After 10x10 Japan, we thought, what if we took American photobooks to Japan? So that is what we planned to do, and this is what happened. We contacted 10 specialists from the photobook community and asked them to select 10 American photobooks of influence from the past 25 years.
10x10 American Photobooks will travel to Tokyo for a four-week run at the Tokyo Institute of Photography from September 11October 6, 2013. At the end of the event, all the books in the project will be donated to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library.
Learn more about 10x10 American Photobooks here.
The 10 Reading Room Specialists:
Shannon Michael Cane, Printed Matter
Lindsey Castillo, Rebecca O'Keefe, and Grant Willing, The Camera Club of New York
Bruno Ceschel, Self Publish, Be Happy
Christina Labey, Conveyor Arts
Larissa Leclair, Indie Photobook Library
Leigh Ledare, photographer
Harper Levine and John Gossage, Harper's Books and Loosestrife Editions
David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library Bibliographer
David Solo, photobook collector
Alec Soth and Brad Zellar, Little Brown Mushroom
10x10 American Photobooks Team:
Matthew Carson?, Ihiro Hayami, ?Russet Lederman, and ?Olga Yatskevich?? (co-organizers)
Shiori Kawasaki and ?Victor Sira?? (publishers and book designers, bookdummypress)
Mathieu Asselin and Jeff Gutterman (multimedia, technical, and editorial support)
Can't get to Tokyo?? You don't have to! That's why we're producing a catalogue in collaboration with bookdummypress. The stylish and inventive Japanese manga design-inspired edition will be released with the opening of the September 2013 Tokyo reading room. The bilingual Japanese-English publication will present illustrated selection lists from all the specialists, along with essays (not previously published) on American photobook culture by noted artists, writers, publishers, curators and bibliophiles. The 10x10 American Photobooks catalogue will provide the full 10x10 experience. Support our publication, and spread the photobook love to all our community!
The catalogue will include ten short essays by:
Bryan Formhals, LVP Magazine
William E. Jones, artist, filmmaker, and writer
Evan Mirapaul, photobook collector, writer
Andrew Roth, PPP Editions + Roth Gallery
Michael Saur, writer
Ken Schles, photographer, writer, bookmaker
David Levi Strauss, Writer
Miwa Susuda, Dashwood Books
Tony White, Library Director, Maryland Institute College of Art
Bernard Yenelouis, writer, artist
Pre-order the accompanying catalogue.