Looking at one photograph at a time
Guide book-dummy, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale First; my Developing a Creative Photo Book workshop dates for Medium have been changed to March 23 & 24th, 2017. Thus the workshop has moved to bit later, one weekend exactly, from what I had announced last month. This should still be a wonderful spring weekend to spend in San... Continue Reading →
Trabuco Flats, copyright 2018 Douglas Stockdale For those who might have followed the link to my website these past few days probably had a bit of a visual surprise when you were greeted with a brand new home page. So while I was taking some time to evaluate how I wanted to proceed with my Trabuco... Continue Reading →
Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale As many of you know, in addition to writing this photo-blog in which I discuss my photographic projects and other odds and ends, I am also the Editor of The PhotoBook Journal. I started The PhotoBook Journal (TPBJ) shortly after starting this blog back in... Continue Reading →
Guide book dummy, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce that I will be providing my Photo Book Design Workshop in conjunction with the Medium Festival of Photography next March 23 & 24th (rescheduled, was 16 and 17th), 2019. This two day workshop will take place in San Diego at the Lafayette... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop Los Angeles Center for Photography Next month, October 7th and 14th, I will be repeating my popular two-day workshop in conjunction with the Los Angeles Center for Photograph (LACP). This workshop focuses on the fundamental development of a book; understanding the artists intent and how that then translates into a book object... Continue Reading →
Suspicious circumstances, site #5, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Okay, this has been a crazy two weeks. Which has provided me with an unexpected new project with the working title of Mystery on the Plano Trabuco. So how in the heck did this all happen? With the publication of my recent limited edition artist book, Middle... Continue Reading →
Aging (Memory Pods project) copyright Douglas Stockdale It is now September, summer vacation as most of us know it (as a former Midwestern that is after Labor Day), the kids are back in school and looking forward to the Fall weather. I took a short break from blogging here after the publication and exhibition of... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, self-published artist book, edition of 99 copyright 2018 Douglas Stockdale Last weekend the publication of the Middle Ground edition was finally completed! Binding the of 99 artist books took a bit longer than I had anticipated, to say the least. Introduction (text not provided in the artist book): My urban landscape project Middle Ground... Continue Reading →
Alternative Crossing, Middle Ground, 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale Contextualize; the artist intends to explain, justify and extend their body of work. Similar to the write-up a gallery will provide for an artist's work that might need to be re-positioned as to it's artistic merit (such as being "collectible", thus you should buy it), as example... Continue Reading →
San Diego Point of Entry, Middle Ground, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very happy to announce that yesterday my urban landscape project Middle Ground was featured on New Landscape Photography. Another nice validation of this project and the second time my work has been featured by Willson Cummer on his blog; with my Italian... Continue Reading →
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