Amazing news! The Indie Photobook Library’s collection of more than 2,000 photo-based publications produced by self-publishers and independent imprints are now permanently collected in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. I’m pleased to have my first photobook “Trying to Find the Ocean” and a few curated publications make up a small part of this […]
Needless to say, I slept well last night, after spending time with this gem of an artist book. Raymond Meeks’ “Furlong; Blue Evening” is a beautiful celebration of young adolescence, light, nature, and that seemingly eternal freedom we all tasted and felt in our youth. His hand-made publications are some of the finest artworks I’ve […]
Big shout out to Nathan Pearce and his “Midwest Dirt”. The book is a fine gem, consisting of images made and sequenced with a sincerity that depicts a rural American town and its inhabitants in southern Illinois. Without exploiting or simplifying the character of place by resorting to the ever-cliche’ lawless or hopelessness of small […]
