About The Photobook Club
The Photobook Club aims to promote and enable discussion surrounding the photo book format. In particular looking at old, rare and influential photography books from the 20th century onwards.
The Photobook Club is run by Matt Johnston.-
Follow the Photobook Club's 'Box of Books as it travels over 30,000 miles, stopping off at each of the Photobook Club branches around the world...
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Previous Books:
- Robert Frank, The Americans
- Richard Avedon, Observations
- Eugene Richards, Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
- Larry Sultan, The Valley
- Anders Peterson, Cafe Lehmitz
- Ken Schles, Invisible City
- Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
- Nobuyoshi Araki, Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey
- Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places
- Sally Mann, Immediate Family
- Paul Graham, A1: The Great North Road
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Category Archives: BOOKS
10 x 10 American Photobooks: Matt Johnston
I am honored to have been asked to take part in the fantastic 10×10 American Photobooks project, already on day 4 I am being introduced to new works and seeing some of my own books in a new light. To … Continue reading
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Tagged 10x10, american photobooks, photobooks, selection
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Approaching Whiteness; If you can afford it – a triumph in content/communication
In part this is a genuine frustration but I should also say that I have spent my limited book budget for the year in just the first three months and so perhaps a good deal of my frustration is aimed … Continue reading
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Tagged approaching whiteness, photobook, rinko kawauchi, scroll
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The Photobook Club’s ‘Box of Books’ Makes it’s 4th Stop
The ‘Box of Books‘ has just made it’s 4th stop off at a Photobook Cub event, this time in Coimbra before it heads on to PBC Porto and PBC Barreiro. You can see images from this the Coimbra event below … Continue reading
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Tagged box of books, coimbra, photoboks, photobook club, spain
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The Photobook Club’s ‘Box of Books’ Launched in Coventry
Last night I launched the Photobook Club’s ‘Box of Books’ at a special event with the Photobook Club Coventry. The books were all really well received and prompted some great discussions. While these meetups remain as offline, generative experiences I … Continue reading
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Tagged box of books, coventry, photobook club, photobooks
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The photobook Club’s ‘Box of Books’
In 2013 a box of photobooks will be traveling over 30,000 miles, stopping off at each of the Photobook Club branches around the world in order to promote discussion of the physical photobook. Things will be moving quickly from here … Continue reading
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Tagged box of books, meetups, photobook club
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B*@t of 2012
Those of you who remember (and those of you who do not), last year I mentioned I would not enter into the ‘best of’ bonanza before proceeding to do just that by selecting 5 photobooks that had stood out to … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS, COMMENTS, REFLECTION, THOUGHTS ON BOOKS
Tagged best of, matt johnston, photobook, photobook club, photobooks
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‘Invisible City; A Digital Resource’ – The most Surprising 2012 Photobook Publication
Very proud to see the Photobook Club’s digital publication ‘Ken Schles, Invisible City; A Digital Resource’ make it onto Martin Brinks ‘Top Digital Photobooks‘ list last week and now very happy to read a great little review of the publication … Continue reading
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Tagged digital photobook, ebook, ibook, invisible city, photobook, taco hidde bakker
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New to the shelf…
These wee comments are by no means reviews, just a few words on books new to my shelf… Life after Zog and other stories Chiara Tocci Schilt Publishing Two things to think about here – firstly the images and book … Continue reading →