Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Bluewater Shore, limited edition artist book, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Another of my projects this summer has been getting Bluewater Shore into bookstores here in the U.S. as well as in Europe. As is discussed at length in the Indie Photobook Publishing Guide that I posted yesterday, once your book is self-published, there can be... Continue Reading →
copyright Eanna de Freine (The Velvet Cell) 2017 One of my summer projects has been working with Eanna de Freine on the development of his Indie Photobook Publishing Guide as a beta reader, editor as well as providing a self-publishing Case Study (one of 10) for my Bluewater Shore artist books. A number of friends have... Continue Reading →
Seaweed, San Clemente beach, June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A month ago I was discussing about my on-going summer beach series that I was posting on Instagram and when I was looking at the resulting print from this post, it appeared kind of "crunchy" (below). The foreground where the seaweed was has some odd halos and the... Continue Reading →
