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Sally Mann in conversation with Steven Jenkins March 21st

It was fortuitous that Stephen Shore spoke at SFMoMA during our month long look at ‘Uncommon Places’ but now it’s happened again! On March 21st Sally Mann will be in conversation with Steven Jenkins at the Herbst theatre in San Francisco. For those who can get to the event, it looks to be a great evening with lots of insight into Mann’s image making process.

Hit the image for all information about tickets, times and location:

Sally Mann in Conversation with Steven Jenkins

– Matt

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The Photo Book Club Madrid is born!

The Photo Book Club Madrid held their inaugural meeting this Tuesday at Real Sociedad Fotográfica in Madrid. By all accounts the event was very popular and from speaking with Bonifacio Barrio Hijosa who was in attendance, it seems the group will aim to meet next on march 27th, and from then on, every last Tuesday of the month.

If you are interested in attending any future events run by the Photo Book Club Madrid, head on over to their facebook page for more information, and as a teaser, here is a peak at the club meet-up last night.

– Matt

bonifacio barrio hijosa (CC BY-NC-ND)
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Stephen Shore at SFMOMA…

I hope some ‘Club readers were able to get tickets to Shore’s talk at SFMOMA last week, for those that did not, luckily Stan Banos was in attendance and has written about the talk and Shore’s style over here. Also in attendance was Mark Wilson who, after enjoying Kurt Easterwood’s extended writing on ‘West Fifteenth and Pine…’ got the photograph below of Shore with said image. Big thanks to Stan and Mark!

IMAGE: MARK WILSON

If you haven’t checked out Kurt’s fantastic piece on this image, you can do so by reading the PDF below.
PDF – Kurt Easterwood on ‘West Fifteenth’

I should also point out that due to all the great contributions this year, we may run slightly into March with this book! Not even the added February day of the Gregorian calendar can help us here. (And as a heads-up, following the weekend, we will be looking at Sally Mann’s ‘Immediate Family’)

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Meetup in Madrid on Tuesday, Meetup in NY last night!

Just a quick reminder to anyone who is in Madrid on Tuesday night and loves photobooks, get yourself to the inaugural Photo Book Club Madrid event. All the details can be found at the bottom of this post in Spanish and a perhaps poor English translation, or by clicking here and heading to the Facebook page!

In other meetup related news – Last night Helka Aleksdóttir organized and hosted a meetup in New York which seems to have been a great success, head over to the photobook facebook group that Helka runs for more information, but for now a picture of the event.

IMAGE Helka Aleksdóttir

Mathieu Asselin:
Oli’s Meetup in NY was great!, lots of beautiful books, people and a nice screening of the documentary “How to make Books with  Steidl… More meetups coming soon. keep posted on Photobook Group on FB.

If and when more meetups take place in NY, I shall post details here and send out to all on the newsletter list.

– Matt

Details on Madrid meetup:

PhotoBook Club Madrid sesión 01
martes, 28 de febrero de 2012
a las 19:00 h.
en la Real Sociedad Fotográfica
c/ Tres Peces, 2
metro: L1 Antón Martín, L3 Lavapiés
t. +34 915397579

Como es la primera reunión todo el que quiera asistir trae un fotolibro que le apasione para compartirlo con los demás. Entre todos hablaremos de ellos compartiendo una tarde alrededor de una mesa y unos cafés.

La entrada es libre, no cuesta nada, no hace falta avisar y no es necesario ser socio de la RSF. Por favor, sed puntuales. Os esperamos con café calentito.

https://www.facebook.com/RealSociedadFotografica

PhotoBook Club Madrid meeting 01 Tuesday, February 28, 2012 19: 00 h. in the Royal Society photo as the first meeting is anyone who wants to attend brings a photobook that you passion to share with others. Together we will talk about them sharing an evening around a table and a few cafes.

Admission is free, costs nothing, there is no need to notify and don’t need to be a member of the RSF. Please be punctual. I hope with warm coffee.

Royal Photographic Society
three fish, 2 c /
metro: L1 Anton Martin, L3 Lavapies
t. + 34 915397579

https://www.facebook.com/RealSociedadFotografica

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Meet-ups in New York and Barcelona

Great news for photobook lovers in New York – Helka Aleksdóttir is running a meet next weekend on Saturday 25th in Brooklyn. For more information on the event and to RSVP (as space is limited) please head over to the event page here.

Meanwhile in Barcelona….

Jon Uriarte, who does an awesome job organizing the Photo Book Club Barcelona meetings got in touch with news on a ‘gastro meeting’ held yesterday and the upcoming event with Steidl screening:

Yesterday we celebrated a special session: Photo+gastronomic+book Club at Elgoibar ( close to San Sebastián). It was gastronomic because after sharing books, we also had lunch together. We had a “photographic menu”, first a Fontcuberta Soup (it look like a chicken soup but it wasn’t…), an Elliot Erwitt black and white rice, Gregory Crewdson sorbet and a Jeff Wall cake. We had a great time, participants brought great books, such as Ortiz Echagüe’s Tipos y Trajes published in 1957.

JEFF WALL CAKE

Next Wednesday 29 at 19:30 we will have our regular meet-up in Bcn, this time there wont be a guest but instead a screening of the documentary  “How to make a book with Steidl”. So, we will be seeing the movie, talking about it and discussing about photobooks that were made by editors instead of photographers.

– Jon Uriarte

If you want to get to one of the Photo Book Club Barcelona’s regular meetings (and why wouldn’t you?) you can get in touch via their Facebook page here.

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Photo Book Club Barcelona: Review

Thanks to Makus Furgber for writing this piece on last weekends meet-up in Spain, looks like it was a fantastic event.

The third Photobookclub meeting in Barcelona was a huge success! The introduction on Richard Billingham’s “Ray’s a Laugh” made by made Ricardo Cases was very interesting and spiced with his personal humor. He also raised more than a laugh! We discussed the possibility of intimacy and its limits in such extremely “intimate” photos and the floating frontier between intimacy and exhibitionism. His photos were related to his historical context by Photobookclub members, who had lived in Great Britain and confirmed a depressing social situation, which Richard Billingham reflected in his family pictures.

Foto: Paco Navamuel (CC BY-NC-ND)

The second part of the meeting was devoted to introducing several books brought by the participants. The books covered a wide range of authors, topics and formats. There were also some self-edited books. I can only remember Jon Uriarte’s self-edited book dedicated to foreign graveyards.

Foto: Paco Navamuel (CC BY-NC-ND)

You can have a look at the other titles at Barcelona meeting Facebook site.

Best wishes,
Markus Furgber (Lau W. Arm)

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Photo Book Club meet-up with guest Ricardo Cases




The Photo Book Club Barcelona meets once again tomorrow night. Unfortunately (but in a great way) all the places have already been taken, and there is currently a waiting list for these meetings!

Ricardo Cases, whose ‘Paloma al Aire‘ was featured on many ‘Best of’ lists, including coming 3rd on Marc Feustel’s king of lists, will be the guest at the event, introducing Richard Billingham’s ‘Ray’s a Laugh’.

Ricardo Cases 'Paloma al Aire'

Those who are lucky enough to go to the event: I would love to hear a review of the evening, from a participants point of view ( matt@photobookclub.org )

– Matt

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Coming up on the Photo Book Club…

After a break over Christmas the Photo Book Club will be resuming normal service in February. There will also be a Meet-up in Coventry which I shall be running as part of the open photography class #picbod, and so if anyone is interested in attending and is in the West Midlands area, pop me an email.

And so to the first few books we will be looking at in 2012; we start with Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’, followed by Sally Mann’s ‘Immediate Family’. Two classic American photobooks and two that I am sure will lead to some interesting discussion.
– If you would like to write a personal reflection on either of these books, or suggest what we might look at in April, you can do so in the comments below, or via email.

– Matt

February – Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’

March – Sally Mann’s ‘Immediate Family’

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Photobook meet-up #4; Barcelona, Spain

The ‘Photo Book Club Barcelona’ community is continuing to grow and just this week, held it’s second photobook meet-up in the city. This time attendees were discussing the design aspects of their favorite books as well as being joined by Carlos Albalá, co-editor of the spanish independent publishing house BSide Books who introduced Daniel Blaufuks’ Terezin photobook.

A few images from the event can be seen below, and if you are in town and would like to meet up with this growing group of photobook fans, head on over to their Facebook page to get all the details.

– Matt

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Photobook Club Barcelona meets again! 19th Dec

Seems like yesterday that Jon Uriarte emailed to say he had set up the ‘Photo Book Club, Barcelona‘ and his aim to meet once a month to unite photobook lovers.

True to form the second ‘PhotoBook Club Barcelona’ will be taking place Monday, December 19th. Carlos Albalá, co-editor of the spanish independent publishing house BSide Books will introduce Daniel Blaufuks’ Terezin photobook and attendants will be discussing the design aspects of their favorite books.

For more information, location and timings, head over to the ‘Photobook Club Barcelona’ on Facebook right here.

– Matt