THE PHOTOBOOK PHENOMENON 1999–2022 ...

Presented by Darius Himes on the November 19, 2022

Photobook: An Overview Of Traditional Publishing, Limited Editions & The Artist's Book with Mary Virginia Swanson & Susan kae Grant

La Luz Workshops

The Photobook Review

https://aperture.org/pbr/the-photobook-review-aperture-magazine/ A Timeline of The Photobook Phenomenon: Issue 020 https://aperture.org/pbr/the-photobook-review-issue-020/

Pre-1999

Photo-Eye Books & Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1999

2001

2002

Fotografia Publica: Photography in Print 1919-1939 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) by Horacio Fernandez

The Book of 101 Books (PPP Editions, 2001) by Andrew Roth

The Photobook, vol. 1 (Phaidon, 2004) by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger.

Fotografia Publica the Exhibition is held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

A Photographer’s Place (New York City’s only store dedicated to the photobook closes)

Photo-Eye Booklist, Santa Fe, New Mexico (a quarterly journal dedicated to photography books, launches as a print edition, which runs until fall 2007)

Apple debuts Photo Print Products, which allows users to print their own photobooks using a proprietary print-on-demand (POD) system, the Apple iBook.

2004

Photo-Eye Booklist Relaunches

Dashwood Books

2005

2006

2007

The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book From 1878 to the Present, at ICP

Printed Matter (Launches the NY Art Book Fair)

Blurb (a consumer-facing POD publishing platform)

MagCloud AsukaBook Edition One Artifact Uprising

Escourbiac L’imprimeur

5B4 (Blog on photography and photobooks by Jeffrey Ladd begins)

Errata Editions

Latin American Photography Forum (held at the Itaú Cultural in São Paolo, an advisory committee including, Marcelo Brodsky, Iata Cannabrava, Martin Parr, and Ramón Reverté meets to discuss a show and book that would explore and tell the history of the photobook in Latin America)

Last issue of The Photo-Eye Booklist is published in printed form with an interview with Paul Graham about his newest title, A Shimmer of Possibility published by Steidl | Mack.

Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM (a small independent non-profit art and photography book publishing entity launches).

2008

2010

The Kassel Photobook Festival (founded by Dieter Neubert, Michael Wiedemann, and Thomas Wiegand)

Photobook Bristol

One Thousand Books Copenhagen, DK

Photobook Week Aarhus, DK Self Publish Riga LV Photobookfest Moscow

Kyiv Photo Book

Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival Vienna Photobook Festival

Les Rencontres d’Arles PHotoEspaña

Christie’s (a major auction of photobooks in their South Kensington location, led by photobook specialist Sven Becker.)

The Photobook Dummy Award at Kassel Unseen Dummy Award

Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Cortona on the Move Photobook Prize Star Photobook Dummy award

Offprint Book Fair (featuring books, records, magazines, zines, and posters, is founded by Yannick Bouillis in Paris. Offprint goes on to open in London in 2015 and Arles, where it becomes part of the LUMA Foundation in 2015.)

Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH)(founded by Bruno Ceschel. In 2020 the SPBH collection moves to its new home at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris.)

2011

2012

Indie Photobook Library (founded by Larissa Leclair in Washington, DC. In 2016 the collection is placed with the Beinecke Library at Yale.)

Daido Moriyama’s two-day Printing Show (TKY Daido performance takes place at Aperture Gallery in New York.)

The PhotoBook Review (launched as a collaboration between Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo.

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

Manfred Heiting sells his renowned and massive photobook collection to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. It comprises twenty-five thousand volumes spanning the entire history of the medium. Exact price paid unknown.

The MACK First Book Award Capricious Photo Award

The Australia & New Zealand Photobook Award Images Vevey Book Awards

ICP/Gost First Book Awards Caochangdi Photo Season

ABC (Art Books in China) Art Book Fair Friendship Book Fair (part of Photofairs, Shanghai).

2013

2014

The Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive (APPA) Photobook Melbourne Festival

The PhotoBook Museum

2016

The Royal Photographic Society (founded in 1853, launches an award for outstanding achievement or sustained contribution in the field of Photographic Publishing)

2017

2018

2020

2021

Martin Parr works with Tate Modern, London, to place his twelve-thousand volume photobook collection at the institution.

The Photobook Phenomenon (the largest Exhibition to date—is jointly hosted by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona the Fundació Foto Colectania. It is curated by Gerry Badger, Horacio Fernández, Ryuichi Kaneko, Irene de Mendoza, Moritz Neumüller, Martin Parr, Markus Schaden, and Frederic Lezmi.)

Photobook: Reset (an immersive program of workshops organized to reimagine the future of publishing is organized by SPBH at C/O Berlin.)

40th anniversary of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, a research seminar is held in “Centro de la Imagen” in Mexico City to review the organization’s archive and collections of photographs, books, and other documents, leading to the exhibition Fotos en libros, libros de fotos (Photos in Books, Photobooks), a project by Horacio Fernández highlighting the historical, artistic, and documentary photobooks of Latin America.

10x10 Photobooks (launches 10x10 Research Grants on Photobook History to encourage scholarship on photobook history.)

Dikan Center (a photobook library in Accra funded by Paul Ninson a Ghanaian photographer who raised the $1.2 million via the crowdfunding site, GoFundMe.

Justin Aversano sells an NFT of a photograph from his acclaimed Twin Flames series at Christie’s for $1.1M USD. It is the first photo- NFT at a major auction house. 2022

10th Annual Paris Photo + Aperture Book Prize

List of books from images in presentation not previously mentioned:

By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design by Ned Drew, Paul Sternberge, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005

Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books by Cornelia Lauf, Clive Phillpo, Distributed Art Publishers, 1998

The Open Book by Andrew Roth, Hasselblad Center, 2004

Photo books : 802 books from the M.+M. Auer Collection, Editions M. + M., 2007

A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century by Photobooks by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes, Blurb, 2013

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, 10×10 Photobooks, 2021

The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 by Mikhail Karasik, Steidl, 2015

The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present by Martin Parr, Aperture, 2015

The Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards by Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt, Aperture, 2012

1/100: Dutch photographic publications from the Wingender Collection by Hinde Haest, Uitgeverij Komma, 2016

Photobooks Spain 1905-1977 by Horacio Fernandez, RM/Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía, 2014

Various Small books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner, MIT Press, 2013

New York in Photobooks by Horacio Fernandez, RM/Centro José Guerrero, 2017

Publish Your Photography Book, by Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, Princeton Architectural Press, 2014 ( 3rd. Edition Coming in Spring of 2023 with Radius Books)

How We See: Photobooks by Women by Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich and Michael Lang, 10x10 Photobooks, 2018

Photobooks &: A Critical Companion to the Contemporary Medium by Matt Johnston, Onomatopee Projects, 2022

A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman, Museum of Modern Art, 2002

Books on Japan 1931-1972 by Yoshiyuki Morioka, Bnn, Inc, 2013

Artists’ books in the modern era 1870-2000 by Robert Flynn Johnson, London : Thames & Hudson, 1999