It’s impossible to say when the study of photobooks began but October 1931 was interesting. That month, Walter Benjamin published the first part of his essay ‘A Small History of Photography’ in Germany, while in the USA Walker Evans published ‘The Reappearance of Photography’. Both were round-up assessments of recent photo publications, and both writers were drawn to books of the work of Eugène Atget, August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, as well as survey books and the treatment of photography in surrealist publications. And both came to uncannily similar conclusions, that the very early promise of photography had been squandered by commerce and kitsch while the late 1920s and early 30s were offering something new: intelligent photographic documents assembled in book form as critical commentary on the modern era. Imagine Evans and Benjamin sitting at their desks in 1931 looking at much the same array of books and formulating similar ideas with no knowledge of each other. David Campany, instagram 2022-02-08
The Collaborative Alchemy of W.G. Sebald’s Photographs
The How-To Guide to Self-Publish Your Own Photobooks
Photographs - The National Archives
View of Non-traditional book publishing | First Monday
The Puerto Rican War - Booklyn
The Puerto Rican War is a graphic novel that tells the story of Puerto Rican revolutionaries fighting American colonialism in 1950, a part of history willfully omitted from U.S. education. The PR Nationalist Party Revolts of 1950 were uprisings to claim state independence from the U.S. Leading up to this, Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law, technically “Law 53 of 1948”) attempted to suppress Puerto Rico identity and independence. Among many violations of civil liberty, this law made it a crime to display a Puerto Rican flag. The story notably includes an assassination attempt on President Truman.,
John Vasquez Mejias is a storyteller, artist and art teacher living in the Bronx, USA. An extraordinarily talented artist, puppeteer, and storyteller, his obsessively crafted woodcuts recall both Lynd Ward and Joe Sacco, but are very distinctively his own. Everyone should have this book in their library.2020, John Vasquez Mejias, 10 x 8 in, Offset print of woodblock carving on newsprint paper, Pamphlet stitch binding, 96 pages, $10 each.
How to Glue Perfect Flat Pages and Images That Stay Flat
New Topographics | Thames & Hudson Australia & New Zealand
How to Make a Book Press | Sea Lemon
Home - Victorian Bookbinders Guild
We're Launching the CC Open GLAM Program - Creative Commons
The photographer of "The Map" CHIZU Kikuji Kawada
GINZA HACCHO / EVERY BUILDING ON THE GINZA STRIP | michalis pichler
Appropriation - A Table by Michalis Pichler - Printed Matter
Domestic Comfort | Aperture | Spring 2020
A Paradise Built in Hell & Destroy This Memory
It can be retrospectively understood as a fulcrum for its historical moment, connecting back to Edward Steichen’s imperialist vision of a collective view of human experience in The Family of Man and to John Szarkowski’s predilection for poetic subjectivity. Sara Knelman Aperture