Photobook World

Artists' Books and Forgotten Social Objects

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-02-28
Mått170 x 240 x 19 mm
Vikt748 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526167576

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Bokkonst, bokformgivning inom Kultur
Fotoböcker inom Kultur

Introduction: the photobook as confluence – Paul EdwardsPart I: The photobook market1 Towards an understanding of the market for photobooks – Moritz Neumüller2 Theorising encounters with contemporary photobooks: situation, materiality and plurality – Briony Anne CarlinPart II: Feminist self-fashioning, 1970–903 Wonder Woman and other fantasies: Joan Lyons and the photo-based artist’s book – Jessica S. McDonald4 Mothers of invention: Barbara Norfleet, Elsa Dorfman, Bea Nettles, Clarissa Sligh and Susan Meiselas – Mary PanzerPart III: Commitment and visibility5 Missing photobooks: a symptomatic reading on the reasons for and impact of the lack of publications by Black British photographers in the 1970s and 1980s – Taous R. Dahmani6 The photobook as event – Jessie Bond7 Camden, NJ, 2013: a digital photobook – Nicolas BaudouinPart IV: Institutional v. clandestine8 Photographing race and madness: annual reports of psychiatric hospitals in the US South in the early twentieth century – Élodie Edwards-Grossi9 Photobooks and the architectural imagination of California – Volker M. Welter10 Experimental confluence: Amazônia by Claudia Andujar and George Love – Vitor Marcelino11 Dead time: the ‘collectivist’ photobook in the prison work of Mohamed Bourouissa – Andy StaffordPart V: Memorialising the ephemeral 12 The Road is Wider Than Long: a Surrealist photobook – Antony Penrose13 An unmade book: Walker Evans’s 1970s alphabet Polaroids – Caroline BlinderIndex