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Day 7 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

December 7, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

It’s the end of the first week of the Advent Calendar and so far we’ve seen, coming out from behind the doors, some great photobooks that have been highlights for our team this year. Today, Joe Conway chooses a publisher, rather than a single book, in Cafe Royal Books. I first encountered Café Royal after treating myself to one of their books during a series of talks at the Cheltenham Literature festival in 2013. The publication was made up of images from a […]

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Day 6 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

December 6, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

Another day and the Grand Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar rolls on with our regular writer Alexander Norton taking us through Paul Graham’s ‘Does Yellow Run Forever’… The colour yellow has a host of connotations. These are not obvious by any means. Yellow cooperates with gold and gold implies a kind of value. So when considering the question ‘Does Yellow Run Forever?’ we are posed an incredibly in depth answer in return. Paul Graham’s practice has always made us work for the meaning and […]

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Day 5 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

December 5, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

Another day and the Grand Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar rolls on with Jim Stephenson choosing a long-time favourite he finally picked up in book form at Offprint in November. Joachim Schmid’s ‘X Marks the Spot’… Joachim Schmid has been self-publishing before everyone was self-publishing, initially himself and then subsequently through print-on-demand services. Since the early 80’s he’s published somewhere between 100 and 150 books. Or at least a number higher than we had time to count. A lot. A lot of […]

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Day 4 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

December 4, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

Day 4 of the Gran Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar and one of our guest writers, Alex Norton takes us through one of his pick’s from earlier this year. Sam Laughlin’s ‘Frameworks’ from The Velvet Cell… The structures we use to house ourselves have been formed for centuries. We cannot survive without a structure, for what? To place our things in, rest our heads or prevent us from getting wet. A space we live in is undeniably important and can dominate and […]

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Day 3 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

December 3, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

Day 3 of our Grand Photobook Advent Calendar and Nicoletta Barbata takes us through one of her favourite book’s of the year… When I think about Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh I think of a great tiny book which well represents what photography is about and what we love about photography at Miniclick. Photography should arouse curiosity, should whet your appetite to know more. It can be communicate in hundreds of different ways. If it’s done with a sense of fun, then […]

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Day 2 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

December 2, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

Christoph Soeder’s “Clear Cut” is just that. A topographical study of men getting their haircuts in a small barbers in Newport South Wales. image courtesy of A Fine Beginning We were first made aware of Christoph’s book during a visit to Brighton he made with Newport University to talk to a number of practitioners (including Jim and Jack from Miniclick) about their work. This project really stuck in our minds and the book just adds to it even more. The […]

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Day 1 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calender, 2014

December 1, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

Once again, on the run up to Christmas Miniclick are running our Photobook Advent Calendar, where we do a short review of a book we’ve enjoyed this year (mostly from people we’ve worked with at some point). So keep coming back for a daily post, concluding with a big announcement on Christmas Day about a new project we’re launching in 2015. Kicking off the 2014 Photobook Advent Calendar is Glen Erler’s ‘Family Tree’, published by Kehrer. Glen did a talk […]

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Jean-Luc Brouard – Seeing the Unseen Scene

July 22, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

In June 2014, we launched The MIniclick Press with the plan to publish affordable books on photographers side project, experimental works and archives. We started off with 5 books by Brighton based photographers. Here we take a closer look at Jean-Luc Brouard’s “Seeing the Unseen Scene” (which can be purchased here), with writer Bryony Good. ‘This world is a place of wrapping, of hints, of concealment.’ It has been said that the best photographs lead the mind to visually fill […]

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Jack Latham – The Prospect of Forest Preservation

July 13, 2014 by Jim Stephenson

In June 2014, we launched The MIniclick Press with the plan to publish affordable books on photographers side project, experimental works and archives. We started off with 5 books by Brighton based photographers. Here we take a closer look at Jack Latham’s “The Prospect of Forest Preservation” (which can be purchased here), with writer Bryony Good. ‘Distant trees creak Deep echoing cracks; Deadwood limbs Break and bend. Unseen birds Clatter and flap Between branches As men below Beat the brush They […]

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Category Archives: BOOK REVIEWS

Day 7 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

Day 6 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

Day 5 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

Day 4 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

Day 3 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

Day 2 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calendar, 2014

Day 1 – The Miniclick Photobook Advent Calender, 2014

Jean-Luc Brouard – Seeing the Unseen Scene

Jack Latham – The Prospect of Forest Preservation