"Photographers have been making photobooks--bound collections of their works--ever since the birth of photography in the early nineteenth century .... Show more"Photographers have been making photobooks--bound collections of their works--ever since the birth of photography in the early nineteenth century ... This publication tells the story of photography via the history of the photobook, revealing the ways in which photographers have influenced each other's work through their books, and consequently how their use of photography has developed over time ... The first of two extensive volumes, this publication explores more than 200 photobooks through 750 colour illustrations, detailed captions, and an illuminating text written by the photographer"--Jacket. V. 1. Topography and travel: the first photobooks ; Facing facts: the nineteenth-century photobook as record ; Photography as art: the pictorial photobook ; Photo eye: the modernist photobook ; A day in the life: the documentary photobook in the 1930s ; Medium and message: the photobook as propaganda ; Memory and reconstruction: the postwar European photobook ; The indecisive moment: the 'stream-of-consciousness' photobook ; Provocative materials for thought: the postwar Japanese photobook -- v. 2. Mirrors and windows : the American photobook since the 1970s ; Common market : the European photobook since the 1980s ; Other territories : the worldwide photobook ; Appropriating photography : the artist's photobook ; Point of sale : the company photobook ; Looking at photographs : the picture editor as author ; The camera as witness : the 'concerned' photobook since World War II ; The Düsseldorf tendency : the new objective photobook ; Home and away : modern life and the photobook -- v. 3. A history volume III. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Main Heritage Compact General N7433.3 .P39 2004 Reference vol. 3 Item-ID: i24527749 BIB-ID: 2555377 Includes bibliographical references and index. Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, 2006. Show less
In this book, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -... Show moreIn this book, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring - literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion, political theory, oppression, liberation, and much more. The book is ordered chronologically and divided thematically. Each of the 100 sections focuses on one book that represents a particular development in the evolution of books and in turn, world history and society. Abundant photographs inform and embellish. In the beginning: Cave paintings: El Castillo Cave -- Earliest evidence of mathematical knowledge: Ishango Bone -- Cuneiform tablets: Epric of Gilgamesh -- An Andean mystery: Caral Khipu -- Egyptian books on papyrus: Book of the Dead of Ani -- Eastern approaches: Chinese developments in bookmaking: Guodian Chu Slips -- Mass production in Japan: Sh寴oku's Dharani -- Monumental Korean undertaking: Tripitaka Koreana -- Indian palm-leaf manuscript: Nalanda Perfection of Wisdon Sutra -- The biggest books ever written: Yongle Dadian -- Bone, bamboo and bark: Batak Pustakha -- Burmese folding format: Parabaik -- The great classics: Origins of a children's classic: Aesop's Fables -- A timeless epic: Homer's Iliad -- An early masterpiece of Ethiopian art: Garima Gospels -- The first cookbooks: Apicius -- A mathematical miracle: Archimedes Palimpsest -- Medieval worlds & the book: Ireland's greatest treasure: Book of Kells -- Schism and discord: Chludov Psalter -- The foundation of pharmacology: Dioscorides' De Materia Medica -- A masterpiece of Armenian illumination: T'oros Roslin Gospels -- The father of mapping: Ptolemy's Geographica -- A sailor's guide to Byzantium: Cristoforo's Liber Insularum Archipelagi -- Illumination by the master of theprayer book: Bruges Roman de la Rose -- A giant among giants: Farnese Hours -- Light from the East: The oldest printed book of all: Dunhuang Diamond Sutra -- A literary and artistic masterpiece: Murasaki's The Tale of Genji -- The "Indian Aesop": Panchatantra -- The standard Islamic Book of Astronomy: Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars -- A forgotten precursor of Leonardo da Vinci: Al-Jazari's Compendium on the Mechanical Arts -- An early Islamic book produced in Java: Boke van Bonang -- Wheels of change: Gutenberg's revolution: Gutenberg's 42-line Bible -- A blockbuster among early printed books: Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle -- A book from the first English printer: Caxton's Chesse Moralysed -- The first joke book: Wynkyn's Demaundes Joyous -- The earliest scientific tests: Euclid's Elementa Geometriae -- A model for future book design: Aldine Virgil -- Printing in Arabic: Gregorio's Book of Hours -- The first printing in Africa: Sefer Abudarham -- Heavenly voices: St. Gall Cantatorium -- A Gutenberg problem solved: Constance Gradual -- A major work of Biblical scholarship: Complutensian Polyglot Bible -- A dangerous invention: Developing the Swedish language: Gustav Vasa Bible -- Practical censorship at work: Erasmus' De ratione conscribendi epistolas -- The first printing in British America: Bay Psalm Book -- An Aztec view of Pre-Columbian life: Codex Mendoza -- Searching for pepper and nutmeg: Linschoten's Itinerario -- The first modern study of anatomy: Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica -- An amazing amateur astonomer: Brahe's astronomiae -- A foundation stone of modern science: Newton's Principia -- Everyman his own expert: Makham's Cavelarice -- Fashion in clothing: Helm's Art and Fashion -- An outstanding British contribution to botany: Blackwell's Curious Herball -- A Baroque dance to the music of time: Tomlinson's Art of Dancing Printing & the enlightenment: Rococo fress for classical drama: Boucher's Moliᥲe -- The greatest dictionary of the English language: Johnson's Dictionary -- A very early book for children: Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-Book -- The lodestone for the enlightenment: Diderot's Encyclop⥤ie -- A pioner in information retrieval: Linnaeus' Species Plantarum -- Using graphs to convery information: Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas -- Records of crime and punishment: Newgate Calendar -- The literary oddity that entranced Europe: Sterne's Tristram Shandy -- Mighty lewd or literary classic?: Cleland's Fanny Hill -- An African-American work in an ancient field: Banneker's Almanack -- The master of black and white: Bewick's British Birds -- Landscape design at its best: Repton's Red Books -- How tactile writing began: Ha赹's Education of the Blind -- Print & steam: Patently brilliant Yankee inventiveness: Perkins' Patent -- The first book illustrated photographically:Atkins Photographs of British algae -- Photography moves to the Third World: Duperly's Daguerian excursions in Jamaica -- Missionary printing in Canada: Evan's Syllabic hymnbook -- The development of serial publishing: Dickens' Pickwick Papers -- Pulp fiction, Victorian style: Powell's Old Grizzly Adams -- Innovative books for young readers: Aikin's Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable -- Moral education through pictures: Hoffman's Struwwelpeter -- From Medieval mysticism to paper engineering: Meegendorfer's Grand circus -- Have guidebook, will travel: Baedeker's Switzerland -- The first celebrity chef: Soyer's Modern housewife -- Marketing for the Colonies: Boldrewood's Robbery under arms -- The book in the turbulent 20th century: The blind seer of Buenos Aires: Borges' Garden of forking paths -- A major advance in document production: Carlson's Lab book -- Printing as a performing art: Cranach-Presse's Hamlet -- A West-Coast interpretation of an American epic: Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Tangoing towards the revolution: Kamensky's Tango with cows -- Time-travel Surrealism: Ernst's Une semaine de Bont⥠-- Street literature-The voice of the people: Nnadozie's Beware of harlots -- Twentieth-century solutions to publishing needs: Lehmann's Invitation to the waltz -- Never surrender! Clandestine presses in war: Kami⮳ki's Stones for the rampart -- The greatest Samizdat book: Bulgakov's Master and Margarita -- Guidance in the marital home: Stopes' Married love -- The limits of political propaganda: Frank's Diary of a young girl -- Digitisation & the future of the book: All his own work: Hunter;s Old papermaking -- The last of the old, the first of the new: RAND's Million random digits -- Modernising Medieval manuscripts: Electronic Beowulf -- The first e-book?: Ruiz's Mechanical encyclopedia -- Multum in Parvo -- the smallest books: Technion Nano Bible -- Modern technology and manga: Koyama-Richard's One thousand years of manga -- Are "artists" books' books?: prieto's antibook -- Is it a book, or is it a book?: Sulawesi Lontar. Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad. Main Heritage Reading Room Z4 .C39 2014 Reference Item-ID: i25227348 BIB-ID: 2706538 Includes bibliographical references and index. Show less
