The Photobook: A History Volume 1 (I) (Signed First Edition)

PARR, Martin and Gerry Badger

ISBN 10: 0714842850 / ISBN 13: 9780714842851

Published by Phaidon Press, New York, 2004

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 320 pages. Parr and Badger's invaluable attempt to examine and codify some of the best photography books ever produced. Profusely illustrated. A clean and tight very near fine copy and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Parr and additionally signed by Gerry Badger and uncommon thus. A very nice copy as the recipient was a well known collector. Please note that this is a heavy book and will require extra shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Photobook: A History Volume 1 (I) (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Phaidon Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714842850
• ISBN 13: 9780714842851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

"Photographers have been making photobooks--bound collections of their works--ever since the birth of photography in the early nineteenth century ... This publication tells the story of photography via the history of the photobook, revealing the ways in which photographers have influenced each other's work through their books, and consequently how their use of photography has developed over time ... The first of two extensive volumes, this publication explores more than 200 photobooks through 750 colour illustations, detailed captions, and an illuminating text written by the photographer"--Dustjacket.

Reviews

Parr, an influential British photographer, admits to an obsession with collecting photobooks, and this sumptuous collection intends to establish the genre's importance in disseminating photographic styles and trends. Alongside acknowledged masterpieces by Walker Evans, August Sander, and Nobuyoshi Araki, Parr and Badger consider many less well-known examples. There are art books like "Paris," by Moļ Ver, a Lithuanian contemporary of Brassaļ didactic works such as the German medic Hans Killian's sixty-four images of suffering patients; and outright curios like Owen Simmons's 1903 "The Book of Bread" (forty life-size portraits of slices of bread). Sections on Soviet photobooks of the nineteen-thirties and Japanese photobooks of the nineteen-sixties point to two particularly fertile periods. One hopes that publishers may be spurred to reprint some of these exceptional books.
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