...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book...
- Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins
woensdag 13 juli 2011
Photobooks Ed van der Elsken & Willem Diepraam Design by Jan van Toorn Photography
Amsterdam, Fragment, 1992. Cloth-coverd boards (hardcover) with silver lettering, 30,6 x 30,6 cms., silver foil front- and back endpaper, 212 phot. plates in colour and black/white + 59 pp. text in English, bibliography, book design by Jan van Toorn. Retrospective of Van der Elsken's work. With a bibliography by Joke Pronk & Evelyn de Regt.
...Photography is the visual medium of the modern world. As a means of recording, and as an art form in its own, it pervades our lives and shapes our perceptions...
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