The photobook : a history

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The photobook : a history

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger

Phaidon Press, 2004-

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3

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Includes bibliographical references (v. 1: p. 316, v. 2: p. 330-331, v. 3: p. 315) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780714842851

Description

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 first of two volumes, both co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the photobook: from its inception at the dawn of photography in the early nineteenth century through to the radical Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and 70s, by way of the Modernist and propaganda books of the 1930s and 40s. The selection of photographers compiled by Badger and Parr challenges the popular canon, and their survey of the history of the photobook reveals a secret web of influence and inter-relationships between photographers and photographic movements around the world. The book is divided into a series of thematic and broadly chronological chapters; each features a general introductory text that offers background information and highlights the dominant political and artistic influences on the photobook in the relevant 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. Assimilated diligently by Parr and Badger, these illustrations show around 200 of the most artistically and culturally important photobooks featuring the cover or jacket and a selection of spreads.

Table of Contents

  • Preface by Martin Parr
  • Introduction
  • Nine chapters, each comprising an introductory essay and a selection of photobooks
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Credits. Chapter titles: Introduction Chapter 1 Topography and Travel: The First Photobooks
  • Chapter 2 Facing Facts: The Nineteenth-Century Photobook as Record
  • Chapter 3 Photography as Art: The Pictorial Photobook
  • Chapter 4 Photo Eye: The Modernist Photobook
  • Chapter 5 Day in the Life: The Documentary Photobook in the 1930s
  • Chapter 6 Medium and Message: The Photobook as Propaganda
  • Chapter 7 Memory and Reconstruction: The Postwar European Photobook
  • Chapter 8 The Indecisive Moment: The Stream-of-Consciousness Photobook
  • Chapter 9 Provocative Materials for Thought: The Postwar Japanese Photobook
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780714844336

Description

This book provides a unique perspective on the story of photography through the particular history of the photobook. The second of two extensive volumes, it completes Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's study of the major trends and movements that have shaped the photobook genre since the birth of photography. It represents a valuable catalogue of rare and important photobooks. This volume continues where Volume 1 left off by bringing the story of the photobook fully up to date.

Table of Contents

  • 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
Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780714866772

Description

The third volume in an authoritative and comprehensive series, The Photobook: A History volume III provides a unique perspective on the story of contemporary photography through the genre of the photobook. Continuing in the vein of the first two volumes, Volume III is a study of the major trends and movements that have shaped the photobook genre globally since the birth of photography in the early nineteenth century. Volume III pays particular attention to photobooks published after World War II, covering contemporary themes of modern life, from diaristic photography of place and people to twentieth-century propaganda books and some of the finest works to emerge from the recent self-publishing boom. The Photobook volumes represent a valuable catalogue of rare and important photobooks, and since Phaidon published Volume I in 2004, are now regarded by academics, students and photobook bibliophiles as the definitive works on this subject.

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