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Photobooks are an art form on the move. They travel physically, as copies are bought, traded, treasured, forgotten, and rediscovered around the world. They move conceptually, as their meanings evolve through changing use and value. Photobooks combine languages of photography, text and design into a distinct medium that breaks from the confines of galleries and libraries, entering unexpected or intimate environments, such as our homes.
Encounters with Photobooks marks a shift in scholarship by showing how meaningful experiences with photobooks are shaped by the situated, material, and political circumstances of these encounters. Weaving together creative writing about photobook encounters with critical traditions in museology, phenomenology, art history, new materialism, and feminist praxis, this innovative book illuminates the photobook’s multiplicity: its unique potential for its many copies to matter differently to makers and readers in each momentary encounter.
Briony Carlin is Lecturer in History of Art at Newcastle University.
This knowledgeable and considered study makes a persuasive case regarding the world- and sense-making dimensions of the photobook encounter. It deals in serious new materialist concepts and contributes significantly to photobook scholarship, yet zips by weightlessly thanks to Carlin’s sparkling prose and illustrative case studies. - Victoria Horne, Northumbria University
This book reimagines the photobook as a living companion rather than an object. With striking originality, it shows how reading becomes a practice of imagination, intimacy, and connection beyond the human, while exemplifying a generous, rigorous way of doing research. - Moritz Neumüller