| Description |
xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Patrizia Di Bello and Shamoon Zamir -- H. Fox Talbot's 'Scotch views' for Sun pictures in Scotland (1845) / Graham Smith -- 'Art-science' : The North American Indian (1907-30) as photobook / Shamoon Zamir -- Emile Otto Hoppé, autobiography, and cultural moments / Mick Gidley -- Recalcitrant intervention : Walker Evans's pages / David Campany -- Sculpture, photograph, book : The sculptures of Picasso (1949) / Patrizia Di Bello -- A kind of a 'huh?' : the siting of Twentysix gasoline stations (1962) / Ian Walker -- Beyond the exhibition, from catalogue to photobook / Liz Wells -- 'The book the nation is waiting for!' : One day for life (1987) / Annebella Pollen -- A spectre is leaving Europe (1990) : appropriation in a post-Communist photobook / David Evans -- The photobook as object of memory and nostalgia : Alexandrie l'Égyptienne (1998) by Carlos Freire and Robert Solé / Colette Wilson -- The eye of the lens and the feet of the photographer : Eduardo Gageiro's Lisboa no cais da memória (2003) / Paul Melo e Castro -- Orhan Pamuk's melancholic narrative and fragmented photographic framing : Istanbul, memories of a city (2005) / Gabriel Koureas. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index. |
| Summary |
"The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and communication, or stood in equal, if sometimes conflicted partnership, with the written word. In this book, practicing photographers and writers across several fields of scholarship share a range of fresh approaches to reading the photobook, developing new ways of understanding how meaning is shaped by an image's interaction with its text and context, and engaging with the visual, tactile, and interactive experience of the photobook in all its dimensions. Through close studies of individual works, the photobook, from fetishized objet d'art to cheaply-printed booklet, is explored and its unique creative and cultural contributions celebrated."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Photobooks.
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| Add Author |
Di Bello, Patrizia, editor.
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Wilson, Colette E., editor.
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Zamir, Shamoon, editor.
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| Other Title |
From Talbot to Ruscha and beyond |
| ISBN |
9781848856158 |
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1848856156 |
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9781848856165 |
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1848856164 |
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