List members may be interested in this new book, now also available in an eBook edition.
This is the third in our new series of books exploring key aspects of contemporary and historic photography. With over 480 pages and over 100 colour illustrations The Photograph and The Album is a perceptive and stimulating guide to understanding that most pervasive photographic format, the photo album. Becoming "increasingly unruly", the album has survived for over 150 years, from the first experiments of the 1850s to today's interactive, mobile applications.
Through the placing of single images in sequence, the photo album is the narrative format par excellence. And, as this book demonstrates, its narratives embrace the social, the historical, the sexual and the political. With contributions from 20 respected international authors - academics, curators, photographers, collectors, researchers and writers - The Photograph and The Album examines the topic in both visual and written form, spanning historic practice, present-day creation, and future trends.
The Photograph and The Album will be of value to both curators of image collections; and to librarians, archivists, universities and research workers and others with a responsibility for, or interest in, photographic collections, both historic and contemporary.
Graeme Farnell
Publisher, MuseumsEtc
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MuseumsEtc Ltd
UK: Hudson House | 8 Albany Street | Edinburgh EH1 3QB
USA: 675 Massachusetts Ave., Ste 11 | Cambridge | MA 02139
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