Encounters with photobooks how art and experience matter Briony Carlin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlin, Briony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photobooks.

photobooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leuven Leuven University Press [2026]

Summary:

"Photobooks are an art form on the move. They travel physically, as copies are bought, traded, treasured, forgotten, and rediscovered around the world. They move conceptually, as their meanings evolve through changing use and value. Photobooks combine languages of photography, text and design into a distinct medium that breaks from the confines of galleries and libraries, entering unexpected or intimate environments, such as our homes. Encounters with Photobooks marks a shift in scholarship by showing how meaningful experiences with photobooks are shaped by the situated, material, and political circumstances of these encounters. Weaving together creative writing about photobook encounters with critical traditions in museology, phenomenology, art history, new materialism and feminist praxis, this innovative book illuminates the photobook’s multiplicity: its unique potential for its many copies to matter differently to makers and readers in each momentary encounter"-- JSTOR

Contents:

The phenomenal photobook : sensory perception and time

Social sense-making : readers and subjectivity

Issues with bookishness : photobooks and book culture

Sites of photobook production

Labels that stick : photobooks and institutions

Plurality and mutability

Encounters remembered, re-mediated, reimagined

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 22, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Carlin, Briony Encounters with photobooks

ISBN:

9789461667427

9461667426

9789461667434

9461667434

OCLC:

1581825104

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license