The Photobook World

Paul Edwards is Associate Professor of English at Université Paris Cité and Research Associate at the Maison Française, Oxford -- .

Introduction: the photobook as confluence – Paul Edwards

Part I: The photobook market
1 Towards an understanding of the market for photobooks – Moritz Neumüller
2 Theorising encounters with contemporary photobooks: situation, materiality and plurality – Briony Anne Carlin

Part II: Feminist self-fashioning, 1970–90
3 Wonder Woman and other fantasies: Joan Lyons and the photo-based artist’s book – Jessica S. McDonald
4 Mothers of invention: Barbara Norfleet, Elsa Dorfman, Bea Nettles, Clarissa Sligh and Susan Meiselas – Mary Panzer

Part III: Commitment and visibility
5 Missing photobooks: a symptomatic reading on the reasons for and impact of the lack of publications by Black British photographers in the 1970s and 1980s – Taous R. Dahmani
6 The photobook as event – Jessie Bond
7 Camden, NJ, 2013: a digital photobook – Nicolas Baudouin

Part IV: Institutional v. clandestine
8 Photographing race and madness: annual reports of psychiatric hospitals in the US South in the early twentieth century – Élodie Edwards-Grossi
9 Photobooks and the architectural imagination of California – Volker M. Welter
10 Experimental confluence: Amazônia by Claudia Andujar and George Love – Vitor Marcelino
11 Dead time: the ‘collectivist’ photobook in the prison work of Mohamed Bourouissa – Andy Stafford

Part V: Memorialising the ephemeral
12 The Road is Wider Than Long: a Surrealist photobook – Antony Penrose
13 An unmade book: Walker Evans’s 1970s alphabet Polaroids – Caroline Blinder

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