{"title":"TBW Books","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTBW Books — Independent Photography Publisher\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTBW Books is an independent photography publishing house founded in Oakland in 2006 by Paul Schiek. The catalogue concentrates on contemporary photobooks and book-length photographic work, selected with sustained attention to the medium rather than market cycles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2023, TBW launched Workshop de Allende, a photographic arts retreat in Mexico. The following year, a partnership with the Miner Anderson Family Foundation extended the publisher's scope to support the work of underrepresented artists — a commitment that has shaped recent releases in the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitles from TBW Books are held here as part of Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our full photography and photobook collection\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e offer. Each copy is documented accurately, packed with care, and dispatched from Germany with tracking.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"what-the-rain-might-bring-dylan-hausthor","title":"What the Rain Might Bring - Dylan Hausthor","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWhat the Rain Might Bring\u003c\/em\u003e — Dylan Hausthor\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat the Rain Might Bring\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\" title=\"Browse all Dylan Hausthor titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Browse all TBW Books titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e in 2024. The hardcover volume is designed as a deliberate object: black edge and spine printing, a minimalist cover, and a text-free interior in which sequencing and material form carry the work in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs are large-format black-and-white images that move between human presence and the nonhuman world. Hausthor positions nature as a site of folklore, faith, and performance — a terrain where the boundary between document and staged scene is held deliberately unstable. Animals, gatherings, and close observations of plants and texture recur across the sequence without resolution or caption, placing the interpretive weight entirely on the image and its placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeven gatefolds punctuate the book at intervals, functioning as structural and rhythmic interruptions. They alter the physical scale of the reading experience and mark shifts in the work's internal logic. The absence of text is not incidental — it is a formal condition that makes the gatefolds and the sequencing the primary instruments of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat the Rain Might Bring\u003c\/em\u003e sits within a broader field of experimental documentary practice, where the constructed and the observed are allowed to coexist without hierarchy. Readers drawn to this approach may also find interest in the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100, or in Hausthor's collaborative work: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"View Sleep Creek, a collaborative photobook by Dylan Hausthor and Pia Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek – Dylan Hausthor \u0026amp; Pia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, made with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"Browse all Pia-Paulina Guilmoth titles at Lokator100\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53393333191002,"sku":"9781942953661","price":52.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/what-the-rain-might-bring-dylan-hausthor-front-cover.jpg?v=1769029804"},{"product_id":"a-season-particular-shen-wei","title":"A Season Particular — Shen Wei","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFigure Studies and Botanical Observations\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/shen-wei\" title=\"View all Shen Wei publications in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eShen Wei\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003cem\u003eA Season Particular\u003c\/em\u003e places close-range photographs of the human body alongside botanical studies. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Browse all TBW Books titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e in 2024, the book holds 88 color plates across 112 pages in a casebound edition with a tip-on cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence does not build toward narrative resolution. Figure studies and plant details are set in proximity, functioning as parallel observations — surface against surface, skin against leaf, proximity as a consistent register rather than a rhetorical device. The book reads as a sustained attention to material presence rather than a statement about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduction quality reinforces this logic. The casebound binding and tip-on cover give the object a physical solidity that suits the density of the printing. Ink sits heavily on the page; the photographs reward handling as much as looking. Among the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e in the catalogue, this edition stands apart for the consistency between its physical form and its visual concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53400108597594,"sku":"9781942953708","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/a-season-particular-shen-wei-cover.jpg?v=1778434192"},{"product_id":"mimi-plumb-landfall","title":"Mimi Plumb – Landfall","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMimi Plumb Landfall — Early-1980s Photographs, Published by TBW Books\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMimi Plumb Landfall\u003c\/em\u003e is assembled from photographs made in the early 1980s in California. Burnt interiors, scraped landscapes, and casual bodies occupy the same frame without hierarchy or explanation. The book was published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Explore the full TBW Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e and received shortlist recognition for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 53 duotone plates move between man-made damage and unguarded portrait moments. Nothing is dramatized. The printing — duotone throughout — flattens incident and atmosphere into the same tonal register, which is precise to the material. This is 1980s American photography held at a controlled distance: the mood of pressure is documented, not interpreted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence is deliberate. Transitions are tight; resolution is withheld. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e of this period often reach for narrative closure. \u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\/em\u003e refuses it. The book ends where it begins — in an atmosphere that has not shifted, only accumulated. The editorial logic is consistent with the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Explore the full TBW Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e approach: clean pacing, no decorative comfort, nothing added to ease the looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"Browse all Mimi Plumb titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e's focus on California and on the social atmosphere of adolescence runs through the work without becoming its stated subject. The photographs are documentary in method and oblique in address. Collectors and researchers working in early-1980s American photography or in duotone photobook production will find the object technically and editorially coherent. Her later work \u003ca href=\"\/products\/megalith-still-mimi-plumb\" title=\"View Megalith-Still by Mimi Plumb — another title by the same photographer\"\u003eMegalith-Still - Mimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e extends related concerns and is also available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53466236191066,"sku":"TBW-PLUMB-LANDFALL","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/mimi-plumb-landfall-front-cover.jpg?v=1778496771"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/tbw-books.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}