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Worlds Within: Photobooks of Aotearoa New Zealand
The term 鈥榩hotobook鈥� first appeared in the early 2000s. The photobook is more than just a compilation of individual images in a book format, it鈥檚 a creative object in itself.
Digital technologies have enabled photographers to design, publish and distribute their own books over the last 20 years, and with photographers rather than publishers in control, an entire new field of both photographic expression and book publishing has emerged.
This exhibition lifts the lid on the photobook phenomenon. 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 鈥� even before the term existed, books like John Pascoe鈥檚 1950 classic, The Mountains, the Bush & the Sea, and Les Cleveland鈥檚 1966 photo/text essay, The Silent Land.
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The term 鈥榩hotobook鈥� first appeared in the early 2000s. The photobook is more than just a compilation of individual images in a book format, it鈥檚 a creative object in itself.
Digital technologies have enabled photographers to design, publish and distribute their own books over the last 20 years, and with photographers rather than publishers in control, an entire new field of both photographic expression and book publishing has emerged.
This exhibition lifts the lid on the photobook phenomenon. 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 鈥� even before the term existed, books like John Pascoe鈥檚 1950 classic, The Mountains, the Bush & the Sea, and Les Cleveland鈥檚 1966 photo/text essay, The Silent Land.
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