New York Photobook Meet-up (#1).

We had the first NY photobook meet-up on Saturday, 25 February 2012! Thanks everyone who joined and introduced books from their collections! It was a wonderful opportunity to share photobooks and meet like-minded New Yorkers who found passion in photography books. Over 40 photobooks and zines: beautiful self-published books, books of small print run, rare old titles and many recent publications.

We have also screened a documentary “How to make a Book with Steidl”. This is a beautiful film about German publisher Gerhard Steidl, and his incredible passion and dedication to publishing. It captures wonderful creative moments in the production of photography books. The film follows the entire creative process (from editing to printing, including colour correction, the “making of” a cover) of Joel Sternfeld’s iDubai photobook.

It was an inspiring event and we are planning to organize them regularly. Announcements for upcoming photobook events will be posted on this blog and if you are looking for photobook meet-ups in other locations, you can find many of them here. Fore more photobook links and news, join Facebook group on PhotoBooks.

Special thank you to Alive Mind Cinema for the permission to screen the film (purchase here) and a HUGE thanks to Vaudeville Park for hosting the photobook meet-up!