Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. I was thinking earlier today that I should finish the year with a post about what my objectives were for next year and thoughts about this past year. But then Manik Katyal, the Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Emaho magazine disrupted my great plans with his article about Pine Lake. So how... Continue Reading →
Holiday Christmas Card – 2013
Untitled (Fiuggi, Italy, 2010) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2013. As a freelancer, sometimes a client will keep me really busy, and I mean really, really busy. When this happens in late November and most of December, some of my other to-do's suffer. One of those traditional items at the end of the year is the Christmas... Continue Reading →
Book definitions on The Photobook blog
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 →
Book Fair participation
Me (photo by Wendy Hicks) at Duncan Miller gallery, Santa Monica, CA Yesterday afternoon was a fun and interesting event being a participant at the Duncan Miller gallery Photo Art Book Fair held in Santa Monica. Actually my first time as a "exhibitor", so thought I would share a little bit about this experience. First,... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake – featured on Libro de Fotografia
This morning I awoke to a nice surprise. My artist book Pine Lake was featured by Tomas de Teresa on his Spanish photobook review blog, Libro de Fotografia. How cool is that?! Part of his review for Pine Lake: Douglas Stockdale, el fotógrafo conocido por el blog The Photobook ha auto-publicado un nuevo trabajo llamado... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake – On Tour
Pine Lake 2013 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the more interesting outcomes of Le PhotobookFest held earlier this month in Paris is the inclusion of the book dummy for my Pine Lake in a Box of Dummies tour (a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) that is taking place for the next twelve months. Eleven book... Continue Reading →
Red’s Fishing Memento
copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. I as I reflect on the development of my artist book Pine Lake, perhaps I was reacting to a very subliminal keepsake that I cherish. Sitting on my workstation for many years is this small fishing memento that my Dad has purchased a long time ago. I can remember this little... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Ciociaria
Ciociaria copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale & published by Edizioni Punctum (Punctum Press) I am really honored to be featured today on Matej Sitar's Tumblr page The Angry Bat (The Angry Bat's - nice photobooks) about my photobook Ciociaria. So check it out here. Thanks Matej! I appreciate that Ciociaria, an earlier photobook that investigates memory and its preservation, is getting... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake – L’Ascenseur Vegetal
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 →
Josef Chladek features Pine Lake
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.