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As part of the ongoing discussion examining the Future of Photobooks we’re hosting on RESOLVE in collaboration with FlakPhoto, we’re sharing some of our favorite publications mentioned by the 45+ bloggers who have weighed in so far. These represent the seeds of publishing advances we expect and/or hope to see in the future. Check out our earlier posts as well, on small printers for self-publishing photobooks and game-changing people and ideas from the photobook world.
Digital Photobook Prototypes
- Purpose, a beautiful online French photo magazine, replicates the feel of a book. (via Marc Feustel)
- Is this insightful interview with Anthony Suau about photographing the fall of the Berlin Wall a glimpse into what a multimedia photobook might be like? (via Thomas Ovalle)
- Bird Book: A rich online experience that showcases the physical book, Bird, by Andrew Zuckerman (via Jack Howard)
- Would you buy a PDF book? What if it were only $5? David duChemin was willing to take that gamble with his Craft & Vision. (via Craig Ferguson)
- Here is a first step toward photobooks for your mobile device: a digital photobook prototype disseminated over a blog in PDF format. (via Jean-Baptiste Blanc)
Collaboration and Crowd-sourcing
- The collaborative online essay project Words Without Pictures has become the physical book Words Without Pictures. (via Larissa Leclair)
- Check out Pictory if you haven’t, a beautiful new crowd-sourced, curated online magazine from former JPG maven Laura Brunow Miner.
- Collaborative projects like the international multimedia piece Around the World, Street Photography in B&W, highlight a growing (and welcome) movement toward collective creativity. (via Francesco Gallarotti)
- The Obama Time Capsule from Rick Smolan, a print-on-demand book that allows readers to add their own images to the mix. (via Jonathan Worth)
Self-publishing Success Stories
- RJ Shaughnessy’s Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Very Soon was mentioned several times as an example of successful self-publishing (meaning a quality book that sold successfully, in this case at Dashwood Books, which also helped sell Andrew Hetherington’s Blurb book A Room With A View.) (via Marc Feustel, Bryan Formhals)
- The Sadkids photozine from Geoffrey Ellis, which he says has exposed his work to far more people than any gallery.
- Olivier Cablat first published a very limited and expensive version of Tribute to Panini Sticker Album Champions League then redid his Typology Study with Blurb a few years later, which is also distribute via the online bookseller Schaden. (via Nathalie Belayche)
- Raymond Meeks hand-printed books (via Elizabeth Avedon); Nobody’s Books by Stephen Gill, Dennis Witmer’s Front Street, Kotzebue, and Alec Soth’s Last Days of W (via Ben Huff); plus Grant Willing’s Svart Metall, Ari Marcopoulos’s photocopied The Chance is Higher, and Michael Northrup’s Beautiful Ecstasy. (via Alan Rapp)
Small Publishers Pushing the Boundaries
- Errata Editions’ Books on Books series of recreated out-of-print photobooks reminds us that bringing rare photobooks to the public does not have to be done digitally. (via Marc Feustel)
- Small runs of myriad unclassifiable art books are available through Lozen Up, the physical extension of the LOZ blog showcase. (via Laurence Vecten)
- Publication from Nick Turpin and Lay Flat (below) from Shane Lavalette (with guest editors Michael Bühler-Rose Karly Wildenhaus) were praised repeatedly for their beauty and innovative design. (via Nick Turpin, Francesco Gallarotti, Bryan Formhals)
- Photo Poche are a series of pocket-size photo books from France. (via Stacy Oborn)
- Hassla’s Streets and Trails by Bernhard Fuchs, Radius’ Saguaros by Mark Klett, John Divola’s As Far as I Could Get from Farewell books (via Ben Huff)
- Photographers in Conflict, printed by Kodoji Press (via Nathalie Belayche); San Francisco Panorama, from McSweeney’s (via Jin Zhu); plus Matt Keegan’s North Drive Press (via Harlan Erskine)
- Proving that big publishers can take risks too, French publisher Flammarion put out Japan: A self-portrait in 2004 when virtually nothing had been published outside Japan on post-war Japanese photography. (via Marc Feustel)
What People Are Actually Paying For
- Lists of photobooks (and books about photography) purchased this year by Craig Ferguson, Stacy Oborn, and Dan Abbe.
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