Queensland Photobook makers have generally worked in isolation. To promote, share and support their work they have participated in activities and events over the last 6 years coordinated by the Brisbane Photobook Club (as part of a world wide group of photobook collectives), World Photobook Day and the Australian and New Zealand Photobook Awards. Now,…
Category: Antipodean photobooks
QUEENSLAND DAY*: PHOTOBOOKS
An overview: Queensland as the subject of the photobook Within a few years of its proclamation in 1859 the state of Queensland became a focus for exploration and development, which required extensive photographic documentation. Geologist and photographer Richard Daintree was one of the first to photograph Queensland’s mining activities, agriculture, people and geological features. His…
THE BRISBANE SATELLITE MABF KEPK BEST BOOK LAUNCH
Our physical presentation of the BEST ANTIPODEAN PHOTOBOOK as part of a satellite Melbourne Art Book Fair event was thwarted by the Queensland Government’s re-introduction of a lockdown after the discovery of local cases of COVID community transmission. So – we went ahead with the LIVE STREAM component with the intention to present the physical…
BEST ANTIPODEAN PHOTOBOOKS 2020
LAUNCHED AT THE MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR 27 MARCH 2021 . Compiled by DOUG Spowart & VICTORIA Cooper This list represents a selection of books published in Australia and New Zealand in the year of the Pandemic 2020. Though many aspects of the publishing world were significantly disrupted causing several books to be held…
SELECTED ANZ STUDENT PHOTOBOOKS of 2020
LAUNCHED AT THE MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR – MARCH 27 This year we invited over 20 institutions around Australia and New Zealand to nominate a student photobook for this list. We are excited that eight photographic courses responded and that we have an opportunity to showcase these photobooks in this Antipodean Photobook Blog post….
PHOTO 2021 CHANNEL Q&A: Häggblom interviews Spowart
In 2019 Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper completed a project relating to the compilation of 52 Australian and New Zealand photobooks from the post WWII to early 2000s period for TATE Britain. The books were intended to compliment the Australian and New Zealand component of the 12.5k Martin Parr photobook collection that he was about…
FROM THE ARCHIVE: 2015 Photobook Melbourne
ON THE EVE OF THE PHOTO2021 PHOTOBOOK WEEKEND (February 26+27) IT’S GOOD TO REFLECT ON MELBOURNE’S LAST BIG PHOTOBOOK EVENT – PHOTOBOOK MELBOURNE IN 2015 We all know that feeling when you are really getting into a book, its narrative and flow, and then you reach the point where, as the last page is…
PHOTO 2021 – 52 ANZ Photobooks for TATE Britain: THE TITLES
THIS LIST WAS LAUNCHED DURING THE PHOTO 2021 PHOTOBOOK WEEKEND 27+28 February The Post compliments a Kristian Häggblom interview with Doug Spowart published on the PHOTO 2021 Online CHANNEL. Here are the 52 Australian and New Zealand photobooks selected by Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper for the TATE Library to compliment the 12.5 photobooks…
ON READING PHOTOBOOKS – Antipodean Photobook People
THE “ON READING: PHOTOBOOKS” PROJECT As part of the Brisbane Photobook Club’s celebrations for World Photobook Day (WPBD) in 2015 Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper coordinated an exhibition at Maud Gallery (now the Queensland Centre for Photography) in Brisbane that featured 67 Australian, New Zealand and some international photographer’s self-portraits imaged while reading…
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOBOOKS @ The State Library of Victoria
During 2020 THE WORLD OF THE BOOK exhibition at the State Library of Victoria presented a brief history of photobooks including some striking Australian examples. Principal librarian Des Cowley presented an online accessible video discussing the history of the photobook and some of the Australian books. Due to the Pandemic the SLV was unfortunately…
Photobooks in Australia + New Zealand 