The photobook world : Artists' books and forgotten social objects /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Road, Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the photobook as confluence
- Part I: The photobook market
- Towards an understanding of the market for photobooks
- Theorising encounters with contemporary photobooks: situation, materiality and plurality
- Part II: Feminist self-fashioning, 1970-90
- Wonder Woman and other fantasies: Joan Lyons and the photo-based artists' book
- Mothers of invention: Barbara Norfleet, Elsa Dorfman, Bea Nettles, Clarissa Sligh and Susan Meiselas
- Part III: Commitment and visibility
- Missing photobooks: a symptomatic reading on the reasons for and impact of the lack of publications by Black British photographers in the 1970s and 1980s
- The photobook as event
- Camden, NJ, 2013: a digital photobook
- Part IV: Institutional v. clandestine
- Photographing race and madness: annual reports of psychiatric hospitals in the US South in the early twentieth century
- Photobooks and the architectural imagination of California
- Experimental confluence: Amazônia by Claudia Andujar and George Love
- Dead time: the 'collectivist' photobook in the prison work of Mohamed Bourouissa
- Part V: Memorialising the ephemeral
- The Road is Wider Than Long: a Surrealist photobook
- An unmade book: Walker Evans's 1970s alphabet Polaroids
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Plates