I think that I have made a successful next step in publishing my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir, which is to have a book query acknowledged and a request for a formal book submission. One big goal for Insomnia: Hotel Noir was to have it published by a traditional publisher. And one of the advantages of the... Continue Reading →
Chinese Picture Postcards – cover
JiaShan boatman, 2008 copyright of Douglas Stockdale - While I was working my way through the first edit of my photographs for the Chinese Picture Postcards project, this photograph above just jumped at me as the image that could be my potential photobook cover. One potential for this project is a series of diptychs, one of which will be a classic China photograph... Continue Reading →
Photo Networking – another example – Linda Connor
Cavallo Point Lodge bookstore One of the occasional delights that I have, is that while working on one project, through a series of somewhat related connections, other great opportunities appear! Here is my current example; while working on Linda Connor's photobook Odyssey review for The PhotoBook, I found about a wonderful photographic place to creatively hang-out in... Continue Reading →
Chinese Picture Postcards
Copyright Douglas Stockdale I am continuing to think about what I saw in China over the nine months that I was there. China is a place that is in a rapid transition to try to become "modern", and at the time, they had a ton of money to throw at their public projects. And I think... Continue Reading →
50th review on The Photobook
Copyright 2005, Candida Hofer Just a quick note to announce that I have posted my 50th review on The Photobook today. When I started this new blog, I was not sure what would happen. I had a big stack of photobooks, so it was going to take a while to write all of those reviews,... Continue Reading →
Blurb Published – Insomnia: Hotel Noir
Insomnia: Hotel Noir copyright 2009 by Douglas Stockdale I just announced on my Insomnia: Hotel Noir blog that I published the book with Blurb over the weekend. nice. And this morning I received back some nice comments from David Maisel regarding my review of his book, Libraries of Dust, which I just published on The... Continue Reading →
Insomnia – Blurb book almost complete
SideGate from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir It looks like I should be able to make the July 15th deadline for my Blurb book submission, as I just loaded this photograph, SideGate, as a full bleed image into my Booksmart page. That leaves just one more photograph to go, and I have already completed most of the... Continue Reading →
AwayStation revised
AwayStation from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir Well after a little too long of a hiatus, I have found my Insomnia files that seemed to have been crawling around in the garage during the studio re-model. Well, I could not find them, and I certainly would know where I had stored them, eh? I think the... Continue Reading →
The PhotoBook on Facebook
Andy Adams of Flak Photo has kept recommending that I set up a Facebook page for The PhotoBook, which I finally did today. So I am going to try this and see what happens. So if you would like to become a "fan", please follow the link (hope it works) and sign up. There will definitely be a little trial and error... Continue Reading →
The PhotoBook
First, interesting week. Having the new flooring laid in the studio was a one day job,and it looks great. But that was followed by the carpet in the house, only one day, eh? BUT with moving everything out to get the new stuff down, getting everything back in place is a slooooow pain in the hinny.... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 