THE
PHOTOBOOK: A HISTORY
Volume II
by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger
10"
x 11.5", 320 pages
750 color illustrations
2006, Phaidon Press
From the Publisher:
Following on from the success of the first volume, The
Photobook: A History volume II brings the story of the Photobook
fully up to date. It features publications by many well-known
photographers ranging from Man Ray, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol
to Christian Boltanski, Stephen Shore and Sophie Calle by way
of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky and Lewis Baltz. Several
innovative books by unknown photographers are also included, offering
an opportunity to discover these overlooked works.
Photographers have been making photobooks –
bound collections of their work – ever since the birth of
photography in the early nineteenth century. While for some photographers
the single print is considered the ultimate expression of their
work, for many others the photobook is the most important vehicle
for the widespread communication of their vision. This second
volume includes over 200 publications carefully selected by the
renowned contemporary photographer, Martin Parr, whose passion
for the photobook has made him a world authority on the subject,
and the critic and curator Gerry Badger. All the books are accompanied
by extensive commentaries by Badger and are illustrated as three-dimensional
objects, providing a true sense of them as art works in their
own right.
From Édouard-Denis Baldus’s magnificent
volume for the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée Railway Company
of 1861 to Geert van Kesteren’s hard-hitting indictment
of the war in Iraq, Why Mister, Why? of 2004, the authors have
chosen what they believe to be the most artistically and culturally
important photobooks ever made to create this comprehensive and
visually exciting history of the medium.
The following chapters appear in this volume:
1 Explosion - The American Photobook since the
1980s
2 Common Market - The European Photobooks since the 1980s
3 Without Frontiers - The Worldwide Photobook
4 Appropriating the Photograph - The Artist's Photobook
5 Point of Sale - The Company Book
6 Looking at Photographs - The Picture Editor as Auteur
7 The Camera as Witness - The 'Concerned' Photobook since World
War II
8 Straight no Chaser - The New 'New Objectivity'
9 Home and Away - The Photobook and Modern Life
Epilogue - The Ultimate Photoboook
See also: The
Photobook: A History Volume I
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