The photobook
Subtitle: a history
By: Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.
Contributors: Badger, Gerry.
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780714842851; 9780714844336
Subjects: Photography, Artistic -- History.; Artists' books -- History.; Photography -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Topography and travel: the first photobooks ; Facing facts: the nineteenth-century photobook as record ; Photography as art: the pictorial photobook ; Photo eye: the modernist photobook ; A day in the life: the documentary photobook in the 1930s ; Medium and message: the photobook as propaganda ; Memory and reconstruction: the postwar European photobook ; The indecisive moment: the 'stream-of-consciousness' photobook ; Provocative materials for thought: the postwar Japanese photobook; title: v. 2. Mirrors and windows : the American photobook since the 1970s ; Common market : the European photobook since the 1980s ; Other territories : the worldwide photobook ; Appropriating photography : the artist's photobook ; Point of sale : the company photobook ; Looking at photographs : the picture editor as author ; The camera as witness : the 'concerned' photobook since World War II ; The Düsseldorf tendency : the new objective photobook ; Home and away : modern life and the photobook.