“A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks”
Duke University
Power Plant Gallery
Power Plant Building, Suite 100 American Tobacco Campus
320 Blackwell Street Durham, NC 27701
Phone: 919-660-3622

September 19–November 7, 2014
Reception: October 9, 2014, 5–8pm, with Larissa Leclair of the Indie Photobook Library

The Indie Photobook Library’s seminal traveling exhibition, curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes, arrives at Duke, after stops in New York, San Francisco and DC. “A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks” draws from the iPL collection and features 70 photobooks. The exhibition looks at the “documentary tradition” through the lens of a 21st century, global photographic community in which the lines between journalism, art and the long-term documentary project have blurred, morphed and continue to feed off of each other. The books selected for this exhibition present a range of subject matter, each coupled with a particular visual language drawn from a pool of diversity. There are books that speak a more traditional documentary language, while there are those that explicitly critique that very same tradition; there are diaristic books and titles that overlay a typological structure; other books rely primarily on found and vernacular imagery; and there are many books that borrow heavily from an art-photography storehouse. The goal of this exhibition is to survey the field before us and to foreground questions of authorship, voice, style and content.

The exhibition catalog, designed by Patrick Aguilar of Owl & Tiger Books, is available through Blurb.

A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks:

Estaría Bien Poner un Título Aquí, Alba Yruela
Ohio, Alec Soth and Brad Zellar
Uncommon Intimacy, Amy Stein, Amy Touchette, Erica McDonald, Juliana Beasley
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive, Andrea Stultiens and Arthur Kisitu
Woman With a Camera (35mm), Anne Collier
Odo Yakuza Tokyo (second edition), Anton Kusters
Hose Variations, Bjarne Bare
BURN.01
Memory Traces, Cary Markerink
The Distance Between Us, Christopher Capozziello
Concresco, David Galjaard
27 Good-byes, Deanna Dikeman
574 Views of Johnstown, Ed Panar
Road Ends in Water, Eliot Dudik
French American Trip, Eric Tabuchi
This is Not My Wife, Erik van der Weijde
How Terry Likes His Coffee, Florian van Roekel
Sadkids Number 5: Gonerfest Edition, Geoffrey Ellis
No Destiny (Transitions-Rochester), Gregory Halpern
A Falling Horizon, Heidi de Gier
Butte, America: A Vernacular History. Vol. 1, Ian van Coller
10, in-public
Cityscapes + Birdmen, Jacquie Maria Wessels
Unmarked Sites, Jessica Auer
My Brother’s War, Jessica Hines
Found Piles & Other Topograhica, John Steck Jr.
Last Call, Judith Stenneken
CENSURA, Julián Barón
The Color of Hay, Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin
offSET, Lacey Terrell
The Ninety-Nine Percent, Mathieu Asselin
Desert Days, Matt Austin
Carry Me Ohio, Matt Eich
Ramadan in Yemen, Max Pam
See You Soon, Maxwell Anderson
A Journal of Southern History, McNair Evans
Summer Weather, Michael Jang
No Man’s Land, Mishka Henner
Geolocation, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
The Pier, Nils Petter Löfstedt
Gone Quickly, Noah Beil
Visitor, Ofer Wolberger
There is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, Paccarik Orue
Donovan Wylie One Day Taking Photographs in Belfast, Peter Mann
Muddy Treads, Peter Sutherland
Grassland, Phil Underdown
The Constant Change, photo.circle
Firework Studies, Pierre Le Hors
Preston Bus Station, Preston is My Paris
Crime Victims Chronicle, Ray Meeks and Deborah Luster
Stay Cool, RJ Shaughnessy
Alpine Star, Ron Jude
Thrashers, Sacha Maric
May the Road Rise to Meet You, Sara Macel
9/11 Flipbook, Scott Blake
Owner of this World, Shawn Records
The Election Project, Simon Roberts
Hackney Wick, Stephen Gill
Vedove / Widows, Takashi Homma
Cathedral Cars, Thomas Mailaender
Looters, Tiane Doan na Champassak
Behind the Curtains, Tomas van Houtryve
Gomorroh Girl (second edition), Valerio Spada
Qaammaqqivaar, Verena Bruening
Empty Bottles, WassinkLundgren
Tokyo Tokyo, WassinkLudgren
Parking Garages, Willson Cummer
Kitintale, Yann Gross
Before Tomorrow, Yannik Willing
The Story of Four Generations, Yee Ling Tang

“A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks” from the Indie Photobook Library, curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes, is part of the exhibition “Picture Books”, the juried exhibition of self-published and handmade photography books at Duke University. “A Survey” has been paired down to include just the 70 photobooks and does not include the photographs from the original Gallery Carte Blanche exhibition.

Juried Photobooks:

A Train, Brad Farwell
All the Presidents Men, Rebecca Sittler
Astoria-Megler Bridge, Wil van Iersel
Belle Morte, Maureen O’Leary
Collier Classification System of Very Small Objects, Brian Collier
Darkwood, Chris Bennett
Days at Home, Wolfgang Hastert
Easy on the Eyes, Jeanette May
F9, Ian F.B. Dunn, Monica Dameron, Nick Pironio, Miller Taylor, Georgia Ponton
False Starts, Karen Voltz
Great Wall, Yuanliang Sun
House of Sound, Chris Bennett
Late Autumn Fragments, Aaron Canipe
Mississippi, Trey Hardin
Moonsoot, Alex Cunningham
Native Ground, Rob McDonald
Oculus Song, Marianne Dages
Overdue, Joan Oh
Parts of a Whole, Hsiang-Lu Meng
Postscript, Rachel Boillot
Revolutionary, Tyler McPhee
Rural Life, American Guide
Seeking the Source, Bryon Darby
Southern Route, Tamara Reynolds
Supermoon, Adam Forrester
Sutton Law, Kristina Baker
Swell, Julianna Foster
Tesseract, Sebastian Collett
Testify, Roger May
Textures San Miguel, Kristine Deninno
The Battle of Monmouth, Hannah Smith-Allen
The Ground, Tate Shaw
This is a Pornographic Picture, Brad Farwell
Transculture, Yuanliang SUn
Who the F#ck is Carla, Wil van Iersel
Windows, Emily Volles
Work, Rick Febre