10x10 Photobooks

Salon #25 - TIS Books: Tim Carpenter, Nelson Chan, and Carl Wooley
2018-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
23 February, 2018: 10×10 enjoyed an evening of photobooks with the folks behind TIS Books. We were hosted by the Gitterman Gallery at 41 East 57th Street, NYC. Thank you TIS (Tim, Nelson and Carl) and thank you Tom Gitterman for hosting!

township 01. Photographs by Adrianna Ault, Tim Carpenter, and Raymond Meeks with fiction by Brad Zellar

Based in Brooklyn, TIS books publishes unique photobooks that are the offspring of a camera and a mind at work in the world. Their most recent publication, Dumbsaint 01: township, is a collaboration between Raymond Meeks, Tim Carpenter, Adrianna Ault and Brad Zellar. Forthcoming books by Rose Marie Cromwell, Jenia Fridlyand and Andrea Modica will join catalog titles by John Gossage, Justine Kurland with John Yau and Steven B. Smith. In addition, they publish the TIS Series with contributions from Tim Carpenter, J Carrier, Nelson Chan and Carl Wooley.

Nelson Chan, production manager for the Aperture Foundation’s book program and quarterly magazine, holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Hartford Art School. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Chinese in America, New York City; The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts; 2013 Flash Forward Photography Festival; and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Prior to joining Aperture, Chan was a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute, as well as a visiting critic in the Photography MFA Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a co-founder of TIS books.

TIS02. Photographs by Carl Wooley, Nelson Chan, J Carrier and Tim Carpenter

Tim Carpenter is a photographer and writer who works in Brooklyn and central Illinois. He received an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2012, and later that year co-founded TIS books. His books include A house and a tree (TIS) The king of the birds (TIS); Local objects (The Ice Plant); township (TIS/Dumbsaint); and Bement grain (TIS/Dumbsaint).

Carl Wooley is a photographer based in Brooklyn and a co-founder of TIS books.

TIS Books on display.

Nelsen Chang, Tim Carpenter and Carl Wooley of TIS Books.

Browsing TIS books at Gitterman Gallery.

Salon #24: Tiffany Jones and Brandon Tibodeaux
2018-01-31 18:30 - 20:30
31 January 2018: 10×10 hosted salon presentations by Tiffany Jones, Overlapse, and photographer Brandon Thibodeaux.

Mandy Barker, Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals (Overlapse, 2017)

Tiffany Jones, a Canadian based in London, is founding publisher of Overlapse. Her background in photography, journalism, editing, and publishing led to an investigation of the photobooks market for her MA in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University (2016). Previously she edited fLIP magazine for London Independent Photography (2009-2014) and led workshops on street photography and sequencing for photobooks. Overlapse launched its first publication in November 2015 and is focused on close collaboration with photographers to create relevant, desirable photobooks, artist editions and zines.

Brandon Thibodeaux, In That Land of Perfect Day (Red Hook Editions, 2017)

Brandon Thibodeaux is a freelance photographer and educator based in Dallas. His first monograph, In That Land of Perfect Day, published by Red Hook Editions (Oct. 2017), comprises over eight years of living with and documenting the lives of African American families across the northern Mississippi Delta. His photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Photographic Arts, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Tiffany Jones of Overlapse Books.

Brandon Thibodeaux

Salon #23-Photobooks from Africa with Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Brendan Embser and Oluremi Onabanjo.
2017-11-20 18:30 - 20:30
20 November 2017: 10×10 Salon hosted by The Walther Collection with presentations on the contemporary photobook scene in Africa, with Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Brendan Wattenberg (Embser) and Oluremi Onabanjo.

Oluremi Onabanjo of The Walther Collection moderated a discussion between Brendan Wattenberg (Embser) of Aperture and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen of South Africa’s Fourthwall Books.

Spread from Hââbré: The Last Generation (Fourthwall Books, 2016). Photographs by Joana Choumali. Courtesy the artist and Fourthwall Books.

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is Associate Professor and Head of Creative Writing at Wits University, co-founder and editor of Fourthwall Books, and former editor of Art South Africa magazine. She has doctorates from New York University and the University of the Witwatersrand. She has written on South African art and photography for various publications and has published several short stories. Her first novel, The Printmaker, was published in 2016 (Umuzi) and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award. She is currently at work on her second novel. Read Brendan Wattenberg’s interview with Bronwyn Law-Viljoen from Aperture’s The Photobook Review #12 (Spring 2017).

Brendan Wattenberg (Embser) is the managing editor of Aperture magazine. Formerly the director of exhibitions at The Walther Collection in New York, he has contributed essays and interviews to NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Another Africa, Contemporary And, and Aperture’s PhotoBook Review and is the editor of the photobooks François-Xavier Gbré: The Past is a Foreign Country and Samuel Fosso: The Spectacle of the Body.

Oluremi C. Onabanjo is Director of Exhibitions and Collections for The Walther Collection Project Space in Chelsea, NY, a private institution dedicated to publishing, researching, collecting, and exhibiting photography and video art. She is co-curator of the 2017 exhibition Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography & Video Art, and co-editor of the accompanying publication (Steidl).* Onabanjo has contributed to publications for The Studio Museum in Harlem, The PhotoBook Review, Autograph ABP, 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, and The Walther Collection. She holds a BA in African Studies from Columbia University, and an MSc in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from Oxford University.

*Read Okwui Enwezor on the Recent Histories of African Photography.

Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection (2017). Edited by Daniela Baumann, Joshua Chuang and Oluremi C. Onabanjo.

“Platform Africa,” Aperture magazine #227, Summer 2017.

Salon 23 audience browsing books from Africa.

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Oluremi Onabanjo and Brendan Wattenberg (Embser).

Brendan Wattenberg (Embser).

Salon #22-Jason Fulford and Valentina Abenavoli
2017-10-06 18:30 - 20:30
6 October 2017: 10×10 salon with independent publishers Jason Fulford, J&L Books, and Valentina Abenavoli, Akina.

Books published by J&L Books.

Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the United States, in Japan, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), and Contains: 3 Books (2016). He is a co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the children’s photobook, This Equals That (2014), and a co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014). Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors that explore how meaning is generated through association.

Books published by Akina.

Valentina Abenavoli was born in the 1980s in Naples, Italy. She prefers photography in lyrical sequences that function at the edge of awareness and reverie. After completing a degree in photography, a Masters in book publishing and several odd jobs, Valentina co-founded in 2012 the independent publishing house AKINA with Alex Bocchetto. With a focus on challenging contemporary photography, AKINA collaborates with emerging and established artists to publish books that take an experimental approach to visual narrative structures, editing, paper combinations, and book production. AKINA’s books are published in limited and handmade editions

Jason Fulford presents.

Valentina Abenavoli presents.

Salon #19 – Collaboration: Publishers and Photographers
2017-04-05 18:30 - 20:30
5 April 2017: Collaboration, a 10×10 salon exploring the relationship between publishers and photographers. Presentations by Kevin Messina, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Brian Lamotte, Mike Tan, Jordan Sullivan, Romke Hoogwaerts and Cole Barash.

10×10 and salon guests gathered on Manhattan’s Bowery for a conversation with some of the most talented independent publishers in New York and the photographers with whom they work.

The making of small run artists’ books and photobooks requires a special collaboration between artist and publisher. Each project is a creation individually tailored and designed by individuals working closely together: this salon is an exploration of the intense process of book-making, led by some of our foremost designers, publishers and artists.

Kevin Messina is the founder and creative director of Silas Finch (now hosted by Twin Palms, a publishing house and design studio that was based in New York. Its publishing program has established a reputation for producing titles of exceptional quality, with a unique approach to combining material and construction to support the artist’s vision.

Pau Wau Publications is an independent publishing press dedicated to the production of limited editioned books and zines of contemporary photography and art, founded in 2008 in Brooklyn, by photographer Andreas Laszlo Konrath and designer Brian Paul Lamotte.

Jordan Sullivan is a writer and artist living in Los Angeles. His photographs, curatorial projects and prose have appeared in numerous publications. His most recent book, Remaining Light, was published by Silas Finch (2016). He is the co-founder of the publishing project 205-A.

Mike Tan is founder and director of Rubber Factory, a contemporary art gallery specializing in photo-based works.

Romke Hoogwaerts is the founder of independent photobook publishing project Mossless (2009) and co-founder of Rubber Factory Posters (2016). He has also worked as a full-time photo editor at titles like MSNBC and Businessweek.

Cole Barash is a visual artist based is Brooklyn who also makes books. His work is experimental and focuses on the color-and-composition dialogue between two objects or moments.

And a big thank you to Stephanie and Jens for hosting at their photo studio loft.

Salon #21-Anita Totha, Mikiko Hara and Yoko Sawada
2017-04-02 18:30 - 20:30
2 April 2017: French Publisher Chose Commune in Association with the International Center of Photography Library

10×10 and friends spent an evening at the ICP Library with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi and Vasantha Yogananthan of Chose Commune.

The Promise by Vasantha Yogananthan and Sobra by Geraldo de Barros

Founded in 2014, Chose Commune is a French independent publishing house devoted to photography books, which values book-objects with bold design and editorial choices. It aims to publish emerging photographers as well as established figures with unpublished material.

Cécile and Vasantha shared their personal projects (Vasantha is in town receiving ICP’s 2017 Infinity Award for Emerging Photographer), and some recent award-winning Chose Commune photobooks, including Shoji Ueda (2015), Astres Noirs by Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick (2016), The Promise by Vasantha Yogananthan, and Sobras by Geraldo de Barros (2017).

Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, born in 1987, is a French publisher. Vasantha Yogananthan, born 1985, is a French photographer and publisher. He is currently working on a long-term project in India, A Myth of Two Souls, inspired by the epic tale of the Ramayana.

Shoji Ueda and Astres Noirs by Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick

Salon #20 – Chose Commune
2017-04-02 18:30 - 20:30

Salon #18 – Magnum Photobook with Carole Naggar and Fred Ritchin
2017-03-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 10003, United States
22 March 2017: We gathered on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for a “books-on-books” discussion with Carole Naggar and Fred Ritchin, authors of the recently released Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné.

Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné by Fred Ritchin & Carole Naggar

Carole Naggar is a poet and photography historian. She has written biographies of George Rodger, Werner Bischof and David Seymour (Chim). Among her recent contributions are an essay Saul Leiter: In My Room (Steidl, 2017) and a translation of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951 – 1998 (2017), as well as two volumes of poetry: Haiku by Night (Dobbin Books) and Voyage à Kyoto (Pixel Press).

Fred Ritchin is Dean of the School at the International Center of Photography. His books include After Photography (WW Norton, 2008) and Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen (Aperture, 2013). The exhibition based on his book on alternative social documentary, “Bending the Frame,” will be shown at New York University and also at the Preus Museum in Norway in 2017.

Telex Iran by Gilles Peress; Valparaiso by Sergio Larrain

And a big thank you to Deirdre Donohue and the International Center of Photography Library for allowing us to share a few of the Magnum photobooks in their collection.

A spread from Magnum Photobook

Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar

Salon #17 – Child's Play: Sara Kramer, Isabelle Evertse and Frédérique Destribats
2017-02-12 18:30 - 20:30
February 12, 2017: 10×10 and friends gathered on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for Child’s Play: Photobooks for and about Children, presentations on photobooks for and about children and adolescents by Sara Kramer of New York Review Books Classics, photographer Isabelle Evertse and photobook collector and translator Frédérique Destribats.

Show Me! by Dr. Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt and Taka-chan and I by Runcible (Betty Lifton and Eikoh Hosoe)

Sara Kramer is the managing editor of New York Review Books Classics< and the New York Review Children’s Collection, where she oversaw the 2012 rerelease of Eikoh Hosoe and Betty Lifton’s children’s classic, Taka-Chan and I: A Dog’s Journey to Japan by Runcible.

Isabelle Evertse is a photographer, curator and editor based in France. She founded piK magazine, dedicated to promoting photographers worldwide in March 2012 and has written reviews for several publications including Aperture and Off The Wall. She recently launched her own photobook alongside Kummer & Hermann, a project published by A-Jump books in 2016. In addition, Evertse publishes Co-Curate magazine, a limited edition publication that invites a different editor to collaborate with her for each issue. The current issue, focused on adolescence, is co-curated with Frédérique Destribats.

Frédérique Destribats works as a translator with a focus on photography and art, collaborating with various international publishers, editors, institutions, galleries and artists. She recently initiated a publishing platform, The Sunday Publisher, home to the collections Photographers’ References, a series of in-depth conversations with artists, and d&books, exploring the relation between textual and visual narration. For the past year, Destribats has been researching several public and private children’s photobooks collections.

And a big thank you to Deirdre Donohue and the International Center of Photography Library for allowing us to share a few of the children’s books in their collection.

Sara Kramer

Frédérique Destribats

Isabelle Evertse

Co-Curate Magazine

Salon #16-John Gossage and Danielle Jackson
2017-02-12 18:30 - 20:30
12 February 2017: 10×10 held an evening at the Magnum Foundation on Japanese and American protest photobooks with photographer John Gossage and cultural strategist Danielle Jackson.

Nihon Students by Hitome Watanabe and Street Time by Richard Balzer

A highly respected photographer, John Gossage is well known for his more than 35 artist’s books and photographic publications, including his groundbreaking 1985 photobook, The Pond. Having devoted his life to photography and the music of Charles Edward Anderson Berry since the age of 14, Gossage is also recognized as an important and early advocate of Japanese postwar photography. Over the years, he has amassed a working library that contains most of the seminal Japanese photobooks, including protest books from the 1960s and ’70s. Gossage’s presentation focused on protest photobooks by both known and unknown photographers from Japan.

Danielle Jackson is interested in the efficacy of social protest beyond political demonstration. She considered how strategies such as non-participation, spectacle, and self-invention have been conveyed through photography, performance, and nonfiction literature. Jackson has worked with leading photographers, filmmakers, and cultural institutions to develop projects, partnerships, and initiatives for social impact. She has worked with Magnum Photos, Stanford University, NYU, WNYC, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, MoMA, Tribeca Film Institute, and Open Society Foundations. She is the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, an internationally-recognized gallery dedicated to photography and social change. Her projects have been covered in media outlets including CBS Evening News, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, New York Magazine, The Guardian, among others. She currently teaches for Stanford in New York and International Center of Photography.

John Gossage

Danielle Jackson

Salon #15 – Aaron Stern and Collaborators
2016-12-14 18:30 - 20:30
14 December, 2016: We had a wonderful evening of presentations at Spoonbill & Sugartown Bookshop on the intersection of photography and poetry with 205-A co-publisher Aaron Stern and his photography and poetry collaborators: Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Tom Sleigh and Brian Merriam.

205-A, Volume One. Aaron Stern, co-publisher

Aaron Stern is an artist and author living in New York City. His photographs, books, poetry and curatorial projects have appeared in The Paris Review, Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed & Confused and Purple Magazine. In 2014, Aaron Stern and Jordan Sullivan founded 205-A, a curatorial and publishing project with a specific focus on the intersection of poetry and photography. Most recently, Aaron published Horizon Avenue, a visual narrative of a life that could have been.

Aaron spoke with:Andreas Laszlo Konrath, a fashion and portrait photographer who addresses the rich heritage of photography and film’s experimental history.

Elizabeth Schmuhl, a poet and interdisciplinary artist whose writings have appeared in PANK, Paper Darts, Big Lucks, Metatron, and elsewhere.

Tom Sleigh, a poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who is director of Hunter College’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing. He is the recipient of the Anna-Maria Kellen Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011.

Brian Merriam, an artist and photographer of abstracted landscapes that explore emptiness and longing through color and light.

Horizon Avenue by Aaron Stern and 205-A, Volume 2.

Salon Audience at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Thank you Jonas Kyle for sharing the amazing new Spoonbill & Sugartown Bookstore at 99 Montrose Avenue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the 10×10 community!

Salon #14 – Jessa Fairbrother, Lucy Helton, Virginie Rebetez & Delphine Bedel
2016-10-12 18:30 - 20:30
12 October 2016: An evening of photobooks with Jessa Fairbrothers, Lucy Helton, Virginie Rebetez and Delphine Bedel.

Jessa Fairbrother, Conversations with my mother, 2016

With so many incredible photobooks being published by women photographers and editors, this 10×10 salon showcased past and present projects by 4 women who all hail from Europe.

The evening’s presentations included writer and publisher Delphine Bedel and Swiss photographer Virginie Rebetez presenting their new publication Out of the blue, a conceptual work about the disappearance of teenager Suzanne Gloria Lyall*; British artist Jessa Fairbrother sharing her exquisite hand marked photobooks that explore gesture and the self performed; and New York-based British photo artist Lucy Helton discussing her inventively designed photobooks that unearth beauty in decaying fictive and real landscapes.

*We were also fortunate to have present at the salon Suzanne’s mother Mary Lyall.

Lucy Helton, Actions of Consequence, 2014 (on the left) and Transmission, 2015 (on the right)

Virginie Rebetez, Out of the blue. Published by Delphine Bedel and Meta/Books, 2016.

Virginie Rebetez, Out of the blue. Published by Delphine Bedel and Meta/Books, 2016.

Bristol based photographer Jessa Fairbrother explores the familiar and the personal, where yearning and performance meet each other in photography. She holds an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster and is the recipient of bursaries and honorable mentions in the UK, Europe and Canada. Her work is held in the libraries of both the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the permanent collection of the NHS and many private collections.

Born in London and based in New York, Lucy Helton received her master’s degree in fine art photography from Hartford Art School, CT, in 2014. Her first book Actions of Consequence was nominated for the MACK First Book Award 2014, shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2015, and The Anamorphosis Prize 2015. Her most recent book Transmission (Silas Finch, 2015) is a communication from our future to our recent past and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture First Book Award 2015. Helton is immersed in photo book making and has participated in various book fairs and festivals in New York, L.A., London, Germany and France.

Delphine Bedel is an artist, editor, publisher and lecturer, specialized in emerging practices in photography, design and publishing. The founder of Meta/Books and Amsterdam Art/Book Fair, she regularly contributes to books and magazines, and is a member of the advisory board of the Mondriaan Foundation and the German Photography Academy. Meta/Books is a publishing and academic research platform, developing cutting-edge projects at the intersection of visual and digital cultures. She teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven and at the Piet Zwart Institute (NL) and is doctoral researcher at UCA – University of Creative Arts (UK).

Virginie Rebetez is a photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2014, she was selected by Le Canton de Vaud to spend 6 months in New York as an artist in residence, where she realized Out of the blue. The project was selected for the Swiss Design Awards in 2016 and shown during Art Basel. She has received numerous awards including the Prix Leica during the 29th International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères and the prestigious grant from La Fondation Leenaards, in 2014. Her work is part of museum and private collections internationally.

Jessa Fairbrother shares her book Conversations with my mother

Lucy Helton presenting Actions of Consequence

Mary Lyall, Virginie Rebetez and Delphine Bedel discussing Out of the blue

Salon visitors

Salon visitors

Salon #13 – Alejandro Cartagena, Max Pinckers and Maciej Markowicz
2016-09-14 18:30 - 20:30
14 September 2016: 10×10 Salon with Max Pinckers, Alejandro Cartagena and Maciej Markowicz.

Publications by Alejandro Cartagena

As summer faded to fall and we said adiós to that afternoon glass of rosé, 10×10 found time to catch up on photobooks with …

Publications by Max Pinckers

Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of several institutions including the SFMOMA, the MoCP, the MFAH, the Harry Ransom Center, the West Collection and the George Eastman House among others. He has received the Photolucida Critical Mass book award, the Lente Latino award in Chile, the Premio Salon de la Fotografia from the Fototeca de Nuevo Leon and the Premio IILA-Fotografia 2012 award in Rome. He has been named a FOAM magazine Talent and one of PDN´s magazine 30 emerging photographers. He has published and self published several books including Suburbia Mexicana (2012 Photolucida/Daylight), Carpoolers 2014, Before the War 2015, Rivers of Power 2016 and Santa Barbara return jobs back to US with Skinnerboox in 2016. Alejandro’s work has been published internationally in magazines such as Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, The Financial Times, View, The Guardian, Le Monde, Stern, PDN, The New Yorker, The Independent, Monocle and Wallpaper among others.

Max Pinckers grew up in Asia and then moved to his native Belgium. Pinckers‘ work is largely oriented around long-term subjective documentary projects presented as photobooks and installations such as The Fourth Wall and Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Fotomuseum, Antwerp; and Flanders Center, Osaka, among others. In 2015 Max Pinckers became a nominee member of Magnum Photos.

Maciej Markowicz is a Polish artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. After a childhood spent in his grandfather’s painting studio and his father’s metal shop, Markowicz pursued photography, studying in London and New York. His work combines photography and design to explore the pictorial language of fine art with the intrinsically utilitarian orientation of graphic design. Markowicz is inspired by the basic principles of photography, its ability to draw light, and poetic immaterial impressions of place.

The Moving Camera Project by Maciej Markowitz

Salon #12-Barbara Tannenbaum and TR Ericsson
2016-09-09 18:30 - 20:30
9 September 2016: 10×10 Salon with Barbara Tannenbaum and TR Ericsson hosted by Richard and Ronnie Grosbard at their home in Manhattan.

Crackle and Drag Zines by TR Ericsson

We enjoyed a fantastic salon focused on photo-zines, DIY photobooks and artists’ books with presentations by artist TR Ericsson, the creative voice behind the 150-issue Crackle & Drag Zines, and Cleveland Museum of Art Photography Curator Barbara Tannenbaum, who organized DIY: Photographers & Books, one of the first American museum exhibitions on DIY and indie photobooks.

In 2015, Tannebaum curated TR Ericsson: Crackle & Drag at the Transformer Station, a free space for contemporary art in Cleveland. The show presented Ericsson’s zines and mixed-media works, which mine photographs, documents, writings, film stills, and artifacts from his family archives dating back to the 1930s. Chronicling several generations of his Midwestern American family—with many of the pictures of his mother, who committed suicide in 2003—the series evokes universal themes of love and loss. The Crackle & Drag exhibition catalogue was shortlisted in 2015 for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Awards.

DIY at Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo: Daniel Levin

Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has been involved with artists’ books since the mid-1970s. She has organized almost 100 exhibitions including solo shows of TR Ericsson, Adam Fuss, Hank Willis Thomas, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lois Conner, and Andrew Moore as well as the first museum show of print-on-demand photobooks, DIY: Photographers & Books.

TR Ericsson’s work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad including those with Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Switzerland; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, NY; Paul Kasmin Gallery, NY, and Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels. Ericsson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Yale University Library (Special Collections) and the Progressive Art Collection as well as numerous private collections. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition TR Ericsson: Crackle & Drag opened at the Cleveland Museum of Art on May 23, 2015. A hybrid artist’s book and scholarly monograph published by the Cleveland Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press accompanied the exhibition.

Richard and Ronnie Grosbard hosted the the event at her home in Manhattan. Thank you Richard and Ronnie!

Salon #11 – Sohrab Hura and Tim Soter
2016-04-22 18:30 - 20:30
22 April 2016: 10×10 Salon with Sohrab Hura and Tim Soter hosted by Lanie McNulty at her home in Manhattan.

Left: Life is Elsewhere by Sohrab Hura; Right: Tim go Away! by Tim Soter

Sohrab Hura is an Indian photographer, who originally trained as an economist. Gradually he turned to photography, shooting his immediate surroundings, family and close friends as he began to “[photograph] just for the love of making photographs.” Eventually, he made the leap to photography as his full-time occupation. In 2014, Sohrab became the second Indian photographer ever to be elected a nominee member of Magnum Photos — quite an artistic and personal journey in such a short period of time. Sohrab spoke about his self-published photobook Life is Elsewhere, the intimate and poetic journey of a son who puts together the conflicting pieces of his young life.

Tim Soter is known for his active search for interesting environments as well as his photographic sense of humor. He was raised in a log cabin, studied photography in Pennsylvania, and in 1994 moved to Brooklyn. He has photographed the President of Syria, spent the afternoon at Slash’s house, and once had nine seconds to shoot Daft Punk eating corn on the cob. Tim’s most recent photobook TIM! GO AWAY! explores his obsession with photographer and artist Duane Michals. The book is full of funny stories recounting how Tim successfully stalked his photography hero into a genuine friendship.

Lanie McNulty hosted the the event at her home in Manhattan. Thank you Lanie!

Salon #10 – From VIVO to Provoke and Beyond
2016-04-12 18:30 - 20:30
12 April 2016: 10×10 salon with Matthew Witkovsky, Sayaka Takahashi, Takashi Arai and Munemasa Takahashi.

The topic was postwar Japanese photobooks from the late 1950s until the present. Our presenters included Matthew S. Witkovsky, Sandor Chair of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and Sayaka Takahashi, director of PGI Gallery in Tokyo. Also present were photographers Takashi Arai and Munemasa Takahashi.

Left: Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975, Center: Record of Anger and Sadness (1960) by Hiroshi Hayama; Right: Farewell Photography by Daido Moriyama.

Matthew Witkovsky has been active in art museums and galleries since the 1980s. He has curated more than 20 exhibitions, authored ten books and dozens of articles for journals. As Chair of the Photography Department at the Art Institute of Chicago, Matthew has contributed to the museum’s forthcoming László Moholy-Nagy retrospective (October 2016). He is also a co-curator of Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975, a traveling exhibition currently on view at the Albertina Museum in Vienna and scheduled for a 2017 opening at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Matthew spoke on the development and background of the Provoke exhibition. In particular, he focused on research related to the following Provoke and protest books: Record of Anger and Sadness (1960) by Hiroshi Hamaya, I Am a King (1972) by Shomei Tomatsu, Tokyoites (1983) by Yutaka Takanashi, “Accident” series from Asahi Camera (1969) and Bye-Bye Photography (1972) by Daido Moriyama, and For a Language to Come (1970) by Takuma Nakahira.

Left: The Globe Theatre (1998) by Kikuji Kawada, Center: Japanesque (1970) by Ikko Narahara; Right top: Takashi Arai, Right Bottom: Munemasa Takahashi

Sayaka Takahashi began working in the field of photography at the PGI Gallery and the Higashikawa International Photo Festival in 1998. As PGI Gallery Director, she has worked closely with many of the most celebrated postwar photographers – in particular Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Ikko Narahara and Kikuji Kawada, the latter two photographers co-founders of the highly influential VIVO collective from 1959–1961. In addition, she is responsible for introducing contemporary Japanese photographers to international audiences.

Sayaka presented two critically important, but lesser known books by VIVO photographers: Japanesque (1970) by Ikko Narahara and The Globe Theatre (1998) by Kikuji Kawada. Also present at the salon were PGI Gallery photographers Takashi Arai (2016 winner of the 41st Kimura Ihei Award for his book Monuments) and Munemasa Takahashi (organizer of the Lost and Found project and author of Laying Stones), who joined Sayaka in a discussion about their recent books. Works by Kawada, Arai and Takahashi are currently on view in Japan Society’s In the Wake exhibition.

Salon #9-Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben
2016-02-24 18:30 - 20:30
24 February 2016: 10×10 Photobooks Salonwith Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben, moderated by Bryan Formhal and recorded for the LPV Show.

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Photographer Susan Meiselas and curator, Magnum Foundation Executive Director Kristen Lubben have been collaborating on photography publications since the release of Susan’s artist’s book Encounters with the Dani in 2003. Five years later, they conceived the career survey and critical essay collection Susan Meiselas: In History in conjunction with a major retrospective at the International Center of Photography. The publication went on to win the Rencontres d’Arles Historical Book Award and the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award. Susan has a long history of bookmaking in her own practice, beginning with the seminal photobooks Carnival Strippers (1976) and Nicaragua (1981), and including her archival, curatorial work in the historical compilation Kurdistan (1997).

Susan and Kristen continue their work together on the Magnum Foundation Legacy Series, a collection of illustrated biographies on the lives and works of Magnum photographers. The first book in the series presents Eve Arnold, with future releases showcasing Bruce Davidson, Inge Morath, and Josef Koudelka. Other collaborative publishing ventures include Larry Towell’s Afghanistan, and the forthcoming Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition by 2014 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grantee photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black.

Bryan Formhals, host of The LPV Show podcast and author of Photographers’ Sketchbooks, discussed with Susan and Kristen their ongoing publishing activities. Also making a “cameo appearance” on the podcast was surprise guest and Aperture editor Lesley Martin, who collaborated with Susan and Kristen on the Edmund Clark/Crofton Black and Larry Towell books. Check out more details about the podcast on the LPV Show website.

David Solo, 10×10 board member extraordinaire, hosted the the event at his apartment in Brooklyn.

Salon #8-Kunié Sugiura
2015-12-16 18:30 - 20:30
16 December 2015: 10×10 Photobooks visits the studio of visual artist, photographer and photobook-maker Kunié Sugiura.

Kunié Sugiura discussed her more than 50-year interdisciplinary practice that challenges the conventions of traditional photography while synthesizing elements of Japanese and Western aesthetics. Working in the United States since first attending the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963, Sugiura has produced a highly experimental body of work that includes paintings, photography, photograms, sculptures, installations and books. Several examples of Sugiura’s works were seen this past fall in New York in a solo show at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, and as part of For a New World To Come: Experiments in Art and Photography, Japan, 1968–1979, a major survey curated by Yasufumi Nakamori that originated at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and traveled to the Grey Art Gallery and the Japan Society Gallery.

In addition to viewing Sugiura’s studio works, salon visitors had a chance to learn more about her beautiful photobook Artists and Scientists, which presents work from two series, The Artist Papers and The Scientist Papers, both of which consist of life-sized photograms depicting characteristic gestures, performances and actions by a variety of artists and scientists.

Salon #7 – Rare Photobooks
2015-11-22 18:30 - 20:30
22 November 2015: 10×10 a Rare Photobooks Salon with Eric Miles and Arthur Fournier.

This lively salon-style gathering featured rare book dealer Arthur Fournier and photo-eye auction specialist Eric Miles, who showed and discussed books selected from their incredible inventories.

Arthur Fournier is an independent dealer of books and archives based in Brooklyn, New York. As a bookseller, he specializes in rare and out-of-print graphically illustrated monographs and serials from the second half of the 20th century. His company also works with the estates of avant-garde and underground artists, writers, and publishers to place their archives with institutional libraries.

Arthur brought two European photo serials from the 1970s and 1980s, including Créatis (Paris: 1976-1979) and PS (Stockholm: 1986-1989), as well as the American first wave punk tabloids Slash (Los Angeles: 1977-1980) and New York Rocker (New York: 1976-1984), both of which served as important venues for photographers of the era.

Eric Miles, who has been the director of rare books and online auctions at photo-eye since 2004, focused on important and hard-to-find photobooks as well as prints. Eric is extremely knowledgeable about all areas of photography and art history, and has a particularly strong interest in postwar Japanese and European photobooks. He also writes regularly about photography for print and online publications, advises collectors and does visual consulting for various projects.

Eric shared a global selection of photobooks, which included Robert Frank’s New York Is (1959), Josef Koudelka’s first published work Moral Discourse Today (1965) or Kral Ubu + three programs, the Karel Teige designed ABECEDA (1926), Shuntaro Tanikawa’s E-Hon (1956)… Eric also brought some surprise books.

Salon #6-1/2 – Quadruple Dutch with SALVO Group and Witho Worms
2015-11-04 18:30 - 20:30
4 November 2015: 10×10 Salon with SALVO group and Witho Worms at The Luncheonette in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Our featured salon presenters for the evening were Sander Uitdehaag, Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy (the SALVO group) and Witho Worms in discussion with gallerist Johan Deumens. These brilliant Dutch artists traveled all the way to New Amsterdam to discuss their respective art and bookmaking practices within the exploding and vibrant photobook community.

SALVO group: Anne Geene’s work is based on different possible ways of representing reality with photography. By shifting contexts and meanings, she questions the way photographs relate to objectivity.

Arjan de Nooy has studied chemistry, art history and photography. Combining both his own images and found vernacular images, he devises stories in which his role may vary from a collector to an historian or from a photographer to a scientist.

Sander Uitdehaag resides in a world in which he combines literature, theory and photography (of others and himself) into publications and installations that invite readers and viewers to join him on his quests.

And Witho Worms, a Dutch artist-photographer with a background in anthropology, investigates the medium of photography through natural and cultural environments.

Salon #6-Mariken Wessels, Rein Jelle Terpstra, and Stephan Keppel
2015-09-24 18:30 - 20:30
24 September 2015: 10×10 salon with Mariken Wessels, Rein Jelle Terpstra, and Stephan Keppel hosted by Ken Schles in Brooklyn.

Mariken Wessels‘ latest artist’s book Taking Off. Henry my Neighbor is a real picture story about failed marriage, sexual frustration and voyeurism. She started redacting the work and arranging it into an artist’s book, for which the audience will be invited to a journey into Henry’s life as well as his twisted vision of Martha – his former spouse and muse.

For the creation of Entre Entree, Stephan Keppel spent one year in Paris and its suburban ring road (the Boulevard Périphérique). By reproducing the endless variations of the city’s surfaces – with his set of printers, cameras and partly found paper-stocks – With Entre Entree Keppel visually narrates a fragmented and claustrophobic urban landscape, manifested through numerous black-and-white images of concrete facades, vegetation and the textures, shapes and materials that together form the face of the city.

Rein Jelle Terpstra‘ Retracing is part of a long-term research project into perception, memory, photography, and the possibility of imagelessness. Terpstra collaborated with people who are losing their sight. He asked them about their most valuable visual memory and photographed these scenes on Kodachrome diapositive, a type of film that was discontinued in 2009.

Salon #5: Bruno Ceschel of Self Publish, Be Happy
2015-07-01 18:30 - 20:30
1 July 2015: 10×10 salon with Bruno Ceschel of Self Publish, Be Happy.

10×10 welcomed Bruno Ceschel of Self Publish Be Happy for a steamy NYC summer salon at the home of David Solo. Bruno gave us a sneak peak at his forthcoming book on self publishing.

Self Publish, Be Happy, founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010, collects, studies, and celebrates self-published photobooks through an ongoing program of workshops, live events, and on/offline projects. Its London-based collection contains more than two thousand publications. Self Publish, Be Happy is the physical manifestation of a worldwide online community formed of a new, ever-evolving generation of young artists, who experiment, stretch, and play with the medium of photography.

Bruno Ceschel writes regularly for publications such as Foam and Aperture, is coeditor of the forthcoming publication issue of the journal Photography and Culture, and was the guest editor of The PhotoBook Review’s spring 2014 issue. He is also an associate lecturer of photography and contextual studies at University of the Arts London.

Salon #4: Ivan Vartanian, Hannah Whitaker, David Solo, and Deirdre Lawrence
2015-05-03 18:30 - 20:30
3 May 2015: 10×10 Salon with Ivan Vartanian, Hannah Whitaker, David Solo and Deirdre Lawrence.
We enjoyed a lively salon-style gathering featuring Hannah Whitaker, ICP alumna and photographer; David Solo, Brooklyn-based photobook collector; Deirdre Lawrence, Principal Librarian at the Brooklyn Museum; and Ivan Vartanian, Tokyo-based writer and Goliga publisher. Salon presenters took turns discussing their respective editing, publishing and collecting practices in the exploding and vibrant photobook community.

Salon #3 - Colour & Books and Flamingo Publications
2015-03-22 18:30 - 20:30
We were treated to a terrific evening with Sebastiaan Hanekroot of Colour & Books (The Netherlands) and Xavier Luján, publisher of flamingo publications (Venezuela / New York). Sebastian is the technical genius behind Carolyn Drake’s recent photobook, while Xavier is an inventive independent publisher.

Wild Pigeons by Carolyn Drake; technical direction by Sebastiaan Hanekroot

Xavier Luján, editor at flamingo publications

Salon #2—Anouk Kruithof, Charles Johnston, Sean Muang, and VUU Studio
2015-02-21 18:30 - 20:30
On a cold and snowy night in New York, 10×10 hosted a salon at the Tribeca loft of S_U_N Editions publisher Bill Sullivan. We were treated to photobook and zine presentations as the streets of Manhattan were quieted by a blanket of snow.

Lang Zal Ze Leven / Happy Birthday to You by Anouk Kruithof

Zines by Sean Muang

Salon #1—S_U_N Editions, IPG Project and Super Labo
2015-02-06 18:30 - 20:30
6 February 2015: 10×10 Photobooks Salon with S_U_N Editions, IPG Project and Super Labo.

We launched our first Photobook Salon with an incredible gathering that brought together photobook publishers, authors and collectors in an informal atmosphere over a glass of wine. Our guests enjoyed presentations from the individuals behind Superlabo (Tokyo), IPG Project (New York), and S_U_N Editions (New York and Los Angeles).

Visitors to 10×10’s first salon

Yasunori Hoki of Super Labo

Salon books on view

S_U_N Editions presents
