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The photobook : a history. Volume III /

By: Contributor(s): Series: Photobook. A History ; 3.Publication details: London : Phaidon Press Ltd., 2014.Description: 320 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9780714866772
  • 0714866776
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Contents:
Progress reports : the flourishing of the propaganda photobook -- Documents of anger and sadness : protest and the photobook -- The kids are alright : desire and the postwar photobook -- Monuments to our moment : modern life and the photobook -- From there to here : the photobook and place -- Killing fields : conflict and the photobook -- Looking at ourselves : the photobook and identity -- Momenti mori : the photographic book and memory -- Cannibalizing photography : representing the re-presenting the medium.
Summary: While the history of photographs is a well-established canon, 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. Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, expands this study and history of the photobook further. It explores the symbiotic relationship between the contemporary propaganda book vs. the protest photobook, sex and youth culture, photographers examining their own environments and the impact of the Internet and social media on the nature of the photobook, among much else. The book is divided into 9 thematic chapters, each featuring 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 introductory 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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The third and final volume in Phaidon's acclaimed Photobook series.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Progress reports : the flourishing of the propaganda photobook -- Documents of anger and sadness : protest and the photobook -- The kids are alright : desire and the postwar photobook -- Monuments to our moment : modern life and the photobook -- From there to here : the photobook and place -- Killing fields : conflict and the photobook -- Looking at ourselves : the photobook and identity -- Momenti mori : the photographic book and memory -- Cannibalizing photography : representing the re-presenting the medium.

While the history of photographs is a well-established canon, 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. Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, expands this study and history of the photobook further. It explores the symbiotic relationship between the contemporary propaganda book vs. the protest photobook, sex and youth culture, photographers examining their own environments and the impact of the Internet and social media on the nature of the photobook, among much else. The book is divided into 9 thematic chapters, each featuring 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 introductory 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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