Indie Photobook Library at the Corcoran – November 2-20, 2011

The Indie Photobook Library is pleased to announce it’s second feature-length exhibition!
Corcoran
November 2–November 20, 2011
Gallery 31

500 Seventeenth Street NW Washington, DC 20006
Gallery: (202) 639-1700

Curated by Muriel Hasbun, chair of photography, and Susan Sterner, director of photojournalism programs at the Corcoran College of Art + Design with assistance by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

10 Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin, Book 1, Mike Rebholz (Hand in Glove Press, 2011)

Anywhere but Here, Alex McTigue (self-published, 2010)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Trent Parke (LBM, 2010)

Cityscapes + Birdmen, Jacquie Maria Wessels (Voetnoot-Publishers, 2010)

CLINIC, with many contributing photographers (RVB & Images en Manoeuvres, 2008)

Club 13, Nils Petter Löfstedt (Pierre von Kleist editions, 2010)

Coverage, Christopher Dawson (Blurb, 2010)

Elisabeth – I Want to Eat, Mariken Wessels (Alauda Publications, 2010)

How Terry Likes His Coffee, Florian van Roekel (self-published, 2010)

island, Kyunghee Lee (Takahashi Kunihiro, 2008)

life is a series of small moments, Elizabeth Fleming (Magcloud, 2009)

Living Arrangements, Sarah Malakoff (Blurb, 2011)

Los restos de la revolución, Kevin Kunishi (Owl & Tiger Books, 2011)

Noroc, Cédric Von Turtelboom (Blurb, 2010)

On Approach, Daniel Milnor (Blurb, 2008)

Orchard Volume 1: Crime Victims Chronicle, Raymond Meeks and Deborah Luster (Silas Finch, 2010)

Palmwine & the Grass Cutter, Nick Neubeck (Seems, 2006)

Shared Sorrows, Divided Lines, Justyna Mielnikiewicz (Blurb, 2010)

Sint Gregoriushuis, Ruben Lundgren (WassinkLundgren / Roel& Uitgeefprojecten, 2005)

Studio, Harry Watts (Black Box Press, 2010)

Suburbia Mexicana, Alejandro Cartagena (Blurb, 2009)

The Daughters of Job, Alison Malone (Blurb, 2008)

The Devil’s Garden, Andrew Youngson (Blurb, 2011)

The Family, Stephan Bladh (Nouvel Publishing, 2010)

The Photograph Commands Indifference, Nicholas Muellner (A-Jump Books, 2009)

View From This Side, Mark Dyball (Blurb, 2009)

World Was in the Face of the Beloved, Eric Weeks (Pablo’s Birthday, 2007)

A reception for Selections from the Indie Photobook Library will be held at the Corcoran on Thursday, November 10, 2011 during FotoWeek DC from 6 to 8 p.m. Admission is FREE to the Corcoran for the week of FotoWeek DC.

Review in the Washington Post Express by Mark Jenkins. “…the Indie Photobook Library is fast becoming one of Washington’s more interesting small collections.”

Thank you to Joe Hale and all those involved in the exhibition design and installation.

 

 

 

Indie Photobook Library at SPE – November 4-5, 2011

The Indie Photobook Library is pleased to be part of SPE’s regional northeast conference in conjunction with LightWork and Syracuse University. The iPL has partnered with Carlos Loret de Mola to present “bookMarks” – a showcase of  self-published photo-based printed matter. Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer curated a selection of photobooks from an open call to members of the Society for Photographic Education and affiliates and alumni of the New York Foundation for the Arts MARK program. And Larissa Leclair curated a selection of photobooks drawn from the iPL archive that feature printed matter made by regional photographers.

Indie Photobook Library at SPE – NOVEMBER 4-5, 2011

Location: Light Work’s Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, located in the Schine Student Center of Syracuse University. The Schine Student Center is the location of the SPE Conference’s portfolio reviews and we will be sharing the Menschel Gallery with the exhibition “En Foco / In Focus: Selections From The Permanent Collection”.

Exhibition Hours: Friday Nov 4, 10am – 4pm
Saturday Nov 5, 10am – 4pm.

More information here.

The following titles from the Indie Photobook Library will be on display:

Any Fool Can Take a Picture With a Camera Like That, Chad Muthard
Archive {2005-2010}, Eric Bessel (Conveyor)
Before Things Change, Seth Fluker (Schnauzer Publications)
Bookmarks, Tuomas Korpijaakko
Deep & Cold Puddle!, Tuomas Korpijaakko
Dune, Misha de Ridder (Lay Flat)
Matter, Jessica Eaton, Matthew Gamber, Bill Sullivan (Humble Arts)
Mythos, Michael Itkoff
No Bummers Chapter 2: Revenge of the Homeowners, Riley McMaster
Seneca Ghosts, Danielle Mericle (A-Jump Books)
The McCann Family, Karen Davis
The Terrorist’s Handbook, David Schulz (Light Rail)
The Well Ain’t Dry, Cody Chandler
Threshold, Tate Shaw (Preacher’s Biscuit Books)
Todd Fisher
Transitions Rochester 2010-2012, set of six (Visual Studies Workshop and FOTODOK)
Inner Loop, Cary Markerink
Inner Workings, Juliana Muni, FUA, Jason Bernagozzi, Dan Varenka
No Destiny, Gregory Hapern
Reasons to Smile, Andrea Stultiens
Sound Horn, Theo Baart
The “Great Yellow Father”, Oscar Palacio
Traverse!, David Schulz (Light Rail)
Turns, Davi Russo
Visible Library, Sam Falls (Lay Flat)
When We Were Ten, Judy Gelles (Visual Studies Workshop)

The official opening reception at the gallery will be on Saturday Nov 5 during the SPE luncheon at the Schine Student Center from 1:30PM to 3:30PM.

 

 

Indie Photobook Library in CHINA – November 6-9

中国·丽水国际摄影文化节简介

The Indie Photobook Library will be in China for the Lishui Photography Festival, NOVEMBER 6-9, 2011.

The photobooks selected explore perspectives on “American life”, the theme for the Lishui Photography Festival. From both American and international photographers we are shown the diversity of what that can be – American consumerism, a personal commute, remnants of a man-made vacation destination, a poetic walk through New York, the KKK, ice fishing in Wisconsin, gritty city streets, communities in California, Ohio, Las Vegas and the South.

(each photograph will link to the iPL catalog record for that book)

10 Weeks Ice Fishing in Wisconsin: Book 2, Mike Rebholz (Hand in Glove Press)

Acdcnyc, Nemanja Knezevic (SuperSizeShe)

Carry Me Ohio, Matt Eich (Blurb)

Down These Mean Streets, Will Steacy (Michael Mazzeo Gallery)

For God, Race, and Country, Chris Capozziello

Less Vegas, Mauro D’Agati (Ahrens Editions)

Mornings/Evenings, Todd M Walker (Magcloud)

My Fellow Americans, Dennis Yermoshin (Blurb)

Rank Strangers, Susana Raab

Road Ends In Water, Eliot Dudik (Saga Publishing)

Sadkids Number 5: The Gonerfest Edition, Geoffrey Ellis

Seaside, Clay Lipsky (Blurb)

Sleepwalk, Zheng Yaohua (good morning light)

Superficial Snapshots, Zine 3: Things I Like About Texas, Allison V Smith

There is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, Paccarik Orue (Owl & Tiger Books)

Indie Photobook Library at ACP

The Indie Photobook Library has been invited to participate in the ACP (Atlanta Celebrates Photography) third annual Photobook Fair, on Saturday October 22, 2011.

Come visit the Indie Photobook Library
at the ACP Photobook Fair
Piedmont Park Conservancy Community Center
1071 Piedmont Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30309

Saturday October 22nd, 2011
9am – 1pm
Free and open to the public

A number of small presses, publishers, and artists will also be there including Fall Line Press, Eliot Dudik, Laura Noel, and Laurie Shock of Shock Design, among others.

The following titles from the Indie Photobook Library archive will be on display:

A Falling Horizon, Heidi de Gier
A Moment Collected, Jess T. Dugan
Achill, Linda Brownlee
Altered States, LUCEO
American Biographics, Roger Minick
Camera Obscura: Visions in the Dark, Charles Schwartz and Bill Westheimer
Circulacion #2
Currents, Jaye R. Phillips
Defekty, Stephen Grebinksi
Don’t Smile Now..Save it for Later!, Thijs groot Wassink / WassinkLundgren
Empty Stretch No. 1: home, Aaron Canipe, Nathaniel Grann, Jordan Swartz
Extraordinary, Kim Guthrie
Foto.Zine NR.4, Erik van der Weijde et al.
From Here into Oblivion, Vol. 1, Stefan Vanthuyne
Gathering Calm, Photographs: 1994-2004, Bill Schwab
Gita Lenz (Candela Books)
Happenstance, David Solomons
He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore, Jason Hanasik
Hose Variations, Bjarne Bare
Imitation of Lives, Judith Erwes
island, Kyunghee Lee
Love, Stephane Leonard and Martin Eichhorn (naivsuper)
Miet Me, E. Schroder (naivsuper)
my home is where you are (a minha casa e onde estas), Filipe Casaca
Night Crawler: 1995-2010, Takehiko Nakafuji
Not Recommended for Use in Hot Beverages, Patrick Graham
October 14, 1979 Polaroid Vitae, Mikael Kennedy
On Accident, On Purpose, Francesca Tallone
Pactum, Misako Oba
Paragens, Roberto Vietri
Passport to Trespass Vol. VI : I can’t remember where I’ve been, Mikael Kennedy
Preston Bus Station, Preston is My Paris
Rhapsody for my Wretched Little Universe, Han Chao
Romka Magazine, Joscha Brucker
Sexual Joy Through Self-Hypnosis, Kristine Jakobsen
Social Studies, Jonathan Gitelson
Spring Visits: Photographs from Viet Nam, Don Unrau
Straight in the Light, Michel Mazzoni
Tamara Lichtenstein (PogoBooks)
Telos, Clay Harmon
Ten Days in July, Maxwell Anderson
The Devil’s Garden, Andrew Youngson
The King of Photography, Tiane Doan na Champassak
The Sundays of Life, Bela Doka
Typewriter, Christophe Dillinger
Undisclosed: Images of the Contemporary Circus Artist, Bertil Nilsson
Yamabito, Sato Osamu

iPL at the PRC – EXHIBITION ENDS NOV 12!

The Indie Photobook Library’s first feature-length exhibition will be on view at the PRC from September 13 – November 12, 2011 with the opening reception on September 21!

Threefold: Selections from the Indie Photobook Library
Curated by Larissa Leclair, Shane Lavalette, and George Slade
September 13 – November 12, 2011
Reception: Wednesday, September 21, 6:30 – 8 pm

… Join us for the opening reception of the iPL’s first feature-length exhibition!

Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
832 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Stephen Gill, A Series of Disappointments (Nobody Books / Archive of Modern Conflict, 2008)
John Gossage, HERE (Rochester Art Center, 2010)
Takashi Homma, Vedove/Widows (Fantombooks / Boiler Corporation, 2010)
Cary Markerink, Memory Traces (Ideas on Paper, 2009)
Raymond Meeks and Deborah Luster, Orchard, Volume One / Crime Victims Chronicle (Silas Finch, 2010)
Armando Ribeiro, Depressive Landscapes (Armando Ribeiro, 2010)
Theo Simpson, What We Buy (Theo Simpson, 2011)
Ali Taptik, Transit (Ali Taptik, 2008)
WassinkLundgren, Lu Xiaoben (WassinkLundgren / Badger & Press, 2010)
Mariken Wessels, Queen Ann. P.S. Belly Cut Off (Alauda Publications, 2010)
Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann, Conditions (Meier und Müller, 2010)
Ofer Wolberger, Visitor (Horses Think Press, 2011)
Amir Zaki, Eleven Minus One (Eighth Veil / LAXART, 2011)
[Various], Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light (Lay Flat, 2009)
[Various], Paper Placemats (J&L Books, 2007)


Matt Austin, Wake (Matt Austin, 2009)
Noah Beil, Gone Quickly (Extant Books, 2011)
Anthony Blasko, The Way Things Are (Anthony Blasko, 2009)
Briony Campbell, The Dad Project (first edit) (Briony Campbell, 2009)
Christopher Colville, Movements and the Iceland Trilogy (Christopher Colville, 2011)
Beth Dow, Roam (Beth Dow, 2011)
Lauren Henkin, Displaced (Lauren Henkin, 2010)
Paula McCartney, Bird Watching (Paula McCartney and Women’s Studio Workshop, 2006)
Ryan Spencer Reed, Detroit Forsaken (Ryan Spencer Reed, 2010)
John Steck Jr., Fragments Volume One (Make Book Blog, 2010)
Ian van Coller, Interior Relations (Doring Press, 2010)
Graeme Vaughan, Palermo: a notebook (Graeme Vaughan, 2010)
Ian J. Whitmore, Cacophony; Otiose; Prolix; Internecine (4 books of 26 in an ongoing series called Onomasticon) (Sanguine Press, 2011)


Maxwell Anderson, See You Soon (Bemojake, 2010)
Lucas Blalock, Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011)
Daniel Evans, 3 Months in Another Place (Pogo Books, 2011)
Jason Fulford, Crushed (J&L Books, 2003)
Sébastien Girard, Desperate Cars (Sébastien Girard, 2010)
Ron Jude, Emmett (The Ice Plant, 2010)
Adam Murray, Robert Parkinson, and Jamie Hawkesworth, Industria, Virtus, et Fortitudo (Preston is My Paris Publishing, 2011)
Andrew Phelps, 720 (Two times around) (Andrew Phelps, 2010)
David Schoerner, Photographs (Hassla, 2010)
Andrea Stultiens and Arthur C. Kisitu, The Kaddu Wasswa Archive (Post Editions, 2010)
Sarah Sudhoff, Repository (Sarah Sudhoff, 2009)
Peter Sutherland, editor, Smoke Bath (Seems, 2010)
Deanna Templeton, 17 Days (Deanna Templeton, 2008)
Jan von Holleben, Ho Ho Ho (The Photographer’s Office, 2010)
Kimm Whiskie, Supersilent

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING Indie Photobook Library first FEATURE-LENGTH exhibition at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston!

The Indie Photobook Library is absolutely thrilled to have its first feature-length exhibition open this Fall at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University!

George Slade (independent curator and writer), Shane Lavalette (Photographer and Founder of Lay Flat) and Larissa Leclair (Founder of the Indie Photobook Library) will be curating an exciting exhibition of photobooks selected from the Indie Photobook Library permanent collection.

The exhibition will run from September through November with the opening night on Wednesday September 21, 2011.

Final book lists are being put together by the three curators. All books already in the collection and received by June 21, 2011 will be considered for this exhibition at the PRC.

Please spread the word.

A very big thank you to George Slade, Glenn Ruga, and the Photographic Resource Center.

Indie Photobook Library at Review Santa Fe – June 3 and 4, 2011


The Indie Photobook Library at Review Santa Fe.

June 3-4, 2011
Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza
Santa Fe, NM

Free and open to the public

JUNE 3             10:00am-4:00pm   and   5:30pm-7:00pm

JUNE 4             9:00am-7:00pm

The iPL pop-up exhibition will feature photobooks by current and past participants of Review Santa Fe.

BOOKLIST

Books collected at Review Santa Fe

10 Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin, Book 1 by Mike Rebholz
10 Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin, Book 2 by Mike Rebholz
A Journal of Southern History by McNair Evans
After Prom, by Guillaume Simoneau
Bird Watching by Paula McCartney (artist book)
Breathing Walls by Rhea Karam
Burning Chrome by Norihisa Hosaka
Con-Form: The Torso Project by Craig Clark
Cosplay in America by Ejen Chuang
Couple Jam by Photographer Hal
Coverage by Christopher Dawson
Despite/Embargo by Jose Beltran
Detroit Forsaken by Ryan Spencer Reed
Ecologies of Decay by Dennis Maher, Julian Montague and Jean-Michel Reed
For God, Race, and Country by Chris Capozziello
Greetings from Colma by Lex Thompson
Iron Sights in the Round by Jesse & Jason Pearson
Living Arrangements by Sarah Malakoff
Los restos de la revolución by Kevin Kunishi
Low by Jesse Burke
My Grandmother’s Polaroids, Silas Finch
On Wisconsin by Mark Brautigam
Paper by Laura Noel
Pinky & Killer by Photographer Hal
Pinky & Killer DX by Photographer Hal
Portfolio by Okabe Tokyo
Recent Work by Clint Baclawski
Repository by Sarah Sudhoff
The Distance Between Us by Chris Capozziello
The Negative Space by Paul Rider
The Trouble with Birds by Joyce P. Lopez
There is Nothing Beautiful Around Here by Paccarik Orue
Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia, 2008-2009 by Mark Slankard
Urban View – Rural Sights, MPLS Photo Center Galleries
Various Big Fires by Jean-Michel Reed

Books brought from the iPL collection

America Now
Arid Harvests by David Ondrik
Blink #2
Burn 01
Carry Me Ohio by Matt Eich (artist book)
Collector’s Guide, Humble Arts Foundation
Collector’s Guide vol 2, Humble Arts Foundation
Don’t Die by Justin James Reed
Down These Mean Streets by Will Steacy
Dying Beautifully by Jason Houston
Get Off My Lawn
Girls: Fact and Fiction by Deborah Hamon
Lacuna by Sonja Thomsen
Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light
Life is a series of small moments by Elizabeth Fleming (MagCloud)
My Brother’s War by Jessica Hines
Offset by Lacey Terrell
On Approach by Daniel Milnor
Pause to Begin
People of the Forest by Jason Houston
Smoke Bath
Some Fox Trails in Virginia by Susan Worsham
Suburbia Mexicana by Alejandro Cartegena
The Bridge at Hoover Dam by Jamey Stillings
The Election Project by Simon Roberts
The Woods by Emily Shur
Thrills & Chills by Isa Leshko
Unmarked Sites by Jessica Auer
Was it a Dream by Ayala Gazit
Waterfall Spring 2010

Indie Photobook Library at NYPH – May 12-15, 2011

The Indie Photobook Library will be at the New York Photo Festival.

Thursday May 12 – Sunday May 15, 2011

Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO
on the corner of New Dock Street and Water Street
across the street from St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY

WE HAVE BEEN RELOCATED TO
1 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

Thursday, Friday 12-8pm
Saturday 11-8pm and
Sunday 11-6pm

The entire catalogued collection of the Indie Photobook Library will be on display, plus the Blurb Photography Book Now winners and honorable mentions from 2009 and 2010!

UPDATE – Find us in building 05 on the map below – 1 MAIN STREET -  rather than building 04.

The Indie Photobook Library is excited to make its New York debut at the NYPH. The entire collection will be on display, totaling more than 400 photobooks. Do some research on the iPL online catalog and make a list of some of the books you would like to see before visiting in person. The amount of books to browse through can be overwhelming.

I look forward to seeing many of you there!

Indie Photobook Library at Snap! Orlando – May 6 and 7, 2011

The Indie Photobook Library will be at Snap! Orlando with a pop-up exhibition of photobooks from the collection.

May 6 and 7, 2011

GAI Building, 618 E. South St, Orlando, Florida

Friday, 7pm – 12 am
Saturday, 7pm – 12 am

Founded in 2010 by Larissa Leclair, the Indie Photobook Library (iPL) is an archive that showcases and preserves self-published and indie published photobooks through exhibitions and as a non-circulating public library. The iPL is pleased to have E. Brady Robinson, Associate Professor, UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, and Heather Comparetto, photographer and curator, curate the pop-exhibition of photobooks for Snap! Orlando. Roughly fifty titles will be on display during the event, allowing visitors to explore and celebrate the diversity, craft, and creativity in self-publishing today.

Titles selected by E. Brady Robinson, Associate Professor, UCF School of Visual Arts and Design
Adam Revington, Adam Revington
Alex, Christian Reister
A Specter from the Land of If: Outlandish Photography
Bookmarks, Tuomas Korpijaakko
Color Dying Light, Sam Falls
Desert Days, Matt Austin
Destination: Anywhere, Jordan Swartz
Fading Light, Clay Lipsky
Firework Studies, Pierre Le Hors
Get Off My Lawn
Hackney Wick, Stephen Gill
Hasisi Park, Hasisi Park
Kitintale, Yann Gross
Lacuna, Sonja Thomsen
Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light
Lay Flat 02: Meta
Not Many Kingdoms Left, Jeff Luker
One and Two and Up and Down, Ting Cheng
Photographs & Pictures, Mark Peckmezian
Sadkids Number 4, Geoffrey Ellis
Sadkids Number 5, Geoffrey Ellis
See You Soon, Maxwell Anderson
Small View, gu fan
Superficial Snapshots Zine 3: Things I Like About Texas, Allison V. Smith
Taciturn Heart, Marcelo Gomes
Tell mum everything is ok, no. 2
Tell mum everything is ok, no. 3
Tell mum everything is ok, no. 4
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive, Andrea Stultiens and Arthur Kisitu
The Story of Four Generations, Yee Ling Tang
The Strangeness of This Idea, Kate Steciw
The Well Ain’t Dry, Cody Chandler
Tokyo Tokyo, WassinkLundgren
Transit, Ali Taptik
Try to be more positive, Matt Austin

Titles selected by Heather Comparetto, photographer and curator
38, Kevin Miyazaki
Anywhere But Here, Alex McTigue
Dive, Marco Onofri
Downcasting, Beau Brashares
Fiume, Guido Guidi
Fragments – Volume Two, Jimmey Leblanc
Living With Myself Forgetting, David Agasi
Lush Light, Andi Schreiber
Mornings/Evenings, Todd M. Walker
Nerves, Laëtitia Donval
Now We Are 30, Stuart Woodman
Privilege, Jessica Craig-Martin
The f word, Angela Marklew
The Lightness of Being, Alinka Echeverria
The Singled Person
Unique c-Prints, John Steck Jr.
World Was in the Face of the Beloved, Eric Weeks

Titles selected by both E. Brady Robinson and Heather Comparetto
Last Call, Judith Stenneken
Offset, Lacey Terrell
Thinner Air, John Mann

Indie Photobook Library at Photolucida

The Indie Photobook Library is traveling to Photolucida this week!

Come visit the Indie Photobook Library at Photolucida.
Located in the Benson Hotel
309 Southwest Broadway, Portland, OR
Second Floor
Thursday April 14 – Sunday April 17, 2011
9-11am, 12:30-5pm
Free and open to the public

Selected by Melanie Flood and Shawn Records, the following titles from the Indie Photobook Library archive will be on display.

Titles selected by Melanie Flood – Artist/Curator

As a photography and art book collector, I was thrilled to hear of Larissa Leclair’s endeavour to amass a library of independently published photography books, appropriately titled The Indie Photobook Library. Admittedly, I also wondered “Why did I not think of that?!” To my delight, Larissa contacted me to ask if I would curate a selection from the library to be on view during Photolucida’s biannual Portfolio Reviews. I enjoy many of these books in my own collection, while other publications I’ve yet to see. Most cherished are Ofer Wolberger’s Star Quality, (his 2010 Photographic Book Project is pure gold), Mikael Kennedy’s entire Passport to Trespass series, Sam Falls’s Color Dying Light, (seeing this book made me buy a print) and the coveted Get Off My Lawn by Geoffrey Ellis. I hope these titles inspire you to appreciate and explore new contemporary genres of photography.

Alpine Star, Ron Jude (A-Jump Books)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Trent Parke (Little Brown Mushroom Books)
Color Dying Light, Sam Falls (Hassla Books)
Coming Up for Air, Stephen Gill (Nobody)
Hackney Flowers, Stephen Gill (Nobody)
Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light, with many contributing photographers (Lay Flat)
Lay Flat 02: Meta, with many contributing photographers (Lay Flat)
New Breed, Ofer Wolberger (Horses Think Press)
Palmwine & The Grass Cutter, Nick Neubeck (Seems)
Passport to Trespass Vol. VI: I can’t remember where I’ve been, Mikael Kennedy
Passport to Trespass Vol. VII: Hunt Them Out, Mikael Kennedy
Pause, to Begin Catalogue, with many contributing photographers (Booksmart Studio)
Polaroid Vitae Vol. 1: October 14, 1979, Mikael Kennedy (The Explorers Club, eXc)
Sadkids Number 5: The Gonerfest Edition, Geoffrey Ellis
Smoke Bath, with many contributing photographers (Seems)
Star Quality, Ofer Wolberger (Horses Think Press)
Taciturn Heart, Marcelo Gomes (Hassla Books)
The Deer Hunters, Stewart Simons (Blurb)
The Strangeness of This Idea, Kate Steciw (Hassla Books)

Titles selected by Shawn Records – Photographer / Educator / Board President, Photolucida

About fifteen years ago, I fell in love in a study cubicle on the third floor of the University library in Boise, Idaho. First it was Emmett Gowin’s Photographs. Then came Meatyard’s Family Album, Winogrand’s Stock Photographs, a stack of every available issue of Aperture, Friedlander’s Like A One Eyed Cat, Sternfeld’s American Prospects… oh, and each and every one of those Sally Eauclaire New Color books, among others. For the next two or three years, that cubicle, and the darkroom, were my favorite places on earth. Since then, books have always been my favorite way to consume photography.
There’s not much that I can say at this point about the books that I’ve chosen for the iPL’s booth at Photolucida’s Spring Reviews, but that’s simply because with the exception of a few that I know and selected in order to share with others, I haven’t actually seen the books yet. And that’s exactly why I’m so excited about the iPL. The Indie Photobook Library gives me, and other photo geeks, an opportunity to see, hold, and consume some of the most exciting and original photography books being produced today. If you need me at any point during the Reviews, look for me upstairs, in a quiet chair with good light. I’m ready to fall in love again.

27 Good-byes, Deanna Dikeman (Blurb)
Any Fool Can Take a Picture With a Camera Like That, Chad Muthard
City: Book One, John MacLean (Hunter and James)
City: Book Two, John MacLean (Hunter and James)
Everyday is Tuesday, Lena Guimont
How Terry likes his coffee, Florian van Roekel
If you are lucky, you get old, Freya Najade
lacuna, Sonja Thomsen
Last Call, Judith Stenneken (Blurb)
Life is a series of small moments, Elizabeth Fleming (Blurb)
low land – high hills, Andrea Stultiens (Andrea Stultiens / foundation in/druk)
Makarapa and Vuvuzela, Ian van Coller (Doring Press)
offSET, Lacey Terrell (Blurb)
Orchard, Volume One / Crime Victims Chronicle, Raymond Meeks, Deborah Luster (Silas Finch)
Seneca Ghosts, Danielle Mericle (A-Jump Books)
Some Fox Trails in Virginia, Susan Worsham (Blurb)
The Last Road North, Ben Huff (Blurb)
Thinner Air, John Mann (Three Post Press)
Vedove / Widows, Takashi Homma (FantomBooks)

Titles selected by both

A Series of Disappointments, Stephen Gill (Nobody)
America Now, with many contributing photographers
Don’t Die, Justin James Reed
Down These Mean Streets, Will Steacy (Michael Paris Mazzeo)
Get Off My Lawn, with many contributing photographers (Geoffrey Ellis)
Muddy Treads, Peter Sutherland (Seems)

Additional titles

Fragments, Volume 1, John Steck Jr. (Make Book Blog)
Kitintale, Yann Gross
Studio, Harry Watts and Finds, Harry Watts
The Collector’s Guide Vol. 1 and 2 (Humble Arts Foundation)

A sincere thanks to Melanie Flood and Shawn Records for selecting books for the iPL pop-up exhibition at Photolucida.