personal myth. This has influenced her to create strong characters that are engaged in the quest of what Joseph Campbell calls “The Hero’s Journey”. The subjects in her photomontage are empowered by their own courage to face a challenge and the desire for the personal growth that follows.

“You are the Hero of your own story.” Joseph Campbell


L'image Trouvee by Patrick J. Cicalo

L’image Trouvee by Patrick J. Cicalo

Patrick J. Cicalo 
artist’s website
L’Image Trouveé
2017
8.75 x 11.25″
38 pages
Number of photographs: 38
Hard Linen
Printer: My Publisher
Price: $70 
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 L’image Trouveé is self-published monograph that resulted from a 2016 solo exhibit culled mostly from work created over the last 5 years with a few older images that have been reworked to meet the artists current creative style and intent.

Patrick J. Cicalo is a fine art photographer and independent curator specializing in the contemplative/street/abstract genres of photography. After studying communications and graphic arts in college he worked in the film production and advertising fields while honing his photographic eye on the side. In 2008 he started to devote more time to his photography and was accepted into and started exhibiting with The Ground Glass, a 40-plus year old prestigious fine art photo group based in Westchester County, NY. In 2013, Patrick co-founded Red Circle PhotoArts, a fine art photographer’s collective based in the NY Metro/Hudson Valley Region.


The Lonely Hunter by Matthew Crowther

The Lonely Hunter by Matthew Crowther

Matthew David Crowther  artist’s website
The Lonely Hunter
2014
5.25” x 8.25”
32 pages
17 photographs
Soft Cover
Printer: Magcloud
$8
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The Lonely Hunter is an exploration of longing and wanderlust. Taking the title from Fiona Macleod’s poem of lost love, it follows a road trip through the American Midwest peppered with memories beckoning “Follow, oh, Follow, Follow!”

Matthew David Crowther was born in Upstate New York in 1980. He received a BA from Fordham University and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently based in Chicago, IL. ​In addition to his own studio practice he is the founder of Halfmoon Projects, a small press dedicated to publishing books and zines by emerging artists.

 

 


An Acre Shy of Eternity by Robert Dash

Robert Dash   artist’s website

On An Acre Shy of Eternity/ Micro Landscapes at the Edge
Designed by Robert Lanphear
2017
8.5 x 11″
108 pages
76photographs
Hardback
Printed in South Korea
ISBN#978-0-578-18871-3
$28  
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In On An Acre Shy of Eternity, Micro Landscapes at the Edge, Robert Dash takes nature exploration to new depths. Using metaphors, a camera, and a scanning electron microscope, Dash features beauty at scales ranging from craters on the moon to grains of pollen a few thousandths of an inch wide. Over a three-year period he traveled from bluff to tree, feather to seed on a near-acre of forest, meadow and cliff shouldering Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands. Photographer and “Albatross” filmmaker chris jordan calls this book, “A joyful, deeply insightful multi-scalar love story of verbal and visual poetry.” 

Robert Dash is an American photographer whose work focuses on the complex textures of micro-landscapes. His images have been published by National Geographic, TIME, The Week and Lensculture, and have appeared in galleries and juried shows in America and overseas. In 2016 he presented the TEDx talk, “The Intercourse of Nature: It’s What We Are.” 


Friday Night Dinners by Nancy Edelstein

Friday Night Dinners by Nancy Edelstein

Nancy Edelstein    
artist’s website
Friday Night Dinners

2017

8.75” x 6” x 1.75”
Hard cover
74 pages
38 photographs
21 vellum additions
Clam shell box
Handmade 
Bound accordion structure
Printing: AA Printing
Book Binding: Andrea Kohler
$600, includes case
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Nancy Edelstein is a conceptual fine art photographer and book designer whose work explores memory and the objects that preserve it. Friday Night Dinners brings together visual and story-telling components to reveal the power of forgotten memories held within her grandmother’s porcelain dishes. This project culminates in a series of archival pigment prints and a handmade artist’s book honoring those images with personal stories of a lost family tradition.  
 
Edelstein earned her BFA in photography from the University of Michigan and has engaged in photography, design and graphics ever since. She recently devoted five years to creating custom books in honor of families, capturing and memorializing their collective memories in treasured volumes. 
 
Nancy’s images have been exhibited throughout the country, both at galleries and museums. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Seeing Double by Jeff Evans

Seeing Double by Jeff Evans

Jeff Evans  artist’s website
Seeing Double
2017
8.25″ x 5.25″
58 pages
26 photographs
Soft cover
Printer: Magcloud
$10.00 (free shipping)
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Two page spreads of two photos of the same subject
 
When Jeff Evans discovered that his job as a rocket scientist wasn’t as exciting as he thought it was going to be, he took some photography classes as a creative outlet.  Soon he was going to galleries and museums and had collected 300 photo books to learn more.  But the best way of learning he found was taking lots of pictures. 

In his careers as a rocket scientist and a computer programmer he had developed an attention to detail.  Managers at various jobs inadvertently gave him an appreciation of the absurd.  He now combines those qualities in his photos of ordinary everyday things that are out of the ordinary — such as a sidewalk that ends at a phone pole and a clock without hands.


Palindrome by Jeff Evans

Palindrome by Jeff Evans

Jeff Evans  artist’s website
Palindrome
2017
8.25″ x 5.25″
58 pages
26 photographs
Soft cover
Printer: Magcloud
$10.00 (free shipping)
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A visual palindrome, reading the same forward and backwards
 
When Jeff Evans discovered that his job as a rocket scientist wasn’t as exciting as he thought it was going to be, he took some photography classes as a creative outlet.  Soon he was going to galleries and museums and had collected 300 photo books to learn more.  But the best way of learning he found was taking lots of pictures. 

In his careers as a rocket scientist and a computer programmer he had developed an attention to detail.  Managers at various jobs inadvertently gave him an appreciation of the absurd.  He now combines those qualities in his photos of ordinary everyday things that are out of the ordinary — such as a sidewalk that ends at a phone pole and a clock without hands.


North Truro Air Force Station by Mark Farber

North Truro Air Force Station by Mark Farber


Mark Farber
 artist’s website
North Truro Air Force Station
2017 
8.9H 11.6W
24 pages, including 2 fold-out panoramas
23 photographs
Hard cover
Printer: hand-made by the photographer
$185 –
also available in smaller size, 5.9H8.1W, for $115
free shipping 
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This documentary landscape collection captures the abandoned Air Force station in Truro, Massachusetts, near the tip of Cape Cod. From 1951 to 1985, the Air Force operated a remote outpost to watch for the Russians. At the end of the Cold War, the Air Force abandoned the base, and the National Park Service inherited the derelict site, populated by asbestos- and insecticide-filled buildings. This hand-made bound portfolio of original, archival inkjet prints captures the site across times of day and seasons, from dawn to dusk, from beach day to blizzard.

My work conveys a feeling of places shaped by people. I work in collections and typically finish a project with a hand-made book that I print and bind. I divide my time between Brookline and Truro, Massachusetts. I have studied at NESOP, MassArt, Griffin Museum, Photographic Resource Center, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and Truro Center for the Arts.


Finding Myself in the Morning by Deena Feinberg

Finding Myself in the Morning by Deena Feinberg

Deena Feinberg  artist’s website

Finding Myself in The Mornings
Text Collaborator/Editor, Pohanne Pyne Feinberg
2017
8 x 10
58 pages
54 images
Soft cover
Blurb
$30, free shipping
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Photographs of morning walks during the seasons in the Hudson Valley.

 


We Who March: Photographs and Reflections on the Women's March, January 21, 2017 by Ellen Feldman

We Who March: Photographs and Reflections on the Women’s March, January 21, 2017 by Ellen Feldman

Ellen Feldman
 
artist’s website

We Who March: Photographs and Reflections on the Women’s March, January 21, 2017
– Cover by Angela Nannini
– Introduction by Susan M. Reverby, Emerita Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
– Contributions by thirty photographers and comments by twenty marchers
2017
8” x 9.5”
164 pages
123 photographs
Soft cover:
Printers (2): Blurb and Edition One
ISBN#: 978-0-9994883-0-0
$48 
Purchase Here  Profits will be donated to Planned Parenthood

We Who March is a book of fine art photography and reflections on the Women’s March, January 21, 2017. In it, equal attention is paid to political message and artistic expression. Here, the political is very personal: outrage is broadcast through hand-made signs and physical gesture, with celebration seeping through the tone of defiance.

Ellen Feldman is a fine art photographer, Photography Editor of The Women’s Review of Books (Wellesley College), and an activist since the ’60s. Her photographic works include three photo books and solo exhibitions of street photography and long-term personal projects. Feldman holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University.


Fool's Reach by Lydia Harris

The Fool’s Reach by Lydia Harris

Lydia A. Harris   artist’s website
The Fool’s Reach
2015
9″h x 6″w
102 pages
26 photographs
Soft cover
Printer: Blurb
ISBN#: 9781320635929
Price:  $15.22
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I learned recently that times of transition and change are times of discomfort to me. With the passing of three very important people out of my life, I found comfort in the act of creating collage – the slow meticulous repetitive process of cutting and gluing and creating.   As a way to reach out to my friends, I cut up the collage into 48 separate postcards and asked each of them to return the postcard with their thoughts on comfort.   What resulted was the book The Fool’s Reach: A Little Book About Comfort.

Working in photography, video, and installation, Lydia A. Harris focuses on investigating what motivates us individually and as a society, tackling issues of inequality as it relates to power dynamics.


A View of Collier Heights by Lydia Harris

A View of Collier Heights by Lydia Harris

Lydia A. Harris  artist’s website
A View of Collier Heights
Introduction: Ilisa Barbash, Museum Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
2015
11″h x 13″w
148 pages
233 photographs
Hard cover
Printer: Blurb
$144.81
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Collier Heights: The neighborhood of cottage style bungalows, built in a suburb of Atlanta after World War II for returning soldier, had a nearby school that had a great reputation and everyone was white. But then, the Benton family, the Williams family, and Willis family, three black families, moved in.Artist and photographer Lydia Harris has beautifully documented the African American enclave of Collier Heights established in the 1950s on Atlanta’s west side.

A View from Collier Heights shows how the community was planned, financed and developed through a collaboration of local black architects, contractors, business people, and the NAACP.Working in photography, video, and installation, Lydia A. Harris focuses on investigating what motivates us individually and as a society, tackling issues of inequality as it relates to power dynamics.

Working in photography, video, and installation, Lydia A. Harris focuses on investigating what motivates us individually and as a society, tackling issues of inequality as it relates to power dynamics.


Traumbilder by Silke Hase

Traumbilder by Silke Hase

Silke Hase  artist’s website
Traumbilder-Dreamscapes in Photography & Text
co-authored with text by Tristan Stull
2017
7″x7″
104 pages
48 photographs
Hard Cover
Printer: Blurb
$58.99
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I am intrigued by the simplicity and unusualness of the toy camera. By eliminating color and, to a point, focus. I can isolate and emphasize the poetry in a scene, in a moment. In my images

Traumbilder is a collection of my favorite toy camera photographs, paired with excerpts of my husband’s poems, short stories and journal entries. His writing is the perfect companion for my photography.

Silke Hase is a Boston-based, German–born photographer.  Her work reflects a diversity of subjects in a variety of formats and medium. Although Silke’s camera of choice is the Holga, a plastic toy camera that uses traditional film, she recently started tackling alternative processes, like wet plate collodion.

Silke’s photographs have been exhibited in solo shows, many acclaimed international juried toy camera shows and other group exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Her images have been published in, among others, ANTILISPEIS, Open to Interpretation, Backstage, F-Stop, and Shots. 


Michael Hunold
All We See


Zone of Transformation: Nature in the High Desert by Irene Imfeld

Zone of Transformation: Nature in the High Desert by Irene Imfeld

Irene Imfeld  artist’s website

Zone of Transformation: Nature in the High Desert
 
2017
7.25 inches wide x 9 inches high
64 pages
50 photographs
 
Hard cover
Printer: Datz Press, Seoul, Korea
ISBN# 978-89-97605-24-8
$70
 
These abstracted images reveal intrinsic qualities of nature in the Mojave Desert landscape. However, they operate in a liminal environment where identity can be difficult to ascribe, in the transition zone between depiction and abstraction. The imagery is composed in camera. Then tonal values are altered digitally in an abstract manner. Images evoke deep time by contemplating the life of natural elements. By relinquishing habits of thought about nature the viewer can connect in a new way.
 
Irene Imfeld has worked with textiles, handmade books, and commercial book design. She was director of PHOTO, a regional gallery in Oakland, 2010-15. Irene is currently on the PhotoAlliance board. Her work was chosen by William Wegman as Winner in the 2014 Fauna competition, San Francisco. She won awards at Soho Photo Gallery, NY; Print Center, Philadelphia; and Atheneum, LaJolla. She had solo exhibitions at the Bolinas Museum and the Fresno Art Museum. 

Or Give Me Death by Jared Ragland + Elliot Dudik/ One Day Projects

Or Give Me Death by Jared Ragland + Eliot Dudik/ One Day Projects

Jared Ragland + Eliot Dudik / One Day Projects
artists’ website
Or Give Me Death
2016
Soft cover, saddle stitched 
Self printed and hand bound, edition of 100
$40.00 plus shipping
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OR GIVE ME DEATH is a meditation on patriotism and civil liberties, interweaving references to revolutionaries including Founding Father Patrick Henry, slave rebellion leader Gabriel Prosser, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

ONE DAY PROJECTS promotes creative dialogue by challenging artists to collaboratively produce and publish innovative projects within a 24-hour time period. Photographed, printed and bound on the occasion of the Candela Books + Gallery Indie PhotoBook Showcase, May 4-7, 2016 in Richmond, Va., OR GIVE ME DEATH is the second collaborative ONE DAY PROJECT by Eliot Dudik and Jared Ragland. 


Salt Marsh Seasons by Marcy Juran

Saltmarsh Seasons by Marcy Juran

Marcy Juran  
artist’s website
Saltmarsh Seasons
2017
8″ x 8″
32 pages
21 photographs
Soft cover
PrinterArtifact Uprising
$ 35
 
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Saltmarsh Seasons is my meditation on the saltmarshes of New England. I often say that I have saltwater in my veins; from earliest childhood, the smell of salt air, the scent of honeysuckle, and the shimmering light over the marshes and the Sound have a been a constant in my world. Saltmarshes have become a touchstone for me to monitor the cycle of tides, the arc of the seasons and the passing of years. Often, they transport me back in time, as the rustle and ripple of the grasses play with my sense of memory.

Marcy Juran works in photography, encaustic and handmade paper from her studio in coastal Connecticut, inspired by the tides, fog, and the shifting light dancing on the waters which surround her. She holds an A.B. in Art from Brown University, with additional studies at in photography and design at RISD, Cranbrook, and Maine Media Workshops.


Dreamland Speaks: Three Romantic Novels by Kay Kenny

Dreamland Speaks: Three Romantic Novels by Kay Kenny

Kay Kenny  artist’s website

Dreamland Speaks: Three Romantic Novels
first printed: 2009
10”x8”w
42 pages
41 photographs
Hard cover
Printer: Blurb
$40
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A compilation of three novels that blur the boundaries between photography, painting, and the narrative. Using a combination of text, photo- based imagery and the early photographic process of gum bichromate to create them, these stories describe the pivotal moments in our private as well as our public lives. Romance: relationships, Hopes and Disillusion: do we really live only in our dreams?

Kay Kenny 
is a photographer and painter. She teaches photography at New York University. Her work is exhibited internationally. She has received several awards including four New Jersey State Council of the Arts Grants.


Cadets by Ellen KoK

Cadets by Ellen KoK

Ellen Kok  artist’s website

Cadets
 
Graphic design: Peter Jonker
Photo editing: Ellen Kok and Bert Verhoeff
Text editing: Bas den Hond and Donna Moxley
Self-published by: Netherlight Publishing/Uitgeverij Nederlicht, The Netherlands
2013
6.75×9.60 inches
128 pages
72 photographs
49 pages of narrative
Hardcover
Printer: Lecturis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
ISBN:978-90-819396-0-7
$30
 

Try, Try, Never Die, HOOAH!’ Many students of Fall Mountain Regional High School in Langdon, New Hampshire, begin class with that yell every day. They are cadets in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, JROTC, a U.S. Army-sponsored program. Its goal is not to turn children into soldiers, but to motivate them to become better citizens by teaching them military values Americans admire: service, honor, skill and leadership. I followed the cadets for over two years asking, does this military training help them to cope with the challenges life throws at them, at home and in school?

Ellen Kok is a Dutch photographer and writer who combines photo essays with written stories. She firmly believes storytelling is an important art, that can open eyes and connect people. She works mainly on long-term documentary projects. Ellen is based in Linschoten, the Netherlands and Drewsville, New Hampshire, USA. She publishes under her imprint Netherlight.


Negar Laitifian

O-AB+B+A_B-O+A+AB- by Negar Laitifian

Negar Latifian  artist’s website

O-AB+B+A-B-O+A+AB-
Designer: Alireza Latifian
Persian Introduction by: Reza Allahvirdizadeh
2017
25.5 cm X 19.5 cm
Accordion book with 44 folded pages 
one panoramic photograph 
Hard cover
Hand made
ISBN#: 978-964-2774-48-7
$200
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    This book is about an alley named “Farhang Hosseini”, however mostly call it “Kidney Alley”. It is due to using its walls as a black-market bulletin board for dealing body organs. In this book, you can see an actual panoramic photo from every door, every step and every brick of one side of this alley. As you proceed in the 7-meter photo, you can imagine yourself walking through the alley. In order to keep the consistency of the alley’s walls through the eyes of the viewer, the pages are folded in the shape of an accordion instead of being separated. Furthermore, a magnifier is improvised at the end of the book to easily focus and the attached cover is the photo of the ”Farhang Hosseini Alley” sign.

Negar Latifian is an Iranian artist based in Tehran. She has master of photography and tends to try different methods in photography and art to express her ideas.


Insights + Images, One Photographer's Spiritual Practice by Charlie LemayCharlie Lemay
artist’s website
Insights + Images, One Photographer’s Spiritual Practice 

Foreword by Connie Imboden
Back cover blurb by David Bayles
7.5” x 5.25”
88 pages
40 photographs
Soft cover
Self-Published by Lemay Design 2014
Printed ay Edition One, Berkeley, CA
ISBN  978-0-9903750-4-3
$22
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Charlie Lemay’s latest efforts combine photography with the written word in a way that takes the reader into places where words alone are not sufficient. His 2014 book, SEEING / Insights and Images, won two Finalist Medals in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and was a First Place Winner in the 2016 (IPA) International Photography Awards. It has also recently won a Silver Medal in the 2017 (Px3) Prix de la Photographie, You can view these, as well as his other visual and literary works, on his website.

Charlie Lemay ran his own graphic design and photography business for over 30 yearshas while he taught graphic design and photography part-time at the college level and photography and computer graphics full-time at a prep school since 1998. He has won many awards for his professional and personal work over the years, including five awards in B&W Magazine.


The Journey by Arthur Meyerson

The Journey by Arthur Meyerson

Arthur Meyerson  artist’s website

The Journey
 Interviewer, Anne Wilkes Tucker
Designer, Lowell Williams
2017
10.25”x11”
257 pages
204 photographs
Hardcover
Printer, Artron (China)
ISBN#, 978-0-692-80457-5
$85.00

 

In The Journey Arthur Meyerson, traces his photographic life and illustrates it in words along with some of his most compelling images many of which have never been published before. The Journey begins with an all-inclusive interview conducted by one of photography’s premier curators, Anne Wilkes Tucker. For anyone who has a passion for photography and the thinking that goes into the creation of photographs, The Journey is a book that follows one photographer’s career and the destinations he has encountered along the way.

A native Texan, Arthur Meyerson is one of America’s most celebrated photographers. His first book, The Color of Light, was named as one of the best photo books of 2012. Meyerson’s photographs have garnered numerous awards, been exhibited internationally and are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Wittliff Collection, The Harry Ransom Center, The Grace Museum and The Library of Congress.


Blue Mandala by Linda Morrow

Blue Mandala by Linda Morrow

Linda Morrow  artist’s website
BLUE MANDALA 
2017
6 inches square, map book
9 pages
9 photographs
Hard cover
Self published, handmade
$65
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Blue  Mandala  is a handmade artist’s book constructed as a map book. Unfolded, it features a nine-part grid of original mandalas made from sea shells and a center image of the Earth from NASA. These nine images combine to suggest a yearning for world harmony and interconnectedness.

Linda Morrow can say that photography is in a sense her voice and often her meditation. She retired early from teaching college English in order to focus more on the visual image which may explain her interest in book-making. She has in recent years begun working with alternate structures for the photobook such as the concertina, the pivoting panel, and the map book. Her intention always is to make pictures that inspire the mind and engage the heart. Linda lives in Long Beach, CA.


Forgottonia: The Audience by Bruce Morton

Forgottonia: The Audience by Bruce Morton

Bruce Morton  artist’s website

FORGOTTONIA – The Audience
Essay by Paul Berlanga, Berlanga Fine Art/Photographs, Chicago
Design and editing by Paula Gillen of Gillen Edits
2016
8.5 x 11 inches
99 pages
67 photographs
Soft cover
Printed by Edition One
$40.00
 
FORGOTTONIA – The Audience is the second book of the Forgottonia trilogy. The first book told the story of the cycle of life within the 16 county region of far west central Illinois. This book delves into the lives of the people that inhabit this area mostly of which is in connection with the farming industry. It portrays families at various events such as a county fair, a school activity, places of worship, and any place where one might gather. I spent the first 17 years of my life here but it took me 40 years being away to realize the importance of this region of a forgotten land and its people. For the past ten plus years I have been documenting thru photography the place that I once thought was the most boring place on earth. A third book, FORGOTTONIA – The Suburbs is scheduled for publication in 2018.  

Gowanus by Nancy Oliveri

Gowanus by Nancy Oliveri

Nancy Oliveri  artist’s website

GOWANUS
2017
10″x8″
28 pages
29 photos
Softcover
Self Published by Blurb
ISBN-10 # 1389550206
$50 
 
 
This is limited edition fine art and documentary photography book focused on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. The book includes 29 images by American artist & photographer Nancy Oliveri who is currently documenting the destruction and resilience in this super fund site through the medium of digital photography.
 
This collection includes images from her solo photography exhibition GOWANUS at Ripe Art Gallery, Long Island in November 2017. She has exhibited extensively in internationally and in the US in group and solo exhibitions. You can read more about her in an Interview in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art’s October 30th interview.

People Under My Eyelids by Robert Pacheco

People Under My Eyelids by Robert Pacheco

Robert Pacheco  artist’s website
People Under My Eye Lids
Design Consultants
*Catherine Stickel
*Dennis Cashado
2017
7″X7″
60 pages
51 photographs
Soft cover
Printer : A&I Books
ISBN# : Pending
$40
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About ten times since 1990, when feeling out of sorts in the darkness of closed eyes, I’ve seen revolving dramas of people  I do not know. Much like an old black and white movie snippet. 

Once in a while frames freeze. I snoop on private moments. Everyday scenes seem like off-the-wall slices of time. Unreal images appear more real life than surreal.

At times moving or still vignettes may fade into similar imaginary
settings, with different characters. Some strangers look directly at me. Others not aware I am watching them. I open my eyes and the dramas gone. I close my eyes revealing continuing scenes.

I did an online search. Discovered I’m experiencing closed-eye hallucination or closed-eye visualization.  Perhaps photographs in this book are open-eye interpretations of my closed-eye illusions.

I photograph for publications, corporate, industrial, health care, education, non-profit foundations, and myself.


 
Some Days We Caught Rainbows by Mark Peterman

Some Days We Caught Rainbows by Mark Peterman

Mark Peterman  artist’s website

Some Days We Caught Rainbows
2016 
8”H x10”W
120 pages
57 photographs
Hard cover
Printer – blurb
$60 (shipping and tax included)
 
 
Some Days We Caught Rainbows is a long-term project about how people deal with change, specifically how I dealt with the transition of becoming a father for the first time.
 

I am an artist who explores narrative storytelling through photographs and multimedia. My work usually consists of constructed realities that cross over into implied fiction. 

 

I am currently based in the Southwestern United States in Phoenix, Arizona. 


The Things That Affect Our Lives Every Day by Mark Peterman

The Things That Affect Our Lives Every Day by Mark Peterman

Mark Peterman
 
artist’s website
The Things That Affect Our Lives Every Day
2014
5.5”w x 7.5”H vertical 
60 pages
29 photographs
Soft cover
Printer – magcloud with hand-made cover
$17 (shipping and tax included)
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The Things That Affect Our Lives Every Day, is a long term project about those working toward immigration policy reform in Arizona.
 

I am an artist who explores narrative storytelling through photographs and multimedia. My work usually consists of constructed realities that cross over into implied fiction.  

I am currently based in the Southwestern United States in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Clay Fire by Jaye Phillips

Clay Fire by Jaye Phillips

Jaye R. Phillips  artist’s website
Clay Fire
Clay artist, horsewoman:  Denise Lynch
Drawing: Ramon y Cajal
2016
8”w x 10”L
56 pages
55 photographs
Both hard and soft cover  
Printer: blurb
$31.99, softcover
$47.99, hardcover image wrap
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The Clay Fire photographs were made in the high desert village of Galisteo New Mexico, a place of circles, cycles, and renewals. Jaye Phillips photography has been rooted in the expressions of movement, time, light, and enduring myth.
 
Jaye Phillips a fine art and performance photographer living in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited in art museums and galleries including Harvard University, Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, and the DeCordova Art Museum. Her most recent work was included in the Half the Sky exhibition at the LuXun Academy of Fine Arts Gallery in Shenyang, China. Her work is represented in the Harvard University Theatre Arts Collection and the International Polaroid Collection.
 
She has photographed professionally for dance companies including Boston Ballet, Streb/SLAM, Eiko and Koma, and the Institue of Contemporary Art in Boston.

Being at Peace, Making a Pie by Walter Phillips

Being at Peace, Making a Pie by Walter Phillips

Walter Phillips   artist’s website
Being at peace, making a pie
2014
8” x 8″
80 pages
74 photographs 
Hard and soft cover
Printer: blurb
$37.99, softcover
$50.99, Hardcover image wrap
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“There are no recipes in this book, only photos of some of the pies I have made, and a bit of text. 
I began making pies many years ago. Then, after making pies with conventional lattice upper crusts for several years, I realized it would be more fun to improvise crust designs. At first I was influenced by native America petroglyphs, then other ideas came along. Sometimes I photographed the pies, and some of those are in this little book.”
 
Walter Phillips worked as a career physicist at Brandeis University, specializing in crystallography and medical imaging. He also has created and shown sculptures, many of rock and wood, with themes of ancient storytelling. The pie project evolved from his interest in materials, and his desire to carve dough. Photobook seemed like the best way to express this work.

Adventures of Otto, A Tiny Toy Dinosaur by Thomas Pickarski

Adventures of Otto, A Tiny Toy Dinosaur by Thomas Pickarski

Thomas Pickarski
artist’s website
Adventures of Otto, a Tiny Toy Dinosaur 
Editor: Karen Pickarski
2017
8 x 8″
36pages    36
33photographs 
Hard cover
Printer: Adorama
$59
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Adventures of Otto, a Tiny Toy Dinosaur is a photographic and narrative character study based on a toy dinosaur and his adventures through a series of exotic locations. Throughout the series, Otto emanates an awakened sense of childlike wonder as he explores life as a little dinosaur in a big world. This hand crafted, hard cover, stunning quality book is printed on heavyweight archival photographic paper, with incredible detail, a luster finish, image wrap pearl finish cover, and lay-flat binding.
 
Thomas Pickarski is a multi-media visual and performance artist. He often integrate storytelling into his work through text and spoken word. He holds a BFA in Painting and an MFA in Performance Art, both from Arizona State University. His self published photography books include, The Middle of Nowhere, The End of Nowhere (Stories and Photographs), and, Adventures of Otto, a Tiny Toy Dinosaur. He lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.

People on Stars by Ave Pildas

People on Stars by Ave Pildas

Ave Pildas  artist’s website
People on Stars
Text by Tulsa Kinney
Book Design by Ave Pildas, Westin Walker and Joy Deits
2015
6×9″
24 pages
10photograph
Soft cover
Printer: El Sereno Graphics
ISBN# 978-0-9985964-2-6
$20
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Hollywood Blvd. was the place to go. In the 70s, it was ‘on the turn’, a bit derelict but full of life and lots of street people. It was my birth as a street photographer. I began taking photos in 1973, spent most of 1974 and part of 1975 shooting what was happening on the  ‘Sidewalk of Fame,’ 15 blocks of terrazzo sidewalk embedded with stars and immortalized with names of entertainers. I took thousands of photos; many were published in ‘Zoom’, ‘Photo’, ‘Creative Camera’ and other magazines. They were also exhibited here and in Europe. I occasionally visit the revitalized ‘Walk of Fame’ with a camera.

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas worked early in his career as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania in the 1960’s, and has been a successful photographer and educator for the past 50 years.


What are you looking at? by Nat Raum

What are you looking at? by Nat Raum

Nat Raum  artist’s website
What Are You Looking At?
2017
6”x9”
24 pages
10photographs
Soft cover
Printer: Blurb
ISBN: 9781389616044
$20
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Book description and artist bio:

“What Are You Looking At?” examines the thoughts during a first sexual encounter in the context of the body parts with which those thoughts are associated. It is intended to convey the anxiety surrounding the nude form as it relates to societal standards and the perception of others. The series also caused me to examine my own body anxiety and the past relationship from which it likely began to grow.

I am a fourth-year student in the BFA Photography program at Maryland Institute College of Art, with a studio concentration in Book Arts. I am interested in the intersection between sexuality and anxiety and how it affects my own experience as a female-identifying person in the 21st century. I find that often, short single-edition artist books are my most effective method of storytelling. I also work with printmaking, video, and creative writing as part of my practice.


Reading New York, zine, by Lawrence Schwartswald
Lawrence  Schwartzwald
  artist’s website
Reading New York Photo Zine
2017
13.268”  10.25”
32 pages
21 Images
Paper: 100% Dull Paper
Soft cover, Saddle Stich
First Edition of 160
Privately Printed
$22
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also Dashwood Books, PS1 MoMA, Queens (ArtBook Bookstore), McNally Jackson Books 

READING NEW YORK, a Zine, is a continuation of my Art of Reading Series, candid images of average folks in the act of Reading, but with larger images and better paper than my first book and all images are quintessentially New York City. I was born in the Bronx. live presently in Manhattan and previously spent almost twenty years as a salaried freelancer for the New York Post. My first published photo was the front page of The New York Times in July, 1993. My most recent book is FAMOUS POETS, a photo essay, printed in Iceland by Oddi Press, a first edition of 200 copies.


Momento, Capturing moments and memories by Bill Westheimer

Momento, Capturing moments and memories by Bill Westheimer

Bill Westheimer   artist’s website
MOMENTO – capturing moments and memories
2009
8.25″ x 8.25″
90 pages
42 photos
Soft cover
Printer: Createspace
$19.95
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MOMENTO is a collection of human experiences and the technological dreams triggered by our cameras. With each camera is a story told by its owner. The cameras were photographed using a19th century glass plate negatives. The cameras capture our experience in fractions of seconds, but they themselves endure to reflect the technology and aspirations of their eras. The memories we connect to the cameras are significant, sentimental and cherished.

BILL WESTHEIMER has been fascinated with alternative processes since making his first photograph at age 14. His works are exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Recent work includes photograms made on collodion glass plates, Ilfochrome and silver gelatin media. He collaborated with Charles Schwartz using a camera obscura to photograph New York City, and published Manual – The Personalities of Hands. Bill lives and works in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey in a converted 1885 carriage house that includes a modern darkroom and a digital printing studio.


Come Again When You Can't Stay So Long by Tara Wray

Come Again When You Can’t Stay So Long by Tara Wray

Tara Wray artist’s website
2014
6″x9″
52 pages
30 photographs 
Soft cover, hand-sewn, letterpress cover, edition 125
Printer: Howard Printing, Brattleboro, VT
Price $35
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Come Again When You Can’t Stay So Long (2014) is a photobook follow-up to Tara Wray’s autobiographical documentary Manhattan, Kansas, about her relationship with her mentally ill mother. The book documents Wray’s return to Kansas after a long absence to visit her grandmother, a character from the film. It is a portrait of love, mortality, and the ambivalence of family ties.

Tara Wray is a photographer and filmmaker based in rural Vermont. She is the author of Come Again When You Can’t Stay So Long, a photobook follow up to her 2006 documentary film Manhattan, Kansas (SXSW 2006). Born and raised in Kansas, Wray studied documentary filmmaking at NYU. She curates interviews with photographers at Vice, Huffington Post, and BUST Magazine, and is photo editor at the literary journal Hobart. A new book of photos entitled Too Tired for Sunshine will be released by Yoffy Press in 2018.


Memories in Red, Yelena Zharavankova

Memories in Red, Yelena Zhavoronkova

Yelena Zhavoronkova  
artist’s website
Memories in RED
2015
13”x11”
50 pages
22 photographs
Hard cover
Printer: Blurb
$150
ISBN# pending
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RED was not my favorite color for the most of my life. Unconsciously I avoided it in my clothes and in my art. Growing up in Russia, RED had the direct association with the state. RED was a weapon. It was communist propaganda in action. You couldn’t escape it. I learned to hate it. Somehow, my first “red pioneer tie” survived. They said it was my own “piece of the red flag” but in time it lost all its political meaning.

Red tie appears in each photograph of the series as a connector between me and my loved ones, between past and present. Working on this series I found myself at peace with RED. Finally.

Yelena Zhavoronkova’ photographs have been exhibited in San Francisco at de Young Museum of Arts, City Hall and RayKo Photo Center; Blue Sky Gallery and LightBox Gallery in Oregon; and many other galleries around the United States and in Europe.