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The photobook world: Artists’ books and forgotten social objects Paul Ernest Michael Edwards Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Paul Ernest Michael Edwards

ISBN(s): 9781526167576, 1526167573

File Details: PDF, 34.03 MB

Year: 2023

Language: English

SKU: EB-48067344 Category: Arts - Museums & Collections Tags: Artists' books, Paul Edwards, photobook world, social objects

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The photobook world: Artists’ books and forgotten social objects – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781526167576,1526167573,9781526167569, 1526167565

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526167565
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781526167569
Author: Paul Edwards

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.

Table contents:

Part I: The photobook market

1 Towards an understanding of the market for photobooks

2 Theorising encounters with contemporary photobooks: situation, materiality and plurality

Part II: Feminist self-fashioning, 1970–90

3 Wonder Woman and other fantasies: Joan Lyons and the photo-based artists’ book

4 Mothers of invention: Barbara Norfleet, Elsa Dorfman, Bea Nettles, Clarissa Sligh and Susan Meiselas

Part III: Commitment and visibility

5 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

6 The photobook as event

7 Camden, NJ, 2013: a digital photobook

Part IV: Institutional v. clandestine

8 Photographing race and madness: annual reports of psychiatric hospitals in the US South in the early twentieth century

9 Photobooks and the architectural imagination of California

10 Experimental confluence: Amazônia by Claudia Andujar and George Love

11 Dead time: the ‘collectivist’ photobook in the prison work of Mohamed Bourouissa

Part V: Memorialising the ephemeral

12 The Road is Wider Than Long: a Surrealist photobook

13 An unmade book: Walker Evans’s 1970s alphabet Polaroids

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