The photobook world
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The photobook world

Artists' books and forgotten social objects

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The photobook world

Artists' books and forgotten social objects

About this book

This volume sets out to challenge and ultimately broaden the category of the 'photobook'. It critiques the popular art-market definition of the photobook as simply a photographer's book, proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as collective cultural productions. Focusing on North American, British and French photobooks from 1920 to the present, the chapters revisit canonical works – by Claudia Andujar and George Love, Mohamed Bourouissa, Walker Evans, Susan Meiselas and Roland Penrose – while also delving into institutional, digital and unrealised projects, illegal practices, DIY communities and the poetic impulse. They throw new light on the way that gendered, racial or colonial assumptions are resisted. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a better understanding of how the meaning of a photobook is collectively produced both inside and outside the art market.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of plates
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: the photobook as confluence
  11. Part I: The photobook market
  12. Part II: Feminist self-fashioning, 1970–90
  13. Part III: Commitment and visibility
  14. Part IV: Institutional v. clandestine
  15. Part V: Memorialising the ephemeral
  16. Select bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Plates