Category: AGM92 Books and Publications Posts

Webs, blogs, e-books, audiovisuals, slide projections, and other image-text platforms.

Hybrid practices and narratives.

Moving image and sound in e-books.

Suggested Reading/eBooks/Websites

Project Websites/Books

Dana Lixenberg Imperial Courts Project (2015)

Homepage

Dana Lixenberg The Last Days of Shishmaref (2009)

http://www.paradox.nl/project/lastdaysofshishmaref

Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan. In the Shadow of History (1997)

http://www.akakurdistan.com

Gert van Kesteren, Why Mister Why? (2004)

http://www.paradox.nl/project/why-mister-why/ – book&gid=2&pid=2

https://www.whymisterwhy.com

Ursula Biemann, Becoming Earth (2021)

https://becomingearth.net/home

https://www.geobodies.org/books-and-texts/becoming-earth

eBook publishers

https://namepublications.org

issuu

https://issuu.com

Start today

Issuu Donwloader

For example, Oil in Paradise: https://issuu.com/xparadox/docs/14_06_02_app_singlepages_2

Viscosity – Mobilizing Materialities: https://issuu.com/umndesign/docs/viscosity–

mobilizing_materialities

Unprinted Books available only in PDF format

Carola Ureta Marín, La Ciudad como Texto / City as Text, 2020

eBook magazine

https://emergencemagazine.org

For example, this issue on trees: https://emergencemagazine.org/story/atomic-tree/

https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com

eBooks

Susan Meiselas, Chile from Within, Digital edition (buy eBook) Mack, 2013

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, War Primer II. Digital edition (free download eBook) by

Mack 2012

Lewis Bush, War Primer 3, 2013-15 http://www.lewisbush.com/war-primer-3/eBook/Tablet

Antony Cairns, LDN EI (2015) see: https://vimeo.com/125473327

Augmented Reality (AR) book

Lucas Blalock, Making Memeries (2016):

http://shop.selfpublishbehappy.com/product/making-memeries-by-lucas-blalock

AR comes to photography in new book by Lucas Blalock

Visual Storytelling New York Times, The Telegraph, etc

Collectives Websites

World of Matter: http://www.worldofmatter.net

Forensic Architecture (Eyal Weizman) http://www.forensic-architecture.org

Migropolis (Wolfgang Scheppe) http://www.migropolis.com

The Arab Image Foundation (Akram Zaatari) http://www.fai.org.lb/home.aspx

Platforms

Ydoc – Open platform for documentary (Paradox) http://www.ydocfoundation.org

Oil and Paradise – iPad App https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oil-paradise/id885792805?mt=8

Artist’s Websites

Ariela Azoulay http://cargocollective.com/AriellaAzoulay

Aleix Plademunt

Martin Seeds http://www.martinseeds.com

Project Websites

The Atlas Group (Walid Raad) http://www.theatlasgroup.org

Lisa Barnard’s The Canary & The Hammer: http://www.thegolddepository.com/home.html

Traces of Nitrate: http://www.tracesofnitrate.org

Research Sites

Centre for the Study of the Networked Image http://www.centreforthestudyof.net

The Photographer’s Gallery – Decision Space http://decision-space.com

The Photographer’s Gallery – Digital Programme

https://thephotographersgalleryblog.org.uk/category/digital-programme/

Slide Works / Books

Robert Smithson Hotel Palenque (1967-72) http://www.teachertube.com/video/hotel-palenque-117741

Robert Smithson, Itaca Mirror Trail (1969)

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/smithson-ithaca-mirror-trail-ithaca-new-york-t07868

Robert Smithson, Hotel Palenque (1969-72), Alias (2011)

Nan Goldin The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985)

Matthew Buckingham One Side of Broadway (2005)

Photography books as Workshops

http://www.veteransbookproject.com/the-books/

Web Building

WordPress: https://wordpress.com

Cargo: http://cargocollective.com

Adobe Portfolio: https://www.myportfolio.com

To be completed after the seminar.

Zines, visual essays, booklets, pamphlets, posters, postcards, scrapbooks.

High art and vernacular forms of the printed image.

The photographic book in the exhibition space and the museum gallery.

The photographic exhibition catalogue.

Suggested Reading

Bjarne Rogan, ‘An Entangled Object: The Picture Postcard as Souvenir and Collectible, Exchange and Ritual Communication’. Cultural Analysis, Volume 4, 2005.

David Campany, ‘Recalcitrant Intervention: Walker Evans’s Pages’. In Patrizia di Bello, Colette Wilson and Shamoon Nazir, The Photobook: From Tablot to Ruscha and Beyond. London, I.B.Tauris, 2012 (p.71-90).

Walter Benjamin, ‘Unpacking my Library. A Talk About Book Collecting’. In Illuminations, Schocken Books, 1969 (p. 59-67) http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/2138/benjamin.pdf

Photography Books & Publications

Alberto Pérez-Gómez Polyphilo Or the Dark Forest Revisited: An Erotic Epiphani of Architecture (1992)

Aleix Plademunt, Ca l’Isidret newspaper publication (2012)

Andrés Durand, Monumento Editado (2017)

Ariane Pauls, The Fabric of Matter, The Matter of Fabric (2014)

Ariella Azoulay, Potential History: Photographic Documents from Mandatory Palestine. ‘folded

Carlos Spottorno The PIGS (2013)

David Campany A Handful of Dust (2015)

Delphine Bedel All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Notes on Tourism (2008)

Edward Newton Others (2017)

Ernest Matthew Mickler, White Trash Cooking (1986)

exhibition’. Stuk, Louven and the Center for Digital Art, Holon (2012). Ariella Azoulay, Potential History:

Feng Li, White Night In Paris (2018)

Gregory Crewdson (et.al), Hover (1998)

Hans Waanders, different artist’s books

Jochen Lempert Studio 8 (2010); Four Frogs (2010)

John Gossage Hey Fuckface (2000) (Bootleg facsimile edition, 2015)

John Stathatos, Three Heraclitean Elements (1991)

Lewis Baltz Common Objects (2014)

Lewis Baltz Nevada (1978)

Lewis Baltz Rule Without Exception (1991)

Lothar Baumgarten Tierra de los Perros Mudos (1985); Amerika (1993); Amazonas Tapajos Xingu Purus

Lothar Baumgarten, Acces au Quais (1986)

Matthew Buckingham One Side of Broadway (2005)

Orinoco Vaupes Tocantins Venezia (1984); Los artistócratas de la selva y la reina de Castilla (2012)

Photographic Documents from Mandatory Palestine. ‘folded exhibition’ (2012)

Robert Frank The Lines of my Hand (1989)

Robert Smithson, Catalogue of the exhibition at John Weber Galery (1987)

Roger Palmer Precious Metals (1987); Eight Works (1984)

Suzanne Lafont, Galerie National du jeu de Pomme (1992)

Tereza Zelenkova The Absence of Myth (2013)

Tiago Casanova Is This a Revolution? (2017)

Walker Evans, ‘Labour Anonymous’. In Fortune Vol XXXIV Nr 5 (1946)

William Eggleston and Willie Morris, Faulkner’s Mississippi (1990)

‘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:

The photobooks to take note of this month

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/&gt; [Accessed 4 May 2021].

The seminar to introduce the module was held online during which Xavier gave an outline to what would be involved.

The focal points of this module are the exploration of photographs on the printed page and other forms plus how the photograph coexists with paper. The other consideration is how the photograph can be combined with text.

The question to ask myself is “what would happen to my work when ‘translated’ onto a printed page?”

As outlined in the module handbook, Xavier went through the following reiterations of the photograph in the printed page: Books, booklets, albums, catalogues, zines, visual essays, scrapbooks.

Xavier also asked the class to consider the ‘photobook’ as emergent phenomena:

• Practices
• Forms
• Themes

The main point that Xavier was for the class to look at and scruitinise as many photographic publications as possible. Not just books, but zines, pamphlets, postcards, etc. While doing so, we should make notes on how the item has been constructed, the images used, how the text relates to the images, the text contained within the publication (credits) and any other relevant observations. This would then inform our own decisions in the realisation of our own work.

The other aspect that needs consideration is the submittance of the final piece of work. The completed piece will have to be submitted online on 31 August 2021. However, as Xavier made quite clear, all of the class should make a ‘real’ book to truly understand the process of putting photographs in the context of being physically published.

After this seminar, each member of the class had to present a brief proposal of what they would be working on. This is the proposal I presented. It will be quite interesting to see how this changes and develops during the duration of the module.

Suggested Reading

• Carol Armstrong, ‘A Scene in a Library: The First Photographically Illustrated Book’. In Carol Armstrong, Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843–1875. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1998 (p.107-178)
• David Campany, ‘The ‘Photobook: What’s in a name?’ The Photobook Review #007, Aperture, Winter 2014. http://davidcampany.com/the-photobook-whats-in-a-name/
• Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature (1844)
• ‘Introduction’ to Patrizia di Bello, Colette Wilson and Shamoon Nazir, The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond. London, I.B.Tauris, 2012 (pages 1 to 16)
• Walker Evans and James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) (all pages until p.16)

Photography Books & Publictions

Alexander Honory, The Lost Pictures (1998)

André Breton, Nadja (1928 / 1963)

Assier Mendizabal, Raven Row Gallery hand-outs (2012)

Bertolt Brecht, War Primer (1955)

Delphine Bedel All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Notes on Tourism (2008)

Edward Ruscha, Twenty-six Gasoline Stations (1962)

Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian (1907–30)

Eric Baudelaire, Gallery hand-out The Anabassis (2011)

Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature (1844) (Project Gutenberg eBook, 2010)

J.G.Sebald, The Emigrants (1996)

Lamara, Niazi, Nordin The Library Was (2016)

Mohini Chandra, Album Pacifica (2001)

Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003)

Walker Evans and James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) (1960)

Walker Evans, ‘Labour Anonymous’. In Fortune Vol XXXIV Nr 5 (1946)

Xavier Ribas Kulturkonflikte in Texten (1997); La Relève (2010)

Xavier Ribas, Nitrate (2014)