Photo-Textual Relationships in Early Photobook Making: [Re]tracing the Roots of Photobook Syntax
Journal: Compendium Journal of Comparative Studies = Revista de Estudos Comparatistas
Year: 2022

This paper proposes to analyse the first stages of the relationship between textual matter and photographic images in nineteenth-century photobook practice, investigating how these two elements interacted within several books created during that period of photobook history. The examination aims to demonstrate how those titles embody an unexpected duality in which text and photographic images can be divergent or harmonious, questioning established academic perceptions that defined photographs as