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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Photobook Meet-ups
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
#photobc tweets
- PBCMadrid: See some pictures of what we did with the #BoxofBooks at @es_RSF 'Crónica: #BoxofBooks' http://t.co/cj0vU5Q59M [in spanish] #photobc »
- paconavamuel: The Box of Books in Toledo #photobc #photobcTo #boxofbooks @ Toledo http://t.co/zyltPjD0rv »
- paconavamuel: RT @PBCMadrid: The change of the guard of the #BoxOfBooks from Madrid to @PhotobookClubTo, @paconavamuel carry it with him #photobc http://t.co/51fnDxZJib »
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The Photobook Club Kuala Lumpur Launches…
The Photobook Club Kuala Lumpur is to launch on the 1st of June before it enters into a series of events including the Obscura Photography Festival from 21st – 30th June in Penang before touring around Malaysia. The Photobook Club … Continue reading
Posted in EVENTS, MEET-UPS
Tagged festival, kuala lumpur, malaysia, photobook, photobooks, photography
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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
Posted in BOOKS, THOUGHTS ON BOOKS
Tagged approaching whiteness, photobook, rinko kawauchi, scroll
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Photobook Club Tokyo: meetup #3
Great news from Yoshikatsu Fujii who organizes the Photobook Club Tokyo: Hi! Matt, We have only two weeks before our next (and 3rd) meetup that we will hold in Tokyo on Mar. 9. 2013. I’m pleased that Twelvebooks and Tokyo … Continue reading
‘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
Posted in BOOKS, COMMENTS, INVISIBLE CITY, REVIEW, THOUGHTS ON BOOKS
Tagged digital photobook, ebook, ibook, invisible city, photobook, taco hidde bakker
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Photobook Club Helsinki
The Photobook Club Helsinki held their inaugural meetup on the 29th October organised by Johannes Romppanen. You can see images from the event as well as read a brief comment from Johannes below; We were a good sized group attending, … Continue reading
Posted in EVENTS, MEET-UPS, NEWS
Tagged broken manual, helsinki, johannes ramppanen, meetup, photobook, photobooks
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Ken Schles: Invisible City, A Digital Resource
This really should not have taken as long as it has, and for that my apologies. I often stress that accessibility is of paramount importance to me and The Photobook Club so was well aware that in publishing the Invisible … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS, INVISIBLE CITY, NEWS, THOUGHTS ON BOOKS, VIDEO
Tagged ibook, invisible city, ken schles, matt johnston, pdf, photobook, publishing, the phootbook club
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VIDEO – Mark Power’s ’26 Different Endings’
This one is still available at a reasonable price and so this video is in no way a replacement for seeing the real thing, instead it is shown here to give a feel for the layout, design and sequencing of … Continue reading
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Tagged 26 different endings, a to z, london, mark power, photobook, preview, video
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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 →