Photobook.

 What is a book?

A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers:

BOOK | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

PhotoBook pres 22.pptx: MODULE: Photography and Publication: Disseminating Your Work (CREDITS:20) VL5MD031 (instructure.com)

In creating a book, there a several options open to the writer or producer of work. 

Such as 

1 Published monograph.

2 Self Published POD.

3 Magazine

4 Handmade photobook

5 Zine.

Photobooks have a history which goes back to Henry fox Talbot in the 19th century. H F Talbots The Pencil of Nature.

William Fox Talbot

Talbot's hope for commercial exploitation of his invention lay in the widespread distribution of large editions of photographic prints, the principal advantage of negative-positive process over the daguerreotype. In early 1844, in an effort to encourage the mass production of paper photographs, Talbot supported Nicolaas Henneman, his former valet, in the creation of a photographic printing establishment in Reading, a town on the route between London and his home in Lacock. The firm's initial project was Talbot's Pencil of Nature, the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs-a milestone in the art of the book greater than any since Gutenberg's invention of moveable type. Issued in fascicles from June 1844 through April 1846, The Pencil of Nature contained twenty-four plates, a brief text for each, and an introduction that described the history and chemical principles of Talbot's invention. The photographs and texts proposed, with extraordinary prescience, a wide array of applications for the medium that included reproducing rare prints and manuscripts, recording portraits, inventorying possessions, representing architecture, tracing the form of botanical specimens, and making art. The publication, however, was not a commercial success, and as sales declined with each new fascicle, Talbot abandoned the project just before the seventh group of plates was made. Approximately forty complete or substantially complete copies survive; the Museum's example belonged to Talbot's daughter Mathilde.

William Henry Fox Talbot | The Pencil of Nature | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

Another photographer who explored the photobook was Robert Franks Americans. Americans was a look at America during the post war period in American history. He showed America in its true reality-with consumerism and racism. 

Stephen Shore Surface American. 

Stephen Shore travelled through America from New York to Texas. He was a passenger so his images give the viewer this perspective. His images reflect those created by somebody travelling and a realist view of society in the 1970s. His book has a concept of travelling as a passenger and his travels across America as a tourist.

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Ed Ruscha Every Building on Sunset Strip. 1966

This book is "54 pages (folded), black & .white photographic illustrations; accordion fold; original slipcase, silver paper over boards; white paper belly band"

Every building on the Sunset Strip, 1966 by Edward Ruscha :: | Art Gallery of NSW

The book shows every building on Sunset Strip in LA in the USA. The difference to other photographers is Ed Ruscha has created a folding accordion zine type of book which shows every building on the strip. 

Alec Soth Niagara 

Soth created Niagara about a famous body of water in America and how it attracts newlyweds and lovers who can be half naked on occasion. The camera used was a 8x10 large format camera 

The context of the book consist of 

"Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls, Soth edited the results of his labors down to a tight and surprising album. He depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots, pawnshop wedding rings and love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote, "The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life." Niagara brings viewers both the passion and the disappointment--a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath"

Niagara by Alec Soth | Goodreads

Chris Killip In Flagrante

Killip is a documentary photographer who is interested in the relationship people have to a place or community. Killip produced In Fragrante from 1972-1985 and documents the social change occurring.

"In 1988 he published In Flagrante, a landmark of social documentary that has influenced generations of younger photographers. His friend and fellow photographer Martin Parr described it as “the best book about Britain since the war”.

Chris Killip obituary | Photography | The Guardian

Martin Parr Last Resort. 

The Last Resort was shot in the 80s in New Brighton Liverpool. The footage was shot on a medium format camera and included a day flash. The images include a saturation of color which is a influence of William Eggleston's work. The context of the book is to document the social decline in Thatcher's Britain during the early to mid 80s. 

The book is in landscape format with information then complemented by images overleaf. 

                           

       The Last Resort. Martin Parr               

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      (294) Martin Parr - The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton - YouTube

Gilles Peress Farewell to Bosnia

Giles Peress spent 6 months in Bosnia during the year 1993 and witnesses the human conflict which took place when nationalism spelled the end of the former communist country Yugoslavia.  

In terms of how the images are formatted in the book, the photographer allows her images to unravel the narrative of events which occurred. The pages are in a landscape view with 2 photos on one page. 

Mishka Henner Less Americans 

Less Americans is based on Robert Franks 1950s book The American. However, the concept at work here is according to Less Americains — Mishka Henner

But just as the idea of America has changed immeasurably in those five decades, the idea of photography has also changed beyond recognition. In the current empire of images, I can't help but imagine that photographs move very differently than the way they did back then And in their constant occupation of our physical and emotional landscape, the capacity for images to move us has also undoubtedly been changed. I wonder if their powers have gradually diminished over time, like the dreams that once fuelled America's - and our - aspirations"

Less Americains — Mishka Henner

                                           Less Americains — Mishka Henner

The format of the book is an empty page then a page that contains an image. I am finding it difficult to find an example of this book online to view. 

Bromberg and Chanarin-The Holy Bible. 

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin's Holy Bible - in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

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Bromberg and Chanarin are 2 artists who live in London. The Holy Bible is a bible with images which have been cut out and placed in at certain passages. Therefore, no book design is needed as the book is being used as a canvas to display the images. The concept is conflict in our history. 

This concept screams to me Fredrick Nietzsche famous assertion that God is dead. The use of The Bible and the overriding conceptual idea of science suggests this.