Looking at one photograph at a time
Untitled (Union Ice Picks) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. While I was developing my artist book Pine Lake, I had started selecting photographs for what will probably be the second artist book in this series about memory, family, nostalgia and remembrance. I am also going to make some changes for this next book, one of which... Continue Reading →
While I was reviewing some recent photobooks, I realized that I have been using some book design and publishing jargon that may not be as well known to photographers and readers of photobooks. I think for many folks, the book printer (and bindery) may be a black box; photographs and essays go in and pretty... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale Just a quick shout out that L'Ascenseur Vegetal, the web bookstore in France which is the European bookstore for Pine Lake has just posted their Pine Lake sales page here. Nice. Claude Lemaire, the owner of L'Ascenseur Vegetal, was able to juggle posting this while preparing to drive up... Continue Reading →
A very nice surprise this morning when I discovered that photobook reviewer Josef Chaladek has featured my artist photobook Pine Lake on his blog this morning. Very cool. So please check it out here! Cheers! Now I need to link this up on the side bar.
Pine Lake, As Issued, Costa Mesa, CA copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale One of the fun and interesting aspects of publishing Pine Lake has been a reason to initiate another round of discussions with book store owners. Recently I met with DJ, the owner of As Issued, which is located in The LAB on Bristol in... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published artist photobook At the end of last week, as I stated here, it was pointed out to me that I had some prime real estate available on the interior of my custom frame cover. A very nice place to include an introduction. I had drafted the introduction, but... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Pine Lake introductory text, proof, for inside cover of custom wood frame) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale Serendipity, Fate, Karma, Holy Spirit; many names for what happens or intercedes and allows some interesting events to occur that has nice consequences. What follows is a short story that has resulted in a last minute and well... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published artist book I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand made artist book Pine Lake. It is a semi-fictional narrative about a multi-generational summer rite. I recently discovered some family photographs of my grandfathers fishing, a passion of which was unknown to me. These small,... Continue Reading →
Untitled (fishing notice, Pennsylvania, Pine Lake) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale While I was looking for fishing license and other fishing ephemera for my Pine Lake artist book as I was discussing yesterday with the Michigan fishing stamp, I kept having this particular Pennsylvania fishing notice, above, pop-up in my searches. hmmm, besides being very humorous,... Continue Reading →
Untitled (sheet, 1950 Michigan Trout Stamp, Pine Lake) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale While I was developing the dummy for my Pine Lake artist book, I came up with the idea that in addition to the book being in the ziplock that adding some other loose ephemera would provide another dimension to this project. What I... Continue Reading →
