Middle Ground 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited and honored to announce that I am a guest curator for L.A. Photo Curator with my call for submissions on the subject of Boundaries. Call for Entry: Boundaries with guest curator Douglas Stockdale Deadline to enter: October 11, 2017 "How do we establish and understand... Continue Reading →
Starting a Book-dummy – Book Commission
Commission dummy, trim size , copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale When developing a photo/artist book I am a very firm believer in the creation of a book-dummy to be able to pre-visualize the final published book. It is very hard to look at a monitor or screen to obtain how a potential book feels as an object.... Continue Reading →
Book Commission
Copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am very happy to announce that I just received a book commission from a company that I have been mentoring on photobooks. This is going to be a bit of whirl wind affair in that the book has to be developed, printed and launched by the end of October. Although... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design – Fall workshop – LACP
Introduction to Photo Book Design – This Fall (October 1 and 8th), 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 object. The two-day goal of the workshop is for each person to leave with a first rough draft of their... Continue Reading →
10 years of photo-blogging
Frosty Morning, LaHutte, Switzerland, copyright 2005-2017 Douglas Stockdale Okay, it's actually been a little over ten years ago that I started photo-blogging, which was in April 2007, with this being my first post. I thought it might be charming to revisit the same Swiss winter landscape, this time in color. More about this photo in... Continue Reading →
Gabriela Cendoya reviews Bluewater Shore
Review 2017 copyright Gabreiela Cendoya, screen shot, Bluewater Shore copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Yesterday I woke to find that Gabriela Cendoya, a very well known photobook reviewer in Spain, has just published a review of Bluewater Shore on her blog GabrielaCendoya. Although she will on occasion provide a book review in English, the Bluewater Shore... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria in FineBooks & Collections magazine
Copyright 2017 by Journalistic, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC Through serendipity I recently came to know of and receive a review copy of FineBooks & Collections, a quarterly published by Journalistic, Inc. out of their Chapel Hill, NC offices. As you might imagine the magazine reports on all things related to “Fine” Books, Manuscripts, and other published... Continue Reading →
When you know your in trouble
South Coast Repertory (SCR) cast photo, Into the Woods, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago SCR had a "family day" free performance for the Young Players version of the play Into the Woods which fortunately Ella was cast as one of the "evil" step-sisters. So all the cast in costume were available for... Continue Reading →
Books at Arcana: Books on the Arts
Bluewater Shore, limited edition artist book (at Arcana), copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Yesterday I had an opportunity to meet with Lee Kaplan at his bookstore, Arcana: Books on the Arts, which is located in Culver City (CA) and present my three books; Bluewater Shore, Pine Lake and Ciociaria. I am now very happy to announce... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore – scaling up larger prints
Big Raft, Bluewater Shore, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Recently I have been evaluating the enlargement of photographic images from Bluewater Shore beyond the 15 x 15" prints that I can make on my Epson 4800 printer. The idea was three-fold; what did this image look like in a larger size (kinda of obvious), if a larger print... Continue Reading →