The Collector's Vision Martin Parr's Best Photobooks Photobook Phenomenon

Photobook Phenomenon
VicenC Villatoro
ISBN 10: 8417047050 / ISBN 13: 9788417047054
Published by Rm/Ccccb/Fundacion Foto Colectania

Hardcover. Dimensions: 10.2in. x 7.5in. x 1.0in.As the photobook becomes increasingly broadly recognized as a genre with its own rich history, canon and critical culture, Photobook Phenomenon surveys the views of those who have played a leading role in defining this genre: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi, Horacio Fernandez, Ryuichi Kaneko, Erik Kessels, Irene de Mendoza and Moritz Neumuller. In addition, it features various contemporary artists who have contributed a genuine vision to the medium and who discuss the creative processes involved in producing a photobook: Laia Abril, Julian Baron, Alejandro Cartagena, Jana Romanova, Vivianne Sassen, Thomas Sauvin i Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Photobook Phenomenon also explores the challenge of displaying a photobook through a number of interactive systems that make it possible to look through and experience the book and photography from diverse viewpoints.

La visió del col·leccionista. Els millors fotollibres segons Martin Parr 

Owen Simmons (fotògraf desconegut) The Book of Bread Maclaren and Sons, Londres, 1903 

Vladimir Maiakovski i Aleksandr Ródtxenko Pro eto. Ei i mne Gos. Izd-vo (publicacions de l’Estat), Moscou, 1923 

Albert Renger-Patzsch Die Welt ist Schön Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munic, 1928 

Germaine Krull Métal Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, París, 1928 

August Sander Antlitz der Zeit: 60 Fotos Deutscher Menschen Transmare Verlag i Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munic, 1929 

Bill Brandt The English at Home B. T. Batsford Ltd., Londres, 1936 

Comissariat de propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya Madrid Indústries Gràfiques Seix i Barral, Barcelona, 1937 

Robert Capa Death in the Making Covici Friede Inc., Nova York, 1938 

Heinrich Hoffmann (ed.) Winterhilfswerk-Heftchen Bild-Dokumente Heinrich Hoffmann, Munic, de 1938 a c.1942 

KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern Oficina d’informació de guerra nord-americana), 1945 imoni col·locat ho gaudeix] Éditions du Seuil, Album Petite Planete, París, 1956 

The Great Hall of the People Editorial de belles arts del poble, Pequín, 1959 

Dirk Alvermann Algerien / L’Algérie Rütten & Loening, Berlín, 1960 

Dirk Alvermann  vitrina Parr Algerien / L’Algérie  Rütten & Loening, Berlín, 1960 (facsímil 2011) 

Kazuo Kenmochi Narcotic Photographic Document Inoue Shoten, Tòquio, 1963 

Kazuo Kitai Teikoh Mirai-sha Press, Tòquio, 1965 

Ed van der Elsken Sweet Life Harry N. Abrams Inc., Nova York, 1966 

Gian Butturini London Editrice SAF, Verona, 1969 

Enrique Bostelmann América: un viaje a través de la injusticia Siglo XXI Editores, Mèxic D. F., 1970 

Takuma Nakahira Kitarubeki kotoba no tame ni Fudo-sha, Tòquio, 1970

Hans Peter Feldmann Bilder Galerie Paul Maenz, Colònia, 1971 

Daido Moriyama Shashin yo Sayonara Shashin Hyoron-sha, Tòquio, 1972 

Barbara Brändli, Román Chalbaud i John Lange Sistema nervioso Fundación Neumann, Caracas, 1975 

Larry Sultan i Mike Mandel Evidence Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae,Santa Cruz, Califòrnia, 1977 

Resistencia popular generalizada Ministério da Informação da República Popular de Angola,Luanda, 1977 

David Goldblatt In Boksburg The Gallery Press, Ciutat del Cap, 1982 

Michael Schmidt Waffenruhe Dirk Nishen Verlag, Berlín, 1987 

Chris Killip In Flagrante Martin Secker i Warburg Ltd., Londres, 1988 

Donigan Cumming The Stage Maquam Press, Mont-real, 1991 

Lars Tunbjörk Landet Utom Sig: Bilder från Sverige Journal, Estocolm, 1993 

Raymond Depardon La Ferme du Garet Éditions Carré, París, 1995 

Clement Krass Drum: Et Sted i Ireland Gyldendal, Copenhaguen, 1996 

Jacqueline Hassink The Table of Power Menno van de Koppel, Amsterdam, 1996 

Boris Mikhailov Case History Scalo Books, Zuric, Berlin i Nova York, 1999 

Rinko Kawauchi Utatane Little More, Tòquio, 2001 

Walid Raad i Akram Zaatari Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography Mind the gap i Fondation Arabe pour l’Image, Beirut, 2002 

Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan i Charles Traub (eds.) Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs Scalo Books, Zuric, Berlín i Nova York, 2002 

Geert van Kesteren Why Mister, Why? Artimo, Amsterdam, 2004 

Jacob Aue Sobol Sabine Politikens Forlag A/S, Copenhaguen, 2004 

Stephen Gill Hackney Wick Nobody, en col·laboració amb Archive of Modern Conflict, Londres, 2005 

Nicolas Simarik i els habitants d’Empalot,Tolosa de Llenguadoc La Déroute Entrez sans frapper, Tolosa de Llenguadoc, 2006 

Leigh Ledare Pretend You’re Actually Alive PPP Editions, Nova York, 2008 

Ali Taptik i Uğur Tanyeli Istanbul’u Resmetmek: Türkiye’nin Görsellik Tarihine Giris Akin Nalça, Istanbul, 2009 

Hans Eijkelboom Portraits and Cameras 1949-2009 Autoedició, Amsterdam, 2009 

Jim Goldberg Open See Steidl, Göttingen, 2009 

Doug Rickard A New American Picture White Press / Schaden, Colònia, 2010 

Alec Soth i Lester B. Morrison Broken Manual Steidl, Göttingen, 2010 

Cristina de Middel The Afronauts Autoedició, Cadis, 2012 

Peng Yangjun i Chen Jiaojiao Box – Pass it on Shang-Xia Ltd, Xangai, 2012 

Eamonn Doyle i Autoedició, Dublín, 2014 

Thomas Sauvin Until Death Do Us Part Jiazazhi Press, Pequín, 2015 

Taula de consulta  
Julián Barón Los últimos días de Franco vistos en TVE Rústica editorial ilustrada, 1975 

Julián Barón Los primeros días del Rey vistos en TVE Rústica editorial ilustrada, 1975 


Julián Barón Los últimos días vistos del Rey Rústica editorial ilustrada, 2014 

Antlitz der Zeit by August Sander from The Klieg Light on Vimeo.

Heinrich Hoffmann, ed. 

Winterhilfswerk-Heftchen 

(Winter Relief Fund Booklets)

Bild Dokumente Heinrich Hoffman, Munich, 1937-41

Der Fuehrer Macht Geschichte (The Fuehrer Makes History),

26 books x 36 pp; each book 49 mm x 37 mm (1,5# x 1,25#)

Paperbacks, aproximately 17 b&w photographs per book.

See also 

Kampf in Holland Winterhilfswerk-Heftchen (Winter Relief Fund Booklets) Propaganda PARR/BADGER III Heinrich Hoffmann Photography

“ONE OF THE MOST POIGNANT PHOTOBOOKS EVER PUBLISHED”

KZ - Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern.

N. p. Amerikanischen Kriegsinformationsamt im Auftrag des Oberbefehlshabers der Alliierten Streitkräfte. (1945). Contains 44 photographs, taken during the liberation of five concentration camps: Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf. First photo publication in postwar Germany. (28) p. In fine condition. 

The aim of publishing this brochure by the American Office of War Information and the Psychological Warfare Division was to show the German population the horror of the death camps in Germany. However because of the inefficiency of the distribution most of the pamphlets were given to prisoners of war camps. Despite the large number of the publication only a few copies remained. The photographs of the pamphlet played important role as evidences in the Nuremberg Trials. It includes the famous and controversial photo of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald (first published in the “New York Times” on May 6, 1945 with the caption “Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald” taken inside Block 56 by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945.) 

[Parr-Badger I. p. 188; 194., Cornelia Brink - Ikonen der Vernichtung. Öffentlicher Gebrauch von Fotografien aus nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern nach 1945. Berlin, 1998. Akademia Verlag.]

The Birth of Sweet Life Ed van der Elsken 1959 travelling from IJmuiden to Dakar Photography

Views & Reviews London Martin Parr Gian Butturini Photography

Amazônia (1978), de Claudia Andujar e George Love

Views & Reviews Why Photobooks are Important Gerry Badger Photography

the Table of Power Jacqueline Hassink Iconography of Work Mirelle Thijsen's Choice of Company Photobooks Photography

Hans Eijkelboom potraits and cameras 1949-2009 Photography

The photobook according to Martin Parr Photography

The English Sunrise Brian Rice Tony Evans Fascinations and Failures Photobook Phenomenon Erik Kessels Photography

Photobook Phenomenon
VicenC Villatoro
ISBN 10: 8417047050 / ISBN 13: 9788417047054
Published by Rm/Ccccb/Fundacion Foto Colectania

Hardcover. Dimensions: 10.2in. x 7.5in. x 1.0in.As the photobook becomes increasingly broadly recognized as a genre with its own rich history, canon and critical culture, Photobook Phenomenon surveys the views of those who have played a leading role in defining this genre: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi, Horacio Fernandez, Ryuichi Kaneko, Erik Kessels, Irene de Mendoza and Moritz Neumuller. In addition, it features various contemporary artists who have contributed a genuine vision to the medium and who discuss the creative processes involved in producing a photobook: Laia Abril, Julian Baron, Alejandro Cartagena, Jana Romanova, Vivianne Sassen, Thomas Sauvin i Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Photobook Phenomenon also explores the challenge of displaying a photobook through a number of interactive systems that make it possible to look through and experience the book and photography from diverse viewpoints.

See also 

Fascinations and Failures Photobook Phenomenon Erik Kessels Photography

Monday, March 7, 2011
Here Comes the English Sunrise
It's been hard to find time to write something new lately, so I thought I'd re-post something old. This was first published in December 2009.

"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise."
~ William Blake

There was a time, from the late 1700s through the Victorian era, when it was often said that Britain was the "empire on which the sun never set." Similar things have been said of other empires, including Persia and Spain, but Britain's dominion is the most recent.

Is that the reason why the English are so fond of sunrises? It's hard to say, but their penchant for the orb and its arching rays has led to images of considerable beauty, both humble and grand.

This is the cover of one of my favorite books, The English Sunrise, by Brian Rice and Tony Evans, published in 1972 and now out of print. Although yellowed with age, my copy remains a jewel of a thing — an 8" x 8" paperback filled with seventy-six lovingly positioned images, plus those on the front and back covers, each one an English sunrise. To me this is sufficient argument for why printed books can never be completely replaced by e-books. The English Sunrise can still be found second-hand; I encourage you to do yourself a favor and seek out a copy. You'll see sunrise-bedecked houses and pottery, furniture, radios, tea cozies, signage and even a slot machine. Here are just a handful of examples — not necessarily my favorites, simply chosen at random.

A gate in Shaftesbury. 

A handbag.

A leaded glass window.

The entrance to a pub.

The leather door panel of a 1933-36 Jaguar SS1 saloon car.

A bird cage.

A shopfront in Birmingham.

"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
 ~ John Muir

Anthony Mathews
Publisher of innovative art books
Thursday 16 January 2003 00:00 GMT0 

The Independent Online
Anthony Roland Mathews, art-book publisher and designer: born London 19 August 1930; married 1954 Madge Wilson (one son, two daughters; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Jill Thomas (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1975), 1981 June Scott (one son, two daughters); died Oxford 4 January 2003.
A loquacious charmer of great personal generosity, Anthony Mathews was an innovative publisher of art books. If his company had been operating today, it might have been at the forefront of the Britart boom.

After studying illustration and graphics at Wimbledon School of Art, Mathews worked on British Rail's innovative corporate design in the early Sixties. From 1966 to 1970, he was production manager with the fine art publisher Editions Alecto and worked on limited-edition prints with artists including David Hockney (a series based on Cavafy poems), Claes Oldenburg (a project entitled London Knees), Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha and Frank Stella. In the late Sixties, he was an early promoter of Gilbert & George's performance pieces

Mathews utilised his formidable technical ability in his first two books by the controversial pop artist Allen Jones, Allen Jones Figures (1969) and Allen Jones Projects (1971). Covering the artist's television projects as well as his more familiar paintings and sculptures, the works broke new ground by incorporating Jones's raunchy reference material and preliminary sketches. One of the books concluded with several pages of "advertisements" for Jones's favourite artists. Mathews also published a pioneering work by Udo Kultermann, Art-Events and Happenings (1971), and Polaroid Portraits (1972), photographs by Richard Hamilton by leading contemporary artists including Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol.

In 1970, Mathews formed a specialist publishing company with the magazine designer Peter Dunbar and the art dealer Barry Miller. The first book produced by Mathews Miller Dunbar was its most successful. The English Sunrise (1972) by Brian Rice and Tony Evans was a photographic exploration of the sunrise motif in middle England – in suburban stained glass, on garden railings, in trademarks and elsewhere. Mathews issued several more in the same format, all containing illustrations reproduced in a uniform postcard size – including Afghan Trucks by Jean-Charles Blanc (1976; exuberant personalised livery), Façade by Peter and Tony Mackertich (1976; art deco architecture), Lost Glory by Ian Logan (1977; US railroad logos) and Classy Chassy by Ian Logan and Henry Nield (1977; pin-ups on American war planes).

In 1975, MMD published the first work devoted to spray-can graffiti. Watching My Name Go By by Merlyn Kurlansky and Jon Naar documented this New York phenomenon in vast, lavish photo-spreads. The Other Women (1976), by the theatre designer Barry Kay, was an equally groundbreaking photo-essay on the extensive transgender communities of Sydney and Melbourne. Mathews also published two collections of photographs by his friend David Bailey and the beautifully produced Monet at Giverny (1975) by Claire Joyes.

Following the break-up of MMD (the partnership was financially disastrous), Mathews devoted his considerable energies to Idea Books, a specialist art-book importer. The Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha's deadpan works Nine Swimming Pools and a Small Fire, Twenty-six Gasoline Stations and Every Building on Sunset Boulevard are now collector's items.

When Idea Books went into receivership, Mathews returned to book design, working primarily for Thames & Hudson in London, Alvise Passigli of the Scala publishing house in Florence and Idea Editions in Milan. He designed and produced a number of books on architects, including Adolf Loos, Carlo Molino and Gio Ponti, and new-wave Italian designers, such as Bruno Munari and Andrea Branzi.

Moving to Italy in 1977, a country he loved, Mathews lived with his third wife, the artist June Scott, in a cottage on the Passigli estate outside Fiesole, where he was an endearing, chatty host for an endless succession of English visitors. Mathews's mind was a storehouse of out-of-the-way knowledge, particularly on food and drink. "Do you know they cook a dish with lampreys and bitter chocolate in Bordeaux?" he would announce, simultaneously waving his untipped Gauloise in the air and pouring you a glass of Chianti. "Had it once. Not an experience I'd care to repeat."

He appeared to move constantly in a great cloud composed of talk, cigarette smoke and hilarity. One of his most characteristic gestures was wiping a tear of laughter from the corner of his eye.

Mathews settled permanently in Oxford in 1994. The amputation of a leg did not diminish his charm or energy. He died suddenly on the eve of taking a holiday in Italy, his first alone with June since the birth of their three children.

Christopher Hirst 

Fascinations and Failures Photobook Phenomenon Erik Kessels Photography

Photobook Phenomenon
VicenC Villatoro
ISBN 10: 8417047050 / ISBN 13: 9788417047054
Published by Rm/Ccccb/Fundacion Foto Colectania

Hardcover. Dimensions: 10.2in. x 7.5in. x 1.0in.As the photobook becomes increasingly broadly recognized as a genre with its own rich history, canon and critical culture, Photobook Phenomenon surveys the views of those who have played a leading role in defining this genre: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi, Horacio Fernandez, Ryuichi Kaneko, Erik Kessels, Irene de Mendoza and Moritz Neumuller. In addition, it features various contemporary artists who have contributed a genuine vision to the medium and who discuss the creative processes involved in producing a photobook: Laia Abril, Julian Baron, Alejandro Cartagena, Jana Romanova, Vivianne Sassen, Thomas Sauvin i Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Photobook Phenomenon also explores the challenge of displaying a photobook through a number of interactive systems that make it possible to look through and experience the book and photography from diverse viewpoints.

Erik Kessels is a Dutch photographer and collector whose work centres on publishing and exhibiting period and private vernacular photographs that he has been gradually amassing, thereby elevating them to the status of museum pieces. He has published a number of books on this theme, among them The Instant Men (1999) and Wonder (2006), and has curated various exhibitions, some of them as part of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. In 1996 he launched the KesselsKramer communications agency, which he is creative director of and which has won several international prizes.

                  Brian Rice i Tony Evans
                  The English Sunrise
                  Mathews Miller Dunbar, Londres, 1972

                  Peter i Tony MacKertich
                  Facade
                  Stonehill Publishing, Londres, 1976

                  Vilém Reichmann, Miloš Budík i K.O. Hrubý
                  Brno
                  Krajske Nakladatelstvi, Brno, 1964

                  Alan Watts
                  Quel temps va-t-il faire?
                  Hatier, París, 1970

                  Martin Cornel
                  Bridget´s Basic Sex
                  American Publishing Corporation, Waltham, 1973

                  Barney Hartman
                  Hartman On Skeet
                  McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967

                  Benjamin Lewis
                  Riding
                  Grosset & Dunlap, Nova York, 1969

                  Basic Tennis
                  American Publishing Corporation, Watertown, 1974

                  Jef Rademakers
                  Dutch Dreamgirls
                  Uniepers, Amsterdam, 1984

                  Giuseppe Sparnacci i Gabriella Tricca
                  Toscani un po´speciali: gli Spaventapasseri
                  Alinea, Florència, 1997

                  Martin Cornel
                  Bridget´s Diet Cookbook
                  American Publishing Corporation, Waltham, 1972

                  Dorothy W. Wilson
                  Bridge Babies
                  Heines Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 1961

                  Constance Spry
                  Winter & Spring Flowers
                  J.M. Dent & sons, Londres, 1951

                  Jesper Hom i Sven Gronlykke
                  Kinderbilderbuch
                  Reich, Lucerna, 1976

                  McConnell's Spring Specials - For Your Garden
                  McConnell Nursery Co., Port Burwell, 1966

                  Harry H. Whitlow
                  Art, Colored & Cameo Glass
                  Autoedició, Riverview, 1966

                  Hein Gorny
                  Ein Pferdebuch
                  Bruckmann, Munic, 1938

                  Selma Madesko
                  Ubistvo Svitanja
                  PrintCom, Tuzla, 1996

                  Kenneth Wheeler (ed.)
                  Soccer-The British Way
                  The Sportsman’s Book Club, Londres, 1965

                  H.P. Orth
                  German Fire Engines
                  Efb-Verlag, Hanau, 1981  

                  Paul F. Frese
                  Annual Flowers in Color: A New Guide to America's 
                  Most Popular Garden Flowers
                  Grosset & Dunlap, Nova York, 1966

                  Karl Kopp (ed.)
                  Kopp Bauvorlagen
                  Karl Kopp Verlag, Freiburg, 1955

                  William Heacock
                  Victorian Colored Glass Pocket Guide to Patterns & Prices
                  Antique Publications, Marietta, Ohio, 1976

                  Fair Play Met Fina - Voetbal Spelregels In Woord En Beeld
                  Fina, Amsterdam, 1970

                  Sha Kokken
                  L’Amore Nella Vita Sessuale
                  Ikeda Pubblishing Co. Ltd, Tòquio, 1969

                  Assessorato Industria e commercio della Regione Trentino 
                  Alto Adige
                  Mele e Pere del Trentino-Alto Adige
                  Amilcare Pizzi, Milà, 1951

                  Haberer-Eichenhorn
                  Aussentüren
                  Konradin, Stuttgart, 1952

                  Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island South Carolina
                  Army & Navy Publishing Company, L.A., 1951
                  Leopold Szondi

                  Szondi-Test Experimentelle Treib Diagnostik Testband
                  Verlag Hans Huber, Berna, 1949

                  Karl Schmitz-Scholl
                  Tengelmann
                  Walter Böckmann, Sennestadt, 1968

                  Rrok Zojzi
                  Arti Popullor Ne Shqiperi
                  Akademia e shkencave e rp te shqiperise, Tirana, 1976

                  P.J.W.v.d.Graaf
                  Oefenen met Gewichten
                  Uitgeverij J.F. Duwaer & Zonen, Amsterdam, 1964

                  1969
                  Edition West, Munic, 1969

                  Katsuhiko Hibino
                  The Weekly Fluctuant Book
                  Asahi Press, Tòquio, 1984

                  Suzanne Pichard i Geneviève Ploquin
                  Fleurs De Laine
                  3 Suisses, Roubaix, 1972

                  Istvan Schwenda i Thomas Leuschner
                  Einmaleins Für Zwei-111 Liebes-Variationen
                  Porta Verlag, Darmstadt, 1969

                  Jim Sullivan i Lori Calicott
                  Breakdancing Step-By-Step Instructions
                  Beekman House, Nova York, 1984

                  Robert Veno
                  La Prestidigitation
                  Eyrolles, París, 1962

                  Erich Tylínek i SonjaTouboul
                  Hunde
                  Artia, Praga, 1964

                  World Meteorological Organisation
                  International Cloud Atlas Volume II
                  World Meteorological Organization, Ginebra, 1956

                  Your Friend
                  K.B. Glier, Moscou, 1973

                  A Hairy Man
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1982

                  Curt Marasotti
                  Flagellanten-Report. Süße strenge Dresche

                  Odörfer-Werbe- & Verlag, Röthenbach, 1994

Dutch Dreamgirls Sex Jef Rademakers Erik Kessels / Paul Kooiker Terribly awesome photobooks

Fair Play with Fina HESTER KEIJSER Erik Kessels Special Books Photography

Bridge Babies Dorothy W. Wilson Terribly Awesome Photo Books Erik Kessels Paul Kooiker Photography

Brno 3 Vintage Books to buy as low-budget Souvenirs Miloš Budík K. O. Hrubý Vilém Reichmann Photography

The English Sunrise Brian Rice Tony Evans Fascinations and Failures Photobook Phenomenon Erik Kessels Photography