Title & Author:

Imprint : visual narratives in books and beyond / [translation, Semantix].

Publication:

Stockholm : Art and Theory ; Göteborg : Academin Valand, Göteborgs universitet, [2013]

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Series:

Negative

Notes:
Academy publication.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword = Förord -- It's all fiction : narrative and the photobook = Det är bara fiktion : berättandet och den fotografiska boken / Gerry Badger -- The syntax of a photowork = Det fotografiska verkets syntax / David Bate -- A phenomenological approach to the photobook = Ett fenomenologiskt betraktelsesätt av fotoboken / Bettina Lockemann -- Only on paper ... = Bara på papper / Michael Mack -- Appendix.
Parallel text in English and Swedish.

Summary:

In times when cameras are ubiquitous and the general public is experimenting with the narrative possibilities of photography more than ever before, a survey of the current status and potential of the photobook is highly relevant. Not only does the photobook constitute an alternative means of display to gallery exhibitions, the book format also challenges photography's instantaneousness, and allows for an exploration of the photographic language. Books have been seminal in the distribution of avant-garde conceptual photography, as well as social documentary and political statements. But what is the status of the photobook today? Is it primarily a mainstream medium, a collector's item, or a platform for artistic experiments? Imprint is a collection of essays that delve into current practices and address the phenomenological, technological, and aesthetical possibilities for communicating through photobooks, both printed and digital.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9789198087444 (pbk.)
9198087444 (pbk.)

Subject:

œaPhotobooks
œaPhotography
Photobooks History and criticism.
Photography, Artistic History.
Narrative art History and criticism.
Livres photos Histoire et critique.
Photographie artistique Histoire.
Art narratif Histoire et critique.
Narrative art
Photobooks
Photography, Artistic
Fotobuch
Ästhetik

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Semantix.
Negative.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287684
Call No.: BIB 228979
Status: Available