Salon #8-Kunié Sugiura

16 December 2015: 10x10 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,…

Salon #9-Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben

24 February 2016: 10x10 Photobooks Salonwith Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben, moderated by Bryan Formhal and recorded for the LPV Show. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249760106&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false 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,…

Salon #10 – From VIVO to Provoke and Beyond

12 April 2016: 10x10 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…

Salon #11 – Sohrab Hura and Tim Soter

22 April 2016: 10x10 Salon with Sohrab Hura and Tim Soter hosted by Lanie McNulty at her home in Manhattan. 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 “ just for the love of making…

Salon #12-Barbara Tannenbaum and TR Ericsson

9 September 2016: 10x10 Salon with Barbara Tannenbaum and TR Ericsson hosted by Richard and Ronnie Grosbard at their home in Manhattan. 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…

Salon #13 – Alejandro Cartagena, Max Pinckers and Maciej Markowicz

14 September 2016: 10x10 Salon with Max Pinckers, Alejandro Cartagena and Maciej Markowicz. As summer faded to fall and we said adiós to that afternoon glass of rosé, 10x10 found time to catch up on photobooks with … Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in…

Salon #14 – Jessa Fairbrother, Lucy Helton, Virginie Rebetez & Delphine Bedel

12 October 2016: An evening of photobooks with Jessa Fairbrothers, Lucy Helton, Virginie Rebetez and Delphine Bedel. With so many incredible photobooks being published by women photographers and editors, this 10x10 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…

Salon #15 – Aaron Stern and Collaborators

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. Aaron Stern is an artist and author living in New York City. His photographs,…

Salon #16-John Gossage and Danielle Jackson

12 February 2017: 10x10 held an evening at the Magnum Foundation on Japanese and American protest photobooks with photographer John Gossage and cultural strategist Danielle Jackson. 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…

Salon #17 – Child’s Play: Sara Kramer, Isabelle Evertse and Frédérique Destribats

February 12, 2017: 10x10 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. Sara Kramer is the managing editor of…

Salon #18 – Magnum Photobook with Carole Naggar and Fred Ritchin

Magnum Foundation 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 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. 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…

Salon #20 – Chose Commune

2 April 2017: French Publisher Chose Commune in Association with the International Center of Photography Library 10x10 and friends spent an evening at the ICP Library with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi and Vasantha Yogananthan of Chose Commune. Founded in 2014, Chose Commune is a French independent publishing house devoted to photography books, which values book-objects with bold…