Martin Parr & Gerry Badger - The Photobook: A History. Volume I
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Martin Parr & Gerry Badger - The Photobook: A History. Volume I - London / New York - Phaidon Press - 2007 - Reprint - 320 pp - Hardcover with dust jacket - 26 x 30 cm.
Condition: Good - cover slightly wrinkled at top of spine. - NEAT COPY.
Standard work with an overview of the photo book in all its facets from the early mid-19th century until the 1990s. Illustrated with book covers, title pages and spreads in COLOUR. With selected bibliography and index. Text in English. Hardback edition.
Initially two volumes of this indispensable reference work for collectors and antiquarian booksellers were published. A third part was published in 2014. This is VOLUME 1 with a focus on the first photo books in topography and travel, Russian photography, 1930s documentaries, propaganda and post-war photography (including Japanese photo books).
¶ Also contains descriptions of photobooks by, among others, Anna Atkins, John Thomson, Owen Simmons (The Book of Bread), James Nasmyth (The Moon, 1874), Alvin Langdon Coburn, Werner Gräff, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Ilya Ehrenburg, Bill Brandt , Robert Capa, De Ondergedoken Camera, Josef Sudek, Sanne Sannes, William Klein, Ed van der Elsken, Diane Arbus and N. Araki.
