Full Description
The materiality of photobooks.
Photobooks are an art form on the move. They travel physically, as copies are bought, traded, treasured, forgotten, and rediscovered around the world. They move conceptually, as their meanings evolve through changing use and value. Photobooks combine languages of photography, text and design into a distinct medium that breaks from the confines of galleries and libraries, entering unexpected or intimate environments, such as our homes.
Encounters with Photobooks marks a shift in scholarship by showing how meaningful experiences with photobooks are shaped by the situated, material, and political circumstances of these encounters. Weaving together creative writing about photobook encounters with critical traditions in museology, phenomenology, art history, new materialism and feminist praxis, this innovative book illuminates the photobook's multiplicity: its unique potential for its many copies to matter differently to makers and readers in each momentary encounter.
This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Experiential Perceivings
Encounter 1: An Absent Book
Chapter 1: The Phenomenal Photobook: Sensory Perception and Time
Encounter 2: Another Black Darkness, Sakiko Nomura
Chapter 2: Social Sense-Making: Readers and Subjectivity
Part 2: Discursive Matter
Encounter 3: A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen, Celine Marchbank
Chapter 3: Issues with Bookishness: Photobooks and Book Culture
Part 3: Epistemic Environments
Encounter 4: Photobook Fair Diaries
Chapter 4: Sites of Photobook Production
Encounter 5: From Here to Eternity, Sunil Gupta
Chapter 5: Labels That Stick: Photobooks and Institutions
Part 4: Expanded Encounters
Encounter 6: Sent a Letter, Dayanita Singh
Chapter 6: Plurality and Mutability
Encounter 7: In Flagrante, Chris Killip
Chapter 7: Encounters Remembered, Re-mediated, Reimagined
Conclusion
Appendix: List of Photobook Encounters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
