The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond

by Shamoon Zamir, Colette Wilson, Patrizia Di Bello, et al.

The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature" heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and communication, or stood in equal if sometimes conflicted partnership with the written word. In this book, practicing photographers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032220260
• ISBN13: 9781032220260
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages