The Photobook: A History - Volume 2 - signed by Martin Parr
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Signed by photographer Martin Parr on the title page. A definitive reference on the art of the photobook.
Dust jacket has minimal shelf wear. Jacket in clear protective sleeve. Boards and pages are clean and crisp. Fine book in near fine jacket. Fine overall.
"Following on from the success of the first volume. The Photobook: A History Volume 2 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 Edouard-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." - from the publisher
10.2 x 11.75 inches
Dust jacket has minimal shelf wear. Jacket in clear protective sleeve. Boards and pages are clean and crisp. Fine book in near fine jacket. Fine overall.
"Following on from the success of the first volume. The Photobook: A History Volume 2 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 Edouard-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." - from the publisher
10.2 x 11.75 inches
Hardcover with jacket
Condition : Fine
Phaidon Press 2006
ISBN : 9780714844336
336 pages
10.2 x 11.75 inches
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