Thinking the Photobook: A Practical Guide, Bettina Lockemann

The photobook visually and materially contextualises arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much of an effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and the texts. The artist and theorist Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to the medium from a research perspective: considering the photobook as an independent subject of art theories, her phenomenological discussion complements methodological lines of thought. An important contribution to the photobook as an independent field of research, Lockemann elaborates precise terms for analysing this medium. Through a practice-based examination of contemporary photobooks, this guide emphasises the status of the photobook as an artwork in its own right.

Published by Hatje Cantz
Softcover
160 Pages
140 x 210 mm
ISBN 9783775752725