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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Synopsis: Nobuyoshi Araki – ‘Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey’
Title Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey Author Nobuyoshi Araki Publisher Shinchosha Publishing, 1991 A relatively unknown photographer in the late 1960s, Nobuyoshi Araki began documenting his young wife through an intimate series titled My Wife Yoko (1967-1976), a body of work … Continue reading
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Tagged jappanese, matt johnston, nobuyoshi araki, phoography, photo book club, photobook, photography, sentimental journey, wayne ford, winters journey
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November’s Book is…. Nobuyoshi Araki, ‘Diary, A Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey’
In November we will be looking at Nobuyoshi Araki’s, ‘Diary, A Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey’ ( This is the 1991 version which features both the original 1971 ‘Sentimental Journey’ and ‘Winter Journey’ images from 1990). We will shortly post a video … Continue reading
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Tagged a sentimental journey, arakai, matt johnston, narrative, nobuyoshi, photography, wayne ford, wife, winter, winters, yoko
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Nan Goldin: Some food for thought #2
As mentioned in a previous post, there is an abundance of online resources for those looking to learn more about both ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ and Nan Goldin herself. A few of the many great videos/slideshows are shown below: … Continue reading
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Tagged ballad, ballad of sexual dependency, matt johnston, nan goldin, photo book club, photobook, photographed, photographer, sexual, tribe, wayne ford
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Share your thoughts on Nan Goldin’s ‘Ballad of Sexual Dependecy’
Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency‘ is by no means an undiscovered work, and as we will highlight, has been discussed and talked about many times, in many formats before. But this book never fails to invoke response from those … Continue reading
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Tagged aperture, ballad of sexual dependency, book, community, matt johnston, moma, nan goldin, photo book club, photobook, photography, wayne ford
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Invisible City: A Summary
As I have mentioned often in this process we are truly thankful that Ken has taken the time to illuminate us through a book that the majority of readers had never seen in it’s entirety. And one that only gains … Continue reading
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Tagged alphabet city, club, invisible city, jeff brouws, ken schles, ludwig haskins, matt johnston, new york, photobook, steve pyke, summary, wayne ford
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Matt Johnston on ‘Invisible City’, a personal reflection
The first thing I said upon seeing the ‘Invisible City’ in it’s entirety was simply, “wow”, unfortunately at the time I was across the table from Ken Schles himself who had kindly agreed to lend the Photo Book Club a … Continue reading
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Tagged alpahbet city, book, invisible city, ken schles, matt johnston, photo book club, photobook, photography, reflection, wayne ford
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Invisible City: Nightwalk, Fragments and Alternates
I want to thank Matt Johnston and Wayne Ford so very much, once again, for taking on Invisible City. I hope people not already familiar with IC found something here. For me, this month has been a great ride. The … Continue reading
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Tagged alphabet city, east, fragments, invisible city, ken schles, matt johnston, new york, nightwalk, photo book club, wayne ford
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For Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, ‘All Women are Beautiful’
The following post by Wayne Ford can also be found on Wayne’s Posterous blog here. In the mid-1960s, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki began documenting his young wife through a highly personal and intimate series of photographs titled, My Wife Yoko … Continue reading →