10x10 Photobooks

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10x10 Photobooks

10x10 Photobooks is a non-profit organization with the mission to foster engagement with the global photobook community through an appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of photobooks. Founded in 2012, 10x10 presents an ongoing multi-platform series of public photobook events, including reading rooms, salons, publications, online communities, and partnerships with arts organizations and institutions.

Collaborators

10 x 10 Photobooks is run by Russet Lederman (Co-founder), Olga Yatskevich (Co-founder), and Michael Lang (Director of Salons).

Russet Lederman is a writer, editor, and photobook collector who lives in New York City. She teaches art writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and writes on photobooks for print and online journals, including FOAM, The Eyes, IMA, Aperture, and the International Center of Photography's library blog. She is a co-founder of 10x10 Photobooks, co-edits The Gould Collection, lectures internationally on photobooks, and has received awards and grants from Prix Ars Electronica and the Smithsonian American Art museum.

Olga Yatskevich is a photobook collector based in New York. She is a co-founder of 10x10 Photobooks and is a contributing writer for Collector Daily, a platform that offers photography criticism from a collector's perspective.

Michael Lang is a photography and photobook collector based in New York. He joined 10x10 Photobooks in 2014

Publications

How We See : Photobooks by Women (2018)

How We See: Photobooks by Women is a hands-on touring reading room, publication, and series of public events featuring a global range of one hundred 21st-century photobooks by women photographers. "In this new photobook anthology and touring exhibition, women take center stage in a tradition that has historically ignored their importance."

The comprehensive How We See ‘book-on-books’ publication was published in mid-November 2018 with a second printing in February 2019. The publication includes the one hundred photobooks in the reading room and is supplemented with an additional 100 historical books by women photographers, an annotated history, and essays by photographer Ishiuchi Miyako; Magnum Foundation Executive Director, Kristen Lubben, and Valentina Abenavoli of Akina Books.

With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is not surprising that women have consistently contributed to the rich history of photobook making. 10×10 Photobooks organized How We See—a touring reading room, “book on books” publication, and series of public events—to explore the distinctive content, design, and intellectual attributes in photobooks produced by women.

"Lederman and her colleagues, co-founder Olga Yatskevich and director Michael Lang, found that between 2013 and 2017, 40% of the shortlisted photobooks for first book and dummy awards were by women. But when they looked at the shortlists for best book, author, or annual photobook of the year prizes, they found that it dropped to 23%. What’s more, during the same period of time, photobooks by women made up only 10.5% of the entries in the six major “book-on-books” anthologies, and in the online inventory of major photobook sellers, only 16% of the available titles were by women."

How We See Reading Room Contemporary Book Selectors:

• Ilgin Deniz Akseloglu (Middle East)
• Delphine Bedel and Frédérique Destribats (Western Europe)
• Federica Chiocchetti (Western Europe)
• Iona Fergusson (South Asia & Australasia)
• Amanda Ling-Ning Lo (China & Taiwan)
• Lesley A. Martin (United States)
• Oluremi C. Onabanjo (Africa)
• Mariela Sancari (Latin America)
• Miwa Susuda (Japan)
• Daria Tuminas (Eastern Europe)

How We See Publication Historical Book Selectors:

• Sagrario Berti (Photography Historian)
• Clara Bouveresse (Photography Historian)
• Hinde Haest (Curator, Foam Museum)
• Anne E. Havinga (Chair, Department of Photography, MFA, Boston)
• Carole Naggar (Photography Historian)
• Sayaka Takahashi (Director of PGI, photo gallery in Tokyo)
• Barbara Tannenbaum (Curator, Cleveland Museum of Art)
• Jennifer Tobias ( Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
• Stephanie H. Tung (Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Research, Peabody Essex Museum)
• The women on the 10×10 Photobooks team (Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich)
  

CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks (2017)

CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks (shortlisted for Paris Photo–Aperture Photography Catalogue of the Year 2017) is a photobook reading room that presents 130 contemporary Latin American photobooks from 2000 to 2016. Organized 10×10 Photobooks, the project launched at the PGH Photo Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (13-15 May 2016) and was exhibited at the Aperture Foundation in New York City (2-5 November 2016) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2 March–8 April 2017). The reading room will conclude its tour at FoLA: Fototeca Latinoamericana (29 November - 3 December 2017). All the books in the CLAP! reading room were donated as a complete set to the Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in March 2017.

10×10 Japanese Photobooks (2014)
10×10 Japanese Photobooks, organized by 10x10 was a traveling pop-up reading room co-sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library and the Photobook Facebook Group. It presented 100 Japanese photobooks from the perspective of 10 specialists who were each asked to select 10 postwar Japanese photobooks or magazines.

The project was initiated from 28 to 30 September 2012 at the ICP – Bard MFA Studio Space and coincided with the Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. The Reading Room then traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, as part of the PGH Photo Fair (17-18 May 2014), and the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam (18-21 September 2014). At the end of the tour, all the books in the Reading Room were donated to the International Center of Photography Library, where they are still accessible to the general public.

10×10 American Photobooks (2013)

10×10 American Photobooks was a multi-platform photobook event with a reading room, online component, and publication that presented American artists’ photobooks from 1990 to 2013. The project previewed in New York and Pittsburgh in May 2013. It traveled to the Tokyo Institute of Photography for a 4-week run, which coincided with the Tokyo Book and Photo Fairs in September 2013. At the end of the project, all the books from the reading room were donated to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography’s Library. 10×10 American Photobooks is co-sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library, Tokyo Institute of Photography, and the Photobook Facebook Group.

10×10 American Photobooks presents 100 contemporary American artists’ photobooks selected by 10 specialists in a reading room and an additional 200 books online from the perspective of 10 American and 10 Japanese photobook specialists, who have each been asked to select 10 books. The project is accompanied by a bilingual English-Japanese publication, designed by bookdummypress, which documents all the selected books along with essays highlighting different aspects of contemporary American photobooks. In addition, Self Publish, Be Happy has produced two pamphlets, edited by Nicholas Muellner, for 10×10 American Photobooks's Tokyo reading room, featuring newly commissioned work by American photographers and writers.

External links

• 10x10 Photobooks Website
• Russet lederman

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