‘So when making a photobook, a photographer would be well advised to spend some time thinking about this: how can I give my book a bit of personality? While there is no single obvious solution to the answer, finding one and then implementing it is so important, especially given there are so many books being made these days.’
(Colberg, 2021)
A selection of photography books and printed matter were brought to the session for discussion.
Design, form, reproduction quality: how they affect discourse and meaning.
Organising and disrupting sequential narratives: linear vs tactical readings.
Multi-sensorial experience: reading, viewing and touch.
The photography book as commodity.
The photography book as a vanity project.
Books to look at:
Suggested Reading
Annabella Pollen, ‘The Book the Nation is Waiting For!’: One Day For Life’. In Patrizia di Bello, Colette Wilson and Shamoon Nazir, The Photobook: From Tablot to Ruscha and Beyond. London, I.B.Tauris, 2012 (p.145-161).
Louise Purbrick, Mining Photography: The Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1899. (To see the images in the album see here: http://tracesofnitrate.org/filter/Nitrate-Geographies/2009-Oficina-Alianza-and-Portof-Iquique-1899)
Joerg Coldberg, ‘Towards a Photobook Taxonomy’, Concientious Photography Magazine, February 2018
Joerg Colberg, ‘The Photobook as Object’, Concientious Photography Magazine, March 2017
Photography Books & Publications
Aglaia Konrad Carrara (2011)
Aglaia Konrad Desert Cities (2008)
Carolina Caycedo, Serpent River Book (2019) http://carolinacaycedo.com/serpent-river-book
Christopher Wool East Brodway Breakdown (2003)
Edmund Clark Negative Publicity (2015)
Eric Tabucchi, Infrasculpture, Revue Blanche Nr 3 (2015)
Felicia Honkasalo, Grey Cobalt (2018)
Gert Van Kesteren Baghdad Calling (2008)
Gonzalo Díaz Lonquén (2012)
Jack Whitefield, Furze (2020)
Jean-Marc Bustamante Tableaux (1994)
Jorge Gronemeyer, Tarjeta Postal (2018)
Juanan Requena Al borde de todo mapa (2016)
Kazuma Obara Silent Histories (2015)
Laia Abril The Epilogue (2014)
Lee Friedlander, The American Monument (1976/2017)
Lewis Baltz Candlestick Point (1989)
Lothar Baumgarten Carbon (1991)
Marianne Bjornmyr Shadows Echoes (2013)
Niels Stomp Mist (2007)
Olafur Eliasson Take Yor Time Vol 3. Driftwood (2010)
Pacifico Silano, I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine (2014)
Paul Graham In Umbra Res (1990)
Paul Graham The Present (2012)
Roni Horn Island. To Place (10 volumes) 1990-2006
Takashi Homa The Narcissistic City (2016)
Uriel Orlow (et.al.) Soil Affinities, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers/Shelter Press, 2018
Valerio Spada, Gomorrah Girl (2011)
Wassink Lundgren Empty Bottles (2007)
Watabe Yukichi, A Criminal Investigation (2011)
References
Colberg, J., 2021. The Photobook as Object. [online] Conscientious Photography Magazine. Available at: <https://cphmag.com/photobook-object/> [Accessed 4 May 2021].
Jennie Meadows MA Photography 