art world
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Claudia Andujar
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Martin Parr
Mohamed Bourouissa
object biography
photobook
photobook market
Roland Penrose
Susan Meiselas
Visual Studies Workshop
Walker Evans
Product details
- ISBN 9781526167576
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume sets out to challenge and ultimately broaden the category of the ‘photobook’. It critiques the popular art-market definition of the photobook as simply a photographer’s book, proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as collective cultural productions. Focusing on North American, British and French photobooks from 1920 to the present, the chapters revisit canonical works – by Claudia Andujar and George Love, Mohamed Bourouissa, Walker Evans, Susan Meiselas and Roland Penrose – while also delving into institutional, digital and unrealised projects, illegal practices, DIY communities and the poetic impulse. They throw new light on the way that gendered, racial or colonial assumptions are resisted. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a better understanding of how the meaning of a photobook is collectively produced both inside and outside the art market.
Paul Edwards is Associate Professor of English at Université Paris Cité and Research Associate at the Maison Française, Oxford
