THE OPEN BOOK – A History of the Photographic Book From 1878 to the Present
Häftad bok. Hasselblad Center. 2004. 422 sidor.
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Hasselblad Center Lavishly illustrated in color and b&w with descriptions of 175 highlights and high points of photographic publishing. Beautifully designed and printed. This book was never distributed via customary channels and has become increasingly scarce.
"The first photographic books made their appearance in the 1840s, not long after photography's invention. Yet it was only at the end of the nineteenth century, when it became possible to combine photographic reproductions and text on the same printed page, that the era of the photographic book was truly launched. The Open Book chronicles the art of the photographic book from that moment to the present. It presents more than 130 of the most significant examples of the genre, produced by such diverse figures as El Lissitzky, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Daido Moriyama, Mary Ellen Mark, Bruce Weber, and Richard Prince."
"I collect books on photobooks so this title was an obvious addition but who had heard of it. There is no ISBN number so it never shows up in book searches.
• Andrew Roth edited this title which considers 172 books published between 1878 and 2003. Many of the great European and American photobooks published over the decades are included. It follows the usual format with the book's cover and two or three inside spreads. I thought it was unfortunate that the captions give very little away: title, publisher and references to the cover binding and end-papers, print run but no details about a book's photographic intentions. The first thirty pages have interesting essays about the photobooks.
• I thought some of the titles ask the question: just what is a photobook and how obscure could it be so they are not included. … Obviously nearly all the others books included are proper printed editions that were generally on sale.
• I found it a really good study of the genre but you'll have to search the net for a copy because this isn't a normally published book and I expect it had a rather limited print run."
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