As a black and white photographer I find the self publish route to be fraught with difficulty. The production processes are all tuned to give good colour reproduction and mono pictures always have a random colour cast.

Yo can’t beat a good traditional publisher!

Australian photographer Max Pam’s Atlas Monographs published by T&G Publishing Sydney has taken out the coveted “Best Photography Book Prize (International Category)” for the 2010 edition at PHotoEspaña in Madrid.

PHotoEspaña International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts is a major event in the annual calendar attracting an audience of more than 600,000 from around the world.

Atlas Monographs was named in the top 100 Best Photography Books of the Year for 2010, the only Australian book to make the list. Publisher Gianni Frinzi was advised of the win in the “Best Photography Book Prize (International Category)” this week. An Awards ceremony will be held in Madrid on 24th June.

“We are absolutely delighted with the win. Max (Pam) and I worked tirelessly to ensure the integrity and quality of the book. It is fantastic to be rewarded with this international prize,” said Gianni.

“T&G is focused on bringing the best of Australian photography to the world. This prize is not only recognition for Max Pam’s tremendous body of work, and for T&G. It is a real boost for Australian photography publishing. To my knowledge we are the first to win this prize in Australia.”

The PHotoEspaña jury comprised Juan Manuel Bonet, critic and former director of Museum Reina Sofia; Pep Carrio, photographer; Wim van Sinderen, curator at The Hague Museum of Photography; Miguel Lopez, Director of Antonio Saura Foundation and Alberto Corazon, designer.

Atlas Monographs
In Atlas Monographs Max Pam shares his journeys through Zanzibar, China, South India, Yemen, Madagascar, Karakoram and the South China Sea. The book features photographs from his nascent years in the early 1970’s to images taken as recently as 2006. The vast majority of pictures in Atlas Monographs have not been published before. The book not only contains photographs spanning four decades, but also excerpts from the journals Max kept on his travels.

Other than a biography, the images may only require some text to aid in their desciption, others, speak for themselves.
Any suggestions ?

Just to let you know:
Pcjelkabooks just started with it’s first book Shop+Dog!
http://www.pcjelkabooks.com
It is based in Switzerland.

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regards,

Daniel

Does anyone have a list of erotica publishers handy? European and outside the USA would also be helpful, thanks in advance!

johnny

thank you

with positive thougts

It is ironic that Mr Power,CEO of PowerHouse Books and the creator of the beast: a publishing company that rarely pays it’s authors’ royalties (most do not even bother to ask for them) would publicly stab the same beast, perhaps to finish it off before he declares bankruptcy? thereby avoiding any avenging authors’s future audits of the books, legal demands for advances not paid and royalty statements never produced.

Afterwards at the well attended festival opening party the overworked PowerHouse staff, many of whom are now taking a pay cut and working less hours, mingled with disgruntled authors. Fans of their wonderful books made purchases while the authors gamely mingled and signed books knowing they will never see their share of the sales.

http://www.lulu.com/content/5162138

Thank you.
Paul Treacy.

http://photohumourist.com

I’m thinking of http://www.blurb.com and http://www.lulu.com as two fine examples.

Here’s my latest at Lulu which I think is a gem,
lulu.com/content/5162138

Unfortunately, I have to take care of all the distribution myself.

I’ve had some interest from publishers with this material but chose to try and do it myself to maintain complete control over edit and layout design. If you prep your files rights the results can be astonishingly good.

Thanks for your time.

Paul Treacy
photohumourist

Blacksmith Books in Hong Kong (who recently published the phenomenal 640-page photobook CHINA: Portrait of a People):
http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/9789889979942.htm

FLP (Foreign Languages Press) in Beijing is China’s largest state-run press, and have an English division, including photobooks:
http://www.flp.com.cn/main/

Timezone 8 in Beijing have a massive catalogue of photography and illustrated art books:
http://www.timezone8.com/osc/

Many many thanks.

Balazs

Allison

http://www.foiltokyo.com/english/indexeg.html

now what I would be REALLY looking forward to se is a list of self-publishing, self-made-photobook resources.