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The International Photobook Club – 9 clubs meeting live on 17th

Great to be able to share this… on Wednesday 17th May at 7-9 Barcelona time (UTC+1), 9 Photobook Clubs from around the world will take part in a streamed event as part of the Widephoto, CCCB and Foto Colectania organised discussions on the Photobook Phenomenon. For all the information and streaming details check out the links below…

Here the event on Facebook
Here more info at the Widephoto website
Here the info at Colectania’s site from where the activity will be available on streaming

 

Clubs taking part…

Photobook Club Brisbane
Photobook Club Barcelona
Photobook México
Photobook Club Jakarta
Photobook Club Madeira
Photobook Club Madrid
Photobook Club Montevideo
Photobook Club San Sebastian
Photobook Club Bristol
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Arts Libris, ELISAVA and PBC Barcelona!

Really looking forward to some time in Barcelona next week. I will be heading over to launch Code-X; Paper, Pixel, Screen and Ink with the bookRoom (UCA Farnham) at Arts Libris. The book brings together some great voices who are playing with, responding to, and generally trying to make sense of the sometimes chaotic changes the codex is going through. The chapter I contributed is titled ‘The Photobook Club; a pragmatic response to hierarchical conversations and the photobook as capital‘ and is available in the book (of course) and soon online.

While in Barcelona I will also be giving a lecture and workshop at ELISAVA, the school of Art and Design and will be meeting with the Photobook Club Barcelona which is super exciting. If anyone is in Barcelona and wants to meet up then drop me an email.

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The Photobook Club Barcelona

News from one of the longest running Photobook Club branches via Markus Furgber…

Today we had the 12th meeting at Photobookclub Barcelona. It was the last one organized by Jon Uriarte. Thank you very much, Jon. We had a lot of fun at the 12 meetings and will have still more in the upcoming ones. Now Paco Navamuel, Carlos Pericás, Lea Tyrallová and Oscar Ciutat will be the people in charge of organizing future meetings.

Image Markus Furgber
Image Markus Furgber

They already outlined some very interesting ideas. The first one will take place February, 11. Now you can follow PCB’s activities on this website, where you can find all the books we have been talking about:http://photobookclubbarcelona.com/ Some photos of todays meeting are also available: https://picasaweb.google.com/105114524699511417613/PBC12#

Best regards, Markus

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The Box of Books in Barcelona

The Box of Books arrived this week in Barcelona and there was a special meetup that Jon Uriarte organized themed around the box, which also coincided with the branch’s 10th meetup!

There are a few word below from Jon followed by images via Oscar Ciutat…

We had prepared a outdoors meet-up at Montjuic (a mountain/park) but because of a heavy storm with a lot of rain and thunders, we finally met at the CFD, a documentary photography school who kindly let us met at their space. It was great to have books brought by nobody, because it allowed at even more open and sincere discussion about the books than when they are brought by the participants.

Images are CC BY-NC-ND Oscar Ciutat

The box shows some signs of love and travel
All the books
A notebook that travels with the box
Ron Jude’s ‘Lick Creek line’
Rena Effendi’s ‘Liquid Land’
Mrs Merryman’s Collection
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The box of books moves on…

The Photobook Club’s ‘Box of Books’ has already traveled over 4,000 miles and been viewed at 7 events, this week it will be making a slight detour to include the Photobook Club Toledo after visiting Madrid and before it heads on to Barcelona and then Helsinki.

The box arrives in Madrid

A big thanks to all who have helped in making a logistical nightmare work in the real world! Oh, and how awesome is this… Joan Fontcuberta repping the Photobook Club badge! (© Markus Furgber)

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Photobook Club Barcelona Meetup #7; A Report

The longest standing branch of the Photobook Club based in Barcelona and run by Jon Uriarte has just had it’s 7th meetup held at Foto Colectania, a big thanks to Markus Furgber for sharing this report and also the images of the event shared below;

The seventh meeting of Photobook Club Barcelona took place on Tuesday, 9th of October. This time we moved to Foto Colectania, a private foundation, dedicated to collecting, conserving and exhibiting fine art photography. The collection is specialized in Spanish and Portuguese photographers from the early fifties up to now.

About 30 enthusiastic photobook fans gathered together around the large white table. Jon Uriarte hadn’t given us any theme for this meeting, so everyone was free to introduce one of their favourite photobooks. The selection was great and very interesting. The variety of authors and themes was impressive. One of the highlights was “Lisboa, triste y alegre“, a first edition, presented by Pepe Font de Mora, president of the foundation.

– Markus Furgber

MARKUS FURGBER
MARKUS FURGBER
MARKUS FURGBER
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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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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