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 →
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.
Winter Field – Roadside Remembrance Memorial
Winter Field, Indiana State Route 30 copyright Douglas Stockdale 2007 & text copyright Brooks Jensen, publisher, LensWork magazine This is published on the blog LensWork Daily "Looking at Images" by Brooks Jensen This image comes from a portfolio that consists of photographs of roadside memorials and crosses, each a marker indicating a sad story. I love... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake – Introduction
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published artist photobook At the end of last week, as I stated here, it was pointed out to me that I had some prime real estate available on the interior of my custom frame cover. A very nice place to include an introduction. I had drafted the introduction, but... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Pine Lake
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale self-published artist book I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand made artist book Pine Lake. It is a semi-fictional narrative about a multi-generational summer rite. I recently discovered some family photographs of my grandfathers fishing, a passion of which was unknown to me. These small,... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake – Want Good Fishing?
Untitled (fishing notice, Pennsylvania, Pine Lake) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale While I was looking for fishing license and other fishing ephemera for my Pine Lake artist book as I was discussing yesterday with the Michigan fishing stamp, I kept having this particular Pennsylvania fishing notice, above, pop-up in my searches. hmmm, besides being very humorous,... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake – Artist book in fabrication
Untitled (Douglas Stockdale, Art Supply Warehouse, Westminster, CA) For the last couple of days, I have been in the fabrication mode for Pine Lake, my artist book. One of the limitations to constructing this artist book was the 24" paper cutter in my studio. Thus after I purchased the 32" x 40" Crescent 20C chipboard... Continue Reading →