Photographers and Photography in Southern California and Beyond
Copyright 2014 Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern published by Aperture While in Santa Fe last month and visiting the photo-eye book store, I had an opportunity to purchase a copy of Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern’s book The Photographer’s Playbook. The subtitle reveals the essentials of this book; 307 (photographic) Assignments and Ideas, which are... Continue Reading →
This year the Medium Festival of Photography will take place October 20-23, 2016, at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego. This week of events, lectures, portfolio reviews, and book signings promises to be an exciting experience! Registration open now through October 9. More details at: http://mediumsandiego.org/ Highlights of the Festival Lineup http://mediumsandiego.org/portfolio/festival-events-at-a-glance/ All... Continue Reading →
Copyright © 2016 Ellen Butler We are pleased to announce that Ellen Butler’s three-dimensional artist’s book Come Home Again was selected by Juror Kevin Miller for the “Home" Exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography (C4FAP). This is the second time Ellen is exhibiting at C4FAP; the previous time was in 2009. She... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright 2016 Nancy Albright This last week was Photo Independent which was held at the Raleigh film studios in Hollywood on sound stage #14. Within this larger event was Photobook Independent exhibiton, which was a group of exhibitors who were focused on the publication and presentation of their photobooks. Photo Exchange member Douglas Stockdale... Continue Reading →
As a follow-up to being one of the judges for the Photo Book Independent book competition, I am honored to also be providing two curatorial discussions of the juried in books as well as the other photobooks available during Photo Book Independent.The schedule for talks, book signings and curatorial discussions has just been posted. The... Continue Reading →
Photobook Independent - Photobook Competition 2016 I have some great news, I am honored to be recently selected as one of the judges of the PhotoBook Competition this year as a part of the Photo Independent activities occurring at the end of April in Los Angeles. I just posted a quick update as to the judges... Continue Reading →
2016 photo l.a. copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale I had an opportunity to join Hiroshi Watanabe at the Gala opening of photo l.a. (Thursday evening). Walking through a gallery (Fair) exhibition like photo l.a. provides an interesting snap-shot of some of the current trends in contemporary photography as well as bench mark for the market... Continue Reading →
The LA Art Book Fair will again be at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and will be another delightful maze of rooms with amazing displays of photobook and zines. This event has always been punctuated with some wonderful finds. From Printed Matter: Printed Matter presents the fourth annual LA Art Book Fair, from February 12 through... Continue Reading →
Printed Matter’s (2015) LA Art Book Fair This coming weekend on the Left Coast is what is becoming an annual event; Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair which will take place again at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. As I have written about the past (2014) LA Art Book Fairs taking place at MOCA, this... Continue Reading →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2014, self-published Pine Lake As a book artist and photobook specialist, this is the time of year that I provide kudo’s to all of the photographers, photobook designers, photobook publishers and the book artists who use photography as a part of their creative medium. . What came as a very pleasant surprise... Continue Reading →
