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The photobook : a history /

Title:
The photobook : a history /
Author:
Parr, Martin, 1952-
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Moriarty, MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts
Contents:
v. 1. Topography and travel: the first photobooks ; Facing facts: the nineteenth-century photobook as record ; Photography as art: the pictorial photobook ; Photo eye: the modernist photobook ; A day in the life: the documentary photobook in the 1930s ; Medium and message: the photobook as propaganda ; Memory and reconstruction: the postwar European photobook ; The indecisive moment: the 'stream-of-consciousness' photobook ; Provocative materials for thought: the postwar Japanese photobook -- v. 2. Mirrors and windows : the American photobook since the 1970s ; Common market: the European photobook since the 1980s ; Other territories: the worldwide photobook ; Appropriating photography: the artist's photobook ; Point of sale: the company photobook ; Looking at photographs: the picture editor as author ; The camera as witness: the 'concerned' photobook since World War II ; The Düsseldorf tendency: the new objective photobook ; Home and away: modern life and the photobook -- v. 3. Progress reports: the flourishing of the propaganda photobook ; Documents of anger and sadness: protest and the photobook ; The kids are alright: desire and the postwar photobook ; Monuments to our moment: modern life and the photobook ; From there to here: the photobook and place ; Killing fields: conflict and the photobook ; Looking at ourselves: the photobook and identity ; Momenti mori: the photographic book and memory ; Cannibalizing photography: representing and re-presenting the medium.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Lesley-Moriarty Library Stacks
TR15 .P37 – 2 of 3 available
MassArt Main
TR15 .P37 – Available
MFA-DEP
TR15 .P37 2004 – 2 of 3 available
  • v.3 Available
  • v.2 Available
  • v.1 Charged (due 09-03-2025 at 05:00 PM)