The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

256 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000213461

Related ISBNs:

9781003103998, 9781848856158, 9781848856165

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/08/20

Copyrighted By:

Patrizia Di Bello, Colette Wilson, Shamoon Zamir. The right of Patrizia Di Bello, Colette Wilson, Shamoon Zamir to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Patrizia Di Bello

Edited by:

Colette Wilson

Edited by:

Shamoon Zamir