The Photobook: a History volume 2
Author(s): Martin Parr
While the history of photography is a well-established canon, much less critical attention has been directed at the phenomenon of the photobook, which for many photographers is perhaps the most significant vehicle for the display of their work and the communication of their vision to a mass audience. In the second of two volumes, both co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, the history of the photobook is brought fully up to date. This volume covers company photobooks, artists' photobooks, photobooks that have been compiled by editors (rather than photographers), as well as the most recent photobooks, which chronicle contemporary life. This study provides an important corrective to the traditional history of photography. The selection of photographers made by Badger and Parr challenges the popular canon, and their survey of the history of the photobook reveals a secret web of influence and interrelationships between photographers and photographic movements around the world. The book is divided into a series of thematic chapters, each featuring a general introductory text providing background information and highlighting the dominant political and artistic influences on the photobook in the period, followed by more detailed discussion of the individual photobooks. The chapter texts are followed by spreads and images from over 200 books, which provide the central means of telling the history of the photobook. Chosen by Parr and Badger, these illustrations show the most artistically and culturally important photobooks in three dimensions, with the cover or jacket and a selection of spreads from the book shown.
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"It is a testament to the strength of [Parr's] argument, and to the quality of the titles he has compiled, that there is indeed a current reappraisal of the significance and value of photographer's books."-The Art Book "Fascinating... Beautifully illustrated with three dimensional covers and spreads - as with volume I - we really get an impression of the photo books as an 'object'... An essential guide to existing and budding collectors everywhere... By the time you reach the end if you weren't hooked on the photographic book already, you will be."-Laura Noble, London Independent Photography "[Parr's] international perspective is a major contribution to cultural history."-Ei8ht Photojournalism "Volume II of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's The Photobook: A History is even more opinionated, eccentric, and invaluable than the first volume."-Photograph "So many photography books are published these days, but here's one that makes sense of all the others."-The New York Times Book Review "To leaf through this book is to journey into the past; its images evoke our existence more poignantly than words can."-Library Journal
Gerry Badger is a photo historian and critic. He regularly writes and lectures on photography and has curated a number of exhibitions. His published books include Collecting Photography and monographs on John Gossage and Stephen Shore, as well as Phaidon's 55s on Chris Killip (2001) and Eugene Atget (2001)
Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Mirrors and Windows: Recent American Photobooks; Chapter 2 - Common Market: Recent European Photobooks; Chapter 3 - Without Frontiers: The Worldwide Photobook; Chapter 4 - Appropriating Photography: The Artist's Photobook; Chapter 5 - Point of Sale: The Company Photobook; Chapter 6 - Looking At Photographs: The Picture Editor As Auteur; Chapter 7 - The Camera As Witness: The 'Concerned' Photobook Since World War II; Chapter 8 - The Dusseldorf Tendency: The New 'New Objectivity'; Chapter 9 - Home And Away: Modern Life and The Photobook; Chronology; Select Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgements
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- : Phaidon Press Limited
- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : 2.44
- : 01 September 2006
- : 290mm X 250mm X 41mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 750 Col. Photos
- : 320
- : 770.9
- : English
- : 0
- : Hardback
- : Martin Parr