The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond

by Colette Wilson and Shamoon Zamir

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848856164
• ISBN13: 9781848856165
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"