The photobook : a history

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors Parr, Martin, 1952- (Author), Badger, Gerry, 1948- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Phaidon, 2004-2006
Subjects
ISBN9780714842851
978-0-7148-4433-6
Physical Description2 sv. (320, 336 s.) : il. ; 30 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. 2004. Topography and travel: the first photobooks ; Facing facts: the nineteenth-century photobook as record ; Photography as art: the pictorial photobook ; Photo eye: the modernist photobook ; A day in the life: the documentary photobook in the 1930s ; Medium and message: the photobook as propaganda ; Memory and reconstruction: the postwar European photobook ; The indecisive moment: the 'stream-of-consciousness' photobook ; Provocative materials for thought: the postwar Japanese photobook
  • v. 2. 2006. Mirrors and windows : the American photobook since the 1970s ; Common market : the European photobook since the 1980s ; Other territories : the worldwide photobook ; Appropriating photography : the artist's photobook ; Point of sale : the company photobook ; Looking at photographs : the picture editor as author ; The camera as witness : the 'concerned' photobook since World War II ; The Düsseldorf tendency : the new objective photobook ; Home and away : modern life and the photobook