![]() ![]() The other half of the exhibition will contain up to ten contemporary photobooks for the public to handle, enabling visitors to browse the sort of recent productions they won’t find in bookstores. The above group of twenty-one books will be under glass and shown either as covers or opened page spreads. ![]() Ten art curators each pick ten art works and tell us why they love/admire/revere/are moved by them. It also represents contemporary self-published photobooks like Bruce Connew’s tiny I Saw You, of surveillance-like images, and Saynab Muse’s 2019 Imaanshaha on her Somalian refugee family living in Auckland. Ten x Ten: Art at Te Papa 44.99 Quantity Published to coincide with the imminent opening of the beautiful new art galleries at Te Papa, this book takes an intimate yet expert look at the national art collection. These include John Pascoe’s 1950 classic, The Mountains, the Bush & the Sea and Les Cleveland’s 1966 photo/text essay, The Silent Land. It shows examples of books that the publishing industry would once have termed illustrated books but which we can now understand as works of personal expression, as photobooks (even though the term didn’t exist when they were made). This exhibition lifts the lid on the photobook phenomenon. With photographers rather than publishers in control, an entire new field of both photographic expression and book publishing has emerged. It is a creative work in itself an integrated whole that greater than the sum of its parts.ĭigital technologies are behind the boom in photobooks over the last 20 years, enabling photographers to design, publish and distribute their own books. There had always been books with photographs in them but the photobook is more than just a compilation of individual images in a book format. ![]() The term ‘photobook’ first appeared in the early 2000s. ![]()
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