The Photobook World: Artists' Books and Forgotten Social Objects

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Photobook World: Artists' Books and Forgotten Social Objects
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Paul Ernest Michael Edwards
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:216
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 170
Category/GenrePhotography and photographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781526167576
ClassificationsDewey:745.5938
Audience
General
Illustrations 32 colour illustrations, 23 black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
NZ Release Date 1 March 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Paul Edwards is Associate Professor of English at Universite Paris Cite and Research Associate at the Maison Francaise, Oxford -- .