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Title The photobook : from Talbot to Ruscha and beyond / edited by Patrizia Di Bello, Colette Wilson and Shamoon Zamir
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; PICTURE CREDITS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 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; Emil 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 Memoria (2003) -- Paul Melo e Castro
Orhan Pamuk's Melancholic Narrative and Fragmented Photographic Framing -- Istanbul: Memories of a city (2005) -- Grabriel KoureasSelected Bibliography; 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 fetishised objet d'art to cheaply-printed booklet is explored and its unique creative and cultural contributions celebrated
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Photobooks.
photobooks.
Photographs: collections.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
Photobooks
Form Electronic book
Author Di Bello, Patrizia
Wilson, Colette
Shamoon, Zamir
ISBN 9780857721419
0857721410
9781848856158
1848856156
9781848856165
1848856164
9781280876646
1280876646