Main entry:

Lockemann, Bettina, author

Title & Author:

Thinking the photobook : a practical guide / Bettina Lockemann.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022.

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153).
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Photobook as an Object of Research -- The chapters -- Background -- The Photobook: An Approach -- When Is a Book a Photobook? -- The Photobook in the Framework of Activity -- The Photobook: A Literary Novel in Visual Form? -- Facticity versus Fictionality -- Narrative -- Narrativity: Susan Lipper's Trip -- Performativity: Susan Lipper's Domesticated Land -- Conclusion -- Phenomenon Photobook: A Visual Studies Approach -- The Photobook -- Series and Sequences -- The Series: Bernd and Hilla Becher's Wassertürme -- Phenomenology and Points of Indeterminateness -- The Sequence: Ad van Denderen's Go No Go -- Paul Graham: Troubled Land -- Keiko Sasaoka: Park City -- Elisabeth Neudörfl: E.D.S.A. -- Conclusion -- Time and Montage: Beyond the Decisive Moment -- The Single Image versus the Image in Plural -- Chronophotography -- Photographic Sequences and Film -- Film and Photobook -- Standstill and Movement -- Time and Movement in the Photobook -- Paul Graham: A Shimmer of Possibility -- A Shimmer of Possibility: "Louisiana" -- A Shimmer of Possibility: "California" -- Conclusion -- Page-Turning: Performativity and Temporality -- Page-Turning -- Temporality -- Group, Series, Sequence-Organization of Movement -- Pacing-Rate of Execution -- Michael Schmidt: Lebensmittel -- Conclusion -- Narration When Is a Photobook Narrative? -- Basics: Narratology -- Transmedia Narratology -- Cognitive Approach -- Perspective / Narrator -- Showing versus Telling -- Story and Discourse -- Changing Media -- John Gossage: The Pond -- Conclusion -- Outlook: Desiderata for a Future Photobook Research -- Bibliography -- Original Publication -- Photobooks and Artist's Books -- Research Literature

Summary:

The photobook visually and materially contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and texts. The artist and theorist Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to the medium from a research perspective: considering the photobook as an independent subject of art studies, phenomenological discussions complement methodological lines of thought. An important contribution to the photobook as an independent field of research, Lockemann elaborates precise terms for analyzing this medium of renditions. Through a practice-based examination of contemporary photobooks, this reader gets to the root of the field of photo books.

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ISBN:

9783775752732 electronic book
3775752730 electronic book
print
9783775752718
3775752714

Subject:

Photobooks.
Photobooks Publishing.
Livres photos.
Livres photos Édition.
photobooks.
Book.
DESIGN.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.