The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a
place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of
photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of
Nature heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in
which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and
communication, or stood in equal, if sometimes conflicted
partnership, with the written word.
In this book, practicing photographers and writers across several
fields of scholarship share a range of fresh approaches to reading
the photobook, developing new ways of understanding how meaning is
shaped by an image's interaction with its text and context, and
engaging with the visual, tactile, and interactive experience of
the photobook in all its dimensions. Through close studies of
individual works, the photobook, from fetishized objet d'art to
cheaply-printed booklet, is explored and its unique creative and
cultural contributions celebrated.
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