The PhotoBook Journal

The autumn issue of Fine Books features a survey of photobook collecting, past and present. For the section on contemporary photobooks, we spoke to the founder of the Indie Photobook Library (now at Yale) and featured the work of Douglas Stockdale. The cover of his 2011 photobook, Ciociaria, appears on page 33 (and here at right). But Stockdale isn't only a photographer, he's also the founder, editor, and publisher of The PhotoBook Journal (TPBJ).

Based in Southern California, TPBJ is an online journal that promotes "the international photographic community," primarily by posting reviews of contemporary photobooks and artist's books that cover a range of subjects and formats. Since its founding in 2008, the journal has published more than 450 book reviews, garnering attention for limited editions, self-published artist's books, and trade art books alike. "With few exceptions, most books reviewed are first editions, and we provide a pulse on current photobook trends," according to TPBJ's fact sheet.  

If this is an area of collecting interest, we direct you to TPBJ here, or to its Facebook page.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Image courtesy of Douglas Stockdale