The Photobook: A History - Volume 1

A catalog of important photobooks of the 20th century, edited by Martin Parr, a world-renowned photographer and also a world-renowned photobook collector. Starting from the pre-war period, it introduces a vast number of photobooks with book images and reproductions of the inside pages, categorized into sections such as photobooks for recording, documentary books of the 1930s, propaganda photobooks, postwar Europe, and postwar Japan. Since its publication in 2004, it has become a popular title and a guide to the vintage photobook market. It will undoubtedly be a treasured book for photobook fans and collectors who explore used bookstores and e-bay every day.

Contents
1. Topography and Travel
The First Photobooks
2. Facing Facts
The Nineteenth-Century Photobook as Record
3. Photography As Art
The Pictorial Photobook
4. Photo Eye
The Modernist Photobook
5. A Day in the Life
The Documentary Photobook in the 1930s
6. Medium and Message
The Photobook as Propaganda
7. Memory and Reconstruction
The Postwar European Photobook
8. The Indecisive Moment
The "Stream-of-consciousness" Photobook
9. Provocative Materials for Thought
The Postwar Japanese Photobook

Design: HDR Visual

Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited.
Year: 2010
Pages: 320
Size: H296×W258mm
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Attachment: Dust jacket
Condition: Very good